"This one ate only tangerines for weeks."

So True Blood this week put my opinion of Tara back at square one. Initially, I was disappointed she didn't swallow the pills (but then again, it wasn't a huge surprise), but I was later on impressed with her sick fighting moves she pulled on those rednecks.

All in all, the girls were really on the offence in this episode--when asked if she can handle a revolver, Sookie says "I ain't that blond," and upon seeing a werewolf in the forest, she runs right after him yelling and calling him a coward.

When asked to leave the room, Pam mutters with bitter sarcasm, "Let's go to the ladies room and stare at ourselves in the mirror," asking Jessica to join her. For Jessica, this is an opportunity to find out how exactly one "stops drinking" a live human's blood, as well as how to dispose of a certain body that may or may not be stinking up Bill's house. The Jessica murder plot arc is interesting--while it's a source of comic relief, it also gives a lot of insight into the physiology of True Blood vamps, building on the revelation that vamps' makers can "call" them.

A few faces that popped up, some old, some new:

Denis O'Hare as Russell Edgington (who, pardon my ignorance, looks a little bit like Emperor Palpatine [Ian McDiarmid]).

Allan Hyde re-appears as Godric in a flashback relating to the new "Nazi-werewolf" villains.

Accomplished TV actress Alfre Woodard, as Lafayette's mother.

Marshall Allman as a relative of Sam's, Tommy Mickens.

Annnnd, of course, I will not deprive you of a couple more memorable quotations:

Sookie: "I keep expecting him [Bill] to come through the door and say... [in an imitation of Bill's voice] Sookeh..."

Andy [sarcastic]: "No, it's cuz of me winnin' the Miss America pageant!"