Dracula (2020)

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Season 1
  • Network: Netflix
  • Series Premiere Date: Jan 4, 2020
User Score
6.3

Generally favorable reviews- based on 208 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 116 out of 208
  2. Mixed: 36 out of 208
  3. Negative: 56 out of 208

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  1. ThiagoSimoes
    Mar 19, 2020
    0
    Terrible. From the very beginning nothing makes sense and it only gets worse.
  2. silverseb
    Jan 8, 2020
    2
    This is one the stupidiest adaptation of Dracula that i've evere seen.
    The ending is so stupid it is hard for me to express
    A waste of time for the people and a waste of money for BBC
  3. SeussMyTub
    Jan 12, 2020
    2
    Boy, this was a three part limited series, and it went from a promising first episode to a complete crapfest by the third. Ugh, so utterly disappointing. What could have been a good classic tale of Gothic horror comes totally undone by the final act. It's like two different TV shows were mashed together halfway. What a waste.
  4. Deadheadbill
    Jan 6, 2020
    1
    Where to begin? It's just sooo bad. The intended funny scenes are groan inducing. The forced "modern sensibilities" onto a Dracula story are again...groan inducing. There is no sense of Gothic Horror that should accompany any decent telling of the Dracula mythos. Bram Stoker must be rolling in his grave.
  5. Yourmumsbills
    Jan 9, 2020
    0
    I had high hope for this, based on the writers previous work. But sadly this was awful. I'm not sure if this was supposed to be comedic or serious? the writing is all over the place, the acting (from a mostly very talented cast) is really bad and most importantly the main character of Dracula is just ridiculous. I really wish they'd just written some more Sherlock instead of this terrible cr*p.
  6. Yurchik
    Jan 7, 2020
    0
    Van Helsing is a woman... This is a new trend!? Do the main characters is female!? Or I don't understand something!?
  7. HermesRatatoskr
    Jan 6, 2020
    1
    Poorly written, laughably acted and carelessly put together - I have no idea why this dreadful piece of work has impressed so many paid reviewers.
    As is now typical of Netflix (and increasingly the BBC) the show looks like it was made on the cheap and wears its disrespect for its source material as a badge of apparent honour.
    Oh, and please - enough with the sneering at Catholicism, Netflix.
  8. Someguy780
    Jan 5, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. First two episodes where vaguely interesting followed by episode three. Which was the biggest train wreck off a cliff I have seen in a bit. With a weird time skip into modern day and a complete **** the bed ending after I would not recommend this show to anyone.… Expand
  9. GarethB
    Jan 5, 2020
    3
    Starts with a flourish but ends with a whimper. The tale of Dracula has its corpse dragged through the instagram era.
  10. Gnewa
    Jan 6, 2020
    0
    What a pile of junk, all the promise of a great show that just continued to burn to a crisp as the story progressed. Your typical BBC PC bile. Why am I forced to pay this waste of space corporation my hard earned money.
  11. Vl_cz
    Jan 5, 2020
    0
    Первый эпизод был многообещающим, казалось, что сделают сериал по оригинальному произведению. Но потом появились монашки феминистки, негры, геи и прочие прогрессивные темы, которые начали портить впечатление. Третий эпизод - это вообще просто позор какой то, он настолько плох, что затмевает все немногочисленные достоинства сериала.Первый эпизод был многообещающим, казалось, что сделают сериал по оригинальному произведению. Но потом появились монашки феминистки, негры, геи и прочие прогрессивные темы, которые начали портить впечатление. Третий эпизод - это вообще просто позор какой то, он настолько плох, что затмевает все немногочисленные достоинства сериала.
  12. Manolux
    Jan 5, 2020
    1
    Otra producción de Netflix donde la homosexualidad, el feminismo y la inclusión racial son usados; esta vez, para destruir un personaje icono como lo es Dracula.
  13. KGardnerXX
    Jan 4, 2020
    3
    I watched all three of these episodes today I’ve seen the work of Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat many times before on Sherlock and Doctor Who so I was hoping for the same quality of work. But I’m afraid this just doesn’t work.

    It’s hard to describe what I was feeling while watching this. It was painfully dull at times while I was watching a straight forward Dracula horror movie with all    I watched all three of these episodes today I’ve seen the work of Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat many times before on Sherlock and Doctor Who so I was hoping for the same quality of work. But I’m afraid this just doesn’t work.

    It’s hard to describe what I was feeling while watching this. It was painfully dull at times while I was watching a straight forward Dracula horror movie with all the boring bloody scenes while the actor playing Dracula acted suave and glib as he murdered people. I kept feeling that I was watching a movie from ten or twenty years ago. The plot had been changed a bit but it’s still stank of boring writing and boring acting.

    Then I got what I was expecting with all their writing, the inevitable twist. You’ll see it if you bother to watch all the way through, but I guarantee you’ll feel like you’re in an M Night Shyamalan movie, and that’s not a compliment. It was so obvious and inevitable that when it came, I almost didn’t bother to finish it.

    To be clear, I usually love these guys work. I loved Moffat’s run on Doctor Who and Gatiss’ work on Sherlock, but this is too much of the same old thing and it just doesn’t work this time. Instead of new and interesting, you get the feeling of a horse that has gone to the same well once too many times. It’s not new, it’s a gimmick that just makes you roll your eyes.

    So, i know many of you out there will want to watch out of the reputation of these men, but do yourselves a favor and just binge watch some of their old episodes on the fore mentioned shows. It’ll be much better and a lot more fun.    … Expand
  14. OlivierPiel
    Jan 4, 2020
    1
    This is not high-brow artistic musing on romanticism. RIP Nosferatu. Ironic how at the same time Werner Herzog sold himself to Disney Plus to be unceremeniously and anonymously dispatched to an early death...
    The corpse of the BBC is now peddling campy juvenile mercantile entertainment for the masses through Netflix. Plebs and American critics rejoice! 90 on Metacritic! Yeeehheee. It's    This is not high-brow artistic musing on romanticism. RIP Nosferatu. Ironic how at the same time Werner Herzog sold himself to Disney Plus to be unceremeniously and anonymously dispatched to an early death...
    The corpse of the BBC is now peddling campy juvenile mercantile entertainment for the masses through Netflix. Plebs and American critics rejoice! 90 on Metacritic! Yeeehheee. It's higher than Tarkovsky, Antonioni, Resnais or Bergmann....or Herzog's own work.
    It even fails to deliver any real scary moments, going for the lazy cheap dark humor to flatter an audience with an average intellect .    … Expand
  15. R_1974
    Jan 5, 2020
    0
    Grausam schlecht mit viel unfreiwilliger Komik .Anstatt an einer vernünftigen Story zu Arbeiten wurde hier auf die LGBT Keule viel wert gelegt, dafür dürfte die Presse deswegen dann begeistert sein. Immer das gleiche Muster.....Star Wars, Ghostbusters,Witcher etc.
  16. Bencc
    Jan 4, 2020
    3
    After a middling start, it gets continually more and more rediculous. Finally concluding in an outstandingly dissatisfying final episode. The plot is almost non existent, the characters are under developed. Imagine the worst elements of the mofatt Dr who and Sherlock compiled into a three part mini series.
  17. critic_acid
    Jan 5, 2020
    1
    The lifeless corpse of a good idea.

    Just like the many victims of count Dracula, Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss' adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula was dead on arrival but still managed to stagger on for three episodes. Caught between the dead scary thriller and full-blooded campness, 'Dracula' manages to achieve neither. The writing is unimaginative and the jokes repetitive.    The lifeless corpse of a good idea.

    Just like the many victims of count Dracula, Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss' adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula was dead on arrival but still managed to stagger on for three episodes.

    Caught between the dead scary thriller and full-blooded campness, 'Dracula' manages to achieve neither.

    The writing is unimaginative and the jokes repetitive.

    The deaths, of those who fall prey to Dracula, are too frequent and not gory enough, leaving you feeling numb as Dracula quips some variation of "What a pleasure to... EAT you," before taking another victim. Eye-roll!

    And the character of Dracula lacks sex appeal as dose the whole series. Come on people Dracula's meant to be the sexiest of all the monsters!

    The filming is visually is boring. The majority of the mini-series is shot in the same style as Sherlock and struggles to find its own identity.

    While some of the practical effects are genuinely impressive and a nice nod to the genre the moments where they shine through are far too few.

    All in all, a valiant effort to do something different however, the decision to play it safe, not to fully committing to being either a true thriller-horror or an unashamedly camp comedy-horror, makes this a failure and one of the worst offerings by Moffat and Co. so far.

    Perhaps it's time the BBC found some new writing talent instead of trying to endlessly revive the ghosts of past successes.    … Expand
  18. Djigabon
    Jan 5, 2020
    3
    This is how you make a 3 episode series and still make it take forever for anything to happen.
  19. ingiel
    Jan 5, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Sherlock creators has just proven that last two seasons of shelock weren’t an accident. The first two were. It was an accident that they created something good and went to their true selves in the ending of sherlock. Draculas first episode is interesting and great but the second and third are just the worst, boring, ridiculus, badly edited, extremely badly writen. The creators of sherlock should do one thing for the cinema and just retire. Please retire.… Expand
  20. foxgrove
    Feb 2, 2020
    3
    The main problem with this Dracula is that each episode is of a wildly differing quality. Episode 1 is the best but things go down hill from here. Episode 3 is just a crashing bore and not even the charisma from lead actor, Claes Bang, can save it. Some invention, but overall forgettable.
  21. Malwark
    May 5, 2020
    2
    The show is ridden with plot holes, poor character development, forced diversity and just stupid desicions that degraded the whole experience. The actor that plays Dracula is doing a terrific job while the other actors are mediocre at best. The first episode is fantastic in terms of visuals, but even that falls flat in episode 2 and commits suicide on the 3rd.It could have been great butThe show is ridden with plot holes, poor character development, forced diversity and just stupid desicions that degraded the whole experience. The actor that plays Dracula is doing a terrific job while the other actors are mediocre at best. The first episode is fantastic in terms of visuals, but even that falls flat in episode 2 and commits suicide on the 3rd.It could have been great but it is sadly a major insult to the book written by Bram Stoker. There are other adaptions that succed better than this piece of garbage. It does not deserve the ridicously high scores it has sadly recieved.… Expand

Awards & Rankings

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#68 Best TV Season of 2020
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#2 Most Discussed TV Season of 2020
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#8 Most Shared TV Season of 2020

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Metascore
75

Generally favorable reviews - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 8
  3. Negative: 1 out of 8
  1. Salon
    Reviewed by: Melanie McFarland
    Jan 6, 2020
    40
    To call his retelling tedious is understating the problem. ... Laggardly scripting also obscures performances that might otherwise win over the audience. ... [Dolly] Wells’ Agatha is the first episode's saving grace. She gets some of the funniest lines and delivers them with a dry, peppery mien that gives one hope that she’ll survive.
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  2. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Tim Surette
    Jan 6, 2020
    50
    It's a shame that the season finale is awful, because the first episode of Dracula is fanf---ingtastic.
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  3. RogerEbert.com
    Reviewed by: Brian Tallerico
    Jan 6, 2020
    80
    Parts of the premiere's first half are a bit slow and some of the script’s attempts at humor and modern dialogue feel off in terms of tone, but the action really kicks in for the final half-hour in a way that makes it almost impossible for you not to watch another.
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