Truly, Madly, Deadly_ The Unofficial True Blood Companion - Becca Wilcott [104]
Encore: “I Will Rise Up,” performed by Lyle Lovett, plays during the end credits. Lyle Pearce Lovett is an American singer-songwriter and actor. He’s recorded 13 albums since 1980, and won four Grammy Awards. “I Will Rise Up” is taken from his 2007 album, It’s Not Big, It’s Large, recorded live in studio by Lyle Lovett and his Large Band. Lovett explains the band’s name, saying, “We’ve always done arrangements that border on blues music, that border on jazz arrangements, that border on what folks might think of as ‘big band,’ but we don’t really play big band music. But we’ve always had a lot of people in the band so that’s why I call the band the ‘Large Band’ and not the ‘Big Band.’” The song itself is about death and only God knowing what comes next for a man who is resigned to meet his end.
Tribute: Ashley Jones (Daphne Landry)
“[The writers] did a great job of making the environment a major character. You can feel the humidity and the heat, which is a great way to set the scene for passion and horror.”
— Ashley Jones
My initial reaction to Ashley Jones when she first appeared on screen as “The Worst Waitress in Bon Temps the World” Daphne Landry was how much she embodied the Sookie Stackhouse I had imagined from Charlaine Harris’s novels. It was surprisingly easy to imagine Daphne Landry, so real as the Girl Next Door she was almost cartoonish, stepping in as Sookie’s understudy. Coincidence? Perhaps. But for those of us who didn’t mind the idea of a parallel universe in which Sam and Sookie hook up, just to see what it would be like, that pool table romp between Sam and Daphne was a safe way for all of us to get what Sam’s always wanted.
Of course, as we got to know the other Daphne, her doe-eyed alliances revealed themselves, Jones gracefully pivoting Daphne from sweet to sour on the head of a pin without a misstep. And let’s pay props to the freezer shot, a cinematic study in how to create a creepy tableau you won’t wipe clean from your dreams for days.
Where you’ve seen Ashley Jones: Without a Trace, Crossing Jordan, CSI: NY, FlashForward, The Bold and the Beautiful, The Mentalist, CSI
2.10 ~ New World in My View
Original air date: August 23, 2009
Written by: Kate Barnow and Elisabeth R. Finch
Directed by: Adam Davidson
Bill: No offence, Sookie, but humans are shockingly susceptible to just about every form of thought manipulation.
Sookie, Bill, and Jason return home to Bon Temps. Hoyt and Jessica try to keep Maxine safe from Maryann. And Jason tries to save Sam.
While the Maryann Forrester storyline is to this season what Jason’s V addiction was to last, Michelle Forbes is absolutely infuriating, which is a good indicator that she’s succeeded in her portrayal. It’s hard to care for Tara and Eggs after 10 gullible episodes of them getting high and blindly following “Reese’s Pieces” clothing to orgy sites. And the tie to Tara’s mother’s addiction weakened the real world despair of Lettie Mae. But the storyline is rescued by Forbes’s nihilistic, narcissistic, emotionally vampiric Maryann. I would sooner follow Eric to the other side than let this woman near me. She takes to the meat statue like she’s arranging a floral bouquet. And now that Godric is gone, she’s the smoothest kid on campus, the vamps looking like pre-schoolers in comparison.
Sookie and Jason come home from Dallas to find Bon Temps in complete chaos. While you can always go home, there’s no guarantee that it will be the same. Even Gran’s house is unrecognizable. The siblings suffer more loss, virtually everything from their pasts replaced by crude effigies. (Even Tara’s not