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Dracula

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Dipsydoodle · 01/01/2020 20:42

Anyone tuning in tonight? I'm quite excited!

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CelebrityDave · 10/01/2020 10:25

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bingbangbing · 10/01/2020 12:50

Peak a boo!

That is keeping me awake at night so I'm sharing the pain

CaveMum · 10/01/2020 13:08

Stephen King tweeted recently that he loved the show - high praise from the master of modern horror.

IntermittentParps · 10/01/2020 14:05

I thought it was all over the place from start to finish and didn’t know if it wanted to be taken as a serious shit-your-pants horror/fascinating mythology/black comedy/spoof. Some of the writing really jarred - ‘I’ve been dying to meet you’, ‘who gave him the Wi-fi password. Oh, it was ‘Dracula’’.

Largely agree with this. It felt like all the ideas Gatiss and Moffatt have/had about Dracula and all the things they wanted to do with it, just all done and put on screen with no editing/filtering/interrogation... Basically, as in (later) Sherlock, they were just allowed to indulge themselves.

The huge monumental set in the Institute was like a sub-Silence of the Lambs boys' fantasy of a secure cell (why are they so obsessed with huge sets that move and glide and open and close?) It's so dull and bathetic to watch, unless you have a Chris Nolan-size budget. And it was undermined by the fact that eventually they just opened the door and people were wandering in and out Grin

The scenes of Lucy burning in her coffin were unnecessarily nasty and I couldn't figure out any purpose to them. At least the gory scenes in Ep1 were a homage to creaky old horror films.

The meeting in a graveyard was going for spooky but I don't think achieved it.

I also didn't get why the big revelation to Agatha/Zoe –that what Dracula was frightened of was death –was a revelation at all. We/she knew from the start that he feared sunlight, the cross etc, which are all things that will destroy him, which means he fears destruction, which means he fears death. Obviously. Confused

The section in Whitby with the woman in bed and the man in the fridge was long and boring and utterly pointless. The big speech about how much stuff people have these days was way too tub-thumping and, like most of the whole effort, unedited and self-indulgent.

SecondaryBurnzzz · 10/01/2020 23:53

It's late so I can't read the whole thread, but what was the shameful secret of the Harker institute, and where did they get all the money from for the mercenaries? I don't think that was answered was it?
I really enjoyed it actually, not perfect, and the Lucy post cremation part was horrible, but it was packed full of detail and interest.

IntermittentParps · 11/01/2020 14:22

what was the shameful secret of the Harker institute, and where did they get all the money from for the mercenaries? I don't think that was answered was it?

No, it was kept deliberately vague. Someone upthread suggested that the vagueness was so that there was a link to a second series, possibly a Sherlock crossover. I'm not sure about that; I think it was just a nod to the general idea of drugs research being shady and funded by dubious means by people with dubious intentions. But we'll see!

CelebrityDave · 11/01/2020 14:39

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Patsypie · 11/01/2020 14:54

Did anyone get Mark Gatiss's crossword clue when he was in the car?! Oh Claes, how I want to Bang thee! 🧛‍♂️

SoupDragon · 11/01/2020 14:58

Even though I've already seen it, and thought it crap, I'm watching the trailers and thinking "This looks amazing!"

CelebrityDave · 11/01/2020 17:51

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DeborahAnnabelToo · 11/01/2020 18:21

Not yet

CelebrityDave · 11/01/2020 18:26

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notstockpilingyet · 12/01/2020 08:32

The Golden Death Dream - it's still reverberating in my mind. Obviously his 'gift' to her in making her death as painless as possible. But as she's drunk his blood - also his dream? In him facing death for the first time, he becomes human and achieves intimacy?
Jesus, I do have a job and a life and everything. I'm not one of those crazy people.
Oh yes I am -

CelebrityDave · 12/01/2020 12:56

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AgentCooper · 12/01/2020 16:43

There are some absolute filth gifs of him on Twitter if you search hashtag claesbang

Not that I’ve been looking.

DeborahAnnabelToo · 12/01/2020 16:52

What, like this you mean? 😇

CelebrityDave · 12/01/2020 18:40

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CelebrityDave · 12/01/2020 19:06

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AgentCooper · 12/01/2020 19:13

Hope this works because this one is 🔥

DeborahAnnabelToo · 12/01/2020 19:14

No, I am here for this @Celebritydave Wink

CelebrityDave · 12/01/2020 19:19

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merismam · 12/01/2020 19:29

His surname is very appropriate Wink.

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