My fellow fans of one of the better HBO original series, I write to you this time with a shocked and rather saddened demeanor. If you’ve been following my re-caps of the show that I sometimes refer to as the Blood that is True, then you may already have an idea as to why I am so sad. As much as I would love to begin this final review of the fourth season with that very reason, I must start at the right spot. That spot being the beginning. Jesus quickly realizes that something is not quite right with the love of his life, Lafayette, when he tries to kiss his boyfriend goodbye. After a pretty awkward lip-to-lip exchange, he receives a fork through the hand for his discovery. Elsewhere, everything seems pretty normal after the battle with Marnie. Even though Halloween is upon the town of Bon Temps, its citizens are all carrying on as normal. At least as normal as they can.
Sam pays his last respects to his brother, Tommy, as he is finally laid to rest. Mrs. Fortenberry unexpectedly shows up and says some nice words to Sam about his brother. The arrival of Luna and her daughter makes it an even better burial for Sam as he realizes that he is not alone. Back at the restaurant, Arlene and Terry welcome Sookie back in full Halloween theme. Zombie-fied in their costumes, they direct her to the reason why she has returned, which is to speak to Sam.
Back at Lafayette’s place, Marnie/Lafayette has Jesus tied up and threatens to cause Lafayette’s body some serious harm if she doesn’t get what she wants. What she wants is relieve Jesus of his dark demon-side magic to use for herself. She does this by stabbing Jesus directly in the chest and licking the blood off of the knife that pierced his skin. The wound that she leaves upon Jesus’ chest proves to be fatal as he eventually dies. Kind of sad to see him go. He was a good dude, especially for our usually pissed off Lafayette.
Sookie finds Sam in his office and offers her condolensces for the death of his brother. He gives her her job back and says that she has to start right away. Immediately after this, she runs into Alcide at the bar where he drops some pretty heavy, philosophical words of wisdom on her. In a somewhat roundabout kind of way, he comes pretty close to what we all already knew; that he has feelings for her. He also makes it known that he is now completely finished with Debbie and wants to be drama-free before receiving a phone call. He quickly excuses himself, but not before instructing Sookie to make sure to stay alive.
We then cut to Tara arriving at her cousins’ home and discovering Jesus’ body, lifeless. She quickly, somehow (a somehow that is not explained to us), deciphers that Marnie has taken over Lafayette’s body. She gathers up Sookie and Holly and takes them to where Marnie/Lafayette now has Bill and Eric silvered and tied to a stake, helpless. Holly performs a spell to protect the two vampires from Marnie while she is distracted. All of sudden, Antonia, Sookie’s Gran and many other dead folk appear and stop Marnie from her madness. Despite trying to fight them, pleading that her work isn’t done yet, she eventually leaves with them, to take her place in the after-life, and rest in peace.
You would think the episode is nearly over. You, of course, would be severely mistaken. Jason decides to confess his sins to Hoyt about his sexual escapade with Jessica. To this news he receives a beat down at the hands of now ex-best friend. Later in the episode, Jessica, dressed as a very naughty Little Red Riding Hood, pays Jason a visit and I don’t need to tell you what happens next. She does, however, make it very clear that all she wishes to have with Jason, at this point, is sex and nothing more. She doesn’t want to hurt Jason as she hurt Hoyt and is scared to become truly intimate with him. After the sex, she rushes off and there is an immediate knock at Jason’s door. In front of him stands Reverend Newlin from Season fricking 2! He’s back and with fangs! Don’t invite him in Jay!
After Arlene meets an old Marine buddy of Terry’s who makes a surprise visit, she receives a stopover from another unforeseen guest; Rene! His ghost almost startles her into a heart attack behind Merlotte’s. He warns her of remaining with Terry for he has a dark past and she should be aware of their future together. Elsewhere, Sam and Luna enjoy some kissy-face before Luna decides it’s time for her to take her daughter home. She warns Sam of getting to comfortable with their “relationship” because things always manage to go awry with her when they are looking up. After she leaves, Sam finds himself face-to-face with a growling wolf. Who could it be? We all saw Marcus die, perhaps one of his pack member’s? We’ll just have to wait and see.
On possibly the lightest note of the entire episode, Andy tries to make amends with Holly. He confesses his “V” problem to her and that he is ready to make someone happy, if they would only let him. She tells him that she isn’t really ready for anything but would welcome a hug. The scene ends with the two of them locked in an embrace.
A quick check-in with Pam shows her at a very vulnerable time. She is truly fed up with the one that they call Sookie. She can’t understand what hold Sookie has over her maker, Eric. This is probably the most emotional, except for last week, that we’ve ever seen Pam. We find Alcide answering the call that he got earlier. He arrives at a parking lot to find a tremendous hole in the cement ground. Within the hole lies a silver chain. This means only one thing; ex-vampire king, Russell Edginton, is back.
Back to more drama, as we find the threesome of Sookie, Bill and Eric back at Bill’s mansion. A long conversation about whom she should pick ends with her choosing…..no one. A good choice if I do say so myself. I for one got tired very early of their love triangle story line. A bit too Twilight-ish for my tastes. She leaves and the former face of the AVL arrives. She explains that she’s been fired and was instructed to deliver the true death to both Bill and Eric. She offers to form an alliance with them both to which they respond by killing her.
Now we arrive at the worst part of the episode. Sookie arrives home looking for Tara who has just finished comforting Lafayette over the loss of Jesus. She walks among the darkness to find Debbie, armed with a shotgun nonetheless, lurking amongst her kitchen. She points the weapon in Sookie’s direction and pulls the trigger. Just then, Tara shows up and jumps in front of the bullet catching it in her head. Now, it was somewhat hard to see, I’m sure the producer’s did this on purpose, whether or not she got shot directly in the head or the bullet just grazed her. But there was a lot of blood for simply a graze. After Tara collapses to the ground, Sookie tackles Debbie to the ground overcome by rage and anger. She points the shotgun at Debbie’s throat. Despite her pleas for Sookie to not kill her, her brains are splattered all over the refrigerator that stood behind her when Sookie pulls the trigger. She then finds her back over to Tara and the episode ends with her screaming for help. I think this episode had more people dying that any other they have shown. Must be some kind of record.
My guess is that both Bill and Eric will come rushing to her aid and pour their blood down Tara’s throat, saving her life. This could result in so many possibilities, seeing as how the receiver of vampire blood usually becomes connected to the giver and lusts after them sexually. That could get hairy seeing as how both of them are Sookie’s exes. Either that or the producers have killed off my favorite character on the show. Now we will never get to see her naked. Seriously, I loved, I mean love Tara. She needs to not die so much. My pleas are to please not kill her off. I’d rather see Sookie die than see Tara die and she’s the true main character of the entire thing.
In other thoughts, I loved this fourth season. I think it was the best one out of all of them. It had so much going on. Storylines galore and drama to keep you busy for months. I will only remove a point due to the annoyance that was Sookie, Bill and Eric. We’re all going to truly need to grasp onto the goodness that this season delivered because we must now wait until next summer to see how everything turns out. Yes, that is a long time, a very long time. All in all, I hope that next season is just as good as this one, if not better. They can achieve this by firstly reviving my girl, Tara. I can’t emphasize enough just how much this needs to happen. I give True Blood Season 4 “9 loooong months of waiting sucks out of 10”.
“I’m so over Sookie and her precious fairie vagina and her unbelievably stupid name. F**k Sookie!” - Pam
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All of the several major story-lines in this epic season have dwindled down into about only two. The first one being the battle, more like war, between the vampires and the witches. Led by their king, Bill, the vampire quartet of him, Eric, Pam and Jessica reach a stalemate when they first arrive at the witch shop ready to do some major damage to it. They are all stopped by Jason who warns them his fairy sister, Sookie, is trapped inside among many others. Bill and Eric both immediately agree to re-think their strategy much to Pam’s dismay. 
Our episode begins with a couple of revelations. Well about two and a half if you really want to be technical. In stopping her new boy-toy, Eric, from introducing her past lover to the true death, she realizes that she still very much loves Bill. As if the rest of us didn’t already know that. Another revelation is that the Antonia half of Marnie/Antonia felt extremely guilty about the killing of many innocent people due to her attack. You can see the doubt as well as regret all over her face. The third is that although Eric now has all of his memories back, he actually stills love Sookie. My only question to this is, although it’s all sorts of sweet of disgustingly romantic, what the hell is going on? Did anyone ever see Eric, a Viking badass, falling in love with a fairy? I know I didn’t. Well I kind of did but was just hoping against hope that it didn’t. 
Sookie is dying! Sookie is dying! No, not really. Obviously they weren’t going to kill off the main character of the series. Sookie survives and the first thing she does…has an erotic dream which begins with Bill and Eric fighting over her and turns into a sexual threesome. Who knew the goody-good had it in her? What I was upset about is the way she just ignored my boy Alcide. He was the one that rescued her from the fray between the vamps and witches in the first place. Putting his own relationship on the line, he brought her to safety. Finally coming to grips with his own frustration and Sookie’s blind constant leaping into the direction of danger, he claims that he is “done” and walks out of her life. 
This week we’ll start things off a little different. Since the episode began with how last week’s ended… with Jessica about to be turned into a very crispy vampire by the sun. Our resident hero, and member of the Bon Temps sheriff office, Jason comes to her rescue just in the nick of time. I began to question just how he managed to wrestle her to the floor, him being a mere human and all, but she quickly took over. But not to resist him, to deliver a kiss on his lips no doubt for saving her life. To this inevitable gesture, he responds with a very passionate kiss of his own. He returns her to her resting place besides Bill who states that they are forever in his debt. 
The full moon evening that took us to the end of the last episode also opens the beginning of this one. Sookie and Eric must really have been pretty backed up because they’re love fest lasted an awfully long time. Beginning in the forest and ending in Sookie’s bed with different stops in-between, they made sure they satisfied their sexual desire. They also enjoyed a nice cuddle session afterwards which got a little cheesy for my tastes. Still seeing Eric act like a perfect gentleman is very strange, and a little sickening at times. 
Sookie has been rather warmly welcomed back into the world of sex by her amnesiac of a housemate vampire, Eric. The episode starts off very steamy but it is interrupted by King Bill. After realizing what has happened to Eric firsthand, he suggests that Eric suffer the “true death”, of course. Although he is probably un-reparably hurt by the sight of Eric and Sookie’s naked bodies entangled in each other, you can see him struggle with his decision to take Eric into custody and kill him. Of course, his “heart” gets the best of him at the end (like we didn’t see that coming, they’re not going to kill off Eric) and lets the Viking return to his Sookie. The episode ends with them getting it on pretty good in the woods. After all, it's everyone’s fantasy to sex someone in the forest, isn’t it? 
So Sookie seems to be falling for the same man, well vampire, that she used to absolutely loathe. Although Eric has become a character who has lost his “vampire balls”, he has begun to find a path into Ms. Stackhouse’s good graces, and her bed for that matter. Yeah, they didn’t have sex but cuddling can be considered a very intimate activity. Even between human and vampire. Ms. Portia Bellefleur doesn’t seem to mind that she has been boning her great-great-great-great grandfather in the form of Bill. She even researched the topic and tried to convince King Compton that incest isn’t so bad and it’s a good idea to continue their sex-capades. Bill quickly glamour’s her into feeling the opposite and she runs away screaming. 
This week’s episode continues to have Eric being a “nice” guy but also somewhat delusional after draining and killing Sookie’s fairy-godmother. She enlists the help of Alcide to find him after he runs off. They locate him swimming in a lake during the day just before he begins to catch some serious burns from the sun. There is more chemistry caught on screen between Sookie and Alcide, including Sookie staring him up and down when he begins to undress to shift into a wolf. You can also tell there’s going to be some tension between him and his girlfriend due to his interaction with our main character. 
Another good episode. Seems season four is going for the record of most great episodes in a row. I know many 
Oh my stakes! I know that was pretty cheesy but it was meant to be. This week’s episode was possibly even bigger than the major hype that last week’s premiere brought along with it. Sookie is really having a difficult time having Eric so involved, and infatuated, with her life. It’s hilarious to hear her get upset and start cursing like when she discovered Eric’s sleeping cubby. “What the mother***k?!” Hilarious! Our vampire sheriff is really pulling out all the stops trying to get Sookie to like him. It seems she’s immune to the charm that has all of the shows female fans uncrossing and then re-crossing their legs whenever he shows up on screen. But for how long can she resist?
So Sookie is a fairy or fae or whatever you want to call her. Just don’t call her unattractive because that she is still not. She gets a chance to visit what I call “Fairyland” or so she thought. Things quickly take a turn for the worse in a hurry when she is sought after by yet another group of supernatural beings. Her life just can’t be normal can it? She briefly reunites with her Grandfather (which to me was the most solemnly genuine character interaction of the episode) and returns home to discover that she has been away for an entire year. 12 and half months to be exact which only felt like 15 minutes to her. Her brother, Jason, has sold her house and become a full blown police officer. He seems to be all grown up. 
Unless you happen to be dead yourself, you should know about the undead craze that is blanketing our planet. By undead I by no means am speaking of anything that slid out of the creative mind of one George A. Romero. I am, however, referring to a certain race of supernatural beings that are called vampires. Yes, the other undead. They are immortal, super-strong, very fast, drink blood, have skin that literally pales in comparison to a humans, and can apparently fly in some story variations. 
After giving in and watching the first season, I discovered that the answer to my question was a definitive “yes”. The series created by Alan Ball is based upon a series of novels authored by Charlaine Harris. Entitled 
Sookie has a brother, Jason, who is the town playboy. On the prowl for a different girl almost every night, he has little trouble finding himself in a lot of it. Tara’s cousin Lafayette makes up the flamboyant population of homosexuals within the town. He sells drugs and works as a cook at a restaurant/bar called Merlotte’s owned by one Sam Merlotte. A nice guy but whom you can tell has some secrets, he has a pretty deep crush on Sookie who also works at his restaurant as a waitress. The rest of the character roster is rounded out by town citizens, disrespected police officers, more vampires and tons of other supernatural creatures who seem to pop into the story when you least expect it.
Season two; oh what can I say about this wild and very much over the top second season. It’s far-fetched, weird, sometimes frustrating and filled with just about every mortal sin you could possibly think of. One of those sins, in the form of super orgy’s, are all over this second helping. The gang encounters a supernatural creature in the form of a woman, Maryann (Michelle Forbes), who turns the town upside down by allowing them to completely indulge in their every forbidden desire. Then they wake up the next day and can’t remember a thing. It’s a crazy one that’s for sure, I found myself asking the question of “what the f***?” countless times but…wasn’t able to turn away. Nor did I find a suitable reason to stop watching all together, so I pressed onward.