Dracula

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Anyone tuning in tonight? I'm quite excited!

The woman who had her finger bitten underwater was (I think) the vampire hunter in Being Human.

The thing that bothered me most was Dracula’s fingernails. Once he’d regenerated he was elegant and well groomed - why were his fingernails so grim. He needed a nice manicure

Dracula is one of my most favourite books. I was excited about this, and love a bit of artistic license on classic novels. Loved 1 and 2 - and am thinking 3 is a bit off!

Pile of shite

Episode 1. Promising
Episode 2. Acceptable but going off course
Episode 3. Absolutely shit. No storyline Didn't work at all.

Very very disappointed

Just finished episode 3, what a disappointment. They made Dracula so lame in the end, after being such a good monster for two solid horror stories.

Glad I watched but only really enjoyed the narrative between Agatha and Dracula - too much gore in episode 1&2 that it got boring - Zoe not a patch on Agatha. Lucy ridiculous that he thought she was all that.

Worth it for Agatha and obv Would Bang

I loved it, but I'm quite good at completely going alone with a story line without question. I say that as someone who has studied the novel.

I really liked it, I thought episode 2 was the best though. It was a little cheesy and I get there were plot holes but overall it was an enjoyable watch.

I thought Lucy was a vapid arsehole and her death was quite poetic. Once burned, she realised there was 0 to her except looks and wanted to die for real.

Agatha was brilliant, out-charismaed the Count for sure.

I thought at first that Zoe had tricked him into thinking sunlight couldn't hurt him, (maybe her colleagues outside shining a massive light at his window) I was sure she was going to summon a last bit of strength and push him out the window into blazing sunlight.
Anyway I kind of get that he decided to die. He could 'live' forever, but there had always been a price, rules to obey. He had to live in the shadows, hunt out victims, cover his tracks. Modern living was too easy and unrewarding. I wasn't mad about the ending but enjoyed it overall.

Part of that scene was a homage to Hammer. At the end of the first Hammer Dracula film Peter Cushing as Van Helsing runs along the table , throws himself at the curtains , yanks them down and the sunlight kills Christopher Lees Dracula.

Great TV! The casting for Dracula and Agatha was perfect, and thoroughly enjoyed the humour.

Sounds awful but why wasn't Lucy cremated properly to ashes in an urn?

I queried this on Twitter - surely she should have been just a pile of sentient ashes.

When she went into the incinerator she was finally able to physically move again, so was able to escape from her coffin (luckily it was only wicker) and the incinerator before her body was consumed by the fire.

Comforting to know that the oven door also opens from the inside . . .

yellowsun - that linked article is hilarious! Thanks!

I thought at first that Zoe had tricked him into thinking sunlight couldn't hurt him, (maybe her colleagues outside shining a massive light at his window) I was sure she was going to summon a last bit of strength and push him out the window into blazing sunlight.

Me an' all!

As for the future - I think we need "Dr A Cula (with thanks to yellowsun's article) and Agatha - Timetravelling Crimefighting Duo Beyond the Veil" with the pair of them solving crimes involving ghouls, and bogarts etc

Lots of gore and lots of hilarity and an ocean of simmering unquenched sexual tension.

Well, I'd watch it.

Me too Schaden

They were in Whitby. For those that said why didn't they film in Whitby. That lab is actually filmed at the Whitby museum but it doesn't look the same inside.

I think the nightclub scenes should have been shot in Whitby. I once went to a night club in Whitby and it far exceeded any night I had out in London. It's such a shame that these dramas all have to be based in London.

For me, the big unanswered question is where the Jonathon Harker Institute get their funding. Dracula remarks to Zoe that people who employ mercenaries aren't usually do-gooders and ghost Agatha tells Zoe that she can feel her guilt/shame over the funding (so get off your deathbed and kill Dracula). I think this is a link to a second series and I have a terrible feeling that it will be a Sherlock cross-over. Yes, Moriarty!

The first two episodes were excellent, I was thoroughly enjoying the series, but the third episode was terrible. Shame.

In 3 were the 2 police folk on the beach - the lady one he took the gun from and the man the same 2 who were guarding the outback shack in Doctor who ???