This Week Pam’s hair looked like this:

Frightening isn’t it?

Walkin’ Down The Street Biting Humans Sippin’ On Lilith’s Juice

So what I dreaded all week is true…Roman is dead. I was holding out some small hope that he wouldn’t be but my wishes fell on deaf ears. Anyway we are quickly shown that Salome was the person who unearthed Russell and now it looks like she and Nora are running the Vampire Authority. First order of business? Getting their drank on with some of Lilith’s blood. Chancellor Dieter shows really poor judgment by speaking out against the new regime and swiftly gets his head lopped off by Russell. This prompts the remaining vamps to drink the blood of Lilith which gets them all high as fuck and they hit Bourbon Street because who will notice a gaggle of drunken vamps in the midst of the rest of the inebriated masses on Bourbon Street?

The crew makes their way to a karaoke bar where they then have a human buffet that leads into (what I assume is a shared delusion) Lilith herself rising from the spilled blood and Godric appearing to Eric urging him to save his sister. Whatever will Eric do? Its not like he has a history of paying attention to what Godric tries to tell him.

Stackhouse & Stackhouse

So we find out from Claude the Fairy that Sookie is like a wireless mouse…the more she uses her powers the more she depletes them. Since sober Sookie is a total buzzkill she decides that this will be her chance to become a normal human and she starts shooting light blasts into the night.

Jason goes to see his BFF Jessica (who at the time is suckling on some random guys thigh) and let her in on how his parents really died. they have a nice moment where Jessica forgets what she was doong moments ago and kisses Jason. Upon tasting the blood in her mouth Jason (rightfully) freaks out and the two have a major blow out. Hurtful words are exchanged, Jessica bites Jason and Jason shoots her in the head…your standard white trash domestic kerfuffle. Jessica has her security throw Jason out just in time for Jason to see the light show going on at Sookie’s.

In Other Doings

Alcide continues his Bayou Blue-Balls Tour as he gets interrupted, yet again, while in the process of trying to make whoo with a comely young lady (this time the hot werewolf). In this instance it was Granma Mary who delivered the coitus interruptus as she defended her man against Alcide’s challenge for leadership of the Pack and accusations of V abuse.

Tara’s working the pole at Fangtasia but gets interrupted by her mom who has come to let Tara know that she is immediately excommunicated from the Thornton Family Tree now that she is a vamp and her mama is a fine upstanding preacher’s wife. This does give us a tender moment between Tara and Pam but its only a brief one.

We were treated to a seemingly endless viewing of Terry and Arlene’s wedding video for reasons I truly cannot figure out. Then the fire demon Ifrit thingeee showed up to mockingly laugh at Terry and his pal while they sat in a field waiting to die. Terry can’t handle being laughed at so he contemplated suicide for a second. Pussy.

Lafayette drove all the way to Jesus’ uncle’s house and in that entire drive spent no time formulating any kind of plan so of course he ends up playing the damsel in distress role (complete with sewn shut lips!) and had to be rescued by a pregnant woman.

Hoyt takes his douchebaginess to even lower levels by joining up with the anti-Supes hate group. The role of scorned lover does not suit Hoyt and my opinion of the character is that he needs to die immediately.

Sam is working on perfecting his one man show called “And Hooch”. He is a full on sniffing machine nowadays, helping the Bon Temps police find evidence on the anti-Supe group and even sniffing one o them out on his day job as a hospital orderly.

Best Character of The Week: Bill and Eric

These two make a great duo and this week they really stood out especially when, hopped up on Lilith’s blood, Eric gave Bill a piggyback ride.

Worst Character of The Week: Hoyt
Please die already.

Final Verdict: This was a wildly uneven and at times downright awful episode. The Vampire Authority storyline still is intriguing and the scenes between Jason and Jessica and Tara and Pam were great but the rest of the show fluctuated between ho-hum and dreadful.
The new wrinkle in the Sookie powers rulebook seemed arbitrary and completely unnecessary. Lafayette’s storyline is just stupid. Still don’t care about Terry and Patrick and have no idea why we got such a loooong scene of Arlene watching her wedding video. There is just too much going on with this show and it is becoming obvious that hardly any of it is going to begin to interconnect. Things need to tighten up and the awful subplots need to be dropped so that the things that are working can be focused on. C+