Okay, I’m calling it quits.


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After a brief hiatus Dracula is back. Okay.


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Yeah, I’m still watching, even though my favourite thing about this show is the costumes and the set design. That beautiful white crypt! The candle-lit restaurant! The gleaming solarium! As for the rest, there are a few characters that I’m intrigued by, but the storyline continues to underwhelm. I’m not entirely sure what I’m supposed to want from ( Read more... )

I feel a bit out of sync with other viewers for this episode, as most seem to be claiming that the show has just turned a corner, whereas I'm still in the region of "meh." It's not that it's bad, but I'm still not particularly gripped and the myriad of little subplots are beginning to get tedious. When is vengeance going to start raining down? That ( Read more... )

So having watched this episode, does anyone else get the sneaking suspicion that what these writers really want is for this show to be about Lady Jane? So far she's completely dominating these episodes (especially this one), generally coming across as an older, tougher Victorian version of Buffy: she's blonde, kickass, aggressive, sleeps with ( Read more... )

This will be the fourth rather lukewarm review I've given to one of my current TV shows in the last five days, which isn't a particularly good feeling, especially after such the excellent run of entertainment I've been enjoying lately. But the latest episodes of The White Queen, Once Upon a Time in Wonderland and (don't kill me; it was to a much ( Read more... )

This was a fairly solid follow-up to the pilot episode, though the tone is turning out to be not quite what I expected. Based on the trailers and promotional pictures, I thought this take on Dracula would put a campy and bombastic spin on the original story, but as this episode demonstrated, it’s actually fair more restrained and talky than I ( Read more... )

So I watched the first episode of NBC’s Dracula last night, and it was pretty much exactly what I was expecting. Which isn’t a bad thing, but isn’t necessarily a good thing either. I got the production values that I wanted: beautiful cinematography, costumes, art direction and set design all adding up to pure Gothic eye-candy, but there were ( Read more... )

I have returned! After what feels like a lifetime (even though it was less than a week) my computer has returned from the shop with its glitches worked out. I wasn't able to access my internet, apparently because Norton Antivirus was squabbling with AVG and terminally slowing things down.

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Close on the heels of each other, we get promotional posters for both The Legend of Korra and Dracula. Take a look...

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