RELEASE YO DELF

Ahhh, nothing like a good "release!" So with the holiday really throwing me off schedule here, finally, here is last week's recap. For those of you who side with @LaffaBrown and thought the episode was weak sauce, at least you haven't been chomping at the bit to get your comments in. I still thought there was plenty of great in this episode and I will do my best to show where and sway your opinion.

Eric relinquished his hold on Pam as her maker in what was one of the more emotional scenes in the show's history. It helped that the two actors involved were two of the show's strongest, as opposed to the scene featuring drunk Sookie which almost drove me to drink as well.


Pam is a maker now and while she treats Tara like a puppy humping her leg at times, there were moments where we saw that maker/progeny bond that Eric described. First instance was when we saw the look of concern and hurt on Pam's face when she opened the tanning bed. Later she reminded me of a mother looking in on her sleeping baby when she gently opened the top of Tara's coffin as she slept.

"Let bygones be bygones...Bi girls be Bi girls."

Pam/Kristin Bauer never looked better BTW. Even when she had a handful of Tara's face on her hand. Loved when she first came back to Fangtasia and tried to smooth things over with Eric.

If the Pam/Choke Slam wasn't indication enough, this was the most unhinged and affected we've ever seen Bill and Eric I think. The normally cool customers were definitely feeling the hands of the Authority pressing down on their shoulders.

Tara was already seeing how she could exploit the angles of this vampire business. After she mentioneded to Bill how Pam vowed to prevent any further suicide attempts on her part, she told him that she was surprised  "you all don't play that (As your Maker) card more." She is going to fully embrace this new "life" she has been reluctant to accept I think even if it takes a little push from Pam now and again like when she served up a willing Melanie for T to feed on.

While I am happy to have put the Debbie Pelt ordeal behind us, the dead V addict was responsible for two good scenes this week. Alcide's confession to the Pelts was very well done I thought, but I was not too psyched to see him and Sookie hook up. Maybe it was the Orange Marzipan's talking, but I hope Alcide realizes what a animal he really is and starts acting like it, first and foremost with the hot werewolf B we saw in earlier episodes.

While Alcide has yet to realize his full potential, Jessica is really hitting her stride as we saw when she came to Jason's aid and glamoured Andy. It was truly special, especially if you think like I do that she is just doing all this to get him back into mechanical bull mode so she can ride him.



What a great card that would be to play. Where were you last night? Um I don't remember? DAMN VAMPIRE CAB DRIVERS!

Speaking of awkward situations, if I had a penny for every time I ran into a relative of mine at a gentleman's club...







Poor Jason, the guy was just about to get his Fae on and his cracked out cuz walks in.
I would have been like...

Someone posed a good question earlier in the week. What name would you give to the fairy club that Jason and Andy were taken to? I suggested FAE in keeping with the trendy one word name of most clubs, but also liked Pixie Lust (a play on Pixie Dust) or possible Field of Dreams given the locale of the club's entrance. Be sure to add your ideas in your comments.

While you ponder that I have to point out a couple things about the limo scene featuring the two peace officers. There are few things that elicit a feeling of excitement and anticipation like the hunched over walk to the front of a limo does after getting in through the back door. I also loved that Jason stuck his head out of the sun roof. It would not have been "realistic" had he not acted like Tom Hanks did in BIG.

Back to the club, for those fashionistas in our midst, or those wanting to recreate the enchanted scene at home with a loved one or random, many of the outfits worn by the dancers can be found in the Maison Close collection like the Soire Cherie Harness and push up bra featured here.

From push ups to push overs, Roman showed he certainly is not the latter this week by swiftly dealing out the True Death to Authority Member Bieber right at the conference room table. Chris Meloni has been such an amazing addition to the show this season. I can't wait for a potential showdown between him and Russel.

As for who dug up Russel I am pretty sure now Reverend Birdcage had something to do with it after Jessica asked Bill if he was still King while they searched their house for bugs. (BTW i loved Bill throwing the roach he found aside scoffing at the low quality weed Jess's friends were smoking)


Getting back to Russel's release, I don't think it was the Biebs. To break through that concrete one probably would have needed to use some sort of backhoe and I doubt he could operate one let alone reach the pedals with his feet unless he went Short Round a la Temple of Doom and had blocks tied to his shoes. I did love how after he bragged to the table about getting bills passed all over Scandinavia he dropped the "J.S." like we are so fond of doing in our comments.

I am liking Lafa's storyline as he struggles to keep his dark side buried. Bewitching Sookie's car etc.

As I try to close this week's comments out a few random things I enjoyed:

Sam telling his shifter friends that he wouldn't recommend anything on the menu at Merlotte's. Especially since, like you guys have pointed out, the staff has an open door policy to come and go as they seemingly please. Like who was manning the kitchen while Terry was off on his road trip and Lafa was outside turning Sookie's car into Christine? And who shot his friends? And what was the motivation do you think? I was completely confounded by that.

Was anyone else cringing each time Roman took out his iPhone and precariously placed his finger near the App button that could e-deliver the True Death to Bill and Eric?

In the same scene I loved seeing Nora just tell him to Fuk Off in her delicious accent.

 Jason delivered some classic moments like when Sookie came to turn herself in.

 

But the winner for random yet funniest moment was the goofy deputy trying to get the invite to the boys night out.

 

I know you all are probably a little sluggish from partying last night and some are still out doing it up, but for those unlucky few who are stuck at work today, I look forward to your comments. Until then, for me...