Today over at MSN: my original DRACULA review has been re-purposed, in time for the show's UK debut on Sky Living for Halloween.
Dracula's a tricky property to adapt well because the story and characters are so established, it's hard to do something radical without straying from what people love about the original. I'm not entirely sold on this idea of Dracula as an American inventor plotting to bankrupt energy magnates affiliated with a secret society that entombed him for centuries. But it is a different angle. It gives Dracula a job and position in society, and the show possibly benefits from operating on the level of a cut-throat business drama when the fangs are hidden.
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