This is a mostly spoiler-free review for all three episodes of Dracula, which is now available to stream on Netflix.
Sherlock creators Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss have taken another stab (stake?) at adapting a classic, this time re-vamping and reshuffling Bram Stoker's Dracula for the modern screen. Tonally, Dracula takes a bit of time to click -- as it tries to blend goofy with ghoulish, sassy with sinister -- but the end result is quite rewarding.
At one point, in the series' most on-the-nose scene, Moffat and Gatiss show their dueling main characters, Count Dracula and whip-smart nun Agatha Van Helsing, playing chess. Truth be told though, the strength of the show lies in their to-and-fro feud and the clever lengths to which they both go to one-up each other. After lawyer Jonathan Harker (John Heffernan) appears, clearly not the man he once was, at a Hungarian convent in 1897, it's off to the races. Van Helsing and Dracula go to war - and it's the mind games that resonate the most.
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