Dracula BBC

[MonkeyToesOfDoom]

It's on Netflix so I'm watching it today.

What a crock of crap.
Did anyone like this?

The make up is dreadful, the acting is worse, the story is an abomination. There's nothing likeable or interesting about any of the characters beyond the dodgy beards and wigs.

I thought it was brilliant, campy fun. Witty performances by the two leads. Dracula was sexy. Sister Agatha was a fabulous character. Each to their own, I guess!

I enjoyed the first chapter as it was familiar and relatively true to the book but the modernisation just didn't work imo.

I did like Agatha/Zoe though.

Agatha and Zoe were the best things in it. Everything else was awful.

The third episode, I almost turned it off it was that bad. It was written in such a way as to punish a young woman for having fun.
That boat set in the second episode.. shonky. The captain's beard, looked.like a Smiffys fancy dress beard.

And the writing, sweet zombie jeebus..
"Oh I don't drink... Wine" wink wink.. chortle chortle chortle..
I should have turned it off at that line, saved meself 4hours.

Ooh I loved it, I flooded my pants every time Claus Bang came on screen

I have to say I really liked it too!

I quite liked it, didn't expect to, to be honest.

I though it was trying to be more a mild comedy than serious, though the fly in the eye thing made me gag.

It’s an homage to the book but also the great cannon of Dracula material that already exists, hence lines like ‘I don’t drink ... wine’

Lucy is basically punished for being lascivious and desirable in the book.

As a big fan of the original text plus the campy pop culture that has sprung out of it - I thought it was brilliantly done, with affection, by people who are clearly fans.

Also claes bang is FIT.

Sounds like one of the things I missed in the show was finding Cleas Bang attractive, I didn't, not even a little. He looked like middle aged geography teacher having a midlife crisis by dying his hair and trying to be flashy and cool in a new, oddly designed bachelor pad.
He also desperately needed a manicure for the huge fake as a £3 coin nails.

But, I am glad others got some enjoyment from the show.

Oh I loved it!
But I grew up watching Hammer films,which are,I think,just brilliant.
I thought it was a modern take on Hammer.

Loved Sister Agatha and thought Claes B's performance was good in the circumstances.

Agree he is not hot though. And the show itself was long-winded (all that talking!, clever-clever, very unwholesomely interested in long lingering sequences and shots of gore (there was no reason plot or drama wise to show Lucy in her coffin in the incinerator). Basically the worst excesses of Moffat and his giant ego, with Mark Gatiss (who I don't dislike) being indulged to the point where his admirable knowledge of and love for the horror genre just became a gigantic bore.

I loved it. Thought it was well done. Not so keen on the last episode though.

ooh worth it for Claes Bang alone I think!

I really enjoyed it! I'm a huge fan of the book - it's one of my favourite books and enjoyed this adaptation too.

@MonkeyToesOfDoom

Sounds like one of the things I missed in the show was finding Cleas Bang attractive, I didn't, not even a little. He looked like middle aged geography teacher having a midlife crisis by dying his hair and trying to be flashy and cool in a new, oddly designed bachelor pad. He also desperately needed a manicure for the huge fake as a £3 coin nails.

But, I am glad others got some enjoyment from the show.

Good grief are you always such a misery

Good grief are you always such a misery

Yes. Yes I am.

I thought it a load of shite...far too much talking and i got bored in the end. Didn't find Claes Bang attractive in the slightest- awful wishy washy voice which reminded me of Rodney Bewes at times

Thought it was crap. And nothing like the book. the book really isnt meant to be campy, thats just how we are used to seeing it.

I saw it when it was on the BBC and I too loved it. I quite liked all the talking - but then I like Negan talking away in The Walking Dead.

To me it was very enjoyable nonsense

I watched it and enjoyed it up until the last episode when it all fell to pieces as far as I was concerned - Dracula having daddy and mammy issues - what a load of bollox!