![]() ![]() ![]() Many extras are killed, and even important characters like Arlene and Holly are taken captive in a doggy bag. Thus it is a grisly start where Sookie barely has time to faerie out while the bloodbath rages around her. ![]() And Maylor Merlotte surely wasn’t just whistling “Dixie” for his Louisiana backdoor barbecue since a pack of monstrous vampires showed up at the party, ready to feast on all of Bon Temps’ inhabitants. In the intervening time, Sam improbably became mayor of Bon Temps, formed a neighborly alliance with Vampire Bill, and is basically left adrift to oversee the town’s fortifications for the coming vampire apocalypse wrought by “Hep-V,” the Season 6 vampire STD that has turned infected fangers into decaying and ravenous Un-Undead. For those who don’t recall all the details, the Season 6 finale enjoyed a liberating time-jump of half a year. The change of pace is announced early and violently in a cold open that dramatically capitalizes on the cliffhanger of last season. In short, while it is sad that True Blood’s final walk in the sun has come, for the first time in several seasons, I am genuinely excited to see where that solar jaunt is headed. By getting into the zombie game, the series finally has created a reason for the show to return to being a drama about folks in a small town dealing with local issues, Southern prejudices, and character angst on a supernatural scale with the series’ nadir-Lilith-firmly in the rearview. It is unclear whether Season 7 was the planned ending of the series or not, but the Walking (Un)Dead vampire-zombies (or vombies, as I like to say) feel like as big an existential threat as True Blood has ever imagined. ![]()
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