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  • Episode aired Jul 20, 2014
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Exhausted from her recent travails, Sookie finds herself the unwilling host of a festive mainstreaming party in Bon Temps. In search of an elusive adversary, Eric and Pam head to Dallas and ... Read allExhausted from her recent travails, Sookie finds herself the unwilling host of a festive mainstreaming party in Bon Temps. In search of an elusive adversary, Eric and Pam head to Dallas and attend a gala fundraiser. Andy makes a life-changing decision.Exhausted from her recent travails, Sookie finds herself the unwilling host of a festive mainstreaming party in Bon Temps. In search of an elusive adversary, Eric and Pam head to Dallas and attend a gala fundraiser. Andy makes a life-changing decision.

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      • Charlaine Harris
      • Craig Chester
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      • Stephen Moyer
      • Sam Trammell
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    Anna Paquin
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    • Sookie Stackhouse
    Stephen Moyer
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    • Bill Compton
    Sam Trammell
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    • Sam Merlotte
    Ryan Kwanten
    Ryan Kwanten
    • Jason Stackhouse
    Rutina Wesley
    Rutina Wesley
    • Tara Thornton
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    Alexander Skarsgård
    Alexander Skarsgård
    • Eric Northman
    Chris Bauer
    Chris Bauer
    • Andy Bellefleur
    Kristin Bauer
    Kristin Bauer
    • Pam De Beaufort
    • (as Kristin Bauer van Straten)
    Amelia Rose Blaire
    Amelia Rose Blaire
    • Willa Burrell
    Lauren Bowles
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    • Holly Cleary
    Tara Buck
    Tara Buck
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    Anna Camp
    Anna Camp
    • Sarah Newlin
    Gregg Daniel
    Gregg Daniel
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    Nelsan Ellis
    Nelsan Ellis
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    Aaron Christian Howles
    Aaron Christian Howles
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    Noah Matthews
    Noah Matthews
    • Wade Cleary
    Bailey Noble
    Bailey Noble
    • Adilyn Bellefleur
    Jim Parrack
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    • Hoyt Fortenberry
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    2chcbleachers

    Booooorrring

    Honestly, this is one of the most uneventful, uninspired True Blood episodes in recent memory. It's as though the writer(s) are completely out of new ideas, only taking the opportunity for snarky political jabs in lieu of coming up with intelligent plot lines.

    My wife summed it up best when she asked if this particular episode was more than the standard 55 minutes in length. No dear, it just seems a lot longer because it was poorly written and did nothing to advance the story.

    This continues the trend of sloppy writing with this show. Case in point last season when Eric Northman referred to a dead vampires 'warm blood all over him.' Really folks? Since when do these characters have warm blood?

    And that is why this show is in it's final season. Hopefully a different writing crew will do better as this series concludes.

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      In Bill Compton's antebellum flashback: Outside of a bar, Charles Dupont tells Bill President Lincoln has called his soldiers, thus declaring war, and all the local men are going to enlist in the Louisiana military. In the next scene, during a rally in the bar, Dupont declares it is Louisiana's sovereign right to secede from the Union, and how Fort Sumter was just the beginning. Chronologically, Louisiana seceded on 26 January 1861, more than a month before President Lincoln's inauguration (4 March), and two-and-a-half months before the fall of Fort Sumter (13 April). And it was due to South Carolina's attack on Fort Sumter that on 15 April President Lincoln first called up state militia to fight the rebellion.
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      Pam De Beaufort: [Looking at herself in the mirror] I look like a Republicunt!

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      References House Hunters (1999)
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      Written and Performed by Jace Everett

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    • Release date
      • July 20, 2014 (United States)
    • Country of origin
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      • English
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      • Dolby Digital
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      • 16:9 HD

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