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Fun, smart, scary and with just the right whiff of ham \u2026 Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss have served up a diabolic luxury\n\nDo you want to have some FUN this Christmastide?\n\nDo you like RIPPING YARNS? Do you think there\u2019s no greater pleasure than a brilliant story brilliantly told?\n\nYou do? Well, have I got good news for you. Which is: BBC One\u2019s new series Dracula is a pure and joyous BELTER. It\u2019s in three parts of 90 glorious minutes each, adapted by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss. And it is basically Sherlock but about Dracula. And peak Sherlock at that: seeking always to entertain the audience, revitalising the story while revelling in its absurdity, clever without being clever-clever, and strewn with comic and dramatic flourishes that give you the feeling that this is not just a treat but a tribute \u2013 to the author, to the season, to you as an intelligent viewer.\n\nIt\u2019s a proper job, is what I\u2019m saying. And that means proper scares. No spoilers, but the one in the [redacted] when the [redacted] suddenly [redacted] had me clinging to the ceiling. I advise parental supervision at all times. My dad was annoyed at having to come over, but needs must when the devil calls and starts emanating from your screen.\n\nEverything you need is here. A dark, unmappable, labyrinthine castle. Gnarled hands resting on balcony ledges, their unseen owner lurking in shadowy recesses. Terrified locals. Bats. Babies crying. Primal fears inescapably roused.\n\nThe story unfolds within two timeframes, the Now and the Then. In the Now, where we begin, a strangely deformed man is being interviewed in a nunnery by Sister Agatha (Dolly Wells) who \u2013 and I\u2019m calling it now \u2013 is quite the best nun of all time, and not just because she has no time at all for God. \u201cLike many women my age I am trapped in a loveless marriage, maintaining appearances for the sake of a roof over my head,\u201d she says briskly. She is investigating the man\u2019s tale of escape from someone he calls Count Dracula. The man\u2019s name is Jonathan Harker and he is played by John Heffernan with the same utter conviction brought to the story by the rest of the cast via a script and direction that are all refreshingly devoid of any shred of cynicism. You may point, as apparent disproof of my assertion, to Sister Agatha\u2019s response to Harker\u2019s failure to realise the significance of an SOS message written in English in the heart of eastern Europe: \u201cYou are an English man,\u201d she explains. \u201cA combination of presumptions beyond compare.\u201d But you would be wrong. She is simply a truth-teller, unfettered by convention. This is quite different. Also, top nunning. I will brook no riposte.\n\nHarker was brought by a fisherman to the nunnery, having been found washed up on the banks of a nearby river muttering about forces of evil. He looks a half-formed thing \u2013 bald and white and smooth, a cross between Voldemort and Ryan Reynolds\u2019 irradiated Deadpool \u2013 as well, it turns out, he might.\n\nRelated: Claes Bang on playing a sexy Dracula: 'He's insatiable \u2013 and not just for blood!'\n\nHarker is a lawyer who was sent to talk a mysterious client through some legal issues at his castle. That\u2019s the Then. The client is an unsettling, old, old man with a \u2013 Transylvanian, is it? \u2013 accent who says exactly the things you want an old, old man with a Transylvanian accent and an unmappable castle to say. Things such as \u201cI don\u2019t drink \u2026 wine\u201d, and \u201cThe people around here have no flavour\u201d. \u201cPerhaps you mean \u2018character\u2019?\u201d suggests Harker gently. \u201cPerhaps,\u201d replies the old, old man. When asked if there is anyone else living in the place, he replies \u201cNo. There\u2019s no one \u2026 living here.\u201d It is around this point that you find your bum wriggling its way more firmly into the sofa.\n\nThe client takes a shine to him, and so Harker must stay. His health fails, he gets weaker by the day \u2013 but the years fall away from Dracula until he stands revealed as Danish actor Claes Bang, embodying exactly the wolfish charm and diabolic spirit you love to see in a prince \u2026 wait, what am I saying?! The prince of darkness.\n\nIt\u2019s a bloodstained love letter to a classic, beautifully and delicately scented with just the faintest hint of ham gothic yarns need; a homage to all the great Counts who have gone before, but still entirely its own thing. And again, like the best of Gatiss and Moffat\u2019s Sherlocks, with the searching intelligence that promises to flesh out the foundational story. 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