From half an hour in, when Bang is unveiled without ageing prosthetics or Transylvanian accent, he’s a hit. Shouldering the Count’s new dramatic weight while making him funny, sexy, menacing and monstrously detached is Danish actor Claes Bang. Wells is the episode’s funniest, oddest ingredient, gets all the best lines and doesn’t waste a single one. Once Dracula arrives at the convent, she’s a co-lead with her own emotional arc. Interviewing solicitor Jonathan Harker about his time with Count Dracula in the first hour, Agatha is a jockey with a whip, urging the plot onwards. Read more: Dracula Series Score is Made From Real Blood and Screaming Babies Doing the asking here is queen of weird comedy Dolly Wells, playing Dutch atheist nun Sister Agatha, full name: Sister Agatha Van Helsing – a late reveal signalled early on by a glimpse of the wooden stakes in the bottom of her carpet bag.
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