Watched the first episode last night, and a few thoughts:

***POSSIBLE SPOILERS AHEAD***


Visually sumptuous, and this first episode sets up some pretty great ideas and themes. I understand that the show goes downhill real fast, so I'm cautious about the next two and letting myself down.

Class Bang is wonderful. You cannot help but compre his portrayal of the decrepit Count during Harker's arrival, to the legendary performance by Gary Oldman. And when compared, Bang is by far the weaker of the two. But still effectively creepy, with some great clever lines.

Agatha kind of steals the show, and is given the most fun part for sure.

There are some chilling visuals. From the opening eye/fly bit, to the people in boxes, to Dracula's INCREDIBLE transformation out of a wolf body...just as much time has been spent on crafting the visuals as the script, and it pays off.

It's really too bad to read that it falls so far so fast, because this new openly bisexual Dracula was a lot of fun.