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Dracula: The Series
S01E03 The Vampire Solution
Dracula: The Series remembers that it is a low budget show
about kids fighting Dracula and it isn’t afraid to be pretty silly yet with a
slightly dark edge. Case in point, The Vampire Solution, this story has Uncle
Gustav and a friend creating a potion that can supposedly cure vampirism. They
accidentally switch the drink with an energy drink that belongs to Max and then
they promptly get bitten and start to become vampires. Max, on the other hand,
drinks the potion and gets the power to shoot anti-vampire lighting from his
hands.
The episode is all kinds of ridiculous yet it still does a
few interesting things. It is revealed that a single bite from a vampire can
turn someone into the undead which ups Dracula’s threat immensely. There is an unexpected
betrayal that could have blossomed into an interesting villain had things not
been wrapped up so neatly. The story also does not forget that there is an
anti-vampire cross in Gustav’s house, so it is nice to see a world-building and
continuity.
Fans of late-night TV imported from Canada with also spot Geraint
Wyn Davies here playing Klaus Helsing, a vampire lackey of Dracula. Geraint
would go on to bigger vampire fame in Forever Knight as Nick Knight, vampire
detective.
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