This one would have beaten Mystery and Imagination, and probably the Northern Ballet too, if it had stayed as good as eps 1 and 2 throughout. It also owed a lot to M&I in its take on Jonathan.
It is indeed a bit gory from time to time. I had to turn my head away once or twice when things to do with fingernails came on the screen!
I think my biggest sadness about it is that the weaknesses in episode 3 have given the joyless purists (the one who always judge every adaptation by how precisely it adheres to Stoker's novel, without realising that a wholly straight adaptation would come across as boring and ridiculous to modern audiences) the excuse they needed to pan the whole thing. In fact, episodes 1 and 2 were bold, creative, exciting and well-produced - but it will be hard for people who saw those qualities to defend them now, because the purists can always whip out episode 3 as evidence that the whole thing was rubbish.
Anyway, yeah - if you're a bit unsure anyway, it's probably best to wait until the angsting over it has died down and you can view it with some distance. And to set your expectations low for the final episode!
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It is indeed a bit gory from time to time. I had to turn my head away once or twice when things to do with fingernails came on the screen!
I think my biggest sadness about it is that the weaknesses in episode 3 have given the joyless purists (the one who always judge every adaptation by how precisely it adheres to Stoker's novel, without realising that a wholly straight adaptation would come across as boring and ridiculous to modern audiences) the excuse they needed to pan the whole thing. In fact, episodes 1 and 2 were bold, creative, exciting and well-produced - but it will be hard for people who saw those qualities to defend them now, because the purists can always whip out episode 3 as evidence that the whole thing was rubbish.
Anyway, yeah - if you're a bit unsure anyway, it's probably best to wait until the angsting over it has died down and you can view it with some distance. And to set your expectations low for the final episode!