Netflix’s Dracula was mostly well-received by audiences for its reliance on horror techniques and its charming portrayal of Count Dracula himself. Although season 1 seemed to mark a definitive end to the vampire’s story, there are a few ways showrunners Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss could bring the Count back in a second season.
Each episode of Dracula is a chapter in the vampire’s journey from Transylvania to England. Very few characters are present consistently throughout the series. Instead, Count Dracula (Claes Bang), and Agatha Van Helsing (Dolly Wells) and her descendants are the common line through episodes that mostly introduce completely new settings and characters. Although there are no firm plans for season two, this opens up future episodes to the possibility of time skips or drastic changes of scenery.
Season one, episode three, “The Dark Compass” sees Dracula operating in modern-day London. He is eventually tracked down and defeated by Zoe Van Helsing (Dolly Wells) with the spiritual guidance of Agatha. He drinks Zoe’s blood, which is poisonous to him due to Zoe’s terminal cancer. As the series comes to a close, audiences watch them seemingly die together.
Season 2 Of Netflix’s Dracula Could Be A Prequel
Assuming the Count really did die in that final scene, there is nothing stopping the showrunners from making a second season that focuses on the enigmatic vampire’s origins. After all, Agatha Van Helsing died in episode two, “Blood Vessel”, but the show found a creative way to both keep Dolly Wells’ excellent character acting in Zoe and bring Agatha back. While season one delves into the vampire’s demise, his origins provide an interesting mystery for season two. Although the undead are understood as a natural part of the world in Dracula, the count himself is portrayed as unique. Audiences know how he created vampires, his “brides”, but a second season would allow the showrunners to explore who created Dracula.
Dracula Drank Poisoned Blood, But Can He Really Die?
According to Dracula himself, drinking Zoe’s blood will kill him. But earlier in that scene, Van Helsing proves he’s been wrong before about what can harm him. He avoids crosses not because they actually hold physical power but because of a powerful fear. Up until the moment Van Helsing pulls a heavy curtain off the wall, pouring sunlight onto an unharmed Dracula, he is certain that sunlight would kill him. There is no reason he couldn’t be wrong again. After all, Dracula is the most powerful undead creature around; he is the precedent-setter. Perhaps blood can’t kill, not him anyway. He is the one that sets the “rules of the beast” and he has said many times, “blood is lives.” Not singular, plural.
Netflix’s Dracula Season 2 Could Be About Dracula Reborn
Dracula fears the cross because he is terrified of death and cannot understand someone’s willingness to voluntarily sacrifice their life for others’. However, Dracula himself makes a sacrifice. In drinking Zoe’s blood, he commits an act of mercy, or maybe even love, but also submits himself to death. Analyzing the symbolism behind the cross further, Jesus did not merely sacrifice himself and die forever. He also came back. If Dracula’s storyline follows through on the analogy, Dracula allowing himself die would be the key to his being reborn. Only in submitting to death would he truly conquer it. A second season of Dracula could explore what the vampire does with this power. Is he a changed man, no longer the villain but one who does good, or has he eschewed all vulnerability and is now more powerful than ever?
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