HBO gets an infusion of Oh-positive 'Blood'

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BUFFY-Loving Hercules Drinks In The New HBO Vampire Series From SIX FEET UNDER Creator Alan Ball: TRUE BLOOD!!
Published 9/7/2008 by Hercules at Ain't It Cool News - The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.
... … Ball has never seen a comic-dramatic premise he can't flatten with leaden metaphors. He pumps up a tedious subplot about vampires campaigning on TV for antidiscrimination laws. And he makes so many heavy-handed comparisons between vampires and homosexuals that you wonder if he's really never seen Buffy the Vampire Slayer or The Lost Boys. … USA Today gives it three and a half stars (out of four) and says: … Sexy, witty and unabashedly peculiar … Ball is a man of many talents, but subtlety does not appear to be one of them, and viewers should keep that in mind. Many of the ...