What is your Type?

Calling all vampires, or if your not a child of the night, just fans of good tv like Six Feet Under. It looks as though starting this
fall you have something new to get your blood boiling about, because HBO presents Alan Ball's new series "True Blood" starting in September.

"True Blood" is based on the series "Southern Vampire Mysteries" by Charlaine Harris. The premise follows the co-existence of vampires and humans in a Louisiana town after a Japanese-made synthetic blood or – "TruBlood" – becomes available for purchase. Main character Sookie Stackhouse, is a telepathic waitress who works at a small town diner who falls in love with one of the vampires, Bill Compton.

Since Six Feet Under, Alan Ball has dedicated almost all of his time to getting this project off the ground. Being a fan of both American Beauty and Six Feet Under I am pretty confident that the show will be a success.

"Ball says, "this whole series is that it's about vampires, and so we don't have to be that serious about it. I think because of the
cultural climate that we exist in today, it seems like, oh well, they are a metaphor for gays because of gay marriage and gay rights and that kind of thing. But I think it's a bigger metaphor and at the same time it's also not a metaphor at all. It's vampires. "

Catch "True Blood" this Fall on HBO.

-Erika