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True Blood Season 4 Review

Ok It's done. The guessing and spoiling is over for another 9 months leaving us with only a serious fangover and an unprecedented post season body count. True Blood Season 4 was bat shit crazy even more than Season 3, the timeline of such memorables as jar of Talbot and spine ripping TV. So now post Season 4 finale whether you were calling for a Scream award or thought the whole thing blew chances are you're about to embark on 9 months of TB withdrawal. Yup even the haters feel its absence. So let's savor the moment in a post finale look at the best and worst of True Blood Season 4

THE BIGGEST THANK GOD MOMENT: Wee Marcus and gang finally putting Tommy and us out of the misery that was Tommy Mickens sorry ass life. As soon as he went skinwalker you knew his days were numbered. Sam Tramwell was brilliant doing Tommy doing him and who didn't cheer when said Tommy/Sam fired Sookie! She is the worst waitress ever! Talk about sick leave; is she ever at work for more than half a shift!?! The fall out from his death will certainly carry us through season 5, where we can only hope Sam has some modicum of hope at returning to just running the bar and attending anger management sessions.

Close second was Sookie decisively shooting Debbie Pelt in the head, even though she begged her not to. Yup, we had to wait till the very end of the season for evil, laughing while pouring Talbot down the drain Sookie, to return.

BEST OMG MOMENT: Ginger riding the coffin - nuff said.

SCARIEST/SEXIEST MOMENT:

Scary and sexy are often one and the same on True Blood, and this year Eric Northman ripping out, here to be known as, Juice Box Roy's heart will be stamped on my brain as a shining TB moment. Countless screamed everywhere, I had know idea THAT could be sexy! Give Skarsgård a raise!

BTW the T-shirts were on sale a mere 3 hours post show.

BIGGEST WTF MOMENT: Sookie and Eric snow shower then frak in Narnia. I've never read the books but the post Spellbound roar over The Vampire, The Witch and The Shower Stall, chocked up the blog commentary for days. I suspect because nothing could ever live up to this sacred cow of the sookiverse sexcapdes, Ball and company for better or worse decided not to go there; thus sparing us from more Skinmax test reels by getting out of the shower faster than they got in

MOST IMPROVED: King Bill - sure

he's damaged goods nailing his great great great great granddaughter and watching his ex screw his brain-damaged frenemy but sans Sookie round his neck, Bill was standing a bit taller this year. He even had a sense of humor, and Bill with balls is actually kind of hot. The developing bromance between him and Eric turned out to be one of the best parts of the season close.

MOST POTENTIAL: Laurel and Hardy move over. With Sookie out of the way Bill and Eric make an an awesome tag team, dissing each other on the pyre then cooperatively staking and decapitating Nan and troopers. Here's to more of Bill and Eric's excellent adventure in Season 5.

MOST IN NEED OF IMPROVEMENT: Sookie got enough of her spunk back to blow Debbie Pelt's head off, sure, but seriously she spent most of the season literally on her back, well sometimes on top. She was once a gifted mind-reader; we saw that maybe twice this season. Instead we learned more about her castrating powers when it comes to boyfriends. She mommied Eric into a hoody wearing puppy dog, did the dirty with him in every room of grandma's house and then kicked him, alongside Bill, to the curb come finale. In four seasons she truly did go from virgin to love em and leave em fangbanger. The classless moves have got to stop if the Stackhouse angle is to survive. We need an even slightly relate-able protagonist. I'm hoping another eligible lady moves to town, though god forbid she get a job at Merlotts - the most dangerous workplace in America.

SOOKIE'S ONE REDEEMING FEATURE SEASON 4: Sookie had unbelievably great hair this season. I swear to god I saw the camera man reflected in her locks in Eric's cubby.

MOST IN NEED OF A HUG: From defending herself against zombie slurs to losing an ear, Pam had endured what must go down as the worst week in her hundred plus years. She lost her maker to back country fairy vagina and her face rotted off. And things weren't exactly looking up when we left her, blood tears running down her cheek, hugging Ginger.

Why did they do that to Pam!!! Well for one reason she gave TB viewers some of the best gore the show has ever delivered. Still, writers, you better fix her. At the end of the day we really just want to look at Kristin Bauer being gorgeous and acting snarky.

Coming in second is Hoyt who despite the bitterness of his bad boyfriend rejection could really use a little lov'in right now, if not some of Summer's biscuits.

BEST RECAPS and REVIEWS:

VLOGS

#1 Bloodworks takes the stakes as a no contest winner. Besides being just the cutest couple in the world, Brian and Any's post show cocktails and theatrics amount to sometimes slurry worded and always hilariously astute recaps. I swear by mid season you look forward to Andy and Brian's upload as much as the episode itself. With its "staking points" and "do bad things" they were the best thing that could happen to a mediocre TB episode. Brian Juergen and Andy Swist @campbloodbuzz @andyswist http://campblood.org/Newblog/

#2 Think Heroes True Blood Review is tried and true. Roth Cornet has hosted solo for two seasons, and this season Jenna Busch was on board. Roth's reviews are first-rate often delving deeper than the show deserves. Busch does a good job of keeping things in the watercooler-moment mood of the short vlog format. The two combined offer a sometimes giggle ridden but always insightful True Blood take. Jennings Roth Cornet @JRothC | http://www.jenningsrothcornet.com/ JennaBusch @JennaBusch | http://girlmeetslightsaber.blogspot.com

#3 BloodBites is family friendly fair with this sister and brother team showcasing familial bonds and blood-dipped funny bones. Reenacting then reviewing a given episode's wtf moments, Blood Bites has cross-gen appeal. It's quality YouTube content you could show your grandmother and your eight year-old niece, who you know are both watching True Blood too.

Honorable Mention My Future Lover's Reason to Ship Sookie and Eric Spawn of You Tube strictly for Team Eric members, My Future Lover's play by play captions to the best and worst Sookie Eric moments capture at least half the audience's joy, tears and tv punching moments.

BEST PODCAST

True Blood in Dallas Straight up fan founded talkshow and review of both book, show and TB culture with revolving guest reviewers each week. A steady dose of all the criticism only a Stackhouse booklover can bring, Talk Blood is laced with plenty of Charlaine Harris loving that fellow fans can appreciate.

Listen to internet radio with True Blood in Dallas on Blog Talk Radio

BLOGS AND WEB SITES

Best Recaps

Pros and Cons True Blood by Meredith Woerner nails it everytime. for a no holds barred, tell it like is play by play pro con style. This is one of the funniest and most astute TB recaps out there. Meredith Woerner @MdellW | http://io9.com/people/MeredithDW/posts/

After Eltons WTF recap by Steven Frank is an imaginative post morteum with major plot points reviewed then rated in Grace Jones Vamp limps.

Jef With One F's music and episode recap for the Houston's Press is a creative spin that lets the show's lead track set the tone for review and analysis. Jef With One F @HPRocksOff

Best Blogs

Talk True Blood Digging deep and ranting in the best way, Talk True Blood goes so far as to offer scene by scene body language analysis of major characters.

Buddhism and True Blood Dedicated to Alan Ball and the wheel of life, Buddhism and True blood reminds us that life is suffering especially in Bon Temps

True Blood Underground Do you really know what's going on in Bon Temps? Conspiracy theories abound as TB Underground calls out Alan Ball on his addictive mind control experiment.

FINAL WORD Four seasons later there is still a bit of blood left in the series, and while fairy-finger-cop-outs and super silly, supernatural assumptions do show signs of laziness in the writers room, True Blood still does deliver some amazing TV. Godforbid we get bogged down by process oriented stuff like how amnesia Eric lost his shirt post-spell or ends up on a bonfire tied to Bill between episode 11 and 12. Things like how come no one reports a death in Bon Temp anymore or WHO IS running Merlottes only get in the way of a good story or at least a good "oh no they didn't" jaw drop.

I suspect, forty eight episodes later, TB writers actually relish every shark jumping moment as much as fangbanging spectacle. They know they can get away with it because they know how dedicated, creative and forgiving their fan base is. Plus narrative logic be damned, camp and drama are fine edges to play on, and they deserve applause for taking even tasteless risks.

For every bit of hocus pocus cgi True Blood throws at us, such as the anime forcefield surrounding Moon Goddess or the ridiculously bad fx exorcism of Mavis, there was a Pam getting a skin peel or Eric ripping the heart out of juice box Roy to make up for it. For each ridiculous Scooby Doo and the gang moment, there was a Vampire A-team or death by pencil. For each and every minute we tolerated Andy, we had a shot of Ginger riding a coffin or Eric drinking the whole fairy. True Blood IS very uneven but it IS very fun.

So that caps summertime Sundays and True blood still remains my ultimate guilty pleasure. The culture and coverage this year has been as much fun as the show itself and made Sundays feel like a party. I think Alex Skarsgård sums it all up in this quote,

“At 7 in the morning, I’m hanging from the ceiling in a Nazi uniform with fangs in[my mouth]. I look over and I see [Allan] there in his Nazi uniform hanging like a puppet. We’re about to descend down to kill this wolf, you know? And that was the moment where we just looked at each other like, This is what we’re doing for a living?‘”

Yup, IT IS! And even more surprising I CAN"T believe I'm watching you do it and not only that but loving every minute!

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Snapchat is one of the social networks that most people have heard of, even if not everyone uses it. These days, with Instagram stories even getting their own face filters, it’s really starting to feel like Snapchat’s days are numbered. Still, there are a lot of people who are still very active on the network and use it every day. Not everyone who uses it is smart enough to realize that even a video or image that will expire after 24 hours will really be gone for good. That must be the reason why they record themselves doing things that are only going to get them into trouble. Some people have performed illegal activities on Snapchat. Some have sent lewd images and messages to people who are underage or should not be seeing that kind of message. Others have filmed themselves getting into angry rants or being rude about other people. Then there are those who make threats online, leaving the evidence there for the courts to pick up later. Snaps can easily be ‘screenshotted’ or recorded by others – even the fast-disappearing private messages that you can send directly to your friends. Even if they aren’t caught in the moment, Snapchat actually archives all of the messages that are sent. This means that if the police want to check up on you later, they can still find the proof. That’s something that all of the entries in this list should have understood before they made their incriminating videos and images.

#1 Lewis Hamilton Drove While Snapping Lewis Hamilton was very lucky only to come under heavy criticism for this snap rather than getting into actual legal trouble. While the police did investigate the video, they said that there wasn’t enough evidence to proceed with an arrest. It’s not clear enough from the video where he was or if he was taking the video (since you can’t fully see his arm holding the phone). Still, Hamilton might think twice before he pulls this stunt again. He filmed a video while driving along on a Harley Davidson motorbike in Auckland, New Zealand. He was there ahead of the Australian Grand Prix on a pre-season break. It has been illegal to drive whilst using a mobile device in New Zealand since 2009, so Hamilton doesn’t have any excuse for this behaviour. Especially considering that he would have been arrested on the spot if he tried to do something like this in his home country of the UK.

#2 A Teacher Complained About Kids A middle school teacher got into a whole heap of trouble when she put out a snap complaining about students going to the prom in a horse and carriage. Caitlin Cormack was a teacher and track coach at Heskett Middle School when she put out a snap about the party-goers from the nearby Bedford High School. On it, she wrote, “These damn kids and parents … not enough money for school supplies or passing grades but out here renting horses.” The school’s policy stated that teachers are prohibited from discussing individual students and should not air personal views in a public forum, so the Superintendent put her on administrative leave and started investigating immediately. Plenty of parents were horrified by the comment, find it disrespectful and hurtful. There was a lot of call for her to lose her job, though others were quick to point out that she was only sharing the truth.

#3 A Killer Snapped A Photo With His Victim A teenager from Pittsburgh made headlines when he took perhaps the most gruesome selfie of all time. The interestingly-named Maxwell Marion Martin, just 16 at the time, shot one of his classmates to death. He then posed next to the corpse of Ryan Mangan and took a selfie on Snapchat, which he sent to one of his friends. The friend, understandably shocked, took a screenshot of the image before it was automatically deleted. They were then able to take the evidence to the police, along with some incriminating text messages that Morton added later. After police turned up at his home, he confessed to the murder and is now being tried as an adult. You have to be a particular brand of stupid to take photographic evidence of yourself involved in a crime, whether you are a teenager or not. This is at least one murderer whose need to brag has taken him off the streets.

#4 A Model Fat-Shamed A Naked Woman This case was huge because it really shocked the world. No one expected that a model would come out with such rude behaviour, even if she was a former Playmate. Dani Mathers was put into hot water when she sent out a snap of a naked woman who was in the gym changing rooms with her. She added the caption, ‘If I can’t unsee this then you can’t either’ – a dig at the woman’s body shape and age. She was criticized roundly for the fat-shaming snap, which was taken without the woman’s permission and shared to all of her followers. Mathers was then charged with invasion of privacy, something which really has not done her career any good. It’s a misdemeanour, but a very public one, and one that people will not be quick to forgive. It was actually LA Fitness that reported the snap to the police, and they revoked her membership at the same time.

#5 Two Idiots Got A Gator Drunk Two men found themselves being charged after they forced a baby alligator to down beer and recorded it as a Snapchat video. Joseph Floyd Jr. and Zachary Brown, aged 20 and 21 respectively, saw charges of harassing wildlife after they abused the tiny creature. They were seen pouring beer into the gator’s mouth, holding its jaws and throat open, and even blowing smoke into its mouth. Friends of the duo saved the images and videos when they appeared on Snapchat and then added them to Facebook, from where word spread. The men claimed that they picked the gator up on a dirt road and then released it back into a nearby pond after they had finished messing around with it. The maximum penalty for their actions could be as much as $300 in fines. Here’s hoping the public shame along with the money helps to get the message through to their heads that it’s not okay to torture animals, especially not threatened species.

#6 Sheldon Richardson Swore Too Much Sheldon Richardson hasn’t had what you would call a spotless record. He was suspended for four games in 2015 after a positive marijuana test, and then an arrest in 2015 earned him another one-game suspension after he drove over the speed limit. Now playing with the New York Jets, the player got himself into hot water again when he appeared on the Snapchat account of teammate Rontez Miles. He shouts, “Snapchat takeover gang bang in this b—h. You know, pregame s—t. Where the h–s at?”, right into the camera. Richardson was facing disciplinary action from his team once again the next morning, after his coach was informed about the video. The statement from Todd Bowles was, “That’s not something we condone or something we encourage. That’s unacceptable.” Looks like Richardson needs to learn to keep his tongue in his mouth the next time the cameras start rolling.

#7 Students Don Blackface Paige Shoemaker was a pre-med student at KSU who was supposed to be entering her senior year. Instead, she decided to be funny on Snapchat – something which is really not recommended for those who aren’t professional comedians. She and a friend put black clay masks over their faces, adopted gang poses and serious expressions, and then added the cherry on top: a caption which read, ‘Feels good to finally be a n****r’. So, as you can probably guess, Shoemaker was kicked out of the college almost immediately. She and her friend, Sadie Meier, put out an apology post on Facebook – though it was not enough to undo the damage done when the image went viral on both Twitter and Facebook. Another student at KSU had screenshotted and shared it. Not only was she sent packing from college, but she also faces a lot of animosity from the student body in general, who have told her never to attempt coming back.

#8 A Student Threatened A School Shooting A student from Anna in Texas made the crucial mistake of threatening a school shooting. Much like joking you have a bomb in your luggage while at the airport, it’s something you shouldn’t ever do even if you think it’s funny. The student took a photo of himself holding a pellet gun, which was designed to look identical to a real gun. On it he added the caption, ‘Don’t come to school tomorrow’. The 13-year-old was tracked down after police were shown the snap by another concerned student. He claimed he meant it as a joke, which didn’t come off as funny as he thought – he ended up being charged with a misdemeanour and put into juvenile custody. The police officers involved were quick to remind the student that school shootings aren’t something to be taken lightly, and that they will process any threat as a real one even if it’s not meant that way.

#9 A Teacher Sent An “Obscene” Snap To His Student As a teacher, the one thing that you are supposed to do is to look after the children in your care. Apparently, that message didn’t hit home for Joseph Lamar, who decided to contact one of his students on Snapchat. The 24-year-old teacher sent what has been described as an ‘obscene’ snap to a victim under the age of 18. We can all probably imagine what it was of. This photo was then seen by another student, and one or the other of them reported it. It took 18 days for him to be tracked down and arrested on charges of Distribution of Obscene Material to a Minor. That’s a third-degree felony, so Johnson can wave goodbye to his teaching career for good. He admitted to sending the photo and didn’t try to pretend it was an accident. There’s that, at least, though it doesn’t make him look like any less of a creep.

#10 A Saudi Celeb Impersonated A Woman In Saudi Arabia, there are a lot of laws about what you can and can’t do. You may already be aware of some of the controversial rulings which have been handed down to people suspected of being gay, sleeping around outside of marriage, or cross-dressing. A famous Snapchat personality has now been arrested for wearing women’s clothing in his comedy video clips. Though the authorities have not released his name, he could be Aboud Bad, who is also well-known on YouTube. He was arrested for “for producing and distributing material insulting to public order,” so say the police. Cross-dressing is against the strict laws on gender identity which are upheld by the Haia, the morality police in Saudi Arabia. There has already been another instance of a man being arrested for wearing a burqa in recent times, as well as another YouTuber being arrested, this time for chatting with an American vlogger in a public video.

#11 Christopher Wallace Told Police Where He Was Christopher Wallace is a man from Maine who was suspected of burglary, and who went on the run to successfully evade police. Successful, that is, until he told everyone where he was. He first went back home and posted on Snapchat that he had made it back, at which point one of his contacts called police to let them know. Deputies searched the house, but didn’t find him. As the Sheriff’s office wrote on Facebook: “While the deputies/officers were wrapping up their search, Wallace posted again on Snapchat. This time he posted that the police were searching for him in the house, and that he was hiding in a cabinet. Again, we received phone calls. A search of the kitchen cabinets turned up some food, some pots and pans, and also a pair of feet. The pair of feet just so happened to be attached to a person, and that person was Christopher Wallace.”

#12 Jeffree Star Got Into A Flame War Jeffree Star loves controversy, and he certainly started something when he decided to get into a bit of a flame war with another YouTube makeup celebrity. He was apparently at an event with MakeupShayla, who also posts makeup and beauty tutorials. Afterwards, he went onto Snapchat and ranted about how Shayla had apparently told a model that she had ugly lips and needed work doing to them. He didn’t mention any names in the initial snap, but it inflamed a discussion which went across Twitter and further. He ended up getting himself into even more trouble when he wrote threatening and abusive comments about Shayla. Considering his also recent troubles with Kat Von D calling him out and decimating his fan base, this wasn’t the best move to make. A lot of fans ended up taking sides over this one, and it soon became clear that Jeffree’s attitude during the whole exchange was causing him to lose out. We’d love to show you the snaps, but Jeffree’s legal team seem to be deleting them every time they crop up.

#13 Amrezy and Shayla Just Incriminated Themselves As the makeup war raged on, two other makeup artists managed to get themselves in trouble by incriminating themselves. First off it was Shayla, who jumped right onto Snapchat and called Jeffree out for making comments about her. At that point no one knew it was her, so she actually brought her own reputation down by speaking out. Then it was Amrezy’s turn. She got involved when Shayla sent a supposed subliminal tweet about her. She went onto Snapchat for a huge angry rant about the other make-up artist, even though once again she hadn’t been named. The result? People got pretty curious about why they were mad at each other, and ended up digging up secrets from Amrezy’s past. Not something that she probably wanted to go public as a result of her words. She’s probably wishing that she had let the tweet stay subliminal now that the story has gone viral.

#14 A Man Broke His Restraining Order 26-year-old Declan Thomas Hawthornthwaite from Darwen in the UK had a bit of a troubled past with one Caitlin McGarr. The tension between the two of them had reached such a point that McGarr took out a restraining order on him. Once ordered by the court, this meant that he was not supposed to contact or go near her at all. For some reason, he seemed to believe that Snapchat messages didn’t count as contact. He sent her a total of 13 videos through the messaging service while drunk, all of which were recorded and shown to police. He took the idiocy to a new level by including comments about her disabled brother which were highly offensive and threatening. He had been given a suspended prison sentence, but making the contact meant that he was now in breach of those terms. He has since been locked up to serve the 10-month sentence.

#15 High Friends Filmed Themselves With Weed Six residents from Gainesville in Florida were hanging out in an apartment complex with some weed, some guns, and assorted other drug paraphernalia (in this case, probably bongs). The individuals were reportedly between the ages of 16 and 23, which is prime time for getting involved with Snapchat. They put out a video of themselves enjoying their haul, which was soon reported to the police. Officers went down to the apartment and arrested them all. A spokesperson from the police reminded people that if they see anything suspicious on social media, reporting it is the right thing to do. Law enforcement agencies are authorized to obtain data from Snapchat, such as the user identity, their login information, content from their account, contact details, and anything else that they may have stored on file for you. Remember, if it’s on Snapchat for a single moment, it’s probably out there in the world for good, because of that sneaky screenshot technique.

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