Season 2 Commentary

Episode 2, Keep This Party Going

• Eric’s Hair – writer concocted story to get AS out of the wig
• Eric and Bill don’t mind being taken as gay vampires
• Jessica’s human home life was dark
• Jessica’s vampire future is going to be dark

Episode 7, Release Me

• Owls name is ‘Periwinkle’
• Games:  Jesus Christ Vampire Exterminator, Silver and Stakes and Send them back to hell
• Jesus and Mary are in storeroom with Sookie and Hugo
• Lorena wears shoes that have special heels – stakes- may use as weapons
• Lorena madly, unimaginably in love with Bill for 100 years
• FoTS changes Jason’s character and the way he see himself
• Hoyt feels like he has ruined himself by never having had sex before
• Jessica glows on camera
• Writer’s joke:  Steve Newlin secretly in love with Jason
• Mythology:  Vampires can’t stay awake, causes ‘bleeds’  Lorena handles it better because of  her age
• Lafayette see something in Eggs that no one else sees

Episode 8, Timebomb

• Alan Ball has crafted the rules of being a vampire
• Lafayette gets his mojo back due to Eric’s blood
• Vampire make-up:  If vampire has fed, make-up is rosier, if not fed make-up is paler
• Eric enjoys watching people’s reaction to his presence
• Eric and Godric had fun for centuries as a vicious tag team
• Eric realizes at Godric’s lair that Godric is trying to atone and show compassion for all his sins
• Godric realizes at the end of his life, there is nothing left to learn
• Eric knows he and Godric have gone down different paths, they will never have the same relationship again, confuses Eric
• If you see a pair of feet, you know something bad is going to happen
• Vampire age and power projected by stillness and quiet
• Silver in a vampires body is not enough to kill them

Episode 10, New World In My View

• Sookie’s house transforms into a den of devilish debochery
• Nothing is as good as being hugged by Anna Paquin

Episode 11, Frenzy

• QSA has fettish for walking during the day, Norma Desmond, she’s lonely
• QSA wears light colors, good set up for where she is going to go when we find out about her obsession with light and sunlight
• QSA is a modern version of 16th-17th-18th century aristocracy in Europe with nothing to do but sit around
• QSA will have a major impact on Sookie’s life
• QSA will be a crazy freak at some point
• AB says sometimes he makes up arbitrary answers to questions and hope they work
• Jason has a think with gloves, be on the lookout for Jason wearing gloves
• The more sober Lettie Mae is, the more you will find out about Tara
• AP called AS – Alexander Skirtsgard
• The scene with Hoyt and Maxine is a cross between the theatre of the absurd and Tennessee Williams
• Comments by Maxine will come back to haunt her
• Pam and Eric have a more upscale look since Eric’s return from Dallas
• Frenziers have a shared consciousness
• Human smorgasbord – so decadent – reminds of Pasalini film, Sallow, where beautiful young people are line up and tortured
• Hadley shown to have an interest when Sookie is mentioned – because it will be figure in later on in the series
• MaryAnn is like the Alexis Charrington character of our genteration
• QSA shares little pearls of wisdom with Ludis – wonder if she plans to vampire him?
• Actress who plays Hadley look a lot like Jaonne Woodward – there are things about her that we will find out
• AB- QSA ‘I do look forward to meeting her’, DM – ‘What’s that supposed to mean?’, AB – ‘I know but that would be giving away a lot.’
• AB – ‘Here’s a question – How did Eric know that about Bill and Sookie?’(Bill giving Sookie his blood the first night he met her), DM – ‘I think he was just guessing.’, AB – ‘Or maybe the Queen told him.’

Episode 12, Beyond Here Lies Nothing

Commentary by Anna Paquin and Michelle Forbes

• Headresses had stones, bird feathers and bones in them
• Here comes the claws, the talons
• Michelle Forbes’ nickname is Mishka
• MF brings to attention the child bandages on Maxine’s neck, said she almost called the ‘plasters’
• MF states to AP that Sookie and Bill are the most beautiful love story on TV
• MA Forrester rhymes with Martian Foreigner, MF – ‘No it doesn’t.’
• MF – ‘Nice touch of feather on Lafayette’s earring.’
• AP – ‘The scenes are shot out of sequence.  No matter how crazy your imagination is, there is no way I could imagine it was as nuts as it was.  I’m not sure if it comes off as intense as it’d supposed to be but, oh well.’  MF disagrees- ‘You know, jig saw puzzle film making.  I don’t know how this show does it.  But it always seem to work.’
• Lavender dress color chosen because it’s a color they hadn’t used in any major, dramatic, iconic moments.  Audrey Fisher (Costume Designer) had showed AP pictures of Elizabeth Taylor.  AP thought the dress was ‘majical.’
• Appearantly, Sam/Beagle was very smart
• Jessica goes from innocent to ‘Lot Lizzard’
• MF – AP has a face that is a face that should be painted by a master
• All the bad crazies have to die

Episode 12, Beyond Here Lies Nothing

Commentary by Alexander Woo (Writer) and Michael Cuesta (Director)

• Tara has bird-like movements when she has frenzy eyes
• Sookie’s unable to channel electricity (the second time) but will be something that will payoff in the future in the series
• Hoyt rigged up a big ‘Ruth Goldberg’ contraption with a trip wire in case Maxine tries to escape
• QSA like 1040’s movie star
• QSA seated above Eric – shows QSA’s power over Eric
• Can hear the seagulls in the background, QSA set up virtual day room
• QSA has bigger fangs than anyone else
• Show sets up obvious stand off between Bill and Sam
• Wedding scene reminiscent of the ‘Wickerman” film
• Tara senses that the MA story is not over – there is still something brewing
• Jim Parrack is a fan of the John Casavetes, Gazzara, Rowlands school, goes for thoughtful, naturalistic acting – scene feels like a Tennessee Williams scene
• JP so tall, six four, seems to have outgrown Maxine’s house
• Sam realizes it’s ok for him to accept who and what he is – ‘MacBeth reference here’
• MC – ‘It’s amazing how many times AP hugs – it’s like every time is the first time – Sookie is everyone’s rock – even a rock needs someone to lean on.’
• AW looked forward to the SFP scene the most.  Anticipated it from the beginning.