We don’t know how we missed this when it first came around, but it’s priceless: two seasons of a high-quality crime drama when the mob’s lead hit man just happens to be a vampire

One of the great things about the intertubes is that time itself means nothing. So yes, Vampire Mob may be a couple of years old, but – like the old NBC hack goes, “if you haven’t seen it, it’s new to you.”

Imagine a world in which organized crime operates virtually the same as it does in our world…except that in this world there happen to be the occasional modern-day vampires in the population. Imagine further that your very best hit man for the West Coast gets himself bit. And even that isn’t a problem: he can keep himself fed not by dining on the other members of The Family, but by draining his ‘official’ targets and taking the excess home in big-ass pickle jars. All goes well until he gets really hungry one night and makes the mistake of biting and turning his wife – the good-looking woman with a voice like fingernails on a chalkboard. And then things get real bad when the wife decides she wants company in her undead state and bits her own mother.

Mobster. Wife. And Mother-in-Law. All bloodsuckers. Let the nightmare begin.

Veteran cop/criminal actor John Collela does a hell of a job as Don Grigioni, the vampire hit man, and Reamy Hall is equally excellent (and awful) as his shrew of a wife Annie (“I should have married an Italian girl!”). The late Marcia Wallace of The Bob Newhart Show and the Simpsons plays the newly vampiric and wholly unreliable mother-in-law (there’s a sweet tribute to her passing on the VM web site), and you’ve recognize many of the supporters from shows like Boardwalk Empire, The Sopranos, The Simpsons, Parks & Recreation and Criminal Minds.

Award-winning filmmaker Joe Wilson and written, directed, and edited both seasons of this strange and wonderful show. The first season came out almost four years ago; the second season a couple of years back. There’s a third season in the works, including new cast members ranging from Sheryl Lee (Twin Peaks) to Gary Anthony Williams (Malcom in the Middle) and Ray Gallion (Lost). It’s just a matter of money – and hey, come on, quality takes time! Get of their backs!

We don’t want to give away the whole thing, and Vampire Mob deserves traffic on its own site, but here’s the Season Two trailer, just to get the general idea. You can follow ‘em on Twitter and Facebook, too.