What’s not? The whole appeal of vampire stories is in the danger associated with them. Demystified and synthetic blood-swigging vampires who are fighting for basic civil rights, coolly appear on talk shows and form part of the American Vampire League are unpalatable to us. What Ball has done is taken a supernatural world and sucked (no pun intended) it dry of all supernatural elements. Stripped of the fear factor, the gory scenes, the blood, the periodically appearing fangs and the supposedly menacing teeth-baring are more likely to leave you with giggles rather than goose bumps. Ball has haphazardly interwoven disparate threads which more or less work individually (like the chemistry between Jason and Tara) and combined it into a whole that unfortunately, works more effectively than three pages of Leo Tolstoy in putting us to sleep.

Should you be watching it? Yes, if vampire love stories give you a blood-rush.