True Blood Review: “Dead Meat” (Season 6, Episode 8)

Arlene is also starting to drag the story along, especially since she’s one of maybe four people who are still distraught over Terry’s death. She spends the episode mourning the millions Terry left her and the fact that she glamoured him, which was a stupid decision in the first place. Not to sound like a jerk, but my sympathy is running severely low for her.

Despite the secondary stories being unable to stay interesting, the camp has remained the focal point of True Blood this season, and the fact that every single interesting character is stuck in a pressure cooker there makes it all the better. Pam sleeps with her psychiatrist to get a little better treatment for everyone, and Tara helps Willa adjust to the public cell life. Jason, still stuck in the women’s public cell, is now Violet’s blood slave, which leads to a few sexy moments but not much else. Tara, Jessica, Pam and Willa ask for some of his blood to avoid drinking the tainted Tru Blood, which leads to the whole group getting caught and put in a circular white room. Sound familiar?

Oh, and Steve Newlin appears for a few glorious minutes, which happen to be some of the best moments in the episodes. The fact that he has been locked up with everybody else the whole season and still barely gets any screen time is killing me.

But the scene that takes the cake of the episode (and probably the season so far) is when Sarah chases Ms. Suzuki through the camp trying to make sure she doesn’t leave alive. After discovering the Hep-V additive, Suzuki attempts to call the FDA before Sarah gives chase. Everything ends with a twisted ankle and a stiletto through the head, dripping blood onto a pack of hungry vampires. The cherry on top? Sarah, drenched in blood, raising her head and exclaiming, “Thank you, Jesus!”

So we’ve got more set up for the finale that’s only two episodes away, meaning that hopefully more than a few plots will finish out next week. Split them up and take some time to give them a proper finale, because this season of True Blood absolutely deserves an explosive ending. Let’s just hope there’s more time spent on Eric (the now loose cannon) and the campers rather than Sookie and her expected indecisiveness.