The reference to a Doctor Holmwood, one of the 3 suitors of Lucy. Dracula and Sister Agatha are sitting in what looks like a wine room- you could claim it is a nod to the real text where he calls one of his victims, Mina, a "bountiful wine press." Also Dracula states, " what did you want me to do for 4 weeks, sit in a box?" Which, in the book he travels in a box of his earth on the Demeter.
Co-creator, Mark Gatiss extended cameo as Dracula's modern-day lawyer's name as Renfield - a reference to his fly-eating human familiar in the 1931 Lugosi 'Dracula'. I don't recall if the character is in the original book.
Can you explain what his "brides" are to him cus he called Jonathan his bride brides but said he was trying to reproduce with them. I do understand he sees them as experiments and as you said he's not having sex with anyone so what the hell 🤷♂️🤷♀️
kevin sweeney I have to disagree with u there, his performance was much more subtle and sophisticated (in my opinion) than Tom Ellis’ rather cheesy on the nose performance.
@@Elnont Not saying he wasn't good I'm just saying close your eyes and your listening to Lucifer I'm so sick of hearing the same English accent (that doesn't actually exist) on screen.
Aren't they one in the same? Coincidence the sun seems to be his final resting place? Pretty hot there, although someone else I know loves the Son. GOD Bless!!!
Two reasons why the time jump was inevitable: 1) Moffat got to Moffat. Moffat always eventfully goes into “clever mode” which leads to ideas like this. 2) Expenses. It’s cheaper to set things on modern day than have to build the set and costumes for a period piece. Apparently, the budget was all spent on the first two parts.
Yeah kinda get the feeling he thought his own vision was more important than the core story that’s been around for decades which ended up derailing it slightly
@@heavyspoilers And what happened with the Harker Institute? Did they just give up? Armed mercenaries and fortified lairs but gosh dang those pesky laws we gotta obey. And they've obviously got everything well prepared to confine and study the Count, but they're just going to wait for him to walk ashore and surrender?
The BBC does so many period pieces though, so there should be sets and costumes available. It's cheaper to do alteration to costumes than to create them from scratch.
At the start of the third episode I just tought "Oh no...it got moffated." The police showing up at the beach, that's such a BBCisch thing to do and I'm not even british to recognize that.
I was fine with the time jump but felt like more episodes were needed to really explore the new characters and further develop Dracula and Hellsing's relationship.
Is it just me, or did anyone else feel lost the instant they introduced the young clubbing social media obsessed crew? It felt like they wasted way too much time trying to make us relate to the two young characters and over the course of the long period of the night club scene I was asking myself, "Am I watching the same show?" I loved the ending of the first episode in the convent and the entire time on the ship Demeter. I'll admit I even enjoyed the very brief ending of the second episode with the time jump where Dracula is shown on the beach at night surrounded by helicopters and mercenaries and he meets Agatha's heir. They should have ended it right there and I would have been totally fine.
I feel exactly the same. Although, for me, the third episode let down the brilliant first two, there's no way I'm going to let it spoil my overall enjoyment of this series.
Same here. I LOVED the first episode. It felt genuinely scary and they did something new and interesting with the source material without throwing it out the window. I really dug episode 2 as well. I didn’t expect to like the Arthur Conan Doyle/ Agatha Christie bottle thing but it worked. I even liked the Lord Ruthven cameo. Then episode 3 happens. As soon as that spotlight hit him I was like “aw man, really?!”. I really really don’t think the time jump worked. However, I still want ppl to watch it if only to have ppl talking about it.
I didn't mind the ending and thought that the series over all was great. Maybe instead of 2020 as the major time jump, they could have done the 1960's or 1970's. It would have still kept a period feel and dialogue while updating the setting. It would have also had this undertone off the sexual revolution and entering the later half of the 20th century. I didn't mind that they used the same actress for Zoe but maybe they could have used someone that looked very similar to her; that way it wasn't so much Dracula recognizing Zoe/Agatha but the Van Helsing blood. I also see what they did there, A to Z.
@@TheMrKeats I'm debating about doing a FF rewrite of Episode 3, I would keep it in 2020 though. Just because my reference is there and I already am thinking of some things that would be fun to write. Although, it would be fun to see Dracula watching Dark Shadows on TV instead of the elephants...
@@eventingirl001 please let me know how it goes. You're vision for a 60-70's era already had me hooked. If you do a modern day FF, I'm sure I'd be fascinated and I would be engulfed in the story. I like how Dracula ended but not how it got there with episode 3. But any ending you give it... I'm sure it'll be great.
I could have dealt with a time jump in perhaps a following season and if the writing in the jumps was competent. What we got in episode three was largely shit writing.
@@kennethfharkin yes! Have him in the past for the first season and modern time in the second season. The writing WAS absolute shit! I felt like I was watching some dumb fan made show. And the stupid scenes with teenagers was totally unnecessary and unwanted☹ Besides the first 2 episodes, big let down
Same, Lucy and the emotionally-challenged 20somethings made me hate them...I was kind of cheering Dracula on to kill them😂Claes Bang and Dolly Wells were great as Drac and van Helsing
@@heavyspoilers They didn't just fail to stick the landing, they launched off the uneven bars after a perfect performance, flying uncontrolled into the audience and killing multiple spectators.
Claes Bang reminded me of the handsome and glamorously classical actors of England and Hollywood. They don't make them like that anymore. I felt like I was watching a reincarnation of Christopher Lee. Very exciting! I could see this guy in remakes of the old Hammer movies.
Completely agree with the time jump, ruined what the first 2 episodes had built on. Would have been better sticking to victoria England for the final episode.
Agree. The episode 2 was kinda unfinished. I didn't understand the part where they were playing chess and yet all of a sudden they sank the ship. Like what?? I was expecting that they will survive. That's how they arrived at that old castle and play chess. Damn. Episode 3 ruined the progress.
Kirsty Smith yes I thought the same. I really enjoyed this mini series version of Dracula. I love Lucifer tv series and Dracula had a very similar humor about him. But the third episode did kind of sink it a little., I felt it lost all the darkness which is Dracula. But still overall I was okay with it.
I feel like the time jump was meant to start world building for future monster stories set in modern times.. The Jonathan Harkin Foundation being the core
Just finished it and I have to admit I was sceptical but man was this Dracula not only funny, but scary and the unique blend of dark humor and horror was spot on to me . The new van helsing and Dracula dynamic was great the chemistry was awesome and I love how with the humor they break the 4th wall it was great
Spoiler: Episode 3 downfall: • Dracula gets hold of a tablet and gets a lawyer?? (Even guessing the wifi password smh) • The fast paced interest of Lucy as Dracula’s bride (which we don’t care, I was applauding her body being cremated *LOL*) • Dracula drank the tainted blood in an act of self inflict/suicide (didn’t episode 1 explained that the undead couldn’t pass on in an act of suicide?). Saving grace is the performance between Dracula and Agatha/Zoe. The banter and delivery between these two are phenomenal.
The "WiFi password is Dracula" joke is supposed to be funny but it just makes you question the intelligence of anyone involved in that project, why did they even get him a tablet that had a wifi access in the first place?
I think there was a lot more going on in this version and some of it should have been more logically developed...it's like there was a huge potential in this version and it needed a really senior script editor to sort some of it out. Cos I agree that the last episode descended in terms of quality for the large part. Too many rushed in references, too much time spent on inane nightclub scenes and sudden young characters which ruined the pacing and left the plot too meandering. I do think there was a lot going on between Dracula and Agatha themselves at the end, and the whole notion of his inability to love or maybe admit real love to himself. I've always thought there was a strong element of that in the original novel, and why Dracula was afraid of the Cross...God is love and all that... I think a lot of the last scene hinted at that, and it would explain the magnetic, obsessive attraction between Dracula and Agatha... And what the intense stares between them and them being united in the closing shots was all about.
Brilliant comment and I completely agree, I really think even with a similar plot just set in the 1800s that the show would’ve had a stronger ending. The first two episodes were great though. Thanks for checking out the video
Idk in the novel he was really monstrous and not sympathetic in any kind of way. No redemption arch or anything like that, only one line i can remember that alludes to what your talking about is when he told his brides that he too can love again.
I also felt Dracula had attraction towards Agatha, he admired her spirit and that she understood him. Also the last scenes when they suppose to make love and decide to relieve her from the pain was a huge prove that he is indeed had feelings for her. I quit disliked the Lucy part, didn’t see any uniqueness in her...
Dracula is a tragic figure in the book so they captured that well I'm the last scene. I also love how he was unapologetically evil in sound scenes, others still funny . very good actor, I hope you see him again soon.
The ending was ridiculous lol why at the moment he realises his limitations (burning sunlight etc) are bs, would he choose to die? Is that just me? I would of thought he'd then be out in the day messing people up!
I watched the third episode like 5 times and I couldn’t find one thing that was good 😂😂😂 Why didn’t they stop after episode 2? The rest of the show seems to be a whole other show 😅
I know, ep3 was like a completely different show to me. I was so impressed before they supplied Dracula with a laptop and we were supposed to accept he still had a law firm ..and he could just guess the wifi password. Then the Tinder thing 😳 **cringe**
I actually think this version of Dracula was one of the most terrifying I've seen. He is nice and charming even while he is getting ready to kill his prey. They even ask his intent and he never lies. He tells them exactly what he's going to do. It's like he's so powerful he doesn't need to be worried about them escaping or hurting him. He is in perfect control and can afford to be nice even while he has nothing but evil intent.
I guess people forgot Dracula is a immortal man. Ffs people. Dose anyone know how vampirism works? No? I thought the ending was brilliant. Yeah it’s present day, so what? It’s Dracula! A man that’s lived 100s of centuries. That’s amazing.
At the end of episode 2 when it is revealed he slept over 100 years I was like WTF?!?! (in a positive kind) but the third episode was lame and a lot of the characters seemed useless (and soul-less ironically) compared to their respective book counterparts but then the ending was good again. It was a nice demystifying demontage of an otherwise overpowering character. Bang's performance remembered me so much of Ellis's Lucifer, I liked it fit him well but on the other hand, I don't know if I should find it lazy. Nonchalant assholeness with a British slang. Since the German Netflix doesn't show Lucifer I take what I can get :'D
Just finished binging the entire production. I have read Bram's book about 10 times ... and I thoroughly love it. What I found to be most interesting is the fact that the recreation took bits of the book that did not go into extraordinary detail and expanded them to give you a greater understanding, such as what actually transpired when Jonathan found the Convent and what might have taken place on the Demeter during the voyage to England. The first two episodes did hold my attention but it strayed during the last episode but i barrelled through it to find out what happened in the end. All in all, I enjoyed it more than i did not ... the concept of Dracula being a coward is something I never would have thought of and find it a bit presumptuous given the fact that there has never been anything written about why he became a vampire in the first place ....
The idea behind Dracula is someone in his family sold the family lineage to the devil for fame/fortune, etc. I forget what generation he is, but when Dracula is born, the devil possesses him, which is why, in the book, they use consecrated host on the coffin's of dirt that he places around England.
"Left with little options..." No, here is what she should have done: A) Let the sunlight into Draculas cell and burn him to death or B) Just move him to a different location and take his iPad away. I mean, what the hell could the lawyer character do if they did that? Accuse them of either murdering or kidnapping a 500 year old vampire? Do you think the police is gonna take that seriously? Also, they have already covered up multiple murders, it's not like they can't do that.
That iPad thing was infuriating. When they gave him that iPad I was already thinking that this doesn't end well. I mean that camera thing, in the beginning, was infuriating as well, yeah just let yourself get hugged from a guy so that he can take your weapon. That whole episode was infuriating but I liked the ending.
@@andresdiazgu Maybe putting Dracula in the media would be a bad thing, but certainly it's way fucking worse to just let him roam free and kill/infect with impunity, right?
I agree with you. The first 2 episodes had me drawn in, but the time jump really took away from the aesthetic of the show. They definitely could have reached the same conclusion if they stayed in the past and it would have felt a lot more authentic. I did love the scene when he walked into the light and the cross appeared on him.
Maybe it’s because I’ve read too many gothic romances, but I genuinely love the ending and I really do believe he loved her. Here’s what I took away from the ending- Dracula realizes that the things he was afraid of do nothing to him, and therefore if he wanted he could live his life however he pleased. Look at the sun, live in the daylight, etc. However, Agatha’s time had run out. There’s nothing he could do about that, so he made a choice. Either live and continue being cowardly by not dying but be able to live normally, or genuinely heed Agatha’s words and embrace death. 1.) He chose to listen to and agree with Agatha- he, the all powerful Count Dracula listened to the words of this undying nun. Since when has he ever took what other people said into account? 2.) If he didn’t love her in some way, I doubt he’d have chosen to die with her; he could’ve died any other way at a different time 3.) When she was dying he wouldn’t want it to hurt her; this nun that has been trying to kill and control him for hundreds of years at this point-you’d think he’d want it to hurt her lol 4.) Although the love making could be seen as what he had stated literally about not wanting it to hurt (so he made it pleasurable), I really do think it’s something he wanted to do with her. He could’ve chosen any other “pleasurable” or euphoric thing to take the pain away, but no, the dude literally chose to bang her 😂 But the fact she also reciprocated was also sweet, since the “dreams” he gives people have shown that the people still retain free will and aren’t controlled by him, it means it’s something she chose to do with him too. Overall, I loved this and will definitely be rewatching in the future. Sure, the 3rd episode went a little wonky with the club people, but I didn’t mind it much honestly
i loved it. however, if it was just called "Dracula's Guest" and solely took place between Harker and Dracula, I would've screamed 10/10. I'm a dracula nut and I guage based on 2 criteria: A: is it faithful to the novel? and B: If it isnt, how clever can you get? I give this 8 out of 10. However, I give Coppola's 9/10 for the costumes and (more or less) linear following of the novel. One thing stands out about this that non other has, though...we got to spend a considerable amount of time in the creepy ass corridors of Castle Dracula!
She supposed to be undead after Dracula killed her. Undead couldn't be killed by drowning. I hoped she would become a vampire too and ready to destroy him. But, nope, it was just Zoe... Like, yeah, Agatha basically took her body but that's not the same
Hmm. I must be in the minority here. While it did become disjointed from Episode 3 onwards it still managed to keep my attention. Yes, even the Lucy storyline held fascination for me because I liked her one friend. He called Lucy on her b.s. He was the only one that did. 😂 But at least he lived to see another day. 😉 I thought the name Renfield was a nice touch. Made me laugh. And the fact that Dracula hired that particular law firm in 1896?! Anyway, we had no idea it was a mini-series. Hell, I had no interest in seeing it but there was a particular scene in Episode 1 that reeled me in. The ending had us both going WTF?! That's it? We want more! But we did enjoy it overall. I give it a 9/10. And part of the reason for that high score was the acting. Damn!
Sadly its heritage became a curse to the Dracula adaptations (Mina being the reincarnation of Dracula's love). Just for kicks I'd like for Jonathan to be it in one adaptation.
Yeah, Bram Stoker’s Dracula is still my favorite adaptation of the book as well. It takes LOTS of liberties with the source material but it’s still somehow the most faithful imo. We STILL see it’s influence almost 30 years later. Mina is now regularly a reincarnated lost love. The old to young Dracula thing rarely showed up until then. There’s just SO many things that stand out in that adaptation too. The production design, the costumes, most of the performances are great or at the very least campy fun, and Dracula’s Devil/Dragon muscle armor is still sooooo cool.
The first two episodes were PHENOMENAL! It’s as if the last episode was written by completely different writers who had no idea what they were doing 😭 it could’ve gone so well!
I actually enjoyed all the twist they threw in....it made this version unique...especially the last episode when its finally reveal that most of the myths about him are wrong..it was all in his head
I don't know what you didn't like about time jump to modern times, but I loved it. At the end of episode two I was thinking "that would soooo amazing if it turns out to be Dracula in modern times, but no, it's too crazy, they wouldn't do it" - but they did! The episode 3 is completely different, but amazing and very smart
cam george I believe procreate in Dracula terms means he is trying to reproduce the formula that makes him the way he is. Jonathan was able to hold on to his soul and after feeding he would have become a “bride” able to reproduce/procreate as well therefore continuing the cycle of vampires. The third episode does become illogical though. If all of Dracula’s weaknesses were only myths he started to believe from the memory downloads he’s consumed (which by the way Dracula totally came to the that conclusion already in episode 2 while talking to Agatha on the boat deck) why did LW burst into flames after being stabbed in the heart with a wooden stake?
Man, this was Decent... and I stress Decent as a Dracula story in the first two ... but when that MoFo used the iPad to call a lawyer from a secure military base and got out, I lost it. Not to mention he guessed the wifi password and used skype and was on tinder ordering up food... What the hell happened in episode 3 lol
I absolutely love episode 1 & 2. I thought the acting was very convincing n Dracula was creepy AF but then episode 3 happened and it is just so out of left field. like dafuq did I just watched? I'm still confused... but I still think people should solely watch it for the first two episodes though, it was truly atmospheric and you never feel safe when he is around. I love that.
I liked the ending a lot. -It does the same as Sherlock, in a way, by seeing the difference in attitudes of these characters while adapting them to the 21st century -it was also interesting to see the way Dracula views and interacts with the modern world -it served as a reference to Dracula AD as well, which I think is neat, sharing both the modern setting and the Van Helsing descendant plot point
I don't know if its just me but dies vampires have rights? I mean zoe could make a strong argument about he can't have ''human rights'' and not release him i want some thoughts
It did seem a weak plot point that the institute planned for the possibility of Dracula’s return for 123 yrs to contain and study him only to immediately release him the minute a lawyer turns up and mentions his ‘rights’. He’s an undead monster who kills people and they just release him without even keeping tabs on him. Just a convenient plot point I guess but it seems unrealistic. It would’ve been better if he made a load of mist to obscure the mercenary’s view and broke out of the institute or something like that. They didn’t need that Renfield character except to shoehorn in a supporting role for Mark Gatiss.
Yeah I thought the same thing.i'm guessing this was a question of budget, making a trial and stuff would have extended the story at least one more episode. But it would have been great to see someone trying to defend Dracula and say that he is a human
Plot wise, it's explained. Since the category "vampire" was not a socio or legal term, and since the Foundation had no law enforcement sanctioning, they were "kidnapping" Big D. In addition, Big D had just made light on how "rights" were a social weakness, so being released because he has "rights" is supposed to be ironic
Honestly I didn’t really have an issue with the time jump 123 years into the future and thought it would make for an interesting fish out of water type scenario. What I don’t like is how they take away the focus from building a seamlessly interconnected story like the previous two episodes to focusing on completely unlikeable/unbelievable characters. I liked the unchronological order of events that made the audience have to piece events back together in order to get the full picture. The third episode lost all the tension and atmosphere that was built upon in episodes 1 and 2. I think the thing that ruined the finale of the show was definitely all the social commentary it tried to make which in some cases it worked brilliantly such as the humans have no rights dialogue from Dracula and the privileged nature of most of our society today, but it’s when they delve into completely unrelated topics for far too long whilst forgetting it’s suppose to be telling the story of Dracula. Episode 3 could’ve worked if we mostly followed Dracula 90% of the time in his trip to discovering the new world he had awoken too. That and Zoe Van Helsing who could be the secondary plot of her trying to hunt down Dracula. I think the teenagers were a total waste of screen time and completely unrelatable. Overall the series almost gets an A+ from me had it not been ruined by the super rushed and cheap nature of the third episode.
I found the time jump really interesting. Also the changed focus from Mina to Lucy. But the main pair was Van Helsing and Dracula. I enjoyed this Mini Series very much.
agreed, except when Dracula turned out to be on quest to invent light..went downhill from there. Same happened here..episode 1& 2 awesome, the whole Lucy arch with Drac on Tinder and riding a treadmill was BS. They could have gone so many places with the Johnathan Harker Institute!
i would love for them to forget episode 3 and continue on with more seasons. i thought that Claes Bang was one of the best dracula’s and i would love for more in this.
He really was incredible. I thought Dolly was great too. Keeping up with him in those scenes could not have been easy but I thought she nailed it. “Doctor Helsing” was waaaaaaay less interesting imo though.
This is exactly what I wanted too , either that or they continued episode 3 the way it started , it seemed promising ! , and I’m not saying I didn’t enjoy the last episode but as a finale it just didn’t do the first two episodes the justice they so definitely deserve !
Lucy's fascination with death was not properly established. BTW you missed quite a few Easter Eggs! Jonathan Aris, who played the Captain, was also in BBC Sherlock as Anderson. The scene where Dracula is watching the sunrise on the TV is a call back to Interview with the Vampire, where Louis talks about seeing his first sunrise since being turned at a cinema. Lucy's lover is called Quincy - referring to Quincy P Morris, one of Lucy's suitors in the book - he dies helping Jonathan to destroy Dracula, and Jack's surname was Seward, referring to Jack Seward, another of Lucy's suitors in the book. No mention of Arthur Holmwood, unless I missed it, he was the one who was engaged to Lucy in the book. Also Mark Gatiss's character was called Renfield, who was the clerk who originally went to visit Dracula and came back insane - he was one of Dr Seward's patients. And also in the book, after Lucy is buried, there are news reports of small children going missing. When police questioned local children, they talked about a 'bloofer lady' who led them away - Lucy was rising from the grave each night and feeding on small children. The children were all from the poorest families or orphans and pronounced 'beautiful' as 'bloofer'. Did anyone else spot any others? I do agree the time jump into the modern period was very jarring. I did laugh at Dracula figuring out the wifi password. But overall I liked it.
I loved this 3parter I think the actor playing Dracula was amazing he honoured Christopher Lee in the portrait watching it at points felt like a hammer horror not a dog it’s a wolf
there was another reference to doctor who when van helsing said to captain «- you frowning? - how do you know that? - it's audible» the same dialogue was between doctor and river in husbands of river song, which steven moffat wrote
Since reading Stoker's novel, I've seen it as a love story. The BBC movies' ending, though a bit sketchy, confirms my point. Dracula says something like, "Did you think after all this time I would let it hurt?" That seems more a statement on his ongoing contact with this person who has taken such interest in him . I wish they had explored Dracula as a human and put him in a real fight with his animalistic tendencies and his human side.
I actually really liked all three. I wiuld have watch it without the time jump but it was really interesting and unlike anything Ive see in a while. Very well written and executed.
1st 2 episodes were incredible, a great alteration for a (let's face it) drag of a novel - speeding everything up by 100mph. The actors for Dracula and Van Helsing (her twist of being a nun was excellently done) were bloody incredible considering Dracula isn't even English (making his very occasional mistakes in the accent forgivable) brilliant comedic timing yet sinister at all the right moments. Dracula and Van Helsing's actors chemistry was very evident so every scene with the 2 of them was a joy to watch. 1st episode was a mysterious, suspenseful thrill ride ending in a darkly comical blood orgy. 2nd episode heightened the tension more with a great "whodunnit" (except the audience certainly knows who "dunnit"). Very Alien-vibes and great characters developed. Then the 3rd episode twist happened. No. I think it had potential. I was willing to give this twist a chance - the twists by then were fantastic. I was interested to see where they took it. Well it was a pile of horse dung. Cheap jokes about "old guy in today's times", bizarre and underdeveloped writing for Harker's descendent, and a very strange plot line overall. We didn't want twilight with a middle aged man and a 20 year old. We wanted a bit more John Harker, a few more witty lines of dialogue between Dracula and Helsing and potentially a different ending than the book. Fucking hell Moffatt you had this project by the balls why did you cock it up so badly.
I thought the time jump could have worked if he wasn't released from the Harker Foundation so fast. I was really fascinated with that place and wanted to learn more about that they had been up to for so long. And that they teased that the students would get to study and question Dracula it had a Silence of the Lambs feel that I thought could have been real interesting. It could have been a place to expand upon his past, how he became who he was and fleshed out Van Helsing's final discovery and understanding of Dracula. I couldn't swallow that leap of reasoning she took at the end because we never even saw anything about his life before becoming a vampire, only one brief line he delivered about being a warrior. First two episode were definitely excellent. Thanks for the breakdown!
I loved the first two episodes, and really loved how Dracula was Portrayed as a remorseless predator, to date in my opinion the best Rendering of the character and a vampire in decades this recent trend to humanize Vampires was so goddam annoying. I had no problem with the reimagined story and characters. The third episode almost seemed as though it was filmed by different people Who never saw the first two episodes and had half the budget, the initial scene In the house and conversation with the woman in the kitchen was great then It went downhill, the ending was week / disappointing they should have stuck A little more to the legend and destroy him giving him a monsters death. I agree with your rating of 7 out of 10
Loved it all. Dracula A.D 2020 was a wonderful homage to the poorly written youths of Dracula A.D 1972. Great retelling. A classic that will be remembered and appreciated as a superb piece of work. Like the Count, it's one for the ages.
One possible nod to history I liked in 3 is the fact some people are just undead after they die , I’ve seen videos that suggest the oldest European Vampire lore is that sometimes the dead just got back up, dying wrong was one example or a cause I believe
I liked the time jump. This made the thousand times the story has been told so much more unique and different. It was well written and acted. The Nun was a great character. Loved the interaction between her and Fang Face. As far as the time jump, I loved how amazed he was in the 21st century. He was in awe and thought poor peoples home was a palace. The look on the woman's face when she replied to him that it was a dump. That was funny. I would give Dracula an 8 or 9.
I guess its the style of the creators. You see, if you watch Sherlock or just scroll down the episodes, you can actually notice the same pattern, which is a season with 3 90-min long episodes
What about the other Hammer Horror easter eggs? Zoe's hospital room was AD 72 as in Dracula AD 1972 and when she runs across the table and pulls down the curtains to reveal sunlight at the end exactly as Peter Cushing did in Horror of Dracula?
Good review! Much like everyone else, I agree that the first two episodes were fantastic. The third was a bold choice that probably could've taken a different route. I saw no harm in keeping the entire season leaning on the edge of the 19th century.
Yeah, they just set so much up and I was really invested in Van Helsing, kinda gutted they got rid of her for the finale. I know she was back in visions but it didn’t feel the same.
@@heavyspoilers Exactly! It felt like a completely new season in one episode. There were also a few plot holes that came up - not sure if that was caught on or not. It will be interesting to see what will happen if they go through with a second season.
Lololol oh my goodness, the last 3 minutes I was steadily chanting 'um...what are you doing? What is this?' Til the end when I was unreasonably loud and said 'No! You're better than that dangit!'😂😂 I loved it so so much but like you said that time jump..oof💚💚
Keith Hooper The people who lives there created the industrial revolution. Not a small achievement. The English were revered and respected for their intellect. England today is rapidly becoming a third world shithole.
Top vid m'man, thanks. Did enjoy the BBC Dracula. Your accent is very confusing tho, sounds like N.E. England crossed with a tinge of Australian, is this accurate? :)
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Let me know your thoughts on Dracula and if you spotted any other easter eggs that I missed.
The reference to a Doctor Holmwood, one of the 3 suitors of Lucy.
Dracula and Sister Agatha are sitting in what looks like a wine room- you could claim it is a nod to the real text where he calls one of his victims, Mina, a "bountiful wine press."
Also Dracula states, " what did you want me to do for 4 weeks, sit in a box?" Which, in the book he travels in a box of his earth on the Demeter.
Hellsing ova the best
Lord of Shadows game
Co-creator, Mark Gatiss extended cameo as Dracula's modern-day lawyer's name as Renfield - a reference to his fly-eating human familiar in the 1931 Lugosi 'Dracula'. I don't recall if the character is in the original book.
from america, i enjoyed everything but the club stuff. overall nice miniseries. i did enjoy the ending.
Can you explain what his "brides" are to him cus he called Jonathan his bride brides but said he was trying to reproduce with them.
I do understand he sees them as experiments and as you said he's not having sex with anyone so what the hell 🤷♂️🤷♀️
By far the best thing about this series was the interactions between Dracula and Van Helsing. Claes Bang, and Dolly Wells knock it out of the park.
Dolly Wells was incredible. Where did she come from? I hope we Americans will see more of her.
@@healinggrounds19 best known in Uk for comedy series" doll.and.em" she wrote with her best friend Emily Mortimer,you are welcome
Yes and the twist of making her a formidable and sexy female opponent made their clashes even more fantastic.
I've never shipped a pair of characters so hard. It was intense.
@@squishynoodle311 oh no my dear, it is absolutely not just you...
Third episode was meh but the first two were brilliant! Also, we need more of Claes Bang as Dracula, he was outstanding!
Omg I love him as Drácula, it was the best of the show
For me, I loved the show but thought claes bang was doing a tom Ellis impression
kevin sweeney I have to disagree with u there, his performance was much more subtle and sophisticated (in my opinion) than Tom Ellis’ rather cheesy on the nose performance.
Yeah he was incredible, really wish they’d just kept it in the past and slowly worked towards the present over a couple of seasons
@@Elnont Not saying he wasn't good I'm just saying close your eyes and your listening to Lucifer I'm so sick of hearing the same English accent (that doesn't actually exist) on screen.
After the time jump, it felt like Lucifer.
How?
Aren't they one in the same? Coincidence the sun seems to be his final resting place? Pretty hot there, although someone else I know loves the Son. GOD Bless!!!
Two reasons why the time jump was inevitable:
1) Moffat got to Moffat.
Moffat always eventfully goes into “clever mode” which leads to ideas like this.
2) Expenses.
It’s cheaper to set things on modern day than have to build the set and costumes for a period piece. Apparently, the budget was all spent on the first two parts.
Yeah kinda get the feeling he thought his own vision was more important than the core story that’s been around for decades which ended up derailing it slightly
@@heavyspoilers And what happened with the Harker Institute? Did they just give up? Armed mercenaries and fortified lairs but gosh dang those pesky laws we gotta obey. And they've obviously got everything well prepared to confine and study the Count, but they're just going to wait for him to walk ashore and surrender?
I knew Moffat would Moffat eventually. I like that he at least slightly followed the novel, not like the complete and utter travesty of Sherlock S4
The BBC does so many period pieces though, so there should be sets and costumes available. It's cheaper to do alteration to costumes than to create them from scratch.
At the start of the third episode I just tought "Oh no...it got moffated." The police showing up at the beach, that's such a BBCisch thing to do and I'm not even british to recognize that.
Once Dracula started swiping through Tinder, I thought to myself, “Oh...I see. Dracula is going to get Herpes in this episode. That’s different!”.
🤣 brilliant!
@@damu1814 which is type 1 simplex herpes virus
Damn that burn would roast even Dracula.
Fuck that came out so corney, im almost proud.
Hahahaha. Thats so funny!
I was fine with the time jump but felt like more episodes were needed to really explore the new characters and further develop Dracula and Hellsing's relationship.
Never have I been so gripped and then so utterly disappointed in the same day
Dylan Hawkins did you not watch the last episode of game of thrones? 🤣
Will there be season 2?
CoSo Design he said in the same day
Is it just me, or did anyone else feel lost the instant they introduced the young clubbing social media obsessed crew? It felt like they wasted way too much time trying to make us relate to the two young characters and over the course of the long period of the night club scene I was asking myself, "Am I watching the same show?" I loved the ending of the first episode in the convent and the entire time on the ship Demeter. I'll admit I even enjoyed the very brief ending of the second episode with the time jump where Dracula is shown on the beach at night surrounded by helicopters and mercenaries and he meets Agatha's heir. They should have ended it right there and I would have been totally fine.
He actually wanted to help Helsing die peacefully and without pain to. I thought right at the end it was pretty good to be honest.
The first 2 eps were sooo good that even after disliking the 3rd ep I still want to like it and want ppl to watch it.
I feel exactly the same. Although, for me, the third episode let down the brilliant first two, there's no way I'm going to let it spoil my overall enjoyment of this series.
Same here. I LOVED the first episode. It felt genuinely scary and they did something new and interesting with the source material without throwing it out the window. I really dug episode 2 as well. I didn’t expect to like the Arthur Conan Doyle/ Agatha Christie bottle thing but it worked. I even liked the Lord Ruthven cameo. Then episode 3 happens. As soon as that spotlight hit him I was like “aw man, really?!”. I really really don’t think the time jump worked. However, I still want ppl to watch it if only to have ppl talking about it.
Completely lost me on episode 3
Are we going to have a 4th episode ?
@@aspecsof1 I love the series. The episode 3 felt like a different tone but the ending...was something brilliant
I didn't mind the ending and thought that the series over all was great. Maybe instead of 2020 as the major time jump, they could have done the 1960's or 1970's. It would have still kept a period feel and dialogue while updating the setting. It would have also had this undertone off the sexual revolution and entering the later half of the 20th century. I didn't mind that they used the same actress for Zoe but maybe they could have used someone that looked very similar to her; that way it wasn't so much Dracula recognizing Zoe/Agatha but the Van Helsing blood. I also see what they did there, A to Z.
That would’ve been interesting. It also kind of reminds me of Kim Newman’s Anno Dracula book series which is always a good thing.
You should be writing for shows. Your idea is amazing.
@@TheMrKeats I'm debating about doing a FF rewrite of Episode 3, I would keep it in 2020 though. Just because my reference is there and I already am thinking of some things that would be fun to write. Although, it would be fun to see Dracula watching Dark Shadows on TV instead of the elephants...
@@eventingirl001 please let me know how it goes.
You're vision for a 60-70's era already had me hooked. If you do a modern day FF, I'm sure I'd be fascinated and I would be engulfed in the story.
I like how Dracula ended but not how it got there with episode 3. But any ending you give it... I'm sure it'll be great.
Man that would’ve been really good.
I couldn’t stand the time jump and the modern characters didn’t feel real
I could have dealt with a time jump in perhaps a following season and if the writing in the jumps was competent. What we got in episode three was largely shit writing.
@@kennethfharkin yes! Have him in the past for the first season and modern time in the second season. The writing WAS absolute shit! I felt like I was watching some dumb fan made show. And the stupid scenes with teenagers was totally unnecessary and unwanted☹
Besides the first 2 episodes, big let down
Yes, I wish they kept the third act more like the book, it's got all the main cast comming back together while Dracula terrorizes england
Same, Lucy and the emotionally-challenged 20somethings made me hate them...I was kind of cheering Dracula on to kill them😂Claes Bang and Dolly Wells were great as Drac and van Helsing
The last scene had me crying.
"Did you think I would let it hurt?"
Crying from laughter?
I didn't get it which is why I am watching this lol
Episode 1 was really really good. Episode 2 was unreal. Episode 3 was pretty terrible.
Yeah, really wish they’d stuck the landing tbh, thanks for checking out the video
sound like all netflex show... rush production.. concept good enough to get finance.. and just ended since they alredy got the money....
@@campkira I think this was BBC driven, it certainly felt like it.
@@heavyspoilers They didn't just fail to stick the landing, they launched off the uneven bars after a perfect performance, flying uncontrolled into the audience and killing multiple spectators.
Totally agree
Claes Bang reminded me of the handsome and glamorously classical actors of England and Hollywood. They don't make them like that anymore. I felt like I was watching a reincarnation of Christopher Lee. Very exciting! I could see this guy in remakes of the old Hammer movies.
YES!
Why would a secret research lab protected by Mercenaries let a random lawyer guy into the facility!?
You asume that the lawyer was "random" and just walked in?
He explains that his firm have been protecting dracula since the 1800s or something like that
He also says that its not a crime to be more than 100 years old. Its tricky but its explained
The third episode was shitty but I did like the ending. It was poetic
Yes, agree with that.
Completely agree with the time jump, ruined what the first 2 episodes had built on. Would have been better sticking to victoria England for the final episode.
TimmoUK you are right we already have so many shows and movies set in modern times. 3 episode is a total buzzkill.
Agree. The episode 2 was kinda unfinished. I didn't understand the part where they were playing chess and yet all of a sudden they sank the ship.
Like what??
I was expecting that they will survive.
That's how they arrived at that old castle and play chess. Damn. Episode 3 ruined the progress.
The kid in the graveyard reminded me of the gas mask zombie child in Doctor Who
This mini series was absolutely brilliant. I feel like they tried to make him more like Tom Ellis Lucifer though lol
The way he dresses and how he acts is the same way. I couldnt stop myself from comparing them.
THATS EXACTLY WHAT I THOUGHT...like an older vampire Lucifer
Well, they did refer to him as the devil quite a lot in the first episode, didn't they. 😀 Gotta look the part!
Kirsty Smith yes I thought the same. I really enjoyed this mini series version of Dracula. I love Lucifer tv series and Dracula had a very similar humor about him. But the third episode did kind of sink it a little., I felt it lost all the darkness which is Dracula. But still overall I was okay with it.
He really remembered me the whole time of Lucifer.
I feel like the time jump was meant to start world building for future monster stories set in modern times.. The Jonathan Harkin Foundation being the core
Really good theory, kinda did get Mummy bribers from it just wish they’d set some up
@@heavyspoilers He ain't dead. Undead can't commit suicide.
🤔 @1boredom2strikes3 very good point. Forgot that fact. Not sure I would enjoy more episodes set in present day though. I did not like the time jump.
@@jurnee2cre8 Not a fan of the time jump either..
@@1boredom2strikes3 and will zoe/sister agetha live since she drank his blood????
Just finished it and I have to admit I was sceptical but man was this Dracula not only funny, but scary and the unique blend of dark humor and horror was spot on to me . The new van helsing and Dracula dynamic was great the chemistry was awesome and I love how with the humor they break the 4th wall it was great
Dolly was amazing as van helsing!
Yup! Totally. After Dracula himself she was the best written and best acted character.
She did a good job but I didn’t agree with the gender swap.
@@BG-gr6vc isn't she like the supposed descendant of the og Van Helsing.
Albin Baiju if she is they never covered that. Dracula wasn’t aware of anyone of that name that came before her by what he said or what was shown.
Like many said, we want a spin-off with her!
Spoiler:
Episode 3 downfall:
• Dracula gets hold of a tablet and gets a lawyer?? (Even guessing the wifi password smh)
• The fast paced interest of Lucy as Dracula’s bride (which we don’t care, I was applauding her body being cremated *LOL*)
• Dracula drank the tainted blood in an act of self inflict/suicide (didn’t episode 1 explained that the undead couldn’t pass on in an act of suicide?).
Saving grace is the performance between Dracula and Agatha/Zoe. The banter and delivery between these two are phenomenal.
I think he meant by staking himself XD I agree to the first two but the third felt like it fit well to the dramatic ending
The "WiFi password is Dracula" joke is supposed to be funny but it just makes you question the intelligence of anyone involved in that project, why did they even get him a tablet that had a wifi access in the first place?
@@AdrianCelsiusTepes
They hired noobs and did not expect him to learn to use that shit. No need for any deep intellectual analysis of it.
I think there was a lot more going on in this version and some of it should have been more logically developed...it's like there was a huge potential in this version and it needed a really senior script editor to sort some of it out. Cos I agree that the last episode descended in terms of quality for the large part. Too many rushed in references, too much time spent on inane nightclub scenes and sudden young characters which ruined the pacing and left the plot too meandering.
I do think there was a lot going on between Dracula and Agatha themselves at the end, and the whole notion of his inability to love or maybe admit real love to himself. I've always thought there was a strong element of that in the original novel, and why Dracula was afraid of the Cross...God is love and all that... I think a lot of the last scene hinted at that, and it would explain the magnetic, obsessive attraction between Dracula and Agatha... And what the intense stares between them and them being united in the closing shots was all about.
Brilliant comment and I completely agree, I really think even with a similar plot just set in the 1800s that the show would’ve had a stronger ending. The first two episodes were great though. Thanks for checking out the video
Idk in the novel he was really monstrous and not sympathetic in any kind of way. No redemption arch or anything like that, only one line i can remember that alludes to what your talking about is when he told his brides that he too can love again.
I also felt Dracula had attraction towards Agatha, he admired her spirit and that she understood him. Also the last scenes when they suppose to make love and decide to relieve her from the pain was a huge prove that he is indeed had feelings for her. I quit disliked the Lucy part, didn’t see any uniqueness in her...
Dracula is a tragic figure in the book so they captured that well I'm the last scene. I also love how he was unapologetically evil in sound scenes, others still funny . very good actor, I hope you see him again soon.
I’ve never liked vampires in modern day and never will
Yeah, really loses the gothic setting when they’re brought to the present
Dusk till dawn was the only movie that could pull off modern vampers
Blade? From dusk till dawn maybe?
The Lost Boys and From Dusk til Dawn and Near Dark. All from the 80s.
Dusk till dawn was 90’s
I just watched Count Dracula swiping on Tinder WTF
Looooool
lol, sucking girls dry is so easy in 21st centruary
@@denisblack9897 Not just girls, Count Dracula totally tried to make a man his "bride" in the first episode! xD
The first two episodes are great.
The third one is pretty lame, especially the very ending.
My feelings EXACTLY
I agree
The ending was ridiculous lol why at the moment he realises his limitations (burning sunlight etc) are bs, would he choose to die? Is that just me? I would of thought he'd then be out in the day messing people up!
Mottahead the ending is terrible and doesn’t feel true to the character.
Warrior Princess exactly, the ending was like wtf? The Dracula we got to know would have been outside in the sun, f*cking $hit up lol
I watched the third episode like 5 times and I couldn’t find one thing that was good 😂😂😂
Why didn’t they stop after episode 2?
The rest of the show seems to be a whole other show 😅
Yeah just took such a sharp left turn with the time jump, real shame Cos it was so good up until then. Thanks for checking out the video
budget...alsoooo i think Lucy's death is good. How they died is good. It ended well for me XD
The fact that he gets out of it by Skyping with a lawyer really broke the tone of the series. It just seems way too silly compared to the rest
Red Ginger Especially the crematorium scene 😂 I loved the irony that Lucy ended up being as ugly on the outside as she is on the inside 😅
Adrian Tepes That’s right... they completely ruined the entire show in that point :(
Best thing for me about this was the performance of Dolly Wells. Not an actress I knew anything about before but she was perfect in the part.
As soon as the lawyer showed up I was like "aight imma head out"
I still watched the last episodes but skipped most of it.
I know, ep3 was like a completely different show to me. I was so impressed before they supplied Dracula with a laptop and we were supposed to accept he still had a law firm ..and he could just guess the wifi password. Then the Tinder thing 😳 **cringe**
leonsky yup
Absolutely agree. I was out!
I actually think this version of Dracula was one of the most terrifying I've seen. He is nice and charming even while he is getting ready to kill his prey. They even ask his intent and he never lies. He tells them exactly what he's going to do. It's like he's so powerful he doesn't need to be worried about them escaping or hurting him. He is in perfect control and can afford to be nice even while he has nothing but evil intent.
I guess people forgot Dracula is a immortal man. Ffs people. Dose anyone know how vampirism works? No? I thought the ending was brilliant. Yeah it’s present day, so what? It’s Dracula! A man that’s lived 100s of centuries. That’s amazing.
At the end of episode 2 when it is revealed he slept over 100 years I was like WTF?!?! (in a positive kind) but the third episode was lame and a lot of the characters seemed useless (and soul-less ironically) compared to their respective book counterparts but then the ending was good again. It was a nice demystifying demontage of an otherwise overpowering character. Bang's performance remembered me so much of Ellis's Lucifer, I liked it fit him well but on the other hand, I don't know if I should find it lazy. Nonchalant assholeness with a British slang. Since the German Netflix doesn't show Lucifer I take what I can get :'D
They gave him an ipad. That’s when the show started to suck.
I liked the last episode. I thought it was hilarious!
Just finished binging the entire production. I have read Bram's book about 10 times ... and I thoroughly love it. What I found to be most interesting is the fact that the recreation took bits of the book that did not go into extraordinary detail and expanded them to give you a greater understanding, such as what actually transpired when Jonathan found the Convent and what might have taken place on the Demeter during the voyage to England. The first two episodes did hold my attention but it strayed during the last episode but i barrelled through it to find out what happened in the end. All in all, I enjoyed it more than i did not ... the concept of Dracula being a coward is something I never would have thought of and find it a bit presumptuous given the fact that there has never been anything written about why he became a vampire in the first place ....
The idea behind Dracula is someone in his family sold the family lineage to the devil for fame/fortune, etc. I forget what generation he is, but when Dracula is born, the devil possesses him, which is why, in the book, they use consecrated host on the coffin's of dirt that he places around England.
Absolutely loved first two episodes ..the final was a bit drawn out. We wanted Dracula in more scenes. I still overall really enjoyed it.
"Left with little options..."
No, here is what she should have done: A) Let the sunlight into Draculas cell and burn him to death or B) Just move him to a different location and take his iPad away. I mean, what the hell could the lawyer character do if they did that? Accuse them of either murdering or kidnapping a 500 year old vampire? Do you think the police is gonna take that seriously? Also, they have already covered up multiple murders, it's not like they can't do that.
Exactly! It just ended up ridiculous and like the whole plot point died.
i think that they did that, to avoid putting Dracula in the media. It's better if humanity believes it's just a myth.
All good ideas but all the intelligent writers were off on a bender I assume leaving only Moffet to come up with the crap in this episode.
That iPad thing was infuriating. When they gave him that iPad I was already thinking that this doesn't end well. I mean that camera thing, in the beginning, was infuriating as well, yeah just let yourself get hugged from a guy so that he can take your weapon. That whole episode was infuriating but I liked the ending.
@@andresdiazgu Maybe putting Dracula in the media would be a bad thing, but certainly it's way fucking worse to just let him roam free and kill/infect with impunity, right?
I agree with you. The first 2 episodes had me drawn in, but the time jump really took away from the aesthetic of the show. They definitely could have reached the same conclusion if they stayed in the past and it would have felt a lot more authentic. I did love the scene when he walked into the light and the cross appeared on him.
The ending was like a man telling a woman yeah hang on for the wild ride and he blows it first stroke! Rolls over into a sleeping coma!!
I feel exactly how you do about this. First 2 episodes were great, 3rd was bad but overall I liked it more than I didn’t.
I'm just saying the ending of the third episode was amazing, I loved especially that ending line
"After all this time, did you think I'd let it hurt?"
Maybe it’s because I’ve read too many gothic romances, but I genuinely love the ending and I really do believe he loved her. Here’s what I took away from the ending- Dracula realizes that the things he was afraid of do nothing to him, and therefore if he wanted he could live his life however he pleased. Look at the sun, live in the daylight, etc. However, Agatha’s time had run out. There’s nothing he could do about that, so he made a choice. Either live and continue being cowardly by not dying but be able to live normally, or genuinely heed Agatha’s words and embrace death. 1.) He chose to listen to and agree with Agatha- he, the all powerful Count Dracula listened to the words of this undying nun. Since when has he ever took what other people said into account? 2.)
If he didn’t love her in some way, I doubt he’d have chosen to die with her; he could’ve died any other way at a different time 3.) When she was dying he wouldn’t want it to hurt her; this nun that has been trying to kill and control him for hundreds of years at this point-you’d think he’d want it to hurt her lol 4.) Although the love making could be seen as what he had stated literally about not wanting it to hurt (so he made it pleasurable), I really do think it’s something he wanted to do with her. He could’ve chosen any other “pleasurable” or euphoric thing to take the pain away, but no, the dude literally chose to bang her 😂 But the fact she also reciprocated was also sweet, since the “dreams” he gives people have shown that the people still retain free will and aren’t controlled by him, it means it’s something she chose to do with him too. Overall, I loved this and will definitely be rewatching in the future. Sure, the 3rd episode went a little wonky with the club people, but I didn’t mind it much honestly
Wait his ship sunk in a fire and he got revived in modern time? Is this show just a giant JoJo reference?
I thought it was Jason Vorheees so maybe depends on the type of films we watch
He stayed underwater 123 years. Then did a World War Z ocean floor walk to reinvention
How did his clothes stay pristine in that long time in the water lol
@@AozoraZz never under estimate the dark arts
So a huge time skip takes place 🤔
i loved it. however, if it was just called "Dracula's Guest" and solely took place between Harker and Dracula, I would've screamed 10/10.
I'm a dracula nut and I guage based on 2 criteria: A: is it faithful to the novel? and B: If it isnt, how clever can you get?
I give this 8 out of 10. However, I give Coppola's 9/10 for the costumes and (more or less) linear following of the novel.
One thing stands out about this that non other has, though...we got to spend a considerable amount of time in the creepy ass corridors of Castle Dracula!
Thanks for dropping a review
I'd prefer if they didn't do the time jump and just had the death scene happen with Agatha, not Zoe. His chemistry with Agatha was 🔥🔥🔥
She supposed to be undead after Dracula killed her. Undead couldn't be killed by drowning. I hoped she would become a vampire too and ready to destroy him. But, nope, it was just Zoe... Like, yeah, Agatha basically took her body but that's not the same
Hmm. I must be in the minority here. While it did become disjointed from Episode 3 onwards it still managed to keep my attention. Yes, even the Lucy storyline held fascination for me because I liked her one friend. He called Lucy on her b.s. He was the only one that did. 😂 But at least he lived to see another day. 😉 I thought the name Renfield was a nice touch. Made me laugh. And the fact that Dracula hired that particular law firm in 1896?! Anyway, we had no idea it was a mini-series. Hell, I had no interest in seeing it but there was a particular scene in Episode 1 that reeled me in. The ending had us both going WTF?! That's it? We want more! But we did enjoy it overall. I give it a 9/10. And part of the reason for that high score was the acting. Damn!
The law firm he hired was Harker. That’s why Harker came there
Bram stokers Dracula is a masterpiece 😎
Is that the ‘92 version? If so that takes a lot of liberties too but overall Gary Oldman helps cover a lot of plot holes as he is so good.
Sadly its heritage became a curse to the Dracula adaptations (Mina being the reincarnation of Dracula's love). Just for kicks I'd like for Jonathan to be it in one adaptation.
Yeah, Bram Stoker’s Dracula is still my favorite adaptation of the book as well. It takes LOTS of liberties with the source material but it’s still somehow the most faithful imo. We STILL see it’s influence almost 30 years later. Mina is now regularly a reincarnated lost love. The old to young Dracula thing rarely showed up until then. There’s just SO many things that stand out in that adaptation too. The production design, the costumes, most of the performances are great or at the very least campy fun, and Dracula’s Devil/Dragon muscle armor is still sooooo cool.
Rohit das Watch Dracula: Dead and Loving It
Kevin McCusker Thought he was referencing the 90’s version as that was the name was it not?
The first two episodes were PHENOMENAL! It’s as if the last episode was written by completely different writers who had no idea what they were doing 😭 it could’ve gone so well!
I actually enjoyed all the twist they threw in....it made this version unique...especially the last episode when its finally reveal that most of the myths about him are wrong..it was all in his head
Yuuuuppppp
lol What is up with Steven Moffat always screwing up endings for his shows LOL
Dracula's character reminded me of Lucifer's character minus the empathy.
I think, they picked the correct actor, since he looks similar to Christopher Lee's version (which is the best, by the way).
I liked it very much
I don't know what you didn't like about time jump to modern times, but I loved it. At the end of episode two I was thinking "that would soooo amazing if it turns out to be Dracula in modern times, but no, it's too crazy, they wouldn't do it" - but they did! The episode 3 is completely different, but amazing and very smart
I totally agree with you, very smart!!!!!!!
Thank you!
Been waiting for this upload.
Thanks for checking out the video
Couldn't agree more, I think the nose dive of episode three, was only saved by the devilishly charming dialog between the two main characters
Did we forget dracula wanted johnathan to be his bride so hes pretty ok with going both ways.
@Penny for my thot exactly or did he want to use john to make more like him. More vamps that held on to themselves.
cam george I believe procreate in Dracula terms means he is trying to reproduce the formula that makes him the way he is. Jonathan was able to hold on to his soul and after feeding he would have become a “bride” able to reproduce/procreate as well therefore continuing the cycle of vampires.
The third episode does become illogical though. If all of Dracula’s weaknesses were only myths he started to believe from the memory downloads he’s consumed (which by the way Dracula totally came to the that conclusion already in episode 2 while talking to Agatha on the boat deck) why did LW burst into flames after being stabbed in the heart with a wooden stake?
@@blaqu3b3auty absolutely agree on the point relating Dracula's "bride" :) Strange that most people don't get it.
@@blaqu3b3auty 1. because LW is of Dracula blood so all the fears were passed on. 2. because LW believed that the stake would kill her.
I mean they never said a stake to the heart wouldn't kill him, just that the sun and cross stuff was balogna?
I got goosebumps when he yelled van helsing
Man, this was Decent... and I stress Decent as a Dracula story in the first two ... but when that MoFo used the iPad to call a lawyer from a secure military base and got out, I lost it. Not to mention he guessed the wifi password and used skype and was on tinder ordering up food...
What the hell happened in episode 3 lol
I absolutely love episode 1 & 2. I thought the acting was very convincing n Dracula was creepy AF but then episode 3 happened and it is just so out of left field. like dafuq did I just watched? I'm still confused... but I still think people should solely watch it for the first two episodes though, it was truly atmospheric and you never feel safe when he is around. I love that.
I liked the ending a lot.
-It does the same as Sherlock, in a way, by seeing the difference in attitudes of these characters while adapting them to the 21st century
-it was also interesting to see the way Dracula views and interacts with the modern world
-it served as a reference to Dracula AD as well, which I think is neat, sharing both the modern setting and the Van Helsing descendant plot point
I don't know if its just me but dies vampires have rights? I mean zoe could make a strong argument about he can't have ''human rights'' and not release him i want some thoughts
Agreed how can the undead have rights ? After even Dracula himself stated he didn't believe in rights
It did seem a weak plot point that the institute planned for the possibility of Dracula’s return for 123 yrs to contain and study him only to immediately release him the minute a lawyer turns up and mentions his ‘rights’. He’s an undead monster who kills people and they just release him without even keeping tabs on him. Just a convenient plot point I guess but it seems unrealistic. It would’ve been better if he made a load of mist to obscure the mercenary’s view and broke out of the institute or something like that. They didn’t need that Renfield character except to shoehorn in a supporting role for Mark Gatiss.
Yeah I thought the same thing.i'm guessing this was a question of budget, making a trial and stuff would have extended the story at least one more episode. But it would have been great to see someone trying to defend Dracula and say that he is a human
Plot wise, it's explained. Since the category "vampire" was not a socio or legal term, and since the Foundation had no law enforcement sanctioning, they were "kidnapping" Big D. In addition, Big D had just made light on how "rights" were a social weakness, so being released because he has "rights" is supposed to be ironic
Honestly I didn’t really have an issue with the time jump 123 years into the future and thought it would make for an interesting fish out of water type scenario. What I don’t like is how they take away the focus from building a seamlessly interconnected story like the previous two episodes to focusing on completely unlikeable/unbelievable characters. I liked the unchronological order of events that made the audience have to piece events back together in order to get the full picture. The third episode lost all the tension and atmosphere that was built upon in episodes 1 and 2. I think the thing that ruined the finale of the show was definitely all the social commentary it tried to make which in some cases it worked brilliantly such as the humans have no rights dialogue from Dracula and the privileged nature of most of our society today, but it’s when they delve into completely unrelated topics for far too long whilst forgetting it’s suppose to be telling the story of Dracula. Episode 3 could’ve worked if we mostly followed Dracula 90% of the time in his trip to discovering the new world he had awoken too. That and Zoe Van Helsing who could be the secondary plot of her trying to hunt down Dracula. I think the teenagers were a total waste of screen time and completely unrelatable. Overall the series almost gets an A+ from me had it not been ruined by the super rushed and cheap nature of the third episode.
I found the time jump really interesting. Also the changed focus from Mina to Lucy. But the main pair was Van Helsing and Dracula. I enjoyed this Mini Series very much.
I really enjoyed this take on Drac! Wish more interpretations of these stories made.
Dracula series with Jonathan Reese Myers was a masterpiece IMO...
agreed, except when Dracula turned out to be on quest to invent light..went downhill from there. Same happened here..episode 1& 2 awesome, the whole Lucy arch with Drac on Tinder and riding a treadmill was BS. They could have gone so many places with the Johnathan Harker Institute!
What was the name of it? Where can i find it?
@@willisix2554 It's called "Dracula" NBC aired it.
Only one season
Jonathan Reese Myers.
I would say Walmart or Amazon
Imagine if Dracula faced the Unseen Elder, he’d get obliterated.
Only the version of dracula that was in this show.. Besides, dracula was the first vampire to live.. Unseen elder would just bow down to him.
Razer jesus man
Think your comments pretty much sums it up .... you nailed it
i would love for them to forget episode 3 and continue on with more seasons. i thought that Claes Bang was one of the best dracula’s and i would love for more in this.
He really was incredible. I thought Dolly was great too. Keeping up with him in those scenes could not have been easy but I thought she nailed it. “Doctor Helsing” was waaaaaaay less interesting imo though.
Stefan Filipovits i agree
This is exactly what I wanted too , either that or they continued episode 3 the way it started , it seemed promising ! , and I’m not saying I didn’t enjoy the last episode but as a finale it just didn’t do the first two episodes the justice they so definitely deserve !
Lucy's fascination with death was not properly established. BTW you missed quite a few Easter Eggs! Jonathan Aris, who played the Captain, was also in BBC Sherlock as Anderson. The scene where Dracula is watching the sunrise on the TV is a call back to Interview with the Vampire, where Louis talks about seeing his first sunrise since being turned at a cinema. Lucy's lover is called Quincy - referring to Quincy P Morris, one of Lucy's suitors in the book - he dies helping Jonathan to destroy Dracula, and Jack's surname was Seward, referring to Jack Seward, another of Lucy's suitors in the book. No mention of Arthur Holmwood, unless I missed it, he was the one who was engaged to Lucy in the book. Also Mark Gatiss's character was called Renfield, who was the clerk who originally went to visit Dracula and came back insane - he was one of Dr Seward's patients. And also in the book, after Lucy is buried, there are news reports of small children going missing. When police questioned local children, they talked about a 'bloofer lady' who led them away - Lucy was rising from the grave each night and feeding on small children. The children were all from the poorest families or orphans and pronounced 'beautiful' as 'bloofer'. Did anyone else spot any others?
I do agree the time jump into the modern period was very jarring. I did laugh at Dracula figuring out the wifi password. But overall I liked it.
I think im the only one who actually liked the three episodes. 💙
I rolled my eyes when I saw they did a time jump. But, I wound up liking it. Overall, it was fantastic.
It was great
The way of the time jump was fantastic. Shocked mexD
I loved them all too but hated the ending.
I didn’t really like ep1 and 2 I liked 3
Good content. I like the easter eggs. Keep it up! New subscriber here
I loved this 3parter I think the actor playing Dracula was amazing he honoured Christopher Lee in the portrait watching it at points felt like a hammer horror not a dog it’s a wolf
there was another reference to doctor who when van helsing said to captain «- you frowning? - how do you know that? - it's audible» the same dialogue was between doctor and river in husbands of river song, which steven moffat wrote
Cool incarnation of Dracula.
Since reading Stoker's novel, I've seen it as a love story. The BBC movies' ending, though a bit sketchy, confirms my point. Dracula says something like, "Did you think after all this time I would let it hurt?" That seems more a statement on his ongoing contact with this person who has taken such interest in him . I wish they had explored Dracula as a human and put him in a real fight with his animalistic tendencies and his human side.
I actually really liked all three. I wiuld have watch it without the time jump but it was really interesting and unlike anything Ive see in a while. Very well written and executed.
1st 2 episodes were incredible, a great alteration for a (let's face it) drag of a novel - speeding everything up by 100mph. The actors for Dracula and Van Helsing (her twist of being a nun was excellently done) were bloody incredible considering Dracula isn't even English (making his very occasional mistakes in the accent forgivable) brilliant comedic timing yet sinister at all the right moments. Dracula and Van Helsing's actors chemistry was very evident so every scene with the 2 of them was a joy to watch.
1st episode was a mysterious, suspenseful thrill ride ending in a darkly comical blood orgy.
2nd episode heightened the tension more with a great "whodunnit" (except the audience certainly knows who "dunnit"). Very Alien-vibes and great characters developed.
Then the 3rd episode twist happened.
No. I think it had potential. I was willing to give this twist a chance - the twists by then were fantastic. I was interested to see where they took it.
Well it was a pile of horse dung. Cheap jokes about "old guy in today's times", bizarre and underdeveloped writing for Harker's descendent, and a very strange plot line overall.
We didn't want twilight with a middle aged man and a 20 year old. We wanted a bit more John Harker, a few more witty lines of dialogue between Dracula and Helsing and potentially a different ending than the book.
Fucking hell Moffatt you had this project by the balls why did you cock it up so badly.
Awesome job
Thank you!
@@heavyspoilers your welcome
I thought the time jump could have worked if he wasn't released from the Harker Foundation so fast. I was really fascinated with that place and wanted to learn more about that they had been up to for so long. And that they teased that the students would get to study and question Dracula it had a Silence of the Lambs feel that I thought could have been real interesting. It could have been a place to expand upon his past, how he became who he was and fleshed out Van Helsing's final discovery and understanding of Dracula. I couldn't swallow that leap of reasoning she took at the end because we never even saw anything about his life before becoming a vampire, only one brief line he delivered about being a warrior. First two episode were definitely excellent. Thanks for the breakdown!
I loved the first two episodes, and really loved how Dracula was
Portrayed as a remorseless predator, to date in my opinion the best
Rendering of the character and a vampire in decades this recent trend
to humanize Vampires was so goddam annoying.
I had no problem with the reimagined story and characters.
The third episode almost seemed as though it was filmed by different people
Who never saw the first two episodes and had half the budget, the initial scene
In the house and conversation with the woman in the kitchen was great then
It went downhill, the ending was week / disappointing they should have stuck
A little more to the legend and destroy him giving him a monsters death.
I agree with your rating of 7 out of 10
Paul you've grown so much! I forgot all about your little anime character and your alter ego Definition 😅
I legit thought the Jonathan Harker Foundation was going to be revealed to be a section of Torchwood at the end. I'd have been okay with that.
Thanks for posting this. I could not stay awake watching the show.
I think if they extended it and eased into the future rather than trying to do too much too fast the ending would not have been so bad.
Your review nailed it. Thanks
Fair review, agree with pretty much everything there.
Thank you
Loved it all. Dracula A.D 2020 was a wonderful homage to the poorly written youths of Dracula A.D 1972. Great retelling. A classic that will be remembered and appreciated as a superb piece of work. Like the Count, it's one for the ages.
I was into this and was disappointed cause it only has 3 episodes but the ending was ok fully.made.sense
One possible nod to history I liked in 3 is the fact some people are just undead after they die , I’ve seen videos that suggest the oldest European Vampire lore is that sometimes the dead just got back up, dying wrong was one example or a cause I believe
Honestly Netflix should have done a live action Gargoyles,Alice madness returns, wolf among us, Captain planet or Freakazoid(Dexter Douglas ) Series!
Michael Brent i ship it all
This was done by BBC not netflix
Alice Madness Returns is my source of happiness xD a show about it would be great!
I liked the time jump. This made the thousand times the story has been told so much more unique and different. It was well written and acted. The Nun was a great character. Loved the interaction between her and Fang Face. As far as the time jump, I loved how amazed he was in the 21st century. He was in awe and thought poor peoples home was a palace. The look on the woman's face when she replied to him that it was a dump. That was funny. I would give Dracula an 8 or 9.
I enjoyed the show, but I'm wondering why it's called "season 1" when he kills himself in the end. Also, a three episode "season?"
I guess its the style of the creators. You see, if you watch Sherlock or just scroll down the episodes, you can actually notice the same pattern, which is a season with 3 90-min long episodes
I mean it's like you're really getting a 6 episode season with how long the episodes are
Undead can't kill themselves..... =)
1boredom2strikes3 Although he knew Zoeys blood would kill him, does it count as offing yourself?
Saruno Kamisama it’s the same as drinking poison. He knew beforehand that he’s die if he drank the blood of a dying person. So yes, it was suicide.
What about the other Hammer Horror easter eggs? Zoe's hospital room was AD 72 as in Dracula AD 1972 and when she runs across the table and pulls down the curtains to reveal sunlight at the end exactly as Peter Cushing did in Horror of Dracula?
Good review! Much like everyone else, I agree that the first two episodes were fantastic. The third was a bold choice that probably could've taken a different route. I saw no harm in keeping the entire season leaning on the edge of the 19th century.
Yeah, they just set so much up and I was really invested in Van Helsing, kinda gutted they got rid of her for the finale. I know she was back in visions but it didn’t feel the same.
@@heavyspoilers Exactly! It felt like a completely new season in one episode. There were also a few plot holes that came up - not sure if that was caught on or not. It will be interesting to see what will happen if they go through with a second season.
Lololol oh my goodness, the last 3 minutes I was steadily chanting 'um...what are you doing? What is this?' Til the end when I was unreasonably loud and said 'No! You're better than that dangit!'😂😂 I loved it so so much but like you said that time jump..oof💚💚
I just couldn’t stop laughing at the line that he’s moving to England for sophisticated intelligent “food” 🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣😭
It was believed in those days. That the smartest people live there p
Keith Hooper The people who lives there created the industrial revolution. Not a small achievement. The English were revered and respected for their intellect.
England today is rapidly becoming a third world shithole.
Top vid m'man, thanks. Did enjoy the BBC Dracula. Your accent is very confusing tho, sounds like N.E. England crossed with a tinge of Australian, is this accurate? :)
The middle episode was the best out of the the 3 parts
Have being looking for a channel that doesnt mind spoiling a show so it can explain some things...thank you...subscribed...
Loved their take on dracula binged it in a night
Dracula being at the bottom of the sea kinda reminded me of Dio from Jojo’s Bizarre adventure(if you’re anime fans you’ll know what I’m talking about)
YES AS SOON I SEEN IT I WAS LIKE DIO?!?
Jewell Chastain I literally guessed there would be a time skip when the boat blew up I was like that’s cool