Damn, I loved all of this, even the last episode. I actually really liked seeing him in the present, although I wish the first season was in the past and the second in the present. No need for any more seasons though, this was a fun well-rounded series and stands good with just 3 episodes.

I loved this too, Claes Bang is amazing once he gets going and Dolly Wells an excellent Van Hesling - enjoy the dark wit and absurdity of it and how it was a very loose adaptation of the book but went in some new ways. I liked how they played Dracula as someone almost amused by his powers and immortality rather than a brooding Lugosi type. The ending was a little off (they couldn’t have made Lucy a less appealing character if they tried) but still I’d love another series.

This proves something what many movies have proved before it ... modernizing Dracula doesn’t work. I guess I shouldn’t say it doesn’t work ... nobody has made it work. There is a route that it could work (e.g., when he was making observations about modern society and what it has done to people) but nobody has struck that yet.

The first two episodes were fantastic. I don’t know who either Dolly Wells or Claes Bang are, but they are dynamite and only get better when you put them together in scenes. I thought the writing was great — clever and respectful of the source material.

Then we get episode three ... uggghhh. It’s as if it was made by completely different people who retained merely parts of the script their predecessors wrote. The modernization could have worked, but the writing was just godawful and sloppy. New characters get no proper introduction nor any consistent characterization and situations get no time to make sense but we keep moving from one set-piece to the next. It was just BAD filmmaking, damned even more by the great episodes that preceded it.

I thought that in typical Moffat fashion, it started great and fell apart in the end. But I'd totally watch a second series if it happened.

When Dracula first came out of the water into the present era and began processing every new thing he encountered you realized that, as an undead that has "lived" multiple lifetimes already, he's used to discovering new technologies and turning them to his needs. The potential there was massive but instead they quickly veered away into club-going socialite nonsense and the real meat of the story became background dressing.

Well he did drink the blood of that driver so he would have the knowledge from her about the tech.

I thought this started off well enough but ended poorly. Maybe they will go back and try to fix Sherlock after this.

True ... they had some great concepts and observations but turned it into a bad Tales From the Crypt episode. Like I said, the writing was just very off (and off-putting) from the tone and style established in the first two episodes.