Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Buffy vs. Dracula (2000)
Season 5, Episode 1
The Universal Classic Monster's episodes never work.
2 April 2006
Warning: Spoilers
Besides the Oz plot line, there are the failed Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll, and Mummy episodes. But it is the Dracula episode that bothers me the most. The actor that plays Dracula, another pretty boy which Dracula was not, does the same things that everybody else does. He is seductive with his magic stiffening fingers of entrancement and has an indeterminable accent. I have seen Bela Lugosi and you sir are no Bela Lugosi. Xander's Renfield has the same problem, Dwight Frye's legacy is safe from him. For a show that displays such depth and creativity in some episodes, there should be more and the fact that he lives pays too much respect to the character. There is a lot of fun in watching Giles being seduced by the brides, though.

P.S. This is also the episode where Dawn appears. Couldn't the monks have sent Buffy a lamp or a nice yellow jacket?

6 out of 10.
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