This doesn’t specifically mean adherence to any particular pre-established or traditional mythology, but instead originality in terms of using vampire tropes to service the storytelling. When judging these series, general quality of execution, as well as innovation as it comes to exploring the nature of vampirism, has been considered. Plus, there’s a slew of vampire-centric crime procedurals (“Forever Knight,” “Vampire Prosecutor”) and goofy-sexy YA series (“First Kill,” “ The Vampire Diaries”) to indulge in. Meanwhile, dark dramas like “Van Helsing” and “NOS4A2” focus on delivering scares from terrifying new angles, honing in on vampires’ seductive edge to create cutting betrayal and heartbreak between them and their victims. Classic situational comedies like “Dark Shadows” make entertaining light of garlic, coffins, and the (pun intended) stakes of it all. The best vampire TV shows examine the archetypal underpinnings of the gothic-infused subgenre by referencing them in unexpected ways. Movies like “Twilight” and “Interview with the Vampire” are memorable for weaving epic undead dramas for the big screen, but vampire sagas have arguably seen more creative permutations on TV, with whole casts of blood-sucking stars appearing in shows like “True Blood” and “Castlevania.” Since before “Nosferatu” darkened the silent film scene in 1922 - heck, even before Bram Stoker terrified readers with “Dracula” in 1897 - vampires have transfixed audiences with their chilling blend of romance and menace. Then, more than anything, and we teased it out a little in Season 1, the idea of memory and what is true and what isn't true is a big player in Season 2.If horror’s limitless capacity for remakes, re-imaginings, and spinoffs teaches us anything, it’s that our nightmares never really change. We're continuing to make the interview part of this and just as important as the flashback, in that there are some very active things that are going to be happening in Dubai. We're going to see what coven life is all about, and we have some more time than the movie or even the book. So, we're going there and we're going to experience that. He continued, 'We're going to Europe and Part 2 of the novel is Episode 1 of Season 2. I'm feeling really, really excited about that.' There are big plot moments that we're retaining form it, but there are these emotional moments too within our plot that might be slightly different than what's in the book.

What we're finding that's really cool about that is even though it's not giving you a wealth of plot, what it does have are these really big emotional tentpoles. 'There are long scenes of people having discussions. The challenge is that in the second half of the book, there's less plot than there is in the first half of the book and there's so much internal dialogue,' Jones told AMC's blog.

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