HBO ’s sultry , silly , ruddy hitting show routinely pushes everything to 11 — bequeath footling room for other bloodsucking fare to make a mark . Which is a ignominy , because there ’s one vamper project that should see the visible radiation of , er , day .
Alan Ball ’s televised take on Charlaine Harris ’ Sookie Stackhouse novels is many things — odd , sexy , punchy , twisty — but you ’d be severely - urge to detect a show on television with as many bat - jack mad thing take place workweek after week . And it ’s hard to compete with crazy .
Just require ABC ’s desperate - vampire show The Gates , which premiered to about the same number of viewer as lawful line ( which is a bad thing , given that ABC is a broadcast web , with a much larger potential consultation than HBO ’s paying client ) . Or The Vampire Diaries — the CW ’s eminent rated show , but it still pulls down about the same numbers as True rakehell — which seems to exist to help vampophiles get by in between Twilight movies and season of , yes , True Blood .
So which mesh — propagate or otherwise — is go to hatch a new bloodsucker serial publication given such an overwhelming statement not to ? Exactly . And that ’s too forged , because Charlie Huston ’s Joe Pitt novels are perfectly suited for a longsighted - soma serial treatment .
Imagine the street - level bang of Richard Stark ’s Parker novel mated with Elmore Leonard ’s sardonic brainpower and fix in a noir New York City populated by all manner of vampires , and following a sorting of independent problem solver list Joe Pitt — who is also infected with the Vyrus that makes humans glow for fresh blood . And Joe has to voyage a New York that ’s been divvied up among a series of vampire clans — The Coalition , which runs midtown ; The Hood , which rules over Harlem ; The Society , which set up up in the East Village ; the conventual Enclave of the West Village ; The Dusters , a biker - vamp ring that roams downtown ; and the Bulls and Bears , who lord over the Financial District — while remain his own humans , and securing a unbendable supplying .
The Joe Pitt Casebook series — which admit Already utter , No district , Half the rakehell of Brooklyn , Every Last Drop , and My Dead soundbox — would offer an actor room to stretch , in the same way of life that Timothy Olyphant has find the role of his sprightliness in Justified . And there ’s enough juice in Joe Pitt ’s persona , and his universe , to last for eld .
If only there was a meshing willing to step up .
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