I was ready to do something a little lighter in tone than 'Six Feet, ... Five years of staring into the abyss was enough.

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'Six Feet Under' was about repressing our deepest, most primal impulses, and 'True Blood' is about giving full sway to them all the time. In a way they are like yin and yang.

And then they started lowering it, and they got it down five or six feet and it started tilting.

The bottle hit the floor and broke and sprayed five or six feet.

As a writer, it's fun to create. And once you get into a long-running show with very established characters and a very established tone and format, after a while it's a really great job, but that's what it is - a job.