True Blood...

In reference to the second and third episodes of the first season, "Mine" and "Escape from Dragon House".

It was rather clear in the very first episode that all that sexual tension and desire between Sookie and Bill would continue to build and build until there was the payoff. As "The First Taste" concluded, Sookie encountered three vampires from Bill's past, all embracing feeding from humans without worry of consequences...consequences he warns them of. The luscious waitress, sexpot Dawn (Lynn Collins), a playful and promiscuous frequent lover of Jason's, gets tired of his vampire racism and how he views her for being with one of them. She shoots a gun in her home multiple times to scare him out...this not long after a bit of rough sex where Jason took the identity of a home invading intruder. A neighbor hears them fighting and sees Jason engaging in verbal sparring with Dawn, tired of his insults. This will be the last night she's seen alive. Sookie finds her strangled on her bed which cliffhangs "Mine." Jason felt he should apologize, and his ego was bruised when his dick went limp imaging her with that vampire. Lafayette is known for offering his body to older guys (in "Escape from Dragon House", a white state senator is leaving from an encounter as Tara looks on!), and he also has earned a rep for dealing out of his home. Jason wants something to help with his limp dick, Lafayette offers him some V (vampire blood), and eventually Sheriff Dearborne (William Sanderson) and detective Andy (Chris Bauer) will be questioning him. Jason arrives the morning Sookie found Dawn with flowers hoping to patch things up. Loaded in a police car, a bottle of V in his pocket, Jason decides to gulp it all so this won't be attached to him. It causes "enlarged eggplant dick", and Tara will come to his rescue, asking the sheriff and Andy if they Mirandized him. Tara will need to help Jason get his dick drained. Yes, that is an actual subplot for the second and third episodes.

Sookie is all kinds of conflicted in regards to Bill. She wants him, but he's a vampire. Her life could be in danger just because of an association with him. The locals, that are human, offer racist/xenophobic thoughts Sookie consumes at Marlottes, listening to them at the wishes of Gran, hoping Jason will be vindicated. Those thoughts are jarring, prejudicial, nasty, and often sexist. But despite all the town's evidence of disapproval, Sookie decides she'd choose Bill. But the whole "she's mine" comes about when Sookie arrives with a referral for an electrician willing to work at night at his home. The "three" (Bill says they are a hive who stay together and commit all forms of wickedness) are at his home, full of threatening talk with their fangs extended, rife with bravado and blather, eyeing to take a bite out of Sookie. To keep her unharmed, Bill tells the three she's his mortal, to back them off. Sookie isn't exactly thrilled to be considered a slave to someone, whether it is human or vampire. She learns of a vampire bar from Bill called Fangtasia (yeah, Bill mentions how vampires used to love puns "back in the day"), and knowing that both local women (Maudette and Dawn) were visitors there, she decides that is the place to ask around for answers. Bill will be her "date".

Paquin wears a sun dress for the night that has that impressive bosom heaving, quite alluring and sensual. She always dresses as Sookie accentuating her young hot adult body. In our twenties, this is the time when most of us have bodies that are agreeable, where we feel in the most control and comfortable. Paquin is right there in a body she feels quite comfortable and sexy in. I think you can feel her in a great place with her body. Bill mentions that she carries the look of meat, desirable. Fangtasia is a bar where its owner, Eric (Alexander Skarsgård), rests on a throne not amused. As if he's deprived. He's just bored. Sookie he does spot after she asks this brooding bartender, Longshadow (Raoul Max Trujillo) questions about the two victims. Bill making her his (well, what he tells his kind) gets her off the immediate vamp bait list. Eric is certainly interested and Bill is quite uncomfortable.
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Oh, and Tara's deep devotion to Jason is given clarification when we are privy to a flashback that shows her as a little girl running from her nasty drunk mother, seeking refuge in his home, protected by his warning towards causing any problems. Tara's tumultuous relations with her mother stems from the ill effects of consistent alcoholism. We first meet the mother when Tara arrives home from a night spent with Sam. Tara encouraged Sam to take her up on an offer of sex considering neither had been active in a while. It was just sex. This wasn't an act of potential romance. The next day Tara lies to the police that Jason was with her, cleverly using the "we didn't tell anybody our relationship status due to prejudice" reasoning as a means to deceive. Poor Jason is just oblivious still to Tara's infatuation with him. He's always oblivious, though. For those who love lots of Jason, you get plenty in "Mine" as he agrees reluctantly to dance around in his undies (and a Barbara Bush mask!) for Lafayette's gay clientele.