So Vamped Out, this web series about a low-key vampire who also happens to be an struggling actor in Los Angeles, who, despite the vampire craze, can't get cast to save his afterlife, looks like it's definitely going to be fun:
I'm glad to see Samm Levine find some post-Freaks and Geeks success, even if it's not on the level of John Francis Daley's work on Bones. I actually think it's totally plausible that Neal would grow up to be the kind of agent who is working in one of his clients'"guest house because they kicked him out of all of the coffee shops in Los Angeles." But really, I'm in it for Jason Antoon. I can't explain why I like the guy so much. I've only ever seen him in random TV appearances, and in Music & Lyrics, where he plays a determinedly grim lyricist who writes verses like "Give it up, I'm a bad hot witch / I look real good but I'm a nasty bitch" for a teen pop tart. But in a piece of charming schmaltz, his bad attitude was very funny.
And I like the conceit that vampires are regular dudes, and I mean truly regular guys who date reasonably attractive blood-bank nurses, and who are done in by garlic not because it's fatal to them, but because if you swallow it too fast, you'll choke on it, vampire or no. It's too slim an idea to carry a movie or a full television show without some serious emotional upgrades, but it's perfect for an engaging, relatively low-budget web venture. It's the kind of thing that will push these web series forward, and that's a good thing.