True Blood Recap, 3.03 It Hurts Me Too

Thank you, Alan Ball!  Finally!  I think that True Blood has finally hit its stride for Season 3.  Aside from a few irritating plot lines I'm looking at you Tara, Jason, and Sam, this was by far the best episode this season.  Anyways, here's my Good/Bad/Ugly recap of True Blood, 3.03 It Hurts Me Too, because it's like armageddon in here anytime someone chips a dessert glass.  

The Good 

• Talbot and Russell:  beneath their sophisticated, charming, urbane exterior exists a ruthless power couple.  Sort of like Bill and Hillary.
• Terry's joy that he is going to be a daddy and Arlene's dirty little secret.  My money is on Rene/Drew as the baby daddy.  
• The human suffering/vampire desire dichotomy.  Lorena is a bitch but at least she is a bitch who has a purpose and so do flashbacks.  Or she is a bitch who gets hate fucked like there has never been a hate fuck on television ever.  Holy Hell!  The LSH had to take my martini because away I was hyperventilating with sick awe-inspired giggles.  Just when you thought that Nazi werewolves were a bit too much, a neck twisting, I'm too lazy to hate fuck you doggie style so let me just turn YOUR WHOLE FUCKING HEAD AROUND scene happens.  Oh, Bill William Bill.  You bad boy.  I knew you had it in you all along, you old dog.  However, the great scenes of Eric and Sookie burying a body and discussions of how quickly Eric could be on site in Jackson to rescue Sookie that were crackling with tension and chemistry just pale in comparison.    
• Tara showing us what an orgasm from tantric, sadomasochistic vampire sex looks like.      
• Oh, hello there Alcide!  You wear a henley better than Beeeel.  And you're all kinds of hotness even when you were getting the stuffing beaten out of you by Patrick Swayze's brother.  You are exactly what I imagined when I read the books let's just hope they don't turn you into a complete selfish asshole on the show.  
• Pam having her way with Yevetta: good.  The sound effects of what seems to be someone eating an apple and licking her lips after every bite made me fear for Yevetta's Estonian lady bits.  
• Eric and Lafayette!  Together!  Again!  More!  Please!  

The Bad

• The slow motion bullet.  Just because you have a big special effects budget doesn't mean you have to use it all the time, particularly in a way that suggests your audience isn't smart enough to figure out that the werewolf and not Eric was the intended recipient of the bullet.  The upside?  Seeing Eric's little post-feed fangasm when he tells Sookie that he got the rug all wet. 
• Should I care about Tommy Mickens?  Because I'm not feeling it.  He's just a bratty, possibly criminal douchebag at this point. 
• Yes, Sookie.  You are that stupid.  Case in point:  going into the champagne room with Patrick Swayze's brother.    

The Ugly

• Joe Lee Mickens' grey/brown/filthy tighty whiteies.  I was gobsmacked when he walked into Merlotte's wearing actual pants although they were the same dingy color as his Jockeys.  At this point, I'd be happy to see him in a pair of clean boxer shorts with a button fly.   
• Tara as a zombie based on the influence of supernatural creature.  Again.  
• Jason does does not want to be a cop.  But he's still a shitty friend.  
• Someone please help me to care about Sam.  Please!  
• Sookie's 1980's white lace top.  Gah.  My eyes!