Dracula episode 1 review, Culture Whisper
What need is there for another iteration of the immortal Count Dracula? Haven’t there been enough iconic and terrible versions to deal with? Where else can culture’s best-known vampire possibly go?
Those questions turn to dust as the names of Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, the writers behind Sherlock, are mentioned. Anything they make is automatically worth watching on principle, and their new three-part BBC adaptation of Dracula is no different. Gatiss, especially, is a valuable asset: being a scholar of horror, co-writing the pitch-black comedy The League of Gentlemen, and recently reviving the BBC’s Ghost Story for Christmas.
