I Watched Netflix's Dracula Show So You Don't Have To

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[@spookyoyster4014]

The twist at the end of episode two made me flip my fucking shit. I cant BELIEVE that Moffat can't write a show thats only 3 episodes long and DOESNT include dragging classic literature characters into the fucking 21rst century

[@moggimooo]

dracula adaptations will tell every story but dracula and i respect that

[@Eric-kb2xt]

What are you TALKING about?

[@jaCUP3000]

@@Eric-kb2xt they are talking about the fact that no dracula movie never really adapts the book very well

[@LunarEleven]

I guess you can respect the amount of effort it takes to always screw it up. It's not a difficult story to adapt, true to the book, and it's a classic for good reason so it's impressively stupid that it's never had an adaptation that made me think they read and enjoyed the source material.

[@DaveMcIroy]

​@@jaCUP3000, the book is flawed.

[@Ali007572]

@@jaCUP3000 77 BBC version is the best.

[@johdominic]

This is such a distinctly Moffat/Gatiss show, striving for gravitas but constantly undercut by needlessly quippy dialogue

[@Kasino80]

Exactly. It's like Sherlock. It really sucks.

[@JamieBramwell]

And I liked the Fackin'' Dialogue John

[@phousefilms]

Yeah, lots of people said that it was just Moriarty and Sherlock, but Moriarty is a vampire here and Sherlock is a woman.

[@JamieBramwell]

Yes... I agree, But only so much. Don't go overboard though... But ur comments are buzzing. I can tell by ur photo you narrate a reflection. Ur defo a good lad though buddy. Chin up

[@capnjackgallows3204]

Your forgetting nonsensical horse shit

[@TurbopropPuppy]

her immediately launching into a run across the table and yanking down the shades, reminds me immediately of the scene from Cinderella III where Charming jumps out the window literal cartoon shit

[@wandanemer2630]

And in Cinderella it was funny ON PURPOSE.

[@annabeatrizzimmermann7708]

@@wandanemer2630 yeah lol

[@dorianmichaelis1727]

It was a homage to a hammer Dracula movie where Van Helsing does the same thing.

[@JamieBramwell]

Can't believe you've watched summet called Cinderella part3.. I literally bet Dracula is better lolol

[@BradLad56]

​@@dorianmichaelis1727the very first one Hammer made in fact

[@reallylizjohnson]

I’m gonna watch this show just for the massive amount of candelabras in it

[@reallylizjohnson]

I love a fire hazard

[@EvieThomsen]

yk knowing that this was made by the same guys who did sherlock just makes so much sense it feels so much like seasons 3 and 4 of the show where there will be awesome scenes with really good pay off like the cabin 9 scene and then the rest of show is just a mess

[@annabeatrizzimmermann7708]

lmao yes

[@daemonthorn5888]

32:38 It has nothing to do with "their DNA matching". You know that Dracula can acquire thoughts and memories from blood. Dracula drank Agatha Van Helsings blood so he has her memories and thoughts within his mind now. Zooey infected herself with the vampire "virus" or "curse", and at the same time, also ingested his blood. This gave her access to the memories and thoughts from Agatha. The scene of Agatha and Zooey comminicating is an artistic abstract representation of Zooey's mind reconciling the thoughts and memories of Agatha with her own. You are watching this show and taking everything at face value and literally. This is why you dont understand so much of what is going on. You seem to forget that you are observing an artform. And you are watching it like a documentary.

[@cidevant002]

Many of those phrases you had a problem with were directly lifted from the novel. Dracula has always been cheesy lol The beggining of the show is one of the most faithful adaptation there has been (at least on some details), and then it derails so much I have no idea what the hell is happening.

[@pleasesetmeonfire1166]

These were my thoughts exactly. At first I was like “Damn I’ve never seen an adaptation stick to the literature so well.” But then it just kept going, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen something go in such a wildly different direction

[@kwarra-an]

It's the acting of the phrases that I think made them cheesy. "There's no-one... living... in this castle." A slight pause or minor emphasis would have been much better (same with "I don't drink wine" and "you look drained")

[@annabeatrizzimmermann7708]

that's exactly why i loved it. Pure nonsense shit. Sometimes i got What we do in the Shadows vibe, sometimes it was old original dracula vibes, sometimes webtoon dracula vibes, sometimes just ??? if this got approved what got rejected ??? vibes lol

[@WinningSidekick]

I don't remember those from the novel at all, actually. "You will, I trust, excuse me that I do not join you; but I have dined already and I do not sup" is the closest I could find looking through it. I don't disagree that Dracula is at times campy and fun, nor that the dialogue can be really silly (consider everything Quincey Morris says, for instance), but the blood jokes are just memetic mutations.

[@JamieBramwell]

Well..... It was a BBC1 prog, not bad..! So much better than jimmy Saville,.. Ha lol Ha

[@risky_busine55]

This show has inspired me to write way better vampire fiction

[@risky_busine55]

@Seven Ellen wait are you against the idea of horror comedy?

[@sirsyncalot9147]

Let me know what you write I wanna read it

[@ladyredl3210]

Oh my god same!

[@Rylee_G]

Wtf O neg is universally compatible across humans that's the best blood type *TO HAVE*

[@emilycrewe3794]

The only explanation I can think of for the “vanilla” line *is* the fact that O Negative is considered the universal blood type. It still doesn’t really make sense in the context of the scene though because no one in the history of ever (even if vampires existed and were housed in secure research facilities where they relied on blood donors for sustenance) would draw such an awkward and ill-fitting comparison between blood type and kinkiness. Maybe the writers *were* actually referring to ice cream flavours (despite the bizarrely snide line delivery), and were implying that O Negative blood is plain and boring for vampires to consume? Perhaps Dracula prefers a different vintage-not that blood types as vintages makes sense either. I feel like I’m probably overthinking this…

[@Rylee_G]

@Rachel Ann ahhh

[@Hoodwinkle]

Not gonna lie, I genuinely liked the first two episodes of this series despite their faults, I thought Agatha’s character was a stellar take on Van Helsing. The scene where she meets Dracula at the gates lives in my head rent free; I saw really good potential between the two characters there. But that last episode kinda ruined it all for me, it could’ve been so much more than what it was

[@xravenfeederx]

I think the last episode would have benefited from being split into two separate ones. There was a lot of potential for all the modern day stuff, but because they waited until the very last minute to introduce all these new characters and concepts, it falls flat

[@macblink]

Yeah I loved that part too

[@dannyedwards142]

I think this show was flawed, but Dracula was hot (or got hot) so I stuck with it. I’m a simple man.

[@atimidbirb]

Respect to a fellow monsterfucker

[@kriegermaria9923]

This dracula looks like a looks like antione benderas

[@JamieBramwell]

Lolol

[@mulhollanddrivehobo6910]

You are no man if you think that....

[@ramirogutierrez6312]

​@@mulhollanddrivehobo6910 There are men who are attracted to other men. Don't you know that?

[@grafdrakulaii7545]

Dracula doesnt die from sunlight in the novel either & he can climb walls in there too.

[@snieves4]

People just don’t know

[@beanstalks8]

some goth dude living alone in a huge castle sounds fruity as hell, there is no way any of these shows can see the dedication to the aesthetic and think this guy is straight. gay as hell to be a vampire, whose blood are you drinking? mens?

[@cascharles3838]

Honestly there are some real fruity moments between Dracula and Jonathon in the book

[@wandanemer2630]

That's sus.

[@LAkadian]

Wrong but so hilarious I want to agree just because that's funny.

[@Ishbikes]

@@cascharles3838 care to name?

[@My-World2007]

Dracula doesn't have a sexuality of his own,much like the habits of his victims,he also adapts their sexuality

[@andynonymous6769]

One of these days I just want to see a completely faithful adaptation of the book. I liked the psychological horror in the beginning, zombies and vampire babies aren't scary

[@Kasino80]

Copalla's version is actually really close (but also embellishes a lot).

[@WinningSidekick]

​@@Kasino80Except the whole weird Mina-Dracula romance and the ending, which I could live with, but they did my boy Jonathan Harker so dirty :(

[@phousefilms]

Reading the book for the first time, have seen a lot of the movies and read a kids version of Dracula when I was young, but never the actual novel. In the final two chapters now. I think some of it was good that they cut down(they go to check Lucy's tomb, like, three times before they actually deal with her), but other stuff would have been good to keep(Renfiel drugging the servants and Dracula yeeting a wolf through Lucy's window to scare her mom to death).

[@sanctacaecilia11]

@@WinningSidekick Yesss, can we as a society pLEASE stop shipping Mina and Dracula? Mina and Jonathan have such a healthy, loving relationship in the book that I've never seen in any adaptations because Hollywood goes "Oh, but Dracula is dArK and mYsTeRiOuS (ᵃⁿᵈ ᵉˣᵖˡᶦᶜᶦᵗˡʸ ᴹᶦⁿᵃ'ˢ ʳᵃᵖᶦˢᵗ)

[@CentralSkynet001]

​@@Kasino80no Dracula 1977 is close to the real book

[@80swoodpanel]

The drop of quality in this was outstanding. Dracula fidgeting on a tablet was not something I ever needed to see. The curtain scene is a nod to 'Horror of Dracula' (1958) by the way, you don't have to make sense when you have fan service. And you're right, I SHOULD be watching 'Garth Marenghi's Darkplace' instead! 👉👈

[@spiralrose]

The female vampire not being freaked out by the crucifix… Is that what they call an Easter egg? Dracula said that he was afraid of the cross because everyone he ate for centuries felt the same way. From the dialogue between Harker and the vampire woman, it sounds like count Dracula only fed her babies, and so she never learned anything or became more educated through the blood. She could’ve eaten. After all babies are little sponges, they’re learning everything but they’re not gonna teach her a foreign language or science. Dracula kept her helpless and ignorant. I’m wondering what his big deal was about having a bride. He said Harker could be his bride, but the Director of the Dracula sitcom made a very good point about Dracula’s so-called bisexuality. When you or I eat a hamburger, we’re not thinking about whether the meat was a cow or a bull …It’s just meat. But Agatha Van Helsing immediately asked Harker if he had had sexual intercourse with Dracula, so that leads me to believe that Dracula does have sex, or can have sex and maybe he’s not particular about which sex he goes for. So that lets credence to the bisexuality idea. But is it really sexual interest or is it just another way for the vampire to make his meat taste different? Dracula did mention to one of the deckhands that being startled spoils the flavor. Maybe sex makes the blood taste better? Who knows.

[@itsthebats]

I think she asked he they had sex because he transmitted the virus.

[@flamingo6828]

it's kinda funny, i remember watching this show when it first came out. i really love it (except episode 3) and honestly didn't notice how poorly it was put together because i understood a lot of the references they were trying to make to the book and to history. like when Lucy was proposed to, that was a reference to the book because the book's character was proposed to by 3 different guys. and the graveyard date scene when he's talking about corpses that are still alive, the writers are referencing how historically people might fall under a coma and accidentally get buried alive, it's where the idea of the undead came from because they'd wake up and freak out in their coffin, so people ended up putting a bell system in case people got buried alive. and that scene where the lawyer ate a fly and was writing that he worshiped Dracula was referencing a character in the book that was one of his experiments after he moved to London. the differences between the the book and show are quite interesting to me though, and it's cool to see your perspective of it, I never would've realized these flaws without watching this.

[@undeadorion]

I’d wondered if this show was also terrible to anyone who wasn’t super familiar with the original book. When you are, it’s so grating and obnoxious. Lucy, aka Engaged Girl, is a symbol for the youth and innocence Dracula destroys. Skinny white guy and the fiancée are actually heroes who try to save a Lucy through blood transfusions before they end up needing to kill her. And taking down Dracula requires a group effort even while he’s asleep. OG Dracula wouldn’t be done in with a single yank of the curtains. But above all else, this show did Mina dirty. She is a powerhouse in the original and carries the men through the mystery they can’t solve. And here they give her 5 minutes of screen time then she’s gone.

[@justasoulsfan9805]

Tbf, none of the movies are very true to the book. The only one that sonewhat comes close is the BBC 1977 adaptation with Louis Jordan. Outside of movies, the only visual (and faithful) adaptation I know of is the Manga Classics Adaptation of Dracula (mangaka adapting literary classics in Manga form). Outside of this maybe some american graphic novels. But on film...nah. Blame Bela Lugosis portrayal and the constant romantization if vampirism pushed by authors like Anne Rice for that. And of course, Coppola's adaptation.

[@vampirechick1159]

I will say there's a good reason "skinny white dude"/Jonathan Harker is there. He's supposed to be the protagonist, or at least he was in the book, so almost all Dracula adaptations have him

[@ghostwarrior3878]

Your shitting me.... The Skinny white dude is John Harker.... Fuck that..... 😡😡😡😡😡 🖕🏼. I figured he would be Seward, Morris or one of the others but not Harker.

[@WinningSidekick]

That’s Dr. Seward tho

[@vampirechick1159]

@@WinningSidekick Haven't watched the show, my bad

[@WinningSidekick]

@@vampirechick1159 No worries! Jonathan is in the first episode. Seward's a med student. The show's pretty bad, you are NOT missing out lol

[@asteridshydrangea-jt2hf]

@@WinningSidekickI got confused tho bcs Jonathon Harker was shown as having sent missed text messages. So I was like ‘wait did he also reincarnate??’

[@725prime]

Holy whit, I binged the entire show when it first came out but I totally forgot about it lol. Didn’t realize it went THAT off the rails.

[@beckymcdonald9529]

Same!

[@sabrina63]

"The entire show," 3 whole episodes 😂

[@nickyneshea7006]

The I didn't even know there was a Netflix Dracula, def gonna try it out now

[@duddledeedo]

Definitely try Castlevania while you're at it.

[@brothlcreeprs]

It's actually a BBC original :^)

[@annabeatrizzimmermann7708]

@@duddledeedo Castlevania is everything fun and great, i love it

[@eduardmanecuta5350]

​@@annabeatrizzimmermann7708 Beside the animation and fights that show is overrated.

[@eduardmanecuta5350]

Better try Dracula show with Mayers. A lot better then this mess.

[@witzitzilin]

Giving that the girl's name was Lucy Westenra I'm guessing one of those boys was named Arthur, really feels like fan fiction

[@cascharles3838]

The dickhead she was engaged to was Quincey (they besmerched my beloved cowboy's name), skinny science guy was Jack, and if I remember right Arthur was her gay best friend. So yeah

[@ghostwarrior3878]

Guessing maybe the big guy that didn't say much, that was at the party

[@thrillathakilla]

I agree totally with your review However, for some of the issues you mentioned. The spiderman thing, in the book he's observed crawling down the side of his castle like a lizard. Sinking the ship is to sink the 50 boxes of earth. He has to return to the soil he was buried in to gain his power. If the soil is sunk far off coast he can't access it. A point they forget kinda quickly. Also in the book he's not allergic to sunlight. He's seen out in the day stalking victims. His abilties are really vague in the book because his abilities aren't really defined as much as they're just things he's seen doing. I think Mark Gatiss was trying to pull apart the lore in the book and challenge it based on that. By far the best bit of episode 3 is Dracula in the house being surprised by a TV, electricity, etc.

[@phousefilms]

One of the things they SHOULD have done to pull apart the plot was when Dracula sees the cross when Johnathan turns. It proves to Agatha there is a god. I would have loved the reveal to be that it was actually the reflected light of the sun that hurt him, not any fear of the cross, so he easily gets the nuns when he gains entry to the convent. But then they made it some weird psychosomatic thing.

[@mysticmek93]

Liked it at the start but kept watching and was like: ??????? TF?! So I'm glad i'm not the only person who suffered ABSOLUTE CONFUSION

[@commugoth]

the only “modern day vampires” trope I’ve liked is what we do in the shadows bc it’s not trying to be serious.

[@sarak2305]

My ex put this on one night as we were falling asleep while I was sick and until now I would have sworn the “Dracula under a spotlight” scene was just a fever dream.

[@ciaran2693]

Not netflix. BBC Dracula 💀 written by Moffat and Gatiss from BBC Sherlock

[@thatsdisco]

Yeah that makes sense. That tracks.

[@Kasino80]

And that explains everything

[@Hermi0Taurus]

I don't know why, but I feel like writing a novel feautring a vampire or twelve.

[@amandapike2477]

The modern "engaged girl" is Lucy and Lucy was a character from Dracula's novel but they did her dirty.

[@madmintentertainment6268]

Shit on episode 3 all you want. But his speech about the house and how amazing it is ending with " I knew the future would bring wonders.. I didn't think it would make then ordinary" Was fucking awesome. Whoever wrote that line , I hope they are getting superb head

[@shelbyale3281]

6:12 is genuinely the funniest sequence from any video essay i’ve watched

[@Ishbikes]

To anyone that’s read the book, the “smiles” Dracula kept giving in the series..is that an accurate portrayal of Count Dracula? I for one loved the first two episodes…I could’ve done without the third..maybe they changed writers on that third episode.

[@kriegermaria9923]

The rushed the fatal ending on 3

[@kriegermaria9923]

Draculas death they could have Made it better also i didnt liked this version of lucy

[@dibyoshreepaint9241]

In the book, there was no significant mention of Dracula's smile, I guess in the show, they added that in, to show off his fangs

[@WinningSidekick]

He does at least smile grimly at Jonathan once, showing his teeth, and another time he's described as having a "malignant and saturnine" smile as he discusses Carfax Abbey, also with Jonathan. He also smiles when he tells Jonathan that your average peasant is "at heart a coward and a fool". Quite a few smiles there even at a casual perusal. So that in and of itself isn't an inaccurate portrayal.

[@ajatashatru4198]

The third episode almost killed me with boredom.

[@oddsman01]

For those who havent watched it yet, dont bother after ep. 2. It’s as if the director, writers and the whole film production crew quit after the 2nd show & the series was scrapped after a team of pampered 20-year old british university students took over.

[@cremetangerine82]

I know the 1992 “Dracula” has some cheese moments, but at least that adaptation was little more faithful to the book! Why does Sister Agatha Van Helsing have more screen time than Lucy or Mina?

[@cidevant002]

To be fair, Lucy barely makes a dent on the original story too. Zoey should have been Mina since the book goes out of it's way to show her being a very competent woman that turns out to be the key to find and destroy Dracula.

[@cremetangerine82]

@@cidevant002 I disagree that Lucy is inconsequential; in the novel, Lucy is shown to be someone who is in contrast to Mina (more naive and innocent), she’s also Mina’s best friend, her three suitors are also important to the plot of the novel, and it also shows how vampires get created when she gets turned by Dracula. I think that Lucy is very important to the story, and it’s disappointing that this adaptation completely ices her out of the plot.

[@cidevant002]

@@cremetangerine82 Most adaptations either cut or utilize Lucy as just "the tragic first victim of Dracula" precisely because that is all she does. She is a friend of Mina and then she dies. And then all the men who wanted her (who also get cut from many other adaptations) keep the plot moving after her death. I didn't said she was completely inconsequential. She had a role on the story, she fulfilled it and that is it. She is a plot point at best. There is a Spanish Musical of Dracula that actually develops Lucy so much more as a character. In it it's implied that her own mother, who suffered from some mental illness, was susceptible to Dracula's inner voice like she is and Lucy actively goes to Dracula to be transformed . She remains a while as a vampire causing conflict on many different characters until Dracula is the one to finish her off when she became jelous of what he had with Mina. Also she has the best song in the entire play. I so much prefer her like that, as someone that actually has agency and has a real impact, than her book conterpart. I so totally recommend that show with English subtitles if you ever get to see it over this show.

[@cremetangerine82]

@@cidevant002 You mentioned how Lucy “barely makes a dent in the story”, so I interpreted that as her character being inconsequential. I disagree, the adaptions that remove her are flawed to not have a central figure of innocence (less shrewd than Mina) corrupted by Dracula.

[@cidevant002]

​@@cremetangerine82 Do you need a "central figure of innocence corrupted by Dracula" to understand that Dracula is a monster that kills people and is bad? Also, how is Mina "shrew" anyway? If all we need is someone "innocent" to be the first victim, it could be a child, another woman or literally anyone else. That is what I mean that she is a plot point at best. I am sorry, but if you admit that is the entire point of her character, then yeah, I don't see the point of including her that much on further adaptations.

[@dantemaritato]

I wish it was just a straight adaptation of the book

[@kriegermaria9923]

Your wish wasnt granted

[@dantemaritato]

@@kriegermaria9923 unfortunately

[@Jan_Iedema]

The first and second episode are really enjoyable and quite tense, I don’t know what happened with eps 3? Maybe the writers all had a aneurysm simultaneously…

[@Prysn]

I’m sure someone else has said this in the comments but the deal with sinking the boat to prevent Dracula is another old lore facts about vampires that they can’t cross running water and you could argue the ocean isn’t running water but it does have currents so I think that’s what they’re getting at.

[@angelakirkpatrick3842]

That lore about running water is from the book too.

[@haleymist09]

I watched this so long ago and made it to Lucy and Dracula in the graveyard. I'm not very good at being critical on a first viewing but the first two eps got outlandish and I stuck around for the cinematography. The third ep was boring and now I see the plot holes just got too big.

[@AmityvilleFan]

9:20 - Van Helsing being a person of faith changes EVERYTHING. The novel was about science beating superstition. Changing Van Helsing to one of the clergy creates a religious propaganda from the book.

[@WinningSidekick]

Van Helsing was already extremely religious in the novel though. He carries communion wafers around and uses them to bless people. The crucifix that is removed from Lucy's neck was originally his. He was a very Catholic man (to the point where he can't divorce his legally insane wife) and a doctor. He's also a professor, scientist, lawyer, philosopher, and hypnotist. Stoker really just gave this man every academic profession.

[@AmityvilleFan]

@@WinningSidekick van Helsing was a SCIENTIST first and foremost. He acted on ecidence, not on superstition. He carries communion waffles and blesses people, because the data he had access to pointed towards the direction such things were actualy working, and not because he believed in some cultist mumbo-jumbo. Ha was raised in a culture where everyone was catholiuc, but if the evidence had been svadtica works because it is a hindu monster, he'd've went to the nearest shop, and tattooed himself like Charlie Manson, because that's what the evidence was pointing towards. The core of the character is his academic profession, and the christian background is just accidental circumstance.

[@WinningSidekick]

@@AmityvilleFan Abraham van Helsing being religious, specifically Catholic, and open-minded when it comes to the scientifically unproven is as much an intrinsic part of his character as his devotion to science, and I say this as an atheist myself. He makes repeated reference to the goodness and glory of God all throughout the novel-- as do many of the other characters, yes, but he outpaces them all. Listen to what he says about Mina: "She is one of God's women fashioned by His own hand to show us men and other women that there is a heaven we can enter, and that its light can be here on earth." Later, he says the following to Seward: "We get the small truth first. Good! We keep him, and we value him; but all the same we must not think him all the truth of the universe." It's worth noting that what he's trying to refute here and for another two and a half pages prior is, specifically, Seward's evidence-based approach to belief. "Then, friend John, am I to take it that you simply accept fact, and are satisfied to let from premise to conclusion be a blank? No? Then tell me - for I am student of the brain - how you accept the hypnotism and reject the thought-reading." Religion is proven to be the weapon that works against the monster that is Dracula, quite correct, but I'd argue the thesis put forth was the marriage of science and religion to defeat darkness together, not the victory of either over the other. The goal of killing the vampires is always to save their souls, after all: "No longer she is the devil's Un-Dead. She is God's true dead, whose soul is with him!" Worth noting that Abraham Stoker was himself Christian, though an Irish protestant rather than a Catholic.

[@AmityvilleFan]

@@WinningSidekick You are as much atheist as the Pope hisself. You don't understand the novel, the character, the era it was written in. You have zero clue what is going on here. You lash on words, taken out of context, like the Green Bible. Pathetic. Yes, Shelly was still advocating the marriage of religion and science, but Van Helsing was a scientist, who saw that religion works, so included into his work. That's the whole point. that science works, and if rleigion works, it'll incorporate it. It1s not the other way around, and does not claim rleigion has inherent value. Wether Shelly intended it or not, Van Helsing is inherently secular. A-religious. He is not a priest. You can't tranform him into one. But that's what this show did. Made Van Helsing to be Father Merrin. That's travesty.

[@clarence5211]

i know it’s a nitpick but at 8:44 you could NOT tell that she’s from holland from that accent. it always breaks my immersion to hear terrible dutch accents, they can’t be that hard to do, right?

[@WinningSidekick]

I wanna think that it's a deliberate shout-out to how bad Van Helsing's "Dutch" accent was in the novel, but I think that's giving them too much credit 😔

[@bryna7]

I loved Dracula. The two main actors were very charismatic.

[@othelliusmaximus]

Nah nah nah. This title got it all wrong. See Dracula don't suck he scrape and lick.

[@tteokbokkibxtch]

This show is the cheesiest cheese. I occasionally enjoyed it because of this but many parts were so cringe. Lucy Westenra burned to a crisp and being like "kiss me 👹" was so built up and dragged out for literally no reason other than ick factor I guess.

[@oakskull]

watching this after Dracula Daily is so weird

[@sweaspurdoddd5466]

First episode: great Second: good Third: terrible

[@jongkittae]

tysm for reminding me that castlevania exists

[@liaml.e.5964]

I honestly had a lot of fun with this show. Claes Bang was having a lot of fun with this character and it showed.

[@emiliedarveau19]

As a Dracula and vampire enjoyer the story and the lore of this bothers me so hard like dude vampire lore is so fucking cool and you can find so many fun loopholes and variants that’s the fun with it its not hard to make something new and exciting with the base lore of it all like why make it so damn boring??

[@ellebjelle8744]

The our god edit is iconic

[@jestergodfield690]

The graveyard scene was very effective if my mother's reaction was anything to go by. Apparently there are many old-timey rumors/superstitions that are essentially all that graveyard scene stuff.

[@allbottledup9513]

I gotta say I loved this series. I know that’s not a popular opinion. I’ve watched twice. The cheesy dialogue never bothered me. I never thought about Sister Agatha thinking it was the cross, not the sun, that hurt Dracula. That is pretty silly in retrospect. However, Sister Agatha and Dracula’s chemistry and back and forth just saves the show for me. They make episodes one and two really enjoyable. Episode three is a mess in my opinion but still bearable because of their acting. The subplot is garbage IMO. All in all, a little cheesy but so worth watching if even just for the first two episodes.

[@cipherfresh]

A lot of the ideas from this show seem really interesting, they would have been fantastic if they had a better execution or were just in a different vampire story

[@sageseeker9197]

As someone who studied folklore, this entire series tickled me. The zombies are actually lore accurate as far as how vampires are believed to be created. They are following folklore very accurately, all things considered, and I like how they blend it with Dracula. I do kinda wish perhaps they had Jonathan make it to present as a vampire, and he kills Dracula or something, or other, but honestly, they could have just ended with the ship going down. I view episode three as optional. I do like how they do a Victorian horror, and made it a modern version. Because, honestly, Dracula the book was not a scary read. But this movie? Thinking about the concepts, like the whole Dracula absorbing them and stuff, yeah, it's definitely scary. The whole, Dracula in the present thing FEELS like it should be another movie or something but eh. To each there own, it was funny but I dislike the reincarnated Helsing. Would have preferred it to end with Dracula winning since that's the direction they steered in before throwing the end in. I loved Agatha. She's honestly one of the best Helsings I've seen in a titled Dracula adaptation. I do find the hate for the one of the view adaptions of Dracula where Dracula 1. openly bisexual and 2. doesn't have naked women everywhere.

[@hogbone7]

Skinny white dude is John Seward

[@neuvocastezero1838]

One of the most brilliant vampire productions of all time. "Cheesy" dialogue? You must be kidding.

[@matthewfraley4427]

I actually quite liked this version of the story. Ive never seen a dracula movie, show, or series and been blown away. The best ive seen is the castelvania animated series. But dracula is kind of like robin hood, not quite defined to a T, so pretty much anything goes when adapting the tale. However, the ending kind of does make sense, as it establishes him as more human than monster. That is gleamed somewhat during the chess game they play in the second episode where he genuinely enjoys her company. He seems to like that she isnt afraid of him, that she in fact wants to know what he is, and how he works. You know, kind of acknowledging that he is more than a beast to be feared. Subverting the story tropes of sunlight, crosses, and being invited in is honestly fine with me, because they never really made sense in the first place. I mean, a powerful human eater cant break into your house? A crackhead can break into your house, and will! So to me, destroying those plot devices are fine, especially when done by someone who actively studied him and wanted to know why these stupid tropes existed in the first place. And maybe when she finally revealed to him that she knows who he is, and understands him on a level deeper than "aaahh a monster, run" he finally accepts that he doesnt need to be a monster anymore and chooses to die with the only person who gave even the slightest damn about him. Maybe thats not what the show is about, but thats how i percieved it and thats how i choose to think of it. I do concede that the dialogue is sometimes cringy, and horrid. The third episode is pretty not good also. The pacing is off sometimes, as with almost every single dracula movie ever, its just hard to write an all powerful vampire not doing what he should be doing, even though you know he has the power to do it. But all in all, i think the show was good, and thats just my two cents.

[@jameswaugaman8052]

I loved this version of Dracula. I'm a long time fan of all the Dracula movies that came before. It was up to date, creative, witty and inclusive. I totally enjoyed it and even so much so as to buy the discs from England.

[@daemonthorn5888]

Dude..... Not all the undead he "stuffs in boxes" are "brides". They are simple,mindless, undead. His brides are those that managed to come back as vampires, and keep their minds intact. You keep saying that you don't understand things and that things aren't explained. Bit it IS all explained. You just weren't "getting it".

[@logandials]

nahh. you just made me like it even more.

[@JaneDoe-po4gu]

the scene where lucy approaches white dude and he looks like 8 mile

[@JamieBramwell]

Lololo

[@tell-me-a-story-]

I want the nuns to be super ready for this and just casually defeat him in the end, and the reason nobody came to them at first is because they assumed that the nuns would be helpless.

[@sanctacaecilia11]

now THAT would be a story

[@charlesthepleb]

Dracula just does what he wants and fucks around he doesnt need a plan

[@handoffate7262]

To be completely fair “skinny white guy” and “engaged girl” are both adaptations of characters from the novel that’s why their storyline is included, the blood donor thing is glossed over so quickly because it’s just a reason to get a take on some characters from the book in there. Additionally, the ending with her running across the table is a recreation of a scene from the movie The Horror of Dracula. In that movie Van Helsing defeats Dracula in essentially the exact same way.

[@kilibubblecata6266]

Stoker's descendants murdered Nosferatu for this. What a lonely life that must be

[@Nilnot]

Everyone should just go in cold and watch Midnight Mass.

[@nicholashursh9594]

This may be a second month post but I second this watched that show blindly when I had the flu and I don't really think many people watched it, it was great and I generally am not a fan of that guy's stuff

[@daemonthorn5888]

38:50 Once again, you failed at comprehending the story. He didnt grow to hate the sun because he didnt want to be seen. You are forgetting... every time he had fed on someone he absorbed their thoughts. So over hundreds of years of feeding on superstitious villagers he inherited their beliefs. In their superstitions vampires are killed by sunlight and are repelled by religious iconography. So those beliefs became ingrained in his mind. On top of that he also had his own subconscious fears and aversions. Combined they caused him to recoil at the sun and at crosses. Something I will agree with you on, though, is the way he died. It was completely stupid. There is no reason why cancer would cause him to die. He is able to change physical form and heal major wounds. All cancer is, is a cell in your body that replicated with an error in its genetics. Every time it replicates itself it produces another cell with those genetic errors. So the cells do not function properly. If hes able to take the form of a wolf or of another person, like when he tore himself out of Johnathan's body, then he obbiously has control over his body at a cellular level. So theres no reason why cancer should effect him at all. Not only that, but someone else's cancer cells cant hurt you. Thats why cancer is not contagious. A normal human would not even die if they drank blood from someone with cancer. Not only that, but Dracula has been drinking people's blood for hundreds and hundreds of years. Cancer is not rare. There's no way that he could have drank the blood of that many people and not drank cancer cells and accidentally killed himself. So that part ofbthe story is completely stupid. The reason why he suddenly no longer fears death makes sense though. Its from drinking Lucy's blood. The reason he liked feeding from her so much was because she was fearless.

[@luenaiya]

It was so entertaining in my opinion. Worth it

[@ScootsLounge]

Ngl, at first I thought you meant Castlevania and was like "Wait, that's really good though."

[@martineriksson6123]

The first two episodes were absolute perfection.

[@thecoldlight]

I always wondered if Lucy were able to drink some human blood if it would restore her back to her pre-death appearance similar to how Dracula would drink blood and get younger in appearance.

[@amandapike2477]

That pulling the drape down scene is a re-creation of the scene from Horror of Dracula (1958), the first British made Dracula film, starring Christopher Lee.

[@Ambarfing]

the persona music made me double take at the 33 minute mark hahahaha--ethan are you...a GAMER??

[@krd24551]

So episode 2 is just a protracted version of the final arc of Jojo part 1?

[@thatsdisco]

I mean,,, if you put it like that.. that kinda means.. that Moffat ripped off JoJo's Bizzarre Adventure.

[@mulhollanddrivehobo6910]

The first and second episode is very good, the last one on the other hand? Just the first 15 minutes

[@Dantalliumsolarium]

Dracula being the voice of the peoples fear of the church would be so sexxyyyyyy

[@misslethal2355]

As expected of another Steven Moffat adaptation

[@Ishbikes]

The”skinny white dude” is Adrian from “kiss me first” in case anyone didn’t know..

[@janeses]

The FFVII soundtrack and darkplace splices are really what make this video extra special for me.

[@nadodgeskn]

It's solid overall, like a back and forth between dracula and the van helsing bloodline is interesting. The only real gripe I have with the show is the time jump at the end of episode 2 and the start of episode 3. The whole of episode 3 was kind of strange but still interesting in terms of the van helsing vs dracula story. The 2 primary side characters, "pretty girl" and "nerd guy," could've been better, I think. It really seems like a character study show more than a horror thriller like people always associate with dracula.

[@mars9380]

Dracula being stuck in the coffin under the sea is the same with DIO from jojo lol

[@amandapike2477]

"I never drink... wine" is a line from the original Dracula novel. It seems cheesy now but that's where it came from.

[@WinningSidekick]

I don't think it is, actually? The closest he gets is saying he's "already dined" and "never sup(s)", which refers to a meal, and that he doesn't smoke. EDIT: But the line does appear in the 1931 film version with Bela Lugosi, so it's been a part of pop culture for almost a century now.

[@Kasino80]

Noone said that line better than Gary Oldman.

[@ddoll7007]

I really liked this mini series. I thought it was clever and original and seductive. I watched it a few times… not just once. Just goes to show you that an opinion is just an opinion. It was fantastic.

[@debberdoo]

in between the "I'm so conf-- what??"-s, the Marenghi stuff... bless you for that. any Darkplace reference endears a person to me forever 😄

[@whereismyjam8491]

Wait, how was she playing chess with him after the boat, if she died on the boat?

[@angelakirkpatrick3842]

That was a dream she was having while he was feeding on her.

[@ronanthesuperginger]

fun fact the curtian scene is a reference to one of the hammer dracula movies along with descendant of van helsing in modern day

[@Zachary-uq1fh]

Part 1/2 were good, really liked the Demeter aspect as well. It was done better than the actually movie that recently came out. I didn’t like the part 3 21st century spin. Part 1 slapped tho.

[@Cal6009]

They literally ripped of Jojo part 3 with the escaping and exploding ship in a coffin and coming back in a few centuries though

[@Jmetclaf7053]

What would have been really funny is if they pulled a Holy Grail, and when “Dracula” arrives in the present, it turns out was modern day all along and everyone was just fucking crazy.

[@ntsikeleloqoyo4188]

Thanks man, great video. Saved me an hour of my life

[@lukeskinwalker922]

I liked the first 2 episodes but it got uninteresting once the modern setting happened.

[@DarkNGG]

It's hard to find any sort of video on this show. I understand why it wasn't well received and, as a whole, I didn't particularly care for it either. But the first two episodes I think were good enough. I actually thoroughly enjoyed the major plot twists of both of those episodes (Harker being dead and Agatha being in the sick person's room)... it just kind of went downhill from there.

[@BerishaFatian]

1:45 This is the best line in the show. It gives me chills.

[@mathewparrett]

Watch 1&2 and definitely DO NOT watch episode 3.

[@legalizeraccoons24]

why did i see two actors from ted lasso in here at different moments

[@bryancaron1664]

First 2 episodes were FIRE!!! Third was admittedly jacked up and really off the rails.

[@MacDuck1997]

The last episode was such a disappointment. The first two were great.

[@WombatProphecy]

I remember watching the first half of the first episode and thinking it had so much promise. Then all that good will was progressively squandered....

[@data_expunged97]

23:11 Ok I just wanna jump on this because god I fucking wish that this was just some teen drama. It's SUPPOSED to be an adaptation of one of the side plots in Dracula, which is that Mina's best friend, Lucy, has been proposed to by three separate men, and she genuinely cares about all of them, but ends up marrying the third man who proposed to her, Arthur Holmwood. There is some stuff about the original book I don't like, since it was written in 1897 and so after Lucy becomes a vampire, she goes from being a pure innocent maiden to hypersexual, and that's supposed to be part of the horror. But most adaptations I've seen make this even worse by completely fucking missing the point and saying "you know what, Lucy was a slut the whole time actually". No adaptation has angered me more than this though. Because what basically happened is that in the series, they combined Arthur Holmwood with another suitor, Quincey Morris, but made him the biggest fucking asshole on the planet. I cried real tears watching the series for the first time, because in the book, Quincey is just some random ass cowboy dropped in the middle of a gothic horror novel who goes on the weirdest fucking monologues, but also REALLY REALLY loves Lucy. When she rejected his proposal, he said that he was sad, but that even though he wouldn't have her as a wife, he could still keep her as a valuable friend, and basically ends up setting up the engagement party for Lucy and Arthur BECAUSE HE IS FRIENDS WITH BOTH OF THEM. Then there's Jack Seward, and in the book he's also a cringefail loser, but the show makes me want to rip my hair out because yeah, maybe the book should have been a little nicer to him instead of just calling him a dingus who can't get laid every five minutes, but the series just goes out of its way to say that Seward is SUCH a nice guy, and Lucy is a whore who just doesn't see that. I have no patience for that incel shit, and it made me hate Seward. Which is a damn shame, because even though he was low key abusing his position as a doctor in an insane asylum, I really liked him in the book. There's actually very little differences between Seward in the book vs the series, but whereas the book frames him as a man with flaws, the series tries so hard to make you feel bad for him even though he has done absolutely nothing to earn that pity. So yeah, if this was just some teen drama bullshit it would be stupid, but they dragged these characters through the mud and I will never forgive Moffat and Gatiss for that