Trippy, skip past this post til you've seen the episode unless you wanna get spoiled all to hell.
Ok now I can talk about this a little bit. Rene was the killer in the book. We readers have known all along who it was, and I've loved the little clues they've planted all along. One difference is that in the book, Rene was Arlene's ex, her third husband and they were already divorced, but still friends. Here, a bit different. And holy shit ... the WAY he died like that ... In a way, like Tina's revenge.
In the books, LaFayette dies very early on in the second book. In the first book, he's got little more than a cameo and a name drop, so there's barely any character there. They fleshed him out into his own true character in the series. Alan Ball and others had said that they liked the character so much they were going to keep him around, maybe not kill him off at all.
And then we see the ending of this episode. This is exactly how it is in the second book - they find his body in Andy's car. Bill is not the killer.
But then, they've been cherry-picking here lately, taking parts they like and leaving out parts they don't, to create their own vision of how the series will be told.
It's a shame they killed off Rene, cuz the actor was mighty fine to look at. It was so weird to hear his real voice coming out at the end, too. Dangit.
We also get flashbacks of the murders .. but real flashbacks, filmed for this episode, not clips of previous episodes. They could have gone cheap there, they didn't. I think Maudette's made more appearances since she died than she did before. lol
Jason, Jason, Jason. Joining the Fellowship of the Sun. This will not go well.
Looks like Andy is getting on Bud's last nerve. And after almost no references to the history of Andy's family, he drops the "this used to all be part of my family's land" card. This was sort of dropped I guess, but in the books, we find out that they're Bill's grandkids ... well, great-great-etc-grandkids. He has a substantial amount of money, and leaves it to the Bellefleurs anonymously. We've yet to see Andy's sister on-screen, much less their old mansion. lol
And now we have to wait til next Summer for more. Man that's gonna be a long ass wait. But it's so worth it. I love this show. I have a feeling that going in to the next season, they're going to change it up enough that even those who know the books will be surprised.
