There’s not a lot going on today except for multiple analyses of every angle of the TomKat divorce (which, you know, we’re doing too) so I’d like to revisit my favorite summer show, “True Blood.” As Lainey promised, it finally picked up steam in this fourth episode this season. Everything seemed to come to a head. There were major developments in almost all the trailing plots, and it got interesting. The one weak spot, as usual, was simpering Sookie. She got drunk like a 14 year-old raiding her parent’s liquor cabinet for the first time. When she started making out with Alcide I actually went “ewww.” Both of those characters mean nothing to me, so I kind of hope they end up together, although you get the feeling that it won’t go any further than the couch. (“You love me.” GMAB you twit!)

Anyway, finally something happened, and it happened to everyone, including some yuppie shifters that I had forgotten existed and was glad to see bite it. I even started caring about Terry and his Marine buddies’ backstory. There was a whole crazy fairy burlesque world where lucky mortal men got dragged for dreamlike sexy times. This is one ambitious show, but it makes me wonder why it took so long this season. Couldn’t they have parsed out the climaxes among the different plots so that we maintained interest? It was kind of drag up until now. Why did it have to happen all at once like that? Here’s E!’s recap, which does a good job of giving the highlights:

Well and Truly Dead: Finally we get to see scary Roman (Christopher Meloni) with some blood on his hands, and face. The child vampire—who could have been a cool Kirsten Dunst-type, but was lacking substance—is the big traitor. And he leaves us with a splash. Who keeps a snuff film on their computer, really? Was this a setup?

Broken Home: It’s no state secret that Eric (Alexander Skarsgård) and Pam (Kristen Bauer van Straten) are not only our favorite characters, but their fascinating maker-progeny relationship is also our favorite. And now our hearts are broken after Eric’s touching goodbye and renunciation of their blood ties. Crying blood tears forever.

Beer Before Liquor: Sookie is in a very bad place. Between confessing to murder, trying to turn herself into the police and having to bail from her homicidal haunted car, the girl needs a stiff drink. Or eight. And a cute werewolf (with amazing abs) to make out with doesn’t hurt. But what’s with her exes creeping outside the window?

Misc. Extras: Terry (Todd Lowe) and Scott Foley’s sojourn into South Dakota is beginning to remind us of Game of Thrones’ Mother of Dragons. Completely out of the main action. What are they doing out there? Not sure we care. What does it have to do with anything else? Probably nothing, except to teach the lesson that killing civilians during a war is bad.

Also, fairies are back in Bon Temps. But the big bombshell is that vampire killed Sookie and Jason’s (Ryan Kwanten) parents. Oh and Lafayette (Nelsan Ellis) is losing his mind and his creepy alter ego tried to kill Sookie. Enough storylines for you?

Rewind Moment: Sookie drunkenly singing to “Escape (The Piña Colada Song)” and changing the words to suit her present situation.

[From E! Online]

Sooki’s rendition of the Pina Colada song was pretty funny for a couple of minutes. The scene quickly went downhill from there, though. E! also has a list of the best one-liners last night, but my favorite was when Bill found Jessica’s joint and told her it was “low quality sh*t.”

I just was looking through Tumblr for True Blood gifs and I found this hilarious one. The death app was ingenious, you have to admit.

I’ll keep watching, as always. I can’t help but think that True Blood kind of blew it’s load on every single plot line, though. Is it going to improve or just go downhill from here?

Here’s a clip where Pam shows Eric her new progency “Congratulations, you’re a grandfather.” Priceless!

Sookie’s cousin works for the fairies now? I thought she was dead.

Bill gives Tara vampire advice on being suicidal.