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for each other. Their possessed lovemaking sessions are more than a ratings romp, even though there’s more than enough to tune in for. But through Eggs’ lens, we glimpse a vulnerable Tara, their trust in, and attraction for, one another reminiscent of Bill and Sookie’s. Unlike Bill and Sookie, Eggs and Tara are not supernatural; they’re just two everyday people who have suffered extraordinary circumstances in order to arrive at a place where they’re ready to love, even if love sits waiting on the other side of insurmountable odds, least of which is possession by a mysterious hand.

Where you’ve seen Mehcad Brooks: Boston Public, Cold Case, Desperate Housewives, Glory Road, The Game, Dollhouse, The Deep, Just Wright, Fencewalker

2.07 ~ Release Me

Original air date: August 2, 2009; Written by: Raelle Tucker; Directed by: Michael Ruscio

Eric: Tell me, what is that you find so fulfilling about human companionship?

Isabel: They feel much more strongly than we do. Everything is urgent, exciting. Maybe because their lives are so temporary.

Eric: Yes, they certainly don’t keep well. Do you find the prospect of him growing old, sickly, crippled somewhat repulsive?

Isabel: No, I find it curious, like a science project.

Jason breaks ties with the Fellowship of the Sun. Bill struggles against Lorena’s hold on him. And Daphne makes the ultimate sacrifice to Maryann.

Now we know for certain: Maryann is a maenad. In Greek mythology, maenads (“raving ones”) were female followers of Dionysus, also known as Bacchus, the god of wine — notice that Maryann is most often seen drinking wine — who incites madness and ecstasy. Maenads worshipped Dionysus to the point of frenzy, often with dancing and intoxication. But this ain’t no kegger. It’s a Bacchanalia. And alcohol is a key ingredient to partying with Maryann. Tara first sees her while drunk. Andy falls off the wagon, drinking at one of her parties. Tara and Eggs are rarely seen without weed or alcohol. And Jane Bodehouse is almost always pickled, so perhaps that’s why she’s often among the first to “turn.” She’s the most susceptible.

Thank goodness for Jessica and Hoyt. Sookie’s relationship with Bill, Sam’s with Daphne, Tara’s with Eggs, and Jason’s with Sarah Newlin are so complicated that it isn’t until Jessica tells Hoyt to take off his pants that we’re reminded that things can sometimes be that simple.

It feels like everyone’s chasing after something, or being chased, time always of the essence. Sam’s been outrunning Maryann since he was a young man, pursued because she can’t have him. As Daphne explains, Maryann challenged her to bring Sam to her. It would be a deflating end to a story that’s been building since the end of last season if it weren’t for Eggs stepping in to cut out Daphne’s heart. It becomes clear that Maryann’s fun has only just begun, not unlike Lorena’s, which Bill once described as cruelty for sport. Sam is stuck in Bon Temps running from a goddess with nothing but time on her hands. He lost Sookie, Tara, and Daphne. The bar is no longer the establishment it once was and he runs the constant risk that someone else will find out he’s a shifter. Will he give up? Or will Sam rise to the challenge like when his faith was tested and he shifted into a bird? Could his determination in that scene reveal a hidden conviction in Sam?

Lorena, like Maryann, has all eternity, holding Bill hostage in his Dallas hotel room. Meanwhile, Sookie gets to know Hugo, Isabel’s human lover, while they’re captured in the basement of the Fellowship of the Sun. A cowardly, unlikeable fellow, he nonetheless says to Sookie what only another human dating a vampire could, that vampires will always have the upper hand, that her willingness to change her whole life to accommodate his lifestyle is akin to addiction, and that unless she is turned, she’ll become undesirable. For now, sex is an intoxicant, a temporary transcendence offered in exchange for a limit on her personal freedom. But what happens when time catches up to Sookie, she gets older, and Bill no longer