History Series / Dracula2020

It was broadcast on the BBC on three consecutive nights from 1--3 January 2020 was released on Creator/{{Netflix}} the day after the final episode aired.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: [[spoiler: As Renfield so points out, Dracula may be a vampire, but he still has rights. And there's technically nothing illegal about him being over a hundred years old. Besides, they can't prove he's done anything illegal without exposing themselves as well.]]

* ManOfWealthAndTaste: Being a wealthy aristocrat with refined tastes, Dracula certainly comes across as one, when he's not being a CompleteMonster.

* ManOfWealthAndTaste: Being a wealthy aristocrat with refined tastes, Dracula certainly comes across as one, when he's not being a CompeteMonster.

* PlaceboEffect: [[spoiler:sunlight and crossed only have any effect on Dracula because he believes that they do.]]

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* AdaptedOut: Arthur Holmwood is the only major character from the novel to not make an appearance in any form. Other than when Mina teasingly refers to the attractiveness of a ‘Doctor Holmwood’ in the letter Harker reads on his way to Castle Dracula, apparently merging the Holmwood and Seward characters before another version of Seward appears in the modern day.

* AdaptedOut: Arthur Holmwood is the only major character from the novel to not make an appearance in any form. Other than when Mina teasingly refers to the attractiveness on a ‘Doctor Holmwood’ in the letter Harker reads on his way to Castle Dracula, apparently merging the Holmwood and Seward characters before another version of Seward appears in the modern day.

* AdaptedOut: Arthur Holmwood is the only major character from the novel to not make an appearance in any form.

** [[spoiler:Van Helsing changes from an academic to a nun for the first two episodes. Averted in Episode 3 where her descendant Zoe is again a scientist.]]

* AdaptationalNameChange: Abraham Van Helsing becomes [[spoiler:''Agatha'' Van Helsing]].

* CompositeCharacter: This version of Jonathan Harker blends both his original character from the novel and ''[[spoiler: Renfield.]]'' [[spoiler: Curiously, there is a Renfield in the story, but he only serves his traditional role as Dracula's lackey in BroadStrokes, where Harker is the one who becomes something like a Familiar and dies trying to atone for what he's done.]]

* KillEmAll: By the time credits roll in Episode 3 all core female characters in the show are dead.[[spoiler: Agatha Van Helsing dies in 19th century, Zoe Van Helsing dies in 21st century, Mina is left in the past and is dead by the 21st century. Since Lucy dies as well, as she does in the book, it means that in the show no female characters with more or less narrative spotlight on them were left alive. ]]

This series follows Dracula from his origins in Eastern Europe to his battles with Van Helsing's descendants and beyond. Netflix's description reads: "The Count Dracula legend transforms with new tales that flesh out the vampire's gory crimes—and bring his vulnerability into the light."

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** Not to mention that in the last episode, vampire movies are mentioned alongside a few stereotypical vampiric weaknesses. This implies that in the reality of the show, vampire movies seem to exist in a similar way as they do in our real world, which are mostly based on the original Literature/Dracula book and its famous movie adaptions. But at the same time, Dracula and most main characters from the book really exist, some of them living in the 21th century, over one hundred years after the book would have been published.

* ArtisticLicenceLinguistics: Dracula claims to have killed one of the sailors in Episode 2 for his "charming Bavarian accent". While he does learn to speak flawless German from draining the poor sod, it's actually Standard German without the slightest hint of anything resembling Bavarian, and the sailor himself never sounded Bavarian in the first place. [[TranslationCorrection The German dub rectifies this]] by having both characters speak in Bavarian dialect.

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A [[Creator/TheBBC BBC]] [[MiniSeries miniseries]], consisting of three episodes of 90 minutes each, developed by Creator/MarkGatiss and Creator/StevenMoffat. Based on the [[Literature/{{Dracula}} novel of the same name]] by Creator/BramStoker, though the story takes a lot of liberties with the source material. It was broadcast on the BBC on three consecutive nights from 1--3 January 2020 was released on Creator/{{Netflix}} the day after the final episode aired.

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* ArtisticLicenceLinguistics: Dracula claims to have killed one of the sailors in Episode 2 for his "charming Bavarian accent". While he does learn to speak flawless German from draining the poor sod, it's actually High German without the slightest hint of anything resembling Bavarian, and the sailor himself never sounded Bavarian in the first place.

* RealityEnsues: [[spoiler: As Renfield so points out, Dracula may be a vampire, but he still has rights. And there's technically nothing illegal about him being over a hundred years old. Besides, they can't prove he's done anything illegal without exposing themselves as well.]]

A [[Creator/TheBBC BBC]] [[MiniSeries miniseries]], consisting of three episodes of 90 minutes each, developed by Creator/MarkGatiss and Creator/StevenMoffat. Based on the [[Literature/{{Dracula}} novel of the same name]] by Creator/BramStoker, though the story takes a lot of liberties with the source material. It was broadcast on the BBC on three consecutive nights from 1-3 January 2020 was released on Creator/{{Netflix}} the day after the final episode aired.

A [[Creator/TheBBC BBC]] [[MiniSeries miniseries]], consisting of 3 episodes of 1.5 hours each, developed by Creator/MarkGatiss and Creator/StevenMoffat. Based on the [[Literature/{{Dracula}} novel of the same name]] by Creator/BramStoker, though the story takes a lot of liberties with the source material. It was released on Creator/{{Netflix}} on January 4, 2020.