Did "True Blood's" Finale Leave You Hungry For More?

Posted by Jarett Wieselman at 11:55 AM on November 24, 2008

The season finale is a funny thing. On the one hand, it's great getting closure to a story you've been following for 13 weeks while also being plied with tantalizing new treats, sprinkled throughout. On the other hand, if waiting one week for new installments was tough, hanging on for months until you can get another taste will be murder.

Luckily there was a lot of murder last night to quench our thirst for "Blood." Spoilers and speculation after the jump!

Let's start by getting closure: Rene was the killer. Sookie's telepathy outed the fake-Cajun when he couldn't stop himself from thinking about murdering grandma Stackhouse. The ensuing chase led them to a cemetery -- natch -- where Sookie decapitated Rene, but not before Bill sensed she was in danger and darted out in the daytime to be her hero. He failed and slowly cooked in the sunlight, leaving Sam to save Sookie and then to save Bill by burying him six feet under so he could heal.

Then we jumped two weeks ahead where Sookie and Bill were once again in love, which resurrected resentful Sam. We also got to see a much more at ease Tara, since she has fallen under the spell of Maryann -- what with her clean sheets and endless fruit buffets. Then, in the first teasings of what's to come next year, Sam and Maryann came face to face and revealed a mysterious history with one another.

Sam: What are you doing here?
Maryann: What, did you think I wouldn't find you?

Me thinks he did. I have been wary of Maryann since, well, she was spotted nekkid in the road two episodes back. Also, there was that telling line reading when Tara asked if she was a Jesus person. "No," she replied with a mile-wide grin, implying she might support a more Satanic stance. Then last night she did a weird reverberation thing in the garden, which I think meant she was manifesting that boy Tara was talking to out of thin air.

There is also the two-week disappearance of Lafayette at hand. Something attacked him outside Merlotte's -- the show wants us to think it was Bill reconstituting his body after being burned almost to re-death. "I fed," he told Sookie, but HBO's choice to reshow the scene where Lafayette threatened the god-fearing senator from a few weeks back in this episode's "previously on" portion makes me think that closet-case is behind his disappearance.

Then there's the small matter of the dead body found in Andy's, er, I mean Officer Bellefleur's, car. All we saw were the feet of a caucasian woman -- based on the toenail polish. And based on Sookie and Tara's reaction, they either know the victim or the death was so horrifyingly disfiguring that they couldn't think of any other option but to scream from the depths of their souls.

Thoughts? Reactions? Support group info since it's easily going to be six months until our next fresh episode of "True Blood?"