True Blood (TV Series) To Love Is to Bury (2008) User Reviews

Annoying Vampire and the Identity of the Serial Killer

[claudio_carvalho · 9/10 · 21 September 2009]

Bill buries Jessica with him to complete her transformation. Tara is arrested after the accident for being drunk; she calls her mother and she refuses to bail her out. Sookie recalls details of the victim of the serial-killer and she travels with Sam to another town to investigate the death of a waitress called Cynthia in a diner. Amy and Jason clean up the remains of Eddie from the basement. Jason comments with his coworkers that Amy is addicted in vampire blood and that he intends to break-up with her. However, she convinces him to drink a drop of vampire blood with her. While having a trip, the serial-killer kills Amy and Jason believes that he did and he is arrested. Bill tries to explain Jessica what a vampire is but she has the most unexpected attitudes. Bill asks Eric to keep the annoying Jessica with him. The mysterious Maryann bails Tara out and brings her to her manor.

In "To Love Is to Bury" the unexpected identity of the serial killer is disclosed in the last scene. The irritating Jessica is very funny and will certainly bother Bill. I am intrigued with Maryann, who is the naked woman that caused the accident of Tara – who is she? Detective Andy Bellefleur is a complete moron and he will certainly have a great disappointment when the identity of the serial killer be disclosed. Is Sookie telepath or clairvoyant? My vote is nine.

Title (Brazil): "Amar e Enterrar" ("To Love and To Bury")

You cannot prepare for a naked lady and a hog in the middle of the road!...

[Chalice_Of_Evil · 8/10 · 6 August 2009]

Best bits of the episode? Everything with Sam & Sookie. I love the two of them together. It was great seeing them working together to find out the identity of the killer. They make quite the team. Their interaction was great (and in their scene at the pie shop, the waitress - Harley - amused me, rattling off the various pies).

Bill and the newly-made vampire, Jessica, were also great. Every scene with her, after she came out of the dirt, was just awesome. I loved how she acted and how frustrated Bill was with her (I would be too). Their dialogue was instantly quotable and the actress playing Jessica did a real nice job showing the other, more rebellious side of her character (when previously we'd only seen the "good girl" side of Jessica in the last episode). The two of them were also good when interacting with Eric (oh, and let's not forget where the episode began - with Bill digging a hole and Pam burying him and Jessica in the dirt - that was a good scene too). I could see Jessica becoming annoying after a while, but for the time being...she's quite amusing.

I probably shouldn't have been eating when watching the scene with Jason and Amy mopping up vampire guts and gore (though, truthfully, it didn't really bother me). Can't say I was sad to see organic vegan Amy Burley and her minuscule carbon footprint get offed. I'd almost feel sorry for Jason (the fact that the women he's with keep getting killed and he keeps getting the blame for it - even going so far as to think he *did* kill them, because he figures there's no other explanation for it)...but he's just so DIM, it's kind of hard to feel sorry for him.

I knew I'd like Michelle Forbes on this show. Her interaction with Tara made Tara bearable.

Although I still like Sookie (and really enjoyed her ride in the car with Sam - especially when she mentioned him hanging his head out the window), I was a bit miffed at her for treating Bill how she did (but then, I didn't like Bill being on the verge of killing Sam either). Like Bill said, though, if Sookie knew what he'd been through to get back to her...she might not have rescinded her invitation to him. Can't help but feel sorry for the guy. Poor vampire Bill.

Death and rebirth

[Tweekums · 9/10 · 18 December 2009]

As the first season of this excellent series approaches its conclusion things aren't going too well for the people of Bon Temps. This episode features four separate story lines; Sookie and Sam are investigating the image she saw of a woman being strangled, Tara is in jail for drunk driving, Bill is given the responsibility of turning Jessica into a vampire and Jason is once again suspected of murder.

Each of these strands were interesting, particularly the last; it seemed as if Jason had finally found a woman he could love in the form of hippie Amy, she had finally agreed to give up vampire blood after one last use but while they are on it somebody enters the house and strangles her with a belt. When Jason wakes up he finds her dead and assumes he must have done it whilst under the influence; the police are inclined to agree. It appears that two new characters have joined the cast; Michelle Forbes as the mysterious and wealthy woman who pays Tara's bail and Deborah Ann Woll who is the once timid girl Bill has turned into a vampire, both these characters look interesting so I hope they become regular members of the cast.

Set up for the ending

[lastliberal · 8/10 · 17 November 2008]

This episode is more a preparation for the last than anything else.

Bill returns and Sookie is mad at him and seems to have become closer to Sam. Will that push Bill over the edge? Tara has been bailed out of jail after her DUI, not by her mother who thinks she is doing the right thing by leaving her there, but by a strange woman who drives an expensive car and lives in a huge house. What is her motivation? Amy is dead, and Jason thinks he may have killed her under the influence of V. Will he be saved?

Of course, we have to watch the last episode to find out. And you know that we will.

Vampires give new meaning to the expression: "Time to meet your maker"

[skay_baltimore · 8/10 · 19 August 2010]

Pam and Bill, standing by an open grave, get ready to put Jessica in so she can later emerge as a vampire. Pam pushes Jessica in, Bill jumps in, cuddles with Jessica, then Pam covers them both with dirt.

Jason and Amy -- cleaning up Eddie's bloody remains -- with Amy saying to Jason: "What we have is beautiful" -- is such a perfectly insane contrast -- it's insanely beautiful.

Sookie and Sam go off in search of a girl named Cindy (Marshall). Sookie was able to remember having seen a girl in a waitress uniform, named Cindy, when she (Sookie) had been attacked by the serial killer. It turns out Cindy worked at Big Patty's Pie House. There, they meet a man who knew Cindy and her brother, Drew. Then they go to the local police to get a photo of Drew Marshall. (Funny little bit when they're driving and Sam says how he doesn't mind driving because he loves ridin in the car, and Sookie says: "Of COURSE you do...Go on...hang your head right out the window if you feel like it.")

Jessica emerges from the ground, quite upset, demanding that Bill, who's now above ground and all clean, help her. Interestingly...her horror quickly turns to bliss when she hears that she doesn't have to go back to her restrictive family/rules. Bill tries in vain to explain that there are still rules...just new rules. I think Bill now understands why the magister decided to implement the punishment for him to make Jessica, instead of the traditional 5 years locked away in a coffin sentence. I'm thinking...Bill would like to file an appeal, if he could. But he can't.

Amy (on doing V): "This is the last time...I swear!!!" (Little did she know...) But you can just see that things are going to end badly for Amy and Jason. While they're passed out on the bed someone sneaks in and strangles Amy to death. Jsaon calls the police, and gets hauled off by Andy. Again.

Tara also gets arrested -- for drunk driving. She WAS drunk, but she also DID see a woman and a pig in the road and she swerved to not hit them. Her mother comes to see her in jail and serves up some tough love. But mysterious Maryann Forrester, the woman Tara saw in the road, comes to bail her out, and then takes her to her home. (Tara does not recognize Maryann as the same who she saw in the road.)

Bill busts in on Sookie and Sam, Bill and Sam fight, and Sookie revokes Bill's free pass entry privileges.

And at the very end the fax comes in with the photo of Drew Marshall. And it looks just like someone very close to Sookie and Jason.

Maybe it's just me and my A.D.H.D. -- but this show has SO much going on, and it happens so fast, it's almost impossible to be bored.

S1.E11 - Jason Once Again [9/10]

[panagiotis1993 · 9/10 · 2 November 2023]

(S1. E11) My Live Reaction / Review for True Blood Season 1 Episode 11 ''To Love Is to Bury''. Episode 10 was good and I gave it a rating of 9/10. Let's see if this one is better or worse. I really wanna know who the killer is. First I thought it might be Sam but he is not. The woman that Bill turned into a vampire acts like a child, its weird. Someone killed Amy? Is this the same killer who killed the previous three women? Probably. It sucks that Amy is dead though, I liked the character. Sookie kisses Sam? Again? What about Bill? Once again Jason is the number one suspect. Overall a really good episode, my rating is 9/10.