True Blood Review: Alcide To The Rescue!

Audiences were promised a different shower scene than what was in the books and it was different, albeit cheesy, but I’m not going to complain too much. When we last left Sookie (Anna Paquin) and Eric (Alexander Skarsgard), Eric was still being controlled by Marnie/Antonia’s (Fiona Shaw) spell and finally after sunset, Sookie was able to take off the silver. Eric wasn’t healing much though since he hasn’t fed since Claudine. Sookie decides to finally give Eric her other forbidden fruit, her special fairy blood. He is able to control himself from feeding on her too much and then offers his own blood to her so that they can be “one”. Once again I admit, I squealed a bit. What happens after is the shower scene, where the two are transported into their own world of fur beds and lovemaking in the snow. Very fitting of course with Eric’s Viking background. I don’t remember if Sookie ever took Bill’s blood while they were hooking up but I definitely do not remember any hallucinogenic montages. While I am very much for a Sookie-Eric pairing, I can’t help but wonder if these fantastical scenes are just a reference to the fantasy of their relationship. Even Sookie ominously tells Eric after their v-induced sex that nothing lasts forever.

Luckily, thanks to King Bill’s (Stephen Moyer) insistence, there was only one vampire casualty in Louisiana due to the witches spell. He does some PR work and goes on TV spouting talk of how vampire suicide is common because of the hatred from humans, making the vampire lonely and filled with self-loathing. After the interview, Bill goes to call on Marnie/Antonia to meet with him at the Bon Temp Cemetery, so they can work out a peaceful resolution, NOT.

Earlier, Jason (Ryan Kwanten) rushed over to Bill’s place just in time to stop Jessica (Deborah Ann Woll) from walking out into the light. They share a passionate kiss after the high emotions they experienced coming close to death. This leads to Jessica finally breaking up with Hoyt (Jim Parrack). Poor Hoyt is in denial that Jess is ready to call it quits. Ah young love, that first heartbreak is a killer. In their second round, Hoyt releases his anger and says all the things that he knows will hurt Jess’s feelings. He even goes as far as to rescind his invitation and claims how his mother was right and that god hates fangers. Jess heads over to Jason’s who rescinds his invitation as well. He is now unwilling to betray Hoyt anymore than he already has. This is probably the smart move to make. Jess just gets the short end of the stick in all of this, but she’ll get over it, she’s got all the time in the world after all.

Sookie and Eric decide that they want to stand with Bill in his meeting with the witches. Mayhem ensues as Eric strikes the first blow and we see the ferocity of his former self come back with a vengeance. Pam is about to bite Tara (who’s on the witches side) when Bill saves her. She asks him why and he says you know why. I am assuming that is because she is Sookie’s best friend. Is that the only reason why her life would be worth something? If so, that is messed up and Marnie/Antonia’s claims have a lot of truth in it. Bill could have said, because I didn’t save you last season with crazy Franklin Mott. But he doesn’t.

Sookie defends herself from a witch attacker with her fairy lighting thingy and then gets shot in her left side of her stomach. Both Bill and Eric sense it but Holly and another witch silver Bill, while Marnie/Antonia bewitches Eric again. This time it looks like Marnie/Antonia takes Eric as a servant because she kept saying something that sounded like “servo” and then she kept stroking his hair like a pet.

The other male who comes to Sookie’s rescue is Alcide (Joe Manganiello). He goes against the decree of his new pack and the promise he made to Debbie and comes to Sookie’s house in search of her. Debbie follows him in wolf form and plays the shocked girlfriend. Looks like old Debbie Pelt is making a comeback! She’s begged and pleaded with Alcide to stay away from Sookie how many times now since season four started but he can’t seem to help himself (is that more of Sookie’s fairy blood calling out to him?). Can’t really blame him cuz Debbie is still crazy underneath that “I’m trying to change” façade.

Marcus, leader of the Shreveport Pack, finds Sam (Sam Trammell) at Luna’s house and gets extremely territorial despite the fact that they are already divorced. When a were and a shifter produce an offspring, does that make the progeny a were or a shifter? In any case, Luna’s daughter seems terrified of her dad and prefers Sam’s friendly disposition. The other Mickens brother continues to dig himself into a deeper hole by shifting into Maxine Fortenberry and sells her land for a mere $5,700.

Lafayette’s (Nelsan Ellis) story has taken a detour from the main storyline as he gets possessed by the spirit of an African woman from the fifties(?) who had her own baby killed by the Caucasian father of the child. So is she haunting little Mikey because she wants her own baby back? Seems like it. I wonder if bad luck runs in the family because Lafayette and Tara sure seem to find themselves in one crappy situation after another.

But rest assured there is more True Blood goodness to come as HBO has renewed the show for season five. At San Diego Comic-Con, showrunner Alan Ball revealed that in season five we will find out how Pam (Kristen Bauer Von Straten) was made into a vampire and there will be some version of the strip club Hooligans (the establishment owned by Claudine’s fairy brother Claude in the books). Ball also said that they were already working and researching for storylines for the next season. That is very good news indeed.