Dracula surviving in a trailer park as opposed to a castle. NOSFERATU on the bayou. THE LOST BOYS hangin' out down from the Chattahoochie using a keg, as an alternative to inside an underground lair by using a beachfront view. A fantastic dinner of catfish, blackeyed peas and rice and cornbread, served on top of a tall, warm, bubbly bottle of...BLOOD.Nevertheless you would like to describe it, TRUE BLOOD it isn't just unlike any vampire story which has been done before, it isn't really like several series that's on at this time. It's DARK SHADOWS-meets deep-fried Southern Gothic, simply Alan Ball, the creator of SIX FEET UNDER, would dare stick his neck over to carry it back.Based on the novels of Charlaine Harris, which I've never read, (but certainly will after this!), BLOOD happens while in the not-too-distant future. Many experts have 2 years since world got a surprise it never expected: vampires came "out on the coffin" as a race. We suspected they always lived - and fed - amongst us, but now it's official, and merely as before with race relations and as now it is with GLBT people, the response overall is identical - the fear of change and fear of the unknown influences most people's feelings regarding it. But it doesn't seem to matter much that vamps now go for finding nourishment coming from a bottled beverage produced from synthetic plasma called - watch for it - "TRU BLOOD", rather then on the warm, breathing, two-legged


