Posted by Dustin on 06.15.2009 at 1:20 pm

“True Blood” returned last night with a great surprise, Lafeyette is alive! Well for now that is. First up a mini-cap then my thoughts.

The show opened where it left off, with Sam grabbing money from his safe, only to hear Tara and Sookie screaming in the parking lot. They along with Andy found a dead body in Andy’s car, which looked to be Lafeyette. It wasn’t though, it was Miss Jeanette, the woman who performed the fake exorcisms on Tara and her mother. Someone had ripped her heart out!

Tara and her mother had to explain who Miss Jeanette was to the police, and Tara told her mother that she was a fraud, it was all a scam. Her mom didn’t believe, she felt she got a miracle, and Tara was still an unbeliever. Maryanne came to pick up Tara and basically told her mother off for being a horrid mother to her. She took Tara back to her house. Tara continued to be infatuated with the guy Maryanne had staying at her house as well. When the butler interrupted a moment of closeness between Tara and the guy, Maryanne was furious and later smacked him hard for it.

Sam dropped by Maryanne’s to return something. He saw a weird statue, which made him flashback to when he first met her. He was young, had just run away, and broke into her house. He stole food, then was caught by her. They had sex and she did this weird pose on top of him, mimicking the statue. He knew she was something different, which she confirmed saying “he wasn’t the only special one in this world.” He later stole a bunch of jewelry and money from her. That was what he came to repay, he thought she was back for that. She later laughed at him and said that wasn’t what she was after at all.

Sookie and Bill had several misunderstandings. First she got into a fight with him over the girl living in his house who he was forced to turn as part of his punishment last season. Then they argued over her Uncle Bertram, who she found out was found dead in the swamps near his home. He admitted he killed him as he had hurt her (he molested her as a child, or tried to). Sookie was furious, but they both admitted that they loved each other and had vampire sex at the end.

Jason was taken in by the Fellowship of the Sun. He had read the book the Reverend’s (Newlander?) father had written and was interested. He met the reverend and his wife. They invited him to take part in some leadership conference, where he’d be trained to spread the gospel. However it was $1200 dollars, which he didn’t know if he could get together. They said pray on it, God would give him a sign. Later Sookie came to Jason with a check for $11,000 dollars. She had just found out about their uncle’s death and he left what little he had to her, but she didn’t want it and gave it to him. Jason took it as his sign. He later told a work friend about the church. His friend felt they were just a bunch of vampire haters, but Jason said it was much more than just that. He felt it was a calling and he belonged.

Finally Lafeyette was locked in a basement, chained to some odd mechanical wheel with others. A man was brought down and chained up, someone Lafeyette knew. It was the guy he beat up in the restaurant last season for complaining he didn’t want “AIDS” on his burger. The guy was also involved with the group of town folk who burnt down the bad vampire coven last season. Lafeyette didn’t know where they were, why they were here or how long he had been here. At the end we learned Eric was holding them all. He came for the one guy, to question him about his involvement in the deaths of some vampires. The guy tried to run, burning Eric with a cross. Eric then killed him and blood splattered all over Lafeyette.

My Thoughts
First up, I’m so happy they deviated from the books and let Lafeyette live! The previews next week however have him telling Eric to turn him. Hmmm. Lafeyette did give a big speech this week about how nothing in his life has gone right, no attempt to better himself have worked and he always ends up in messed up situations. So it looks like Lafeyette might become one of the undead after all?

Maryanne clearly is something odd. She’s definitely interested in Tara, and I suspect she killed Miss Jeanette. I mean a vampire wouldn’t rip her heart out, they’d drain her right? I figured from her mimicking the statue’s pose, along with all the Greco-Roman stuff around her house, that she figured into Greek mythology. I did a quick google to find out what she was. Skip this paragraph if you don’t want spoilers! Maryanne is a maenid, a followed of the Greek God Dionysus. She’s a “frenzied woman” who feeds off anger and lust, which gives her power. My guess is she’s setting up Tara and that other guy to feed off their lust for one another.

The Fellowship of the Sun creeps me out, and there is obviously something much bigger going on with them. Also I get the feeling the Reverend’s interest in Jason aren’t for his mind at all. I mean let’s be honest, nobody would be interested in Jason for his mind . . . he doesn’t have one. I think the Reverend and his wife want Jason as their boy toy. But I also think they have a bigger plan. She mentioned something about positioning him for a run for Governor of Texas.

I don’t have too much to say about Bill and Sookie. It seems they just flat out dropped any Bill-Sookie-Sam triangle they hinted at with the end of last season.