Dracula - BBC 1 & Netflix.

Agent Coulson

Television series developed by Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat.

Harry Palmr

It's always Dracula isn't it? Never Camilla - Sheridan Le Fanu's estate must be really hacked off by this stage!

Brief_Lives

I see Clive Russell, is listed as part of the cast..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracula_(upcoming_TV_series)

JP Liz V1

Dracula will premiere on BBC 1 on New Year’s Day (Wedneday January 1st) at 9pm and will continue to air on consecutive nights until the season finale on Friday January 3rd

https://www.tvwise.co.uk/2019/12/bbc-one-sets-premiere-date-for-dracula/

Skerries

great! can't wait to get my teeth into this

kerplun k

Looks good. I hope this doesn’t suck.

rebeve

kerplun k wrote: »

Looks good. I hope this doesn’t suck.

Fingers crossed

s8n

looks bloody good. Fangs for the post

pixelburp

I have read the stakes are pretty high for Moffat and Gattiss all right...

Agent Coulson

pixelburp

I'll be honest, that looks kinda rubbish. Post "season 1 of Sherlock" Moffat has been really poor IMO, and don't see anything to change that from the trailer

duridian

"I'm undead, I'm not unreasonable..."

Think I can see the League of Gentlemen style humour having a lot of influence in this.

Agent Coulson

Starts tomorrow then Thursday and finishes Friday.

Harry Palmr

That was fun! Gatiss was definitely channeling an American Werewolf in London for the mix of humour and splattery horror. Roll on tomorrow.

Mr E

Yeah that was brilliant. Some nice surprises and twists too. Can't wait for the next part.

r93kaey5p2izun

I was simultaneously cringing, cowering, and disgusted. I don't know what to think, but I couldn't switch it off.

drunkmonkey

Forgot this was starting anyway to catch today's one now...

brick tamland

Didnt think it was great to be honest. Lacking some of the humour you normally expect from Gatiss and Mofitt. It looked well but fell a bit flat.

Harry Palmr

Loads of mordant humour, esp the Sister.

TheIrishGrover

Christ. I got about 15 or 20 mins in (I wasn't really paying attention). As soon as Dracula appeared I was expecting him to try to sell me some meerkat insurance. Jesus that was bad..... I think I turned off when yer man was having the dream....

OldRio

I really wanted that to be good. It wasn't. Dreadful.

branie2

I think Sister Agatha is in the wrong profession

not terrible, but it fairly struggled to find a tone

gatiss is very hamfisted at crowbarring his revisionist agenda in imo, and it really doesnt do him any credit to rearrange an existing classic to do so.

he should have the courage of his convictions and work on original concepts.

paleoperson

I didn't like how unrealistic the nuns were and how the count was outwitted easily enough. Some of the nun talk and behaviour was also out of character for any nun and more like something out of a porn movie at times.

I really disliked the little quips and sarcasm the count kept coming up with as it just doesn't seem reasonable to me that a Romanian nobleman from 15th century would come up with that in any possible sense.

Mostly a travesty, it started off ok but seemed to get worse as time went on. It might have worked to do a fresh take on it but went a very wrong direction.

IAMAMORON

A lot of people seem to have got the wrong end of the stick here.

One of the campest versions I have seen of Dracula in a while, with albeit some great fx. I truly enjoyed it.

Claes Bang was brilliantly camp and did it really well. Looking forward to the next 2 episodes.

They are taking some licence with plot swings and female Van Helsing etc, but so what?

I really enjoyed it.

gmisk

IAMAMORON wrote: »

A lot of people seem to have got the wrong end of the stick here.

One of the campest versions I have seen of Dracula in a while, with albeit some great fx. I truly enjoyed it.

Claes Bang was brilliantly camp and did it really well. Looking forward to the next 2 episodes.

They are taking some licence with plot swings and female Van Helsing etc, but so what?

I really enjoyed it.

I agree entirely, I thought it was a riot, Claes Bang is brilliant as is Dolly Wells.

lawred2

Brilliant opener last night.. really looking forward to tonight.

Love Gothic horror

paleoperson

IAMAMORON wrote: »

A lot of people seem to have got the wrong end of the stick here.

Or maybe they just have a different opinion to you.

Seamai

I thought it was brilliant, brought me back to my childhood when being let stay up to watch one of the old Hammer Horror film was a real treat. It's the perfect blend of camp and horror, can't wait for episode 2.

XVII

paleoperson wrote: »

Or maybe they just have a different opinion to you.

oh please.

IAMAMORON

paleoperson wrote: »

Or maybe they just have a different opinion to you.

Take a look in the mirror baby.

ZV Yoda

I can’t find an age rating for this anywhere. Is it suitable for a 15 yr old?

lawred2

Well what the hell was that at the end?

Akrasia

lawred2 wrote: »

Well what the hell was that at the end?

Stay tuned for tomorrow’s episode, vampires in space

Akrasia

ZV Yoda wrote: »

I can’t find an age rating for this anywhere. Is it suitable for a 15 yr old?

Well, there’s no nudity and lots of slaughtering and fingernails getting picked off

I’d tread carefully if your child is sensitive to gore and violence

r93kaey5p2izun

I enjoyed this episode a lot more, I thought it was brilliant tonight. That ending though - wtf??

cml387

Well that was good.
I thought Dracula's cool bro' thing jarred a bit in EP1 but it worked tonight.

Anyone who knows Dracula would know he had to make it to Whitby so that's not a spoiler but didn't see that ending coming.

Intrigued for tomorrow.

Man Vs ManUre

Another great episode. This series has been brilliant, after the disappointment of his dark materials and war of the worlds, even latest series of peaky blinders was trash.
Well done BBC and Count Dracula. Now we can all forget about when Jonathan Ryhes Myers was Dracula!!

Man Vs ManUre

Akrasia wrote: »

Well, there’s no nudity and lots of slaughtering and fingernails getting picked off

I’d tread carefully if your child is sensitive to gore and violence

Obviously he spent many years sleeping/healing at the bottom of the sea.

kerplun k

Inside No. 9 brings you Murder On The Orient Demeter.

Notdeco

Hassan Modern Easel wrote: »

I enjoyed this episode a lot more, I thought it was brilliant tonight. That ending though - wtf??

She has the vampire Jean. But she wasn't killed like the guy in the first episode. So doesn't age or need to feed(maybe)
Dracula needed to heal. And it took a long time without feeding.

Thats my thinking of the episode. I loved it. Getting better with each episode.

IAMAMORON

IAMAMORON wrote: »

A lot of people seem to have got the wrong end of the stick here.

One of the campest versions I have seen of Dracula in a while, with albeit some great fx. I truly enjoyed it.

Claes Bang was brilliantly camp and did it really well. Looking forward to the next 2 episodes.

They are taking some licence with plot swings and female Van Helsing etc, but so what?

I really enjoyed it.

so what?

so why call it dracula? twas only missing a few ironic friends references and a trump zing.

not sure that camp is the be all and end all either, but hey if it worked for you then happy days i guess.

Notdeco

[Deleted User] wrote: »

so what?

so why call it dracula? twas only missing a few ironic friends references and a trump zing.

not sure that camp is the be all and end all either, but hey if it worked for you then happy days i guess.

It's different take on the lore.
I'm enjoying it, as are many others. Happy New year

OldRio

So this take on Dracula or 'Carry on Screaming'.
'Frying tonight' wins for me.

Each to his own.

sydthebeat

It's very gatiss and Moffat... And I mean VERY.

They haven't really progressed much as writers over the years, especially since the base literature is already established.

I'm actually rooting for Dracula to win this one.

Mousewar

My kid woke up just as Dracula was advancing on them in the little circle of bible pages and I had to go up and settle him. Got back for them blowing up the ship. Could anyone briefly summarise what happened in between those two events.

IAMAMORON

Mousewar wrote: »

My kid woke up just as Dracula was advancing on them in the little circle of bible pages and I had to go up and settle him. Got back for them blowing up the ship. Could anyone briefly summarise what happened in between those two events.

A fight ensued. Van Helsing burnt Count Dracula in fuel using a gas lamp, he jumped of the ship into the sea.

An intangible amount of time passed, days possibly weeks. The remaining crew decided to scuttle the ship before landfall in Whitby bay.

When Van Helsing goes to light the barrel of gunpowder , shock and surprise Bwahhahahahahahaha, the count appears , kills everyone apparently and the ship sinks and he sinks in his coffin on Transylvanian soil to the bottom of the North sea.

NIMAN

so is this worth a watch or not?

Hearly some shocking reports on it.

Sir Oxman

IAMAMORON wrote: »

A lot of people seem to have got the wrong end of the stick here.

One of the campest versions I have seen of Dracula in a while, with albeit some great fx. I truly enjoyed it.

Claes Bang was brilliantly camp and did it really well. Looking forward to the next 2 episodes.

They are taking some licence with plot swings and female Van Helsing etc, but so what?

I really enjoyed it.

Totally agree.
100% entertainment from start to finish.
Bang and Wells are fantastic leads.

fritzelly

Enjoyable first two episodes but that green screen was dire

Xenji

A truly dreadful episode, the quality dropped slightly for the second episode but this just fell right off the cliff, quite the disappointment.

The character of Lucy Westenra is changed around for the umpteenth time as usual, she seems to always be used as a plot device that can further a story while picking and choosing what traits to keep and what backstory to pilfer from.