Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin) continues to deal with the fallout that is her life and learns more about her Fae heritage. Bill (Stephen Moyer) and Eric (Alexander Skarsgård) are arrested by the Authority, a vampire ruling council, and tasked with finding Russell Edgington (Denis O'Hare) or be killed themselves, only to discover they are actually pawns within a religious schism. Meanwhile, back in Bon Temps, Jason (Ryan Kwanten), Hoyt (Jim Parrack), and Jessica (Deborah Ann Woll) try to navigate their broken relationships with each other, a new hate group is targeting shifters, and Terry's (Todd Lowe) past from Iraq catches up with him.
This show remains the junk food of vampire TV. It is so bad, but when you are in the mood, just satisfying enough to make you hate yourself later. This is probably the most disconnected season and felt the furthest removed from its beginning. Almost nothing revolved around Sookie's magical faerie vagina and which buff super-dude gets to have it. That's kind of an improvement, if it wasn't immediately replaced by Hot Vampire Ladies in Your Area. It was like someone at HBO was going to die if there wasn't a naked woman on screen every 10 minutes per episode. Don't get me wrong, I'm not anti-nudity but this show has always had a problem with how Male Gaze-focused it is. At least they finally let Rutina Wesley be hot instead of constantly dialing her down.
The entire series is streaming on (sigh) Max. This was a massively popular show a decade ago.
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