IN A NUTSHELL: True Blood Season 6, Episode 8 Recap

Sarah Newlin (Anna Camp) gets deadly with a shoe in HBO's True Blood Season 6, Episode 8, entitled 'Dead Meat'

Oh honey, you’ve got something stuck in your hair…

So what did you think of HBO’s True Blood Season 6, Episode 8, entitled Dead Meat? There sure was a lot going on and there is a definite feeling of impending doom building towards the True Blood finale in two weeks time.

This was a better episode than last week’s and I will certainly be hard pressed to pick only a few quotes for my meme’s post later in the week, but… there are still a few WTF moments that I will be addressing at the end of my recap.

This is what went down:

Eric (Alexander Skarsgard) and Billith (Stephen Moyer) have words. They go something like this: “Blah, Blah… I hate you…blah… Fuck you!… Sookie’s hot… blah blah… Lillith’s magic… Piss off!” Like that conversation isn’t going to end badly
Rikki (Kelly Overton) challenges Alcide (Joe Manganiello) in a duel to the death for leader of the pack. We then have to witness Alcide beating on women. Not a comfortable scene at all, no matter how much we hate Rikki
Oh whoops! Nicole (Jurnee Smollett-Bell) is pregnant and she doesn’t know it, but we do after Sam (Sam Trammell) sniffs at her like a creep
Alcide and Sam are now besties. While I am over the werewolves/shifters story line, I am starting to feel sorry for Alcide having to leave his pack. This makes me a bit worried since TV shows LOVE to make you like a disliked character – right before they kill them off
Violet (Karolina Wydra) uses Jason Stackhouse (Ryan Kwanten) as a human popsicle – one which she will NOT share with the others. EVER.
Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin) needs Benlow’s (Robert Kazinsky) blood in order to save her vampire friends – but it will come at a cost. Yep, looks like Sookie’s about to become a vampire! Of course, being Sookie – even with time being of the essence – she has to wander off and discuss this with every potential suitor she can track down. Sam says no and Billith thinks it’s a good idea that Benlow has come up with – gee, really?
Whoops! Who’s that hiding behind that tree when Sookie leaves Fairyland. Enter: Eric Northman – this can’t end well, I just know it!
Dammit James (Luke Grimes)! Why are you telling ~~whiny little spineless biatch~~ Steve Newlin (Michael McMillian) not to drink the blood? Why????
Cute as a button and still gets fucked over by gay Steve Newlin
~~The fucking little turncoat~~ Steve Newlin, in return, turns on him and dobs him into Sarah Newlin (Anna Camp). This is the episode when the sunroom from Billith’s vision starts to fill up. And fill up fast, it does. Very quickly Jessica (Deborah Ann Woll), Pam (Kristin Bauer van Straten), Tara (Rutina Wesley), Willa Burrell (Amelia Rose Blaire) and Violet join James and Steve Newlin. Jessica promptly announces their impending doom. On a side note, that means Jason is left alone with the other vampires in gen-pop. Hope he’s gonna be okay…
It’s about to get hot in here. Wonder if crispy vampires smell as good as bacon?
A lot of alcohol gets consumed in Episode 8. Not sure why, but adding Sam’s office into the mix – filled to the brim with crates of alcohol – it makes me wonder at HBO’s product placement
Sookie can’t seem to get in touch with Jason, but she has finally noticed that Niall (Rutger Hauer) is missing
It doesn’t matter how old a vampire is – it’s still really hard to say “Jason Stackhouse” with their fangs out
Two week old fairies can’t drink coffee – but they will sneak out to drink alcohol with the boys!
Lafayette (Nelsan Ellis) tells Arlene (Carrie Preston) about Terry’s (Todd Lowe) two million dollar insurance policy – and that’s when Arlene works out it was suicide. She then goes on to cause havoc with the prim and proper Bellefluers over Terry’s funeral
Billith is an ass – he promises not to kill Warlow – but only because he hasn’t synthesized his blood yet
And Steve Newlin, I hate him too
As for Sarah Newlin – she’s a bitch from hell who claims Jesus helped her in killing the Tru Blood rep who shows up and asks some hard questions. Although, I must say, it was the best scrag fight I’ve ever seen!
Sam asks Nicole to stay – and she does. Line of the night goes to Nicole’s mother referring to Sam as the “silver fox” and not realising how close to the truth she actually is!
Sookie gets pissy at her parents, announcing to them she’d rather be turned into a vampire than have to think about them. Yup, guess her mind is made up then. All that’s left for her to do is don a black gown and get the party started
Adilyn (Bailey Noble) gets all drunk and bitten by Eric Northman
So Sookie, having made her decision to be turned for the sake of her vampire friends, calls up Billith and they go to the cemetery. Sookie takes his hands and they disappear into Fairyland… only to find Eric has beaten them there and had a feast on Warlow. Is he even still alive? I guess we’ll just have to wait for next week to find out how badly Eric has screwed up

Things that don’t add up:

Jessica and James decide to have sex rather than escape. Really? Surely they’re not that stupid?
Sam is forgetting about Luna (Janina Gavankar) way too quickly
Where’s the time delay in Fairyland gone? Shouldn’t Sookie be having sex with Warlow, only to find six months has passed?
Warlow – I know we are all starting to feel for him as Ben, but just remember – he drained everyone in the Fairy Club. This has never really been discussed between Sookie and Ben. Shouldn’t she be completely pissed as him eating her kinfolk?

So, what did you think of Episode 8, Dead Meat?

You can view my Episode 9 recap here.

(Photo Credits: HBO Inc.)

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