284: Sinking Our Teeth Into Dracula - a podcast by Tara Ariano, Sarah D. Bunting, David T. Cole
from 2020-01-08T10:00
The BBC rolled out Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat's Dracula on New Year's Day; we Yanks endured it over the weekend, and Nick and the panel agree that this grimly joyless take on a careworn narrative needs SOMETHING. A modern-day setting, maybe? Mini bottle eps on every famous personage the Count has eaten? But it just seems like the creators didn't really want to be there...and as a result, we didn't either. Going Around The Dial is more fun, with looks at Dare Me, You, Magic For Humans, Spinning Out, and Dave's tips for pepping up a Frasier rewatch. Then Nick returns us to the cemetery with his Nonac presentation on Buffy's fifth-season premiere. Killing Eve won, Witcher what-about-ers lost, and Steal Meals were flyin' in a very meta Game Time. Stake your claim to 2020's first all-new Extra Hot Great!
SHOW TOPICS
- Dracula
- ATD: Dare Me
- ATD: You
- ATD: Magic For Humans
- ATD: Spinning Out
- ATD: Frasier
- The Canon: Buffy The Vampire Slayer S05.E01: Buffy vs. Dracula
- Winner and Loser of the Week
- Game Time: Televisual Pursuit
SHOW NOTES
- Did British viewers stick around after Night 1 of Dracula?
- Tara's top 10 eps of the decade on Culturally Relevant
- Sarah on why to watch Surviving R. Kelly Part 2: The Reckoning
- Nick Rheinwald-Jones's Safehouse '82
- Nick Rheinwald-Jones's The Pod
- Photo: BBC
DISCUSSION
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