I wasn't really surprised that Sam could be elected the Mayor - it doesn't seem to be that coveted a position (did we even get introduced to the former Mayor of the town at any point in the 6 seasons?). I was mostly surprised because I have no recollection of Sam showing any interest in local politics at all before he…

The actor who plays Alcide was shooting an action movie this year so he probably had to cut his hair for that. Given that terrible wig he was wearing in the funeral scenes I'm betting the writers didn't know they wanted him in the story until he had already started filming the movie.

Good to have confirmation, not that anyone should have been that worried. There's no way they would have killed off their "smoldering blonde vampire who appears to have been chiseled out of a Nordic fjord by the laser-focused will of a million Harlequin romance novel readers" eye candy with such a shitty unplanned…

Does Violet seem like someone who would take rejection well? She basically claimed Jason as her property, can you imagine what she'd do if he just tried to walk away? Lady would go batshit. And she's an 800 year old vampire, so there are few around Bon Temps who could match her in a physical fight (save Eric but he's…

I was thinking the same thing then remembered that the human needs to feed off the vampire to start the sexy dream train rolling. It would be creepy as all fuck if HBO went there.

Haha, probably reading too much into True Blood's storytelling. I personally haven't read it, but it is apparently a "story of misguided love, adultery and despair" so I'm not quite sure how it would have fit with the scene. Guessing they saw the book and thought "Hey, that looks super Swedish!" and bam, you've got a…

Definitely in the church, doing a lot of silent acting with a hand fan.

"The Serious Game" by Hjalmar Söderberg

Ummm, ok, that was an interesting choice. I guess someone at HBO realized they could just do a cut-to-black-time-jump and not have to actually tie up any storylines or set up new ones. Why bother with plots and character development at all?

Old black men and old rich white women definitely have stereotypical roles they play well…

I can't imagine Meryl Streep playing a bit part in this show (or any show really). She'd just totally steal whatever scene she happened to be in and completely derail the storyline.

Alrighty, that was a pretty good episode for me! Finally some progress instead of boring werewolf garbage or Sookie shit. A few thoughts, in no particular order:

I don't think Billith knew about the HepV originally did he? The vision just showed the sunshiney death room. It just seems that Billith's plan conveniently leaves out the part where there would presumably be guards watching that room with guns pointed at everyone in it. Though since the new bullets are so damaging…

I'll be honest, I just whipped up some awesome Fish Tacos and was watching this while extremely satiated. I did enjoy this week, but it's safe to say I wasn't fully invested in this episode. However I'll give it a go. These are some of my thoughts, in no particular order:

I'm not sure I would classify him as "decent". Personally I don't think it's very decent to murder an obviously mentally unstable man, leaving behind a wife and three children. However I just meant that I want Terry's storyline to stop and the writers keep dragging that shit out with various subplots.

An okay episode overall I guess. A few thoughts in no particular order:

Definitely not optically accurate, but very much stylistically pleasing. A view similar to that of the show would only come out of using a very small hole, like what you'd see with a pinhole camera. In actuality, based on the apparent height of the hole (around navel height it seems, though the show might've fudged…

I wouldn't go as far as saying Terry died when he was glamoured, if anything he went back to the way he was before the war. The murder pact was the idea of a highly desperate man who couldn't see another way out, hardly a representative sample of the man himself.

Yeah, that was completely unexpected for me as well. I had bought the Governor's previous justification of the TruBlood deal just being about the tax dollars/embezzlement. It's nice when this show is able to surprise you.

Alright, that was pretty ok. A few thoughts, in no particular order: