'True Blood' Recap: 'Thank You'

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BY DENISE PURVIS

Ummm, no thank you. This episode of "True Blood"…well, I will let you make your own assumptions. Keep in mind that this is the last episode you’re ever going to see.

Bill & Sookie
Sookie is pissed off with Bill because he won’t seek treatment. She sees his nostalgia as regret of letting himself die. Bill tells her that he loves her so much that he wants her to have a normal life. He tells her that she’ll never have that with him, and he requests that she use her fairy light on him so that she can have a normal life, and he can die quickly.

Sookie has flashbacks to when she was a little girl hanging out with Tara. Even back then she couldn’t see a future for herself. She goes to see Jason about Bill’s request and runs into Bridget. She reads her mind and finds out that they didn’t sleep together and that she’s a little torn up about Hoyt, not to mention that she thinks Jason is sweet.

Since Bill is dying, Sookie can hear Bill’s thoughts. Or, I guess that is why she can hear Bill’s thoughts. I guess that makes her feel less hateful towards him. She tells Jason that Bill was thinking everything that you want a person you love to think.

'True Blood' Recap: 'Love is to Die'

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BY DENISE PURVIS

Sam
Sam decides to hit the road with Nicole so that he can see his baby grow up. He leaves Sookie a touching note. He tells her that he and Nicole are heading to Chicago and that she is invited to come up after the baby is born.

Sookie
Bill refuses to explain why he won’t take the antidote from Sarah to Sookie or Jessica. Jessica is sad and Sookie is pissed and keeps slapping Bill. Jessica makes Bill release her. Bill delivers a lovely speech then lets her go.

Ol' girl is having a pretty bad day. First she has to endure Bill refusing an antidote to his Hep-V then getting the Dear John letter from Sam. She delivers the other letter to Andy, and offers to stick around in case he needs a shoulder to cry on. Turns out that it’s just a resignation letter.

Sookie is too depressed to join the little celebration at Bellefleur’s. Sookie asks Arlene how she keeps moving on since she’s had so many failed relationships. Somehow Arlene’s five minutes of advice perks Sookie up, and she joins the table for dinner.

Details Released on 'True Blood' Season Finale

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The last two drops of "True Blood" are on the horizon and HBO just released the synopsis and playdates for the series finale. "Thank You" will air on Sunday, August 24 at 9 p.m. ET.

Here is the official description and times:

Episode #80: “Thank You” (series finale)
Debut: SUNDAY, AUG. 24 (9:00-10:00 p.m. ET/PT)
Other HBO playdates: Aug. 24 (11:30 p.m., 2:00 a.m.), 25 (11:45 p.m.), 26 (midnight), 27 (8:00 p.m., 12:30 a.m.) and 29 (midnight)
HBO2 playdates: Aug. 25 (8:00 p.m.), 28 (2:30 a.m.) and 30 (1:15 p.m., 9:00 p.m.)
Sookie (Anna Paquin) weighs a future with and without Bill (Stephen Moyer). Eric (Alexander Skarsgård) and Pam (Kristin Bauer van Straten) struggle with their uncomfortable partnership with Mr. Gus (Will Yun Lee). Sam (Sam Trammell) makes a choice, while Andy (Chris Bauer) comes upon an unexpected inheritance.
Written by Brian Buckner; directed by Scott Winant.

What are you predications and favorite moments from this final season? Tune in this Sunday at 9 p.m. for "Love is to Die." Here's a peek...

Ep. 79: Preview

-Larissa Mrykalo

'True Blood' Recap: 'Almost Home'

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BY DENISE PURVIS

Eric & Pam
After Sarah is tired of hearing all of the voices of her lover’s past, she decides to run outside and give herself up to Gus, Jr. and Eric. Eric, of course, cannot control himself and he pins Sarah up against a pole. Pam is worried that Eric is going to kill her, so she holds a gun to her heart to ensure that he doesn’t. So, he takes a sip of Sarah’s blood, and bam, cured.

Gus, Jr. tells Eric that he’s not synthesizing Sarah’s blood to be a cure. It’s more of a stop-gap so people will come back needing more. Basically it equates to more money.

Eric goes to visit Sookie to let her know that he will be okay. Once she sees that Eric is healed, she wants the serum for Bill. Eric tells her that he will come back to see her later, but she can’t wait due to Bill’s accelerating condition. She ends up at Fangtasia and the Yakuza do not trust her. Eric pretends to glamour her so she’ll leave.

'True Blood' Recap: 'May Be the Last Time'

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BY DENISE PURVIS

Gus, Jr., Pam, and Eric tie down Amber to try to get answers out of her about Sarah, errrr, New-Me. Eric kind of snaps when Amber won’t answer them, and he looks at her and sees Sarah. The only solution, of course, is to kill her. Pam looks devastated because she knows that without Sarah, there’s no hope left for any of the infected vampires.

Andy, Holly, & Kids
Andy and Holly go out searching for Wade and Adilyn. All they find in the treehouse are their abandoned cell phones. Andy calls Jessica who is still upset about Bill’s progressing virus, but she tells Andy that she hasn’t heard anything from Adilyn.

Adilyn doesn’t realize that she’s in danger because she’s naive. Violet shows them around her "50 Shades of Grey"-esque sex dungeon. The kids both realize that they don’t want to use all the accoutrements of Violet’s sex dungeon. I have to admit that I am glad they both came to this realization because I don’t think I could suffer through that scene.

'True Blood' Recap: 'Karma'

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BY DENISE PURVIS

The beginning of this week’s "True Blood" starts out like an action movie—music and all. Eric seems to be getting weaker as he has to fight the Yakuza. His vision fades in and out, but he still seems to be kicking Yakuza tail. He finally stops when he sees that they have captured Pam. The real question is: Where is Sarah?

Eric & Pam
They’ve really gotten themselves in a doozy where they’re being held under silver until sunrise by the Yakuza. The president of the Yakanomo Corporation wants to get information about Sarah’s whereabouts. As Eric and Pam sizzle in the moments before dawn, they finally settle on Eric killing Sarah when they find her and the Yakuza guy keeping her body. He finally lets them go, and they decide to go to Sarah’s sister’s house at nightfall together to kill her. Seems like a fair deal.

Sarah finally makes it to her sister’s house where she drops dead. RIP, Amber. Wait, low and behold, Amber isn’t dead. Amber wakes up and tells Sarah that she can’t stay at her house. Sarah feeds Amber a bunch of crap about how she’s a changed woman. Blah, blah, blah. I wish that Amber would just kill her.

Sarah tells Amber that she took all of the antidote, so she is the only person that can heal Hep-V vampires. So when Eric, Pam, and the Yakuza show up, Amber is perfectly healed. So where is Sarah?

New Comic-Con Exclusive 'True Blood' Trailer Teases the Final Episodes

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There are only five episodes left of "True Blood" and many speculate that it will end with no survivors. According to this "In the Weeks Ahead" exclusive out of Comic-Con, this may not be true. Does Sarah Newlin have an antidote to the virus that's wiping out the vamps? Will Eric and Bill survive? Will Hoyt and Jessica rekindle their old (forgotten) romance? Will Sookie and Bill come full circle and end up happily ever after?

Check out the trailer below and let us know how you think the series will end...



-Larissa Mrykalo

'True Blood' Recap: 'Lost Cause'

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BY DENISE PURVIS

Willa is obviously very angry with Eric about him deserting her. Eric releases Willa as his progeny in exchange for information about Sarah Newlin. Ginger loses her mind when she finds out that Eric is leaving. More than anything she’s angry that they didn’t get to relate to one another. They had to scrape her off of Eric’s casket in order to load him for transit.

Sookie
Sookie comes home to her sad, empty house, and Lafayette is there with James. Finally, she seems sad about the loss of Alcide. It only took a whole episode to reflect that. Lafayette tells her to go to sleep, and she wakes up to Alcide’s dad loading up all of Alcide’s things. Jenny and Lafayette cook up a lot of food for the whole town to feast on. He tells her that they will have a huge party with a lot of booze. Sookie is not happy about this plan, but seems to turn around about her apprehension when Bill shows up.

Eric & Pam
Eric and Pam show up in Dallas, Texas looking for Sarah’s sister, Amber, using the information that Willa gave them. She said that Sarah paid her off to say silent and in hiding. She and her vampire boyfriend sat around drinking Tru Blood and in turn her boyfriend died from Hep-V. Amber also has Hep-V. She asks Eric if he’s planning on killing Sarah, and he responds in the affirmative. So naturally, she’s in because she dislikes Sarah as much as anyone else. She tells them that she’s likely at some political get together with her parents. Off they go.

'True Blood' Recap: 'Death is Not the End'

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BY DENISE PURVIS

This week's "True Blood" opens with Sookie making a call to Alcide’s dad to let him know that Alcide was killed, and Jason making a call to Hoyt to let him know that Maxine has been killed. If you remember, Hoyt was glamored so he wouldn’t remember Jason or Jessica, so he has no idea who Jason is when he calls. Jason can’t hold it together, so Sookie tells him to man up.

Eric & Pam
We find out that Pam and Eric were in Shreveport as a form of punishment from the Magister. They were forced to run a video store. Strange punishment, no? They even had a XXX section downstairs. The Magister also made helpful mention of the underground entrance and exit from that building. Thanks for that tidbit of info! It will be helpful later. The Authority made Eric the sheriff of Area 5 so that they could keep an eye on him.

Flashback to 1987, when Fangtasia was still that nasty video store. Ginger (!!!) enters the store to get some vampire movies. She is clearly enamored with anything related to vampires and applies for the dayshift position at the store.

Ginger eventually comes up with the grand idea of Fangtasia, and Pam steals the idea from her. In the future she tells Eric that she stole his idea. They have a good chuckle about it.

They show up at Bill’s house, and Eric and Sookie have a heart to heart.

'True Blood' Recap: 'Fire in the Hole'

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BY DENISE PURVIS

The third episode of this last season of "True Blood" starts out with Sarah Newlin enjoying a yoga session in Los Angeles. Snooooozzzzeeee. I think everyone was more on board with a more exciting opener like last week. Shirtless guys. Please and thank you.

Pam & Eric
Pam has finally found Eric in Russia and informs him that Tara has met her true death. Eric seems unfazed by the whole thing. Pam wants to know what is wrong with Eric. It’s not just one thing because he has experienced a lot of loss in his 1000+ years.

Cut to a flashback in Rhone Valley, France where Eric meets a woman named Sylvie in a vineyard. Nan from the Authority sneaks up on him boning Sylvie, a human. Nan chastises Eric and Pam for not following the authority’s rules and introduces them to Tru Blood. I couldn’t stop staring at Eric’s bad wig. Nan tells him that he can kill Sylvie or Pam since he can’t follow instructions from the Authority. He tries to choose killing himself, but they don’t let him take that option. Obviously he chooses Sylvie over Pam or we would have no Pam.

Back to current day, Pam begs Eric to try to save himself. She thinks he’s contracted the virus on purpose. She finally tells him that Jason let Sarah Newlin live which revives Eric’s life purpose. They send some assassins to kill her at her yoga teacher’s house. He won’t tell them where Sarah is, so he is killed. So long, Yoga Teacher.

'True Blood' Recap: 'I Found You'

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BY DENISE PURVIS

Jason has a hot sex dream about Eric. He must be lurking around somewhere instead of being burnt up like they lead us to believe at the end of last season. I’ll spare you the details. It’s really one of those things you have to see for yourself. You know, shirtless sexy guys.

Sookie finally decided to tell Sam and Andy that she found a dead body after she heard everyone’s thoughts. Her theory is that they identify the dead girl she found in the woods and track her body back to wherever she came from to find out where all of those vampires are coming from. Really, it can’t hurt since three out of the four remaining members of the Bon Temps police force are right there and well, not too bright. Sam suggests that everyone be of service.

I was wrong about the infected vampires. They have the same reasoning skills of regular vampires or humans. The reason why they have everyone tied up in the basement is to ration their food supplies. They realize that they are going to die as well. Unfortunately, they all look like they were in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie.

HBO Reveals 'True Blood' Episode Titles and Descriptions

HBO has released information on "True Blood"'s three July episodes and they hint at some bloody bad news. Would we expect anything less? When you see hints that involve a "dangerous plan," "bloodbath," "bearers of bad news" and (ugh) "Sarah Newlin," you know this final season is amping up for a big finish.

Check out the episode titles and descriptions below, including the air times...

Episode #73: “Fire in the Hole”
Debut: Sunday, July 6 (9:00-10:00 p.m. ET/PT)
Other HBO playdates: July 6 (11:30 p.m., 2:00 a.m.), 7 (11:30 p.m.), 8 (12:15 a.m.), 9 (8:00 p.m., 12:35 a.m.) and 11 (midnight)
HBO2 playdates: July 7 (9:00 p.m.), 10 (4:20 a.m.), 12 (9:00 p.m.) and 13 (8:00 p.m.)
Sookie (Anna Paquin) hatches a dangerous plan to take down the H-Vamps, even as Vince (Brett Rickaby) and his armed vigilantes pose an equally serious threat. Lafayette (Nelsan Ellis) gets high with James (Nathan Parsons); Jason (Ryan Kwanten) eyes a family future with Violet (Karolina Wydra); Willa (Amelia Rose Blaire) is forced to find a new place to stay; Sarah Newlin (Anna Camp) sheds her past. Pam (Kristin Bauer van Straten) offers Eric (Alexander Skarsgård) a compelling reason to return to Louisiana – and be the vampire he used to be.
Written by Brian Buckner; directed by Lee Rose.

'True Blood' Recap: 'Jesus Gonna Be Here'

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BY DENISE PURVIS

Talk about an action packed first two minutes! I launched right into the season seven premiere of "True Blood" without refreshing my memory of what happened in the season six finale. I regretted that, so I had to pause the episode and go back and read my recap from last season. Sam’s the new mayor, Bill is an author, Sam’s girlfriend is pregnant with his baby/puppy, and Alcide and Sookie are in a relationship. Check, check, check. The town is being overrun with vampires sick with the Hepatitis-V virus.

The hep-v ravaged vampires attack Bon Temps during the “Get a healthy vampire friend mixer,” kill Tara, and haul off Arlene, Holly, Nicole, and Kevin. In case you were wondering, Lettie Mae’s wig is still awful, and she’s pretty torn up about Tara being killed...again.

Back at Bellefleur’s (Merlotte’s renamed after Arlene took over), everyone is blaming Sookie, you know since she can hear their thoughts. She can’t take it any longer when she hears Alcide blaming her in his thoughts. Of course, she takes off on her own as she is prone to do. That tactic has always worked out wonderfully for her in the past. She stumbles over some dead chick, but just keeps walking. Dead people are a dime a dozen in Bon Temps. Once Alcide finally gets home, Sookie is already home hanging out in her robe. She tells Alcide that she read his mind and heard him blame her for everything. Come on! Give the dude a break. She eventually goes to bed and forgives Alcide where they engage in some sweet lovemaking.

'True Blood' Retrospective: 'A Farewell to Bon Temps' Reflects on the HBO Series

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The seventh and final season of "True Blood" premieres at 9 p.m. ET this Sunday on HBO but last Sunday, fans were treated to a retrospective on the series with "A Farewell to Bon Temps." It featured not only creator and executive producer Alan Ball, but also the key players, including; Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, Sam Trammel, Alexander Skarsgård, Carrie Preston, Rutina Wesley, and Kristin Bauer van Straten.

The 27-minute flashback featured some cool stories about the origins of the series and how the cast really felt and still feels about each other. Of course there were some tears...sadly, not of blood. If you didn't get a chance to check it out last Sunday, we have it for you here. Of course, we'd love for you to weigh in on some of your favorite moments and what you're most looking forward to in the final season.



-Larissa Mrykalo

HBO Releases Full 'True Blood' Season Seven Trailer

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More blood baths, sex, revenge, Sookie getting blamed for chaos (what else is new?) and the past catching up with the present. This latest "True Blood" trailer offers more peeks at the upcoming final season and it looks like the vamps are closing in on the humans...again. This time they are amped-up Hep V vampires and it doesn't look too promising if you have a pulse.

It was nice to see ghost Gran in a scene and we can't help but wonder if the love affair between Sookie and Alcide will last...Sookie does have Bill's blood coursing through her pretty little veins. What's with the hanging-upside-down-like-bats victims?

Who will survive the season? The mystery gets less and less when the seventh season premieres on June 22 at 9 p.m. ET on HBO.



-Larissa Mrykalo

HBO GO Makes Things Awkward With 'Game Of Thrones,' 'Family Viewing' Campaign

HBO appreciates that some of its programming may be great genre fare, but not great genre fare to watch with the parentals. From the steamy sex scenes in "True Blood" to the incest in "Game of Thrones," a new marketing campaign for HBO GO, the streaming service for HBO subscribers, targets Millennials who may want to watch those shows on their own.

Titled "Awkward Family Viewing,"the videos from SS+K will run on BuzzFeed and HBO’s YouTube and Twitter sites. According to a press release, HBO's college Campus Agents will also "share the campaign videos across social networks and create content featuring their own awkward HBO viewing moments with family and friends through Instagram, Vine, etc. using #HBOGOplease."

“There are plenty of great moments in our shows that you don’t necessarily want to watch with mom and dad,” said Chris Spadaccini, Senior Vice President of Brand Marketing at HBO. “One of the many benefits of HBO GO is that it allows subscribers to watch their favorite HBO shows in private, without fear of parental interruption.”

Check out a couple of the awkward ones, directed by David Shane from O Positive Films...

-Aaron Sagers

New Season 7 Teaser for 'True Blood' Debuts

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A new clip for the final season of "True Blood" debuted right before Sunday's new episode of "Game of Thrones" and Sookie's hair looks damn good for the upheaval that seems to be occurring. Vampires (Zompires?) have attacked...in a church and it seems that the war against humans is causing them to turn into "animals" in order to survive. The final season has been promised to be bloody and deadly which is exactly what we should expect from a vampire series.

Check out the teaser below and let us know who you think will remain standing at the end because as Sookie says, "There's no one left." The new season begin on Sunday, June 22 at 9 p.m. ET on HBO.

-Larissa Mrykalo

The Final Season of 'True Blood' Premieres June 22 and Gets a Creepy Teaser Trailer

The seventh and final season of "True Blood" finally has a premiere date and an eerie teaser trailer that takes a walk down memory lane...via graves...and ends with a final RIP for the series. The teaser is scheduled to be aired to correspond with Sunday's premiere of "Game of Thrones." Make sure you tag the series with the hashtag #TrueBloodForever and brace yourselves for a season that Ryan Kwanten promised to contain some shocking deaths.

"True Blood" will premiere on Sunday, June 22 at 9 p.m. ET. HBO also released the following summation of the season:

“'True Blood' begins its ten-episode, seventh and final season Sunday, June 22 at 9:00 p.m. Mixing romance, suspense, mystery and humor, the series takes place in a world where vampires and humans co-exist, after vampires have come out of the coffin, thanks to the invention of mass-produced synthetic blood that means they no longer need humans as a nutritional source. The series follows waitress and part-faerie Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin), who can hear people’s thoughts, vampire Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer) and vampire Eric Northman (Alexander Skarsgård). Alan Ball created the show, which is based on the bestselling Sookie Stackhouse novels by Charlaine Harris.”



-Larissa Mrykalo

Ryan Kwanten Reveals 'True Blood''s Final Season Will Be Full of Surprises

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In an interview with Access Hollywood, "True Blood"'s Ryan Kwanten (Jason Stackhouse) revealed that the final season with be full of surprises. They're almost done filming but apparently nothing is being left to chance and some fan favorites are going to be "not lasting the season, unfortunately."

Watch the interview and let us know who you think will bite the dust. The seventh and final season will premiere this June on HBO but no official date has been announced. However, based on "Game of Thrones" having ten episodes and "True Blood" always starting the week after, that puts the (possible) premiere date at June 15.

-Larissa Mrykalo

Rutina Wesley from 'True Blood' Pays a Visit to 'Sesame Street'

This peek at Thursday's "Word on the Street" lesson on the meaning of "plan" sure doesn't suck thanks to "Sesame Street"'s latest guest star! Rutina Wesley, "Tara" from "True Blood," stopped by and joined Elmo and Abby for this quick bite. So if Abby gets bitten by a vampire does that make her a fairy-vamp like in the series?

Wesley told Entertainment Weekly that "...acting with puppets 'was new for me. It’s a lot of fun, but sometimes you don’t know quite who to talk to. Do I talk to the puppet, or do I talk to the person?'" She also revealed that Elmo was her favorite "Sesame Street" character. Abby was not pleased.

EW also managed to sneak some of the behind-the-scenes conversations...

Elmo: “Can we be on the show?”
Wesley: “I’ll see what I can do. Let’s exchange numbers.”

Abby: “I’m allergic to blood. Is that a problem?”
Wesley: “It might be.”
Joey Mazzarino, Sesame Street writer-director (who clearly knows his True Blood): “Abby, there’s synthetic blood. It’s like lactose-free milk.”

Abby: “The word is ‘coagulate.’”
Elmo: “CO-AG-U-LATE”
Abby: “Or ‘clot.’”
Elmo: “That’s gross.”

Be sure to check out the segment with your little vampires!

-Larissa Mrykalo