NYMAG.com weighed in on this season of True Blood in their Mid-Term Report Card! We thought you might be interested to see what they had to say and how they graded the show! Will you agree?
Let’s see what they said about Eric and Sookie…
The Vampires
The big hook for this season is Eric’s amnesia, and it’s the new gold-standard for True Blood subplots: It contrasts creepy supernaturalism with silliness, ominous overtones with campy sexiness. Not all the other vamps have fared quite so well, though: Pam needs more to do than just have her face rot off, and Nan doesn’t get anywhere near enough screen time. Also, we get it, TV show: Vampire flesh sizzles when it comes in contact with silver chains. Basta. At least now that Bill is the Vampire King of Louisiana, most of the political blahblahblah power struggles from previous seasons have vanished.
Needs improvement: It’s time to tap back into the vampire civil rights movement. Last week’s tolerance rally was a step in the right direction, but there was a time when True Blood toyed with being an allegory. Toy more.
Midterm Grade:B
I like the vampire civil rights movement too, but I have a HUGE problem with Bill being King! Ahem, sorry, I mean QUEEN! The only reason why he has this power is because of NAN! I happen to love the power struggles in previous seasons and would much rather watch that, than see Bill sentencing Eric to his final death! WTF? Love Pam and wish she was in every episode and I feel so badly that she’s cursed! It’s a brilliant move on True Blood’s part, to have the one thing Pam values most in the world, besides Eric, disappearing on her in this way.
The Boning
What a boring season so far for True Blood sex. Sookie and Eric have been going at it plenty, but it’s been relatively vanilla, especially given the show’s history of blood orgies and S&M. The ground? An imaginary bed? This is the romance we’ve been waiting for? Bill’s “is it even really incest?” story line was gone in a flash, Sam and Luna’s tent tryst was tame (again, by True Blood standards), and the fantasy threesome between Sookie, Eric, and Bill was over before it even started.
Needs improvement: Step up your creative sex game, everyone.
Midterm Grade: C+
Okay, I have to disagree with this grade…the Eric and Sookie sex was awesome and better than I could’ve ever hoped for or dream of! What I have a problem with; is the fact that Bill had to be in a three-some kind of dream with Eric and Sookie and the shower scene was a huge disappointment. True Blood ended up cheapening Eric and Sookie’s relationship. But the fact that they had Eric and Sookie have sex outdoors and throughout Sookie’s house (a book nod) makes me give it a B+! (It’s only because of the shower scene, I didn’t give it a higher grade!)
Sookie
The time jump at the start of the season helped give Ms. Stackhouse a new narrative edge — I’ve been gone for a year? It only felt like a second! — that the show abandoned way too quickly, and she’s still not all that affected by the fact that everyone she knows either wants to kill her or would die to protect her. Her romance with Eric has been sweet and innocent, but the whole sexual appeal of Eric comes from his naughtiness, not his sense of childlike wonder (or his hand-me-down sleeveless hoodie).
Needs improvement: Innocent, virginal Sookie has her time and place, but it’s time to unleash the inner badass.
Midterm Grade: B
True…but in the same breath, Sookie has stood by Eric throughout his memory loss, which I can’t complain about. And I disagree with what they said about Eric. 
No, the appeal of Eric is that he has goodness hidden beneath his charmingly smooth exterior and it took having his memory wiped out for Sookie to see it! But we knew this all along. It’s just like in the books. (I think the person who wrote this hasn’t read the books at all.) But I would love to see Sookie kick some ass (namely Bill’s for deceiving her and to not forgive him for it, but that I’m sure won’t happen)! Instead, I’ll settle for the ass-kicking that’s bound to happen at the climax of the season when Sookie takes care of Martonia and her cohorts once and for all!
Overall Season grade: B+
True Blood has its groove back in a lot of ways (unless you’re looking for blood orgies), but it’s time for various story lines to start intersecting more.
If you would like to see what else they had to say about True Blood Season 4 (you should see what they graded Debbie and Alcide), click here!
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