Vampires are really having a moment, aren’t they? Whether it’s the wildly popular Twilight series or the critically adored Let the Right One In, it seems like everyone’s nuts for the ancient undead and their younger human pals and lovers. But it was ever thus, I guess, since Bram Stoker’s Dracula. HBO’s popular True Blood series, now out on DVD, transplants the basic vamp romance idea to the American South, with uneven but not un-entertaining results. In the world of the show, vampires have “come out of the coffin” and now co-exist with human beings, subsiding on the beverage of the title, a Japanese synthetic that sustains them. Anna Paquin plays Sookie Stackhouse, a good-hearted—and telepathic—Southern girl who falls for a brooding vampire (Stephen Moyer) with antebellum origins. All sorts of hot, heavy and violent business ensues.

Created by Alan Ball (Six Feet Under), this is really pretty trashy stuff; lots of sex, blood and melodrama. It’s kind of the saucy reflection of the ever-so-chaste Twilight. And it is fun, to a point, but as with Twilight, I feel like everything it does, Buffy the Vampire Slayer did with far more intelligence and wit years ago.

If you need a quick hit of your childhood some hungover weekend morning, you could do worse than Warner’s new Hanna-Barbera-riffic Saturday Morning Cartoons DVD sets. Smartly organized by decade (there’s a 1960s set and a 1970s set, with seemingly more on the way as they’re both dubbed “Volume 1”), the two-disc collections each feature the antics of the Jetsons, Quick Draw McGraw, Yogi Bear, Josie and the Pussycats, Secret Squirrel, the Flintstones, the Herculoids, Top Cat and more, adding up to about five hours of fun each. You could always, you know, buy these for actual children, but I’ll be happy to have them on hand myself next time I feel like zoning out in front of the TV after a ruinous night out.