I was rolling my eyes when Dracula and Van Helsing continued their sparring with a literal chess match.)ĭracula and Sister Agatha Van Helsing go toe to toe. (Still, Moffat’s tendency towards self-indulgent cleverness is on display as well. The tension as the two size each other up for the first time is palpable - it’s not quite sexual, but it’s not not sexual either. Near the climax of episode 1, “The Rules of the Beast’’, Sister Agatha opens the convent doors to Dracula, having figured out that he cannot enter a space without an invitation. The series is at its best when Wells and Bang talk circles around each other.
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There’s a playful liveliness to Wells’ Van Helsing that compliments Claes Bang’s undead Count Dracula, who vacillates between suave and animalistic depending on how hungry he is.ĭracula’s first two episodes are full of scenes that fall squarely in Moffat’s strike zone: dialogue that reads as a verbal chess match between a brilliant hero and an equally brilliant villain. The gender reversal (which is revealed about 20 minutes after the audience should have figured it out on their own) doesn’t feel like a stunt in the hands of Doll & Em actress Dolly Wells. While the first two episodes loosely follow the plot of Bram Stoker’s novel, Moffat and Gatiss twist the literature by adding a nun: Agatha Van Helsing, who now goes toe to toe with the vampire overlord. The culprit, though, is not the bite of a vampire, but rather showrunners Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss biting off more than they were willing to chew in the first three episodes, which like Sherlock, play out like three standalone movies.
Like one of the Count’s brides, the BBC/Netflix mini-series Dracula is charming, fun, and sexy - until it’s drained of all life.
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