Fall TV: What worked, what didn't...

[k00kaburra]

This is a follow-up entry to my enthusiastic FALL TV PREMIERES post a few months back.  What shows were worth waiting for?  What series have I already abandoned?  This has been the first time in memory where I have had the time to stay caught up on these shows as they come out, and it's been quite interesting.

I'm still watching...

• Once Upon a Time

Comments

[chacusha]

Oh man, glad to see my initial reaction to Dracula validated. I was reading the book at the time it started airing so I thought I'd check it out (even though reading the original right before watching an adaptation does tend to make me biased against the adaptation, so I was worried that might be a factor here). But... well, I was expecting a bad adaptation at the worst, sure, but instead got an objectively awful show. I couldn't even make it through one whole episode before giving up on it -- it was like 25 minutes of ripping off of The Prestige interspersed with completely pointless conversations. Ugh. So bad.

[k00kaburra]

The only think I liked about this Dracula was the reinvention of Renfield as a sophisticated, polished black man who acts as an extremely capable assistant to Drac. It was a cool twist on his character.

But everything else about the show? MESS.