Sunday, June 29, 2014

Ep 7.2 "I Found You"


We see Eric walking around in some sort of Villa.  Jason has found him.  Eric says he needed space to think.  This is obviously a dream.  Eric asks why Jason came.  They talk about whatever it is between them.  Eric asks about Violet and Jason says he’s crazy about her, but he can’t get Eric out of his head.  Jason basically jumps Eric and somehow throws him on the bed and they kiss, etc...  Jason wakes up in the church with a boner.  Luckily, most people have already exited the church.

The town tries to think of a plan to find the HV vamps.  Sookie tells them she found a dead girl the night before that she didn’t recognize.  Maybe they can find out where she came from and talk to the survivors in that town and track the vamps.  Alcide wants to know where the feds are, but Sam says he hasn’t been able to get a hold of anyone and they will have to fend for themselves.  The reverend asks Sam if there is anything the townspeople could do to keep their minds off of the situation until nightfall.  He tells them to keep busy and be of service.  He suggests they clean up the mess at Bellefleurs so it’s ready when Arlene gets back, but they need to be in their houses by sundown.  Lettie Mae wants to go check on Lafayette since she hasn’t seen him this morning.  Adelyn wants to stay with Holly’s Wade and Rocky, Holly’s sons.  Sam, Alcide, Jason, Andy and Sookie find the dead girl.  Her name is Mary Beth Grant and she is from Saint Alice, which is about three towns over.

The HV vamps at Fangtasia aren’t happy with Ronnie for eating Kevin.  They are rationing their humans so they don’t starve and now they will have to go back out and hunt again.  They fight amongst themselves.  They choose a new reaper, Betty, who used to be a schoolteacher.  She heads down to the basement to pick their next meal.  She and Arlene share a glance and Arlene thinks she knows the woman, but she can’t remember how.  They all panic until some blonde woman is dragged away.  Nicole starts having cramps and Holly tries to calm her down.  Poor Jane Bodehouse is having withdrawals from no alcohol and throwing up all over the place.  Arlene realizes the female vampire taught her and Holly’s kids.  She thinks Betty recognized her and that’s why she picked the other woman to eat.  So Betty may be their way out.  Arlene says she hasn’t survived four husbands, a serial killer boyfriend and a husband with a sordid suicide mission just to die in the basement of a vampire bar.  She will get them out of there, gosh darnit!

Lettie Mae gets to Lafayette’s.  She asks how he is and he says he’s okay.  He asks how she is doing and she says the Lord has shitty timing.  She tells him she and Tara had made peace the night before right before the attack and she also says Tara’s spirit came to visit her in the night.  She needs Lettie Mae’s help so she can get into heaven and she wants Lafayette to use his medium skills to help her.  He tells her it wasn’t Tara, that it was the V she got from Willa, but Lettie Mae insists it was in fact her little girl.  Lafayette says Tara’s gone and she needs to forget her.  Lettie Mae says he is a selfish sinner and he tells her she’s a “trifling drug addict bitch, through and through”.  She tells him he will go to hell and he says her that’s what this is.

Adelyn tries to reassure Wade that Andy will bring his mom home while they are cleaning at Bellefleurs.  Vince trots in and tells the townspeople that Sam left town.  Then he tells them that he saw Sam change from a dog and Maxine chimes in saying she saw a bear rifling through her trash one time so she went to get Hoyt’s BB gun, but when she got back she saw Sam outside her house naked.  Vince’s idiot posse convinces the people that Andy and Sam are vampire sympathizers who will not help them so they need to take matters into their own hands.  They know all of the gun stores are empty, but Adelyn uses her telepathic powers and hears Rosie’s thoughts about where there are a lot of guns.  I’m thinking it’s most likely the police station.  Adelyn grabs Wade and tells him they need to go, while the others are creating makeshift weapons from the wooden handles of brooms, mops and bar stools.

Betty is back for her second reaping.  Arlene and Holly reach out to her, but she says she can’t help them.  If she shows an ounce of mercy the other vamps will kill her.  Arlene brings up the point that she will die anyway.  She concedes that she will indeed die, but she doesn’t even know how she could save them.  Arlene tells Betty she is important.  She helped Lisa after they found out René was crazy and she taught Holly’s boy Wade how to read when other teachers just gave up on him.  She tells them she is scared and doesn’t want to die like this and ends up crying in Arlene’s lap.  She has a relapse and tells them she can’t help them.  Arlene tells her she is going to die a shitty death, but at least she knows when and can do something good beforehand.  She tells Arlene she will figure out some way to get them out and then pulls some man off to be eaten.

Andy, Jason, Sam, Alcide and Sookie get to Saint Alice.  It is a ghost town and the town we saw in all of the teasers for season 7 with the spray paint and chalk written cries for help.  They get out of the car to investigate and each go off by themselves.  Sookie calls them over because she found a mass grave.  The vampires took and killed everyone.

Adelyn tries to convince Kenya that the townsfolk are coming to get the guns from the station.  Kenya finally believes her and they go to hide the guns, but it’s too late, they are already there.  They turn Kenya and she goes to put cuffs on Adelyn.  Adelyn shoots her with her fairy ball and everyone freaks out and starts to attack her.  Jessica feels Adelyn in trouble, but it’s the middle of the day so she calls the police station.  Of course no one answers so she tries calling Sookie.  Her cell phone is lying out in the woods though.  The town posse has gun practice.

Sookie and her group arrive at Mary Beth’s house.  They figure out that the house was occupied less than 2 ½ days ago thanks to Jason’s pizza tasting forensic skills.  The family left a half eaten frozen pizza they had cooked, which Jason tastes and instinctively knows (as only Jason could) that it’s 2 ½ days old.  They decide that the HV vamps must be staying in one town until they drain it dry and then they move on.  They investigate the house further.  Andy tells Jason if he gets Holly back he’s going to make an honest woman of her.  He says, “a man ain’t nothing without a family”.  Sookie finds Mary Beth’s diary and realizes she and Mary Beth had very similar first love vampire experiences.  This makes her think of when she fell in love with Bill.  Mary Beth’s vampire’s name was Henry.  She reads some more and starts to find out what happened in the town and how people started disappearing.  Apparently Henry was infected as well and Mary Beth stayed with her sister’s baby until they were attacked.  They decide they should head back to Bon Temps.

Lettie Mae decides to fry her hand in order to get more blood from Willa.  She goes to the storage basement and wakes Willa up from a dead sleep.  Willa almost kills her, but then realizes who it is.  Lettie Mae shows her hand to Willa.  Willa tells her to go to a doctor, but she says she needs Willa’s blood.  Willa tells her the reverend warned her about giving Lettie Mae blood, but she finally concedes and gives her some.  Lettie Mae goes into a V trance and finds Tara in the woods strapped to a cross with a snake around her.  She speaks a language we can’t understand.  Lettie Mae tells her she needs the answer.

On the way home, Alcide tells Sookie that she is nothing like Mary Beth.  He tells her she had nothing to do with the vamps coming to Bon Temps.  She tells him she knows the vamps are coming back and she’s scared.  He says they can keep going.  They have a full tank of gas and they could save themselves.  She tells him she can’t do that.

Betty offers to be the sleep monitor for the HV vamps at Fangtasia.  They are sleeping in 15-minute intervals.  She runs to the basement and tells Arlene and the rest they have 12 minutes, so they’ll have to be quick and she needs to feed on one of them.  Arlene offers and Betty tells her it has to be the femoral artery, which is the one on the inner thigh, so that no one will see it.  She takes some blood, but it’s too late.  She is to0 far gone and turns into goo.

Jess finds bite marks on her arm.  Andy gets home and searches for Adelyn and Jess hears him in the attic.  She decides to call out to him.  He wants to know where Adelyn is and Jessica says she doesn’t know, but she knows she is in trouble.  Jess says she is going to find her once the sun goes down and wants Andy to come with her. 

Sookie and Alcide get home.  He wants to take a shower and get some sleep and in the mean time she walks over to Bills (without Alcide knowing).  She wants to know if he can still sense her fear if she is in real trouble.

Pam is in Rhone, France at a villa that looks a lot like the one in Jason’s dream.  She walks in the gate and says “unfucking-believable”.  She walks in and sees half dressed women leaving, one of whom says, “he won’t take my blood”.  Then we hear Eric’s voice,  “you found me”.  We see him slouched in a chair with dark veins running up his chest.  He has the Hep V virus.

End credits…

WTF, so Eric cheats death by burning in the sun only to get Hep V?  Did he contract in on purpose because of the loss of Nora?  Honestly, I’m an Eric fanatic so any way in which he dies is not going to be good enough for me.  Maybe if he went out in a blaze of glory, which neither of these two situations are, I might be able to live with it.  And what’s with the bite on Jessica’s arm?  Did one of the infected vamps bite her and now she’s on the short list as well?

Lettie Mae, Lettie Mae, Lettie Mae.  I guess I can’t blame her.  The woman’s been through a lot, but damn.  She had finally turned her life around and I can’t believe Willa is so naïve as to fall for the trick.

Will Sookie, Bill, Sam, et al survive the stupidity posse that now has them outnumbered?  I can’t say I wouldn’t do the same thing, but really Kenya?  You’re going to fall for the whole “They are just holding you down because you’re a woman of color” shtick?

What do you think of this episode?

Until next week!

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Sunday, June 22, 2014

Ep 7.1 "Jesus Gonna Be Here"


My head is still kind of reeling from last season and I feel like I’m letting all of what happened sink back in slowly.  I’m still not sure how I feel about this whole Billith to Hep-V storyline, but it’s what we’ve got and I love TrueBlood so I’ll give it a chance.  I am however pissed that they are STILL stringing us along about Eric.  That in it self better be one damn good storyline! 

We left off last season with Pam looking for Eric, who better not have died by burning while sun-bathing on a snow covered mountain.  The search left Willa and Tara as baby vampire orphans trying to make it on their own.  Sookie and Alcide got together and Sookie decided to start dressing like a little old lady instead of the town slut.  (Actually, I don’t think she looked slutty, but in comparison to her flowered dress and hat in the season finale I’m sure Maxine Fortenberry would’ve called her previous attire slutty.)  Governer Burrell’s attempted genocide on the vampires left the humans almost defenseless against a mass army of infected Hep-V vampires with nothing to lose.  The few vampires left who aren’t infected are doing what they can to protect what is left of the human race.  Sam is mayor of Bon Temps and Merlotte’s is now Bellefluer’s. 

I’m going to refer to the Hep-V infected vamps as the HV vamps and the non-infected vamps as the NI vamps.  I’m lazy and I’m not continuously spelling those out.  Okay…

We go right back in to the scene at Bellefleurs.  All hell breaks loose at the mixer as a swarm of HV vamps attack the crowd.  The NI vamps do what they can to save the humans, but the HV vamps overpower them.  They end up kidnapping Arlene, Holly, Kevin, Nicole (and Sam’s baby) and Jane Bodehouse.  Sam and Alcide shift to follow them, but lose their scent at the river.  I’m a little confused as to why Alcide would leave Sookie unguarded.  The HV vamps leave a slew of casualties including Tara.  (I’ve wanted her dead for 5 seasons, and when I finally like her you kill her off!  Be careful what you wish for.)  We hear a whistle and all of the HV vamps disappear into the night.

Jason calls Andy and tells him what has happened.  Andy leaves Adeline at home with Jessica outside to guard her.  He tells Adeline not to invite Jess in under any circumstances and then brutally tells Jessica that Tara has been killed.

Inside Bellefleur’s (still weird), Sookie hears everyone’s thoughts and they all seem to want to blame her for being a vampire slut.  She slept with two vampires and I don’t think it had any correlation to what happened.  Well, maybe, but I’m pretty sure Governer Burrell would’ve still gone on to make the Hep-V Trueblood. 

Alcide and Sam return.  A man named Vince (who was Sam’s competition for Mayor) sees them change from animals to men.  Bill says the HV vamps will be nesting, so the men decide to go check some abandoned buildings.  Sookie overhears Alcide wondering how she could have ever loved a vampire and basically blaming her for the situation as well.  She has enough and leaves.

Vince confronts Sam and tells him he saw him change from a dog.  Sam tries to convince him otherwise, but it doesn’t work.  So he finally asks Vince to keep his secret, as the people of Bon Temps can’t handle another curve ball at the moment.  Bill commands the NI vamps to escort their humans home and the humans in turn let the NI vamps feed so they can be strong enough to protect them.  He tells James to take Lafayette home.

Sookie walks home by herself while Alcide calls and gets her voicemail.  She is drinking when Alcide gets home.  He yells at her for walking home alone.  She tells him she read his thoughts. She knows she’s not supposed to, but she can’t help it and even he is blaming her.  She tells him she needs to be on her own right now.  After a while she crawls into bed with him and apologizes.

Pam is in Marrakesh, Morroco playing Russian roulette while people bet on who will bite the bullet.  She and her competitor engage in interesting conversation about religion and then the unlucky guy shot himself.  Apparently Pam had to go through all of this to find out a clue about where Eric is.  She enters an establishment and passes a note to a man along with some cash.  He offers her his daughter to drink because all of the adults are infected, but she takes a pass.  He gives her a map of Rhone.  She doesn’t think Eric would go there, but the man tells her the information is correct.  What she chooses to do with it is up to her.

At the Bellefleur house, Adeline opens a window and apologizes to Jessica about Tara.  She tells Jess she has nightmares about the night Jess killed her sisters.  Adeline says she should hate Jess, but she doesn’t.  She asks Jessica about James and they talk about guys for a minute until they are interrupted by an HV vamp, wanting to know what Adeline is.  Jessica continues the stand off for the rest of the night, eventually persuading Adeline to drink some of her blood so Jess will always know where she is.  Dawn comes and Adeline is concerned for Jess, but she will not leave Adeline unguarded.  Finally, Adeline invites her in to stay in the attic for the day and they leave the HV vamp out to burn in the sun.

Jason talks to Violet about Tara.  They get to the abandoned building and find Vince with a group of townspeople ready to tar and feather.  They threaten Jason, which enrages Violet.  She tells them to back off and threatens them.  They finally leave and Jason gets upset with her.  He stops the car and tells Violet that he is tired of her emasculating him.  He is also tired of pleasing her, but them not having sex.  He says they will have sex then and there.  She tells him she has been waiting for this and they go at it.

James gets Lafayette home and he invites James in.  Lafayette says he has to alter his brain before he can feed James, so they smoke some weed.  James says he is sorry about Tara, but Lafayette says he feels relieved.  He grieved the first time Tara died.  James says that all of his friends died in Vietnam.  James was a draft dodger and says he is a pacifist who doesn’t believe in violence in any form.  One of his friends died in the war and he went to his house to pay his respects to the guys parents and the father beat him with a baseball bat and left him for dead.  A vampire found him and turned him.


Willa is trying to console Tara’s mom with the reverend.  Lettie Mae thinks she sees Tara and hears her calling out.  The reverend finally gets her calmed down.  He and Willa have a heart to heart and he thanks her for her help.  Willa tells him she has nowhere to go.  Eric is gone, Pam is gone and now Tara is gone.  She was rooming with Tara, but she can’t take going back there right now.  He lets her stay in a storage building he has which is underground.  (Um, Louisiana is under sea level, they don’t’ have buildings that go underground, but…)

Bill and Andy check out the meat packing plant.  They see immediately that the HV vamps have been nesting there.  They enter a room and find victims who have been strung up and bled.  Andy vomits and leaves the room.  Vince and his band of idiots arrive and pull guns on Bill and Andy.  Bill tells them that Andy is innocent and had nothing to do with the mixer so they should let him go and take Bill.  They tell Andy to leave because he will not want to see what happens next, but Andy says he wants to be the one to kill Bill.  Vince gives Andy the gun and he turns on the idiot brigade.  Andy and Lou have a stand off with Andy finally winning, but the idiots say they will be back for more.  Andy drops Bill off at home and Bill thanks Andy for saving him but Andy says he only did it because he needs Bill.

Fangtasia has been taken over by the HV vamps and that’s where Holly, Arlene, Kevin, Nicole and Jane are held captive.  Chained up in the basement.  They hear the vamps feeding on some poor human upstairs and freak out.  A vamp comes downstairs and Kevin is the poor soul who gets taken.  I really hope Eric and Pam show back up to kick some ass.

Sookie goes to the meeting at the church the next morning and tries to comfort Lettie Mae, but she tells Sookie it’s her fault Tara died and she is not welcome.  Sookie goes to leave, but then tells all of the people that she can hear what they are thinking.  She can’t bring back the folks who are already gone, but she knows vampires and she wants to help.


End credits…

So dammit, still no word on Eric.  I would really think they wouldn’t put this much effort into it if he weren’t going to turn up at some point.  Hopefully to save the day as only Eric can.  We’ve seen Bill’s leadership.  As always, it’s all about Sookie so I guess we’ll continue with that, but it looks like Alcide isn’t the only one vying for her heart and also may not be able to fully protect her.

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