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The last three episodes of True Blood.  ***Some spoilers follow if you haven’t read the Sookie Stackhouse novels.***

It has taken me a while to finally sit down and review these last few episodes of True Blood.  Partly because of the loop that I was thrown in after the fifth episode “Never Let Me Go”.  In this episode LaFayette returns to his job at Merlotte’ s, Sam found out that Daphne was a shape shifter, Mary-Ann attacks Tara (through Tara’s friends) after almost getting kicked out of Sookie’s house, and Barry the bell boy quits his job to avoid Sookie.  All in all it was a pretty standard episode, standard being remarkable of course.  However, in the very last moment of the show, who should show up?  Bill’s maker Lorena!  This was quite a shock, because up until this point, the liberties taken by the show had been fairly straight forward.  A change here, an omission there, a couple extras thrown in.  But the arrival of Lorena jumps us forward to the third book while firmly standing in the middle of the second book.  What the hell?!

Another change is to the character Godric.  Godric is a good character in the books.  The show has thrown Eric’s maker into the mix of traits.  This is fine with me, since Eric’s maker is only mentioned once in the 9th book, so it’s really not a huge change.

The sixth episode “Hard-Hearted Hannah” was the most over the top sex episode of the season so far.  This episode features sex in a murder scene (with one of the victim’s still bleeding out), a church balcony, and a maenad inspired orgy.  Not anything to bat an eye at in the True Blood world, but it would definitely get an R in the theaters.  Lots of nudity, lots of noises, and lots of positions (especially in the orgy).

In this episode one of the first things we find out is how Lorena got there.  It turns out she was invited by Eric.  Eric finally is starting to slowly reveal the feelings that linger below the surface.  Very exciting for the members of Team Eric.

Over the course of the sixth and seventh episode, we get more incite into the relationship of Bill and Lorena.  In the sixth episode they are a happily depraved couple, killing and screwing like young vamps in love.  But in the seventh episode Bill is suddenly sullen at the idea of all the endless violence.  So sullen he threatens to kill himself rather than stay with Lorena.  The flashbacks are pretty good at fleshing out Lorena’s character.  The one thing that didn’t make much sense, was the radical turn around that Bill makes in his attitude towards Lorena without an explanation of why.  A highlight to these flashbacks was some singing by Stephen Moyer of the song “Heard Hearted Hannah”.

Sunday nights episode “Timebomb” promises more Stackhouse antics in Dallas.  8:00 pm cst Sunday on HBO.