Blog: A Has Been That Never Was

When Clare drove away from her funeral home, bawling her eyes out to Sia's Breathe Me as a montage of every character's death revealed "Everything. Everyone. Everywhere. Ends" in the final episode of Six Feet Under, you probably weren't thinking "Wow, I wonder what Alan Ball (creator/writer) will make us feel depressed about next?" Well this time he has taken a different tack. Taking the trashy but fun Sookie Stackhouse novels by Charlaine Harris, Ball has developed a slick and engaging series, True Blood. What makes it so good? Well there's Ball's signature feel all over it (compared [...]