Steven Moffat's 'Dracula' is a Confusing, Chaotic Mess

Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss's new Netflix series Dracula is not just bad - which it is - it's also deeply disappointing. It's bad because it's a poorly put together string of stories with little vision, no tonal consistency, questionable gender politics, and a narrative that ultimately doesn't go anywhere. It's disappointing on top of all that because it seems to believe that the best way to tell the story of Dracula is simply to become Sherlock.

Don't get me wrong, Moffat and Gatiss's previous collaboration, which brought the Great Detective into the present day and gave us three seasons of great television alongside a fourth we'll never mention again, is worth emulating in a lot of ways. But there are times, particualrly as Dracula goes on, that it feels like a beat for beat renactment of Sherlock, with the slight differnces being it's set in period Translyvania and the lead character is a literal monster who drinks blood.

Or is he?