Michael Emerson: Yeah, the series is based on a series of pulp thriller
novels and...it is sort of a science fiction premise. In the very near
future, vampires are able to come out of the closet, in effect, because
science has invented a substitute blood product that they can live off of,
so they don’t need to attack people anymore. I think there’s a sort of
racial metaphor at the heart of it. What are people’s feelings about
vampires and I think it’s sort of a social commentary.
Quint: Yeah, you can put any stigma, you can put the “anti-gay”
sentiment
that’s out there now or anti-anything. That’s what I love about the
genre,
that it’s able to have those messages without being preachy. It very
much
can be used really well to massage in social commentary.
Michael Emerson: Exactly.
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"Are we out of blood substitute again? What are we suppose to suck!?"
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