comicswhore Honestly this show was amazing. Jonathan Rhys Meyers did a fantastic job of portraying Dracula and they seamlessly incorporated some of the features from the book into his character. The show was also very well written, with plenty of suspense, mystery and chemistry between the characters. The cinematography, costumes and set design was breathtaking as well. I watched when it aired and was recently thinking back on it when I was watching a different vampire flick. Obviously, I'm not alone in my fandom, as this is a 7+/10 on the review scale here. It's such a shame NBC ignored that and canceled it without even giving a second season or more closure to the story. I was so disappointed that I haven't watched any NBC shows ever since. So in conclusion, I highly recommend this series- but just to warn you, at the end of the one and only season, you'll be bummed there isn't more to come.

theromanempire-1 this was different take from the usual Dracula movies we used to know as the actor who played Dracula no matter how good he is he was not a real Dracula at all.no matter the series were very good captivating with beautiful women and ravishing scenery, passion, love stories and a little bite from time to time.not essentially horror....more a drama series involving...Dracula.the actress who played MINA was ravishing and will keep you wanting more.plot story was decent and most episodes were never boring but unfortunately the series were canceled and the end left open a lot of matters so if we don't get season 2 the ending will leave you unsatisfied.IF U ARE A Dracula FAN WATCH THIS SERIES BUT EXPECT SMG DIFFERENT THAN WHAT U USUALLY GET WATCHING OLDER TRADITIONAL Dracula HORROR FILMS BUT IF U GIVE IT A CHANCE U WILL LIKE IT A LOT IF U ARE ALSO IN TO DRAMA FILMS USING HORROR ELEMENTS.the only real flaw is the actor who played Dracula......HE IS NOT Dracula.My grade // B

Philip Mackenzie This series had me hooked from the dramatic beginning in the crypt What I like is the different take on one of horrors great characters A very complex character emerges with a lot of vengeful feelings but also very compassionate in his dealings with the women he is embroiled with he does not turn every women he meets int a vampire at all preferring they return their feelings from their own free will.The characters develop each episode all with a story told as to why and what they are doing at the present With Dracula A man with no discernible past but no doubt a wealthy industrial entrepreneur adds some interesting story lines in his quest for revenge against an equally dangerous human organisation,Hellbent on worldwide domination through the control of various assets such as oil etc they do not like competition Watch it you will actually end up liking Dracula maybe

TdSmth5 Alexander Grayson, Dracula, arrives in London sometime in the late 1800s/early 1900s. He's rich, an entrepreneur and inventor, but pretends to be American. Helping him is his faithful sidekick Renfield. He's a huge black American lawyer. We learn more about his relationship to Grayson and how they came to join forces. Grayson is after the lovely Mina. She's engaged to some third rate journalist named Harker. Grayson needs someone to tell him all the secrets of English high society, so he hires Harker--mainly to get close to Mina. He aims to get involved with these snobby bigshots because most of them make up the Order of the Dragon. It's this order that killed Dracula's girl way back when in Romania--a girl who looks exactly like Mina. To undermine the order, Grayson seduces one of their main huntresses, who senses a powerful vampire is in town. The order uses seers who can tell where there are vampires then eliminates them. But it takes them a while to come to the realization that it's not just any powerful vampire who has arrived but Dracula himself.Also helping Grayson is Van Helsing, a professor of medicine and teacher of Mina. He's helping Grayson because the order also eliminated his family and he's after revenge. Van Helsing is working on a remedy so that Dracula can tolerate sunlight and he does make some progress in that regard.Grayson is working on a major scientific project--to provide affordable geomagnetic energy to all. That would put the powerful petroleum companies out of business, companies made up of members of the order. Through their connections they are trying to ruin Grayson's endeavors.The issues that will work themselves out through season 1 are: - Grayson's relationship with Mina - Grayson's power source invention - the eventual confrontation with the order - Grayson's cure to the aversion to light - Harker's relationship to Grayson - Van Helsing's unfinished business with the order's main guy, Browning.After years of heaping abuse on the legacy of the story and fans of the genre, finally with this series, they get it right. Dracula is stylish, classy, beautiful, intriguing. The settings in Europe are magnificent. Jessica De Gouw is gorgeous and lovely. I can't blame Dracula for going crazy for her. A shame the people behind Arrow can't find more use for her. Most of the cast is also impressive. The political, secret-society, scientific aspect of the show is pretty awesome. They could easily have gone for a far simpler setup but chose to make the story rich and fascinating instead.It's not all perfect. Jonathan Rhys Meyers is kinda small to be Dracula. And his character at times isn't all that likable; he tends to get abusive with the people who support him the most. Oliver Jackson-Cohen doesn't convince entirely either. The vampire angle doesn't get enough attention. The few vampire scenes there are, are cool and gory. The love business gets too much attention, but it is handled for the most part very well, I must say.Despite these minor problems, Dracula remains serious, engaging, and fun and is one the best shows of the year.