Another sad episode with terrific writing.
Poor Bill. It's easy to understand why he's so tormented--the memories of his encounter with his wife combined with his present-day concerns for Sookie would certainly make him crazy with grief and anxiety. BTW, it was indeed very common to "display" the dead at home right into the 20th century, even if they died under gruesome circumstances (Check out an excellent photographic essay book, "Wisconsin Death Trip".). And Lorena--my goodness! I was truly surprised to see that she survived the "flaming", but she must be pretty darn durable if she can continue having sex after being given the full-on "Exorcist" treatment!!
Poor Sam. It turns out that his biological family is a real team of trailer-trash low-lifes. I would say that it would have been better for him if he had never found them (especially the nasty, sociopathic kid).
Poor Jason (I know, this is starting to sound like a broken record
). It seems that anything he tries, even with the best of intentions, he messes up. Anyway, I really can't see him becoming a cop....
Speaking of cops, does anyone think that Bud is really quitting permanently? I'd hate to lose the character (and the actor who plays him).
If Terry isn't the father of Arlene's baby, who is???
So the new vamp is called Franklin. I think that he's baaaaaad news.
I hated the way he strong-armed Jessica (It was nonetheless delightful to hear her called a "baby vampire" [Pam also says "Babies. They're all the same"
] ) into giving him information about Bill, Sookie and Tara. And glamoring Tara to force himself into the house was truly eeeeeeevil.
There were so many good lines, I won't try to single out just one. I will say that I immensely enjoyed the fact that the were bar is called "Lou Pine's".
This goes along with so many other wonderful little background "touches" that you find in this series, such as the bathrooms at Merlotte's being labeled "Bucks" and "Does" (maybe in honor of poor, murdered Daphne **sniff**), and the pictures on the wall at Eric's "Fangtasia", one of which shows a vampire attempting to bite the neck of the Statue of Liberty!