Alan Ball certainly weaves in his political feelings when penning scripts for the HBO hit series, "True Blood."
Where's Bill? Stephen Moyer - vampire Bill Compton, in the US TV series - has been spirited off by a mystery person/vamp © Albert L. Ortega / PR Photos
Swipes at the "liberal media" and a tip of the hat to Vermont as a legal haven for human-vampire weddings were duly noted. As was the end of the season's long, long, long bogged-down arc of Maryann the Maenad.
Kudos still to Michelle Forbes who gave the vibrating hedonistic creature who wore out her welcome in Bon Temps some style and sex appeal.
The grand finale was awash in hokey humor, horror and new storylines laid like that giant Ostrich egg to entice you back for more Bayou mayhem.
The White Wedding and ridiculous Andy and Jason yuk yuk show quickly wrapped up as Bill and Sam cooked up a scheme to end the reign of Maryann and her unholy Stackhouse squatters who trashed Sookie's gran's house. Being very familiar with bayou country in Louisiana, all I could think about was how overrun with bugs and vermin that house, festooned with rotting meat, would have actually been. That obsessive thought scared me more than the knife in the heart that Eggs dished Sam as the sacrificial offering.
So "the god" Dionysus left our besotted Maenad once again at the altar, and off-camera our Sam was revived by Bill (via magical vampire blood), and he shifted into a giant Brahma Bull, goring Ms. Maryann right through her black heart. Cue the special FX makeup team, and time to clean up the Stackhouse abode.
Ball has breathed new life into stagnant Yahtzee sales thanks to his Queen's (Evan Rachel Wood) hardcore ADD affliction and love of the game, as she snookers Eric (Alexander Skarsgard) into game number 342 out of 5 million in the Yahtzee tourney from hell. She exerts her status on Eric and reminds him that no one is to know she is the uber dealer of Vamp blood, or else. You can see their chemistry on screen and it is no wonder the two are dating, reportedly.
Ball also gives unnaturally green soda Mountain Dew a big shout out with his patented two local yokel rubes in a bar scene who are A) always really fat and B) completely stupid who spin conspiracy yarns about the goings-on in their not-so-sleepy hamlet.
The shocker of the night was Jason Stackhouse's murder of distraught Eggs, who became unglued threatening Andy when he realized the scope of his puppethood from Maryann. It was not a good scene. Who is left to suffer more? Tara is left once again emotionally dangling in the wind.
Hoyt's vileness of a mother has set up her son's desire to finally leave the nest and regain his adult love, but his Vamp girl Jessica has other plans. Their story is unresolved, and I still say she has an amazing head of hair.
The romance blew back into Bon Temps for Sookie, as she receives a lovely dress from Bill and goes out on a proper date. It was in the empty restaurant (Bill arranged it all) where he pops the question to a shocked Sookie who has to excuse herself to the loo. This is "True Blood" we are talking about here, don't count on any hackneyed fairytale endings.
When Sookie returns to tell Bill her answer, we are left with a crime scene and a stunned Sookie. Someone used silver chains to drag our Southern gent out by his neck...until next season.
It had to be a vampire-the perp was wearing gloves...right?
How did it end for you? Who nabbed Bill?
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