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True Blood: Season 6 (2013/HBO Blu-ray set)


Picture: A Sound: A Extras: B+ Episodes: B+



HBO continues to rule the television market with incredible productions that push the boundaries and give us exciting characters and production value. True Blood, one of the channel's most successful shows, comes to us on Blu-ray in this collection of the Sixth Season that arrives in an incredibly collectable package that is ideal for any fan of the show or the horror genre. This season is ten episodes-long instead of the typical twelve, due mainly to the real-life pregnancy of lead actress Anna Paquin. This season also is the only one to not be based on the novel series The Southern Vampire Mysteries but instead takes elements from multiple books in the series.


WARNING: SPOILERS


In Episode One - Who Are You Really?, Sookie, Eric and the others flee the Authority compound after Bill's reincarnation. Meanwhile, Louisiana Governor Burrell declares war on vampires. Eric says he is no longer Pam's maker, and she no longer follows his orders. Upset, Pam goes to Fangtasia with Tara, when some S.W.A.T. troopers arrive and shoot Tara, after announcing all Vampire businesses are closed. Jason hitchhikes and is picked up by an old man, who he believes to be Warlow after the old man says "Nothing can keep Warlow from Sookie." Jason shoots at the man who disappears, while the faerie blood contract promising Sookie to Warlow starts to glow. Sam, Luna, and Emma escape from Authority headquarters, though Luna dies from her injuries, entrusting Sam to take care of Emma. Jessica is called by Bill, who is somewhat normal but more powerful. He is nearly staked by Eric and is staked from behind by Sookie. He demands they all leave, except Jessica. Meanwhile, Alcide is about to have sex with a young woman in the pack when Rikki comes, and they have a threesome, although Rikki insists she is Alcide's number one bitch as they have sex. In Bon Temps, Andy tries to take care of his faerie kids, who age fast. Eric signs Sookie's house back over to her in his blood, while she takes back his invitation. Nora insists Eric is in love with Sookie. Bill talks to Jessica in her room, but hears noises as he leaves. Returning to his room, he sees Lilith, who appears to enter his body.


Episode Two - The Sun - Sookie and Jason meet a long-lost relative. Eric strives to thwart Gov. Burrell's plans. Sam encounters a zealot and talks to Alcide and Martha about Emma's future. Bill considers his heightened powers. Episode Three - You're No Good gives us Eric - who is Irate over Burrell's blatant aggression towards vampires and takes matters into his own hands. After dangerously testing the limits of his powers, Bill enlists a TruBlood innovator to synthesize a new type of blood - but has difficulty finding the right donor. Sookie begins to learn why Warlow is after her. Sam receives unexpected help from Nicole and her Vampire Unity Society (V.U.S.) associates. Steve Newlin (Michael McMillian) finds his past ideals turning into a current nightmare.


Episode Four - At Last - is where Sookie confronts her attraction to Ben by inviting him to dinner. Eric counters Burrell's brutal anti-vampire initiatives by hitting him where it hurts the most. Andy's faerie daughters keep dangerous company. Bill gives Takahashi the task of synthesizing a new kind of blood. Episode Five - Fuck the Pain Away - Sookie gets Lafayette to summon her dead parents. Warlow revisits some painful memories with Lilith. Eric and Tara resort to drastic measures to rescue Pam. Sarah reconnects with Jason, Andy picks up the pieces of his ravaged family, and Jessica seeks atonement.


Episode Six - Don't You Feel Me - is where Bill travels to another plane and seeks Lilith's advice on the escalating crisis between humans and vampires. Eric, Pam, Nora, Jason and Jessica get an inside look at Vamp Camp. Sam tries to make the best decision for Emma's future. Andy names his remaining faerie daughter. Eric discovers the truth about TruBlood's resumed production. Meanwhile, Sookie says she's a danger whore and has sex with Warlow, after discovering that it was him who saved her from her parents, and not the other way round as she had always believed. Bill attacks the Governor's residence, killing him and uses his powers to force the guards to kill each other.


Episode Seven - In The Evening - begins when Eric makes a last-ditch attempt to save Nora by pledging allegiance to Bill. Hearing the news of Terry's death, Sam ignores Alcide's warning and returns to Bon Temps. Jason breaks-in to the vamp-camp to save Jessica, where he runs into Sarah. With the Governor out of the picture, she vows to get revenge on Jason. Jessica shows her gratitude to a fellow prisoner. Sookie and Warlow move to their special hiding place. She gives Warlow her blood, she takes his blood - they have sex. Warlow wants to get married, Sookie isn't so sure.


Episode Eight - Dead Meat is where Eric decides to take the vampire fate into his own hands after the death of Nora. Sookie struggles between staying human/fate or letting Warlow turn her to save Vampire kind. Meanwhile everyone in the vamp-camp begins to drink the True Blood tainted with Hep-V. Reverend Newlin accidentally lets slip to Sarah that they know about the tainted blood, after which she locks up all the vampires who refuse to drink it in the white room, in accordance to Bill's vision.


Episode Nine - Life Matters - is where Sookie and Bill clash over Bill's desire to use Warlow's blood. Eric arrives at Vamp Camp, releasing its captives and starting a massacre by leading all into attacking the human staff. Sarah Newlin escapes, however, and opens the roof of the White Room in order to burn the trapped vampires inside. Bill arrives to prevent this, offering the vampires his blood so they are immune to the sunlight. Eric intervenes when Steve Newlin tries to get his share, however, forcing Newlin into the sun and to his death. Bill, weakened by his blood loss, is visited by Lilith's sirens before being rescued by Jessica. While Eric starts destroying the infected TruBlood bottles, Jason decides not to kill Sarah Newlin and lets her go. In Bon Temps, a funeral takes place for Terry Bellefleur, and the town inhabitants take turns telling stories about Terry.


Finally, Episode Ten - Radioactive - begins when Bill discovers that salvation comes at a price. Due to excessive feeding from his blood, Bill loses his powers inherited from the blood of Lilith. Sookie tries to talk Warlow into dating her rather than marry her just then and there. Warlow turns violent and holds her captive. Bill releases Takahashi, but is grievously stricken for the way he behaved with Sookie. Jessica encourages Bill to save Sookie, and they take the help of Jason, Violet, Andy and Adylin. Bill saves Sookie, but Warlow soon overtakes everyone and just as he is ready to take Sookie with him, her Grandfather appears and holds him while Jason puts a stake through Warlow's heart, killing him. As soon as Warlow dies, the power of walking in daylight is also taken away from all other vampires who inherited the trait. Far away in Sweden, Eric also loses the power which causes him to burn. Six months later, things come back to normal in Bon Temps: Bill has become a writer, Sam Merlotte is the new Mayor, Arlene has taken over Sam's bar and renamed it Bellefleur's, Sookie and Alcide are in a relationship and so are Jason and Violet. However, the Hepatitis-V virus has spread around the country and infected vampires run amok. While a search for a vaccine is ongoing, Sam and Bill offer that each citizen pair with a healthy vampire as protection. Jessica asks for forgiveness from Andy and Adylin and promises to protect them; Andy almost shoots her, but Jessica mounts guard anyway. Tara's estranged mother, Lettie Mae, offers herself to Tara to nourish her in an attempt to make up for her neglect of Tara while she was growing up. In the final scene, during the pairing meet at Bellefleur's, a horde of infected vampires gather around the building and are about to attack.


The transfers are fantastic in 1080p high definition, preserving the original 1.78 X 1 aspect ratio of the original broadcast with MPEG- 4 AVC codec. The audio is comparable in lossless DTS Master Audio 5.1 and pushes your home stereo system to the maximum, making you feel part of the action. Subtitles are also available in English SDH, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, and Swedish.


As I mentioned, HBO has done a fantastic job with this release, giving us a very collectible fold out slipcase featuring the main characters and discs. Extras include Audio Commentaries, Inside the Episodes, Vamp Camp Files, and True Blood Lines which is an interactive character tree that maps out the humans, vampires, werewolves, and other supernatural characters in Season Six. Recommended.



- James Harland Lockhart V

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