Raising the stakes: the 25 best vampire TV shows, ranked
See where the likes of Buffy, True Blood, and Interview With The Vampire land in our killer countdown
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Clockwise from bottom left: Castlevania (Netflix); What We Do In The Shadows (FX); Buffy The Vampire Slayer (Getty Images / Handout); Midnight Mass (Netflix); Interview With The Vampire (Larry Horricks/AMC) Graphic: The A.V. Club
Vampires might have experienced an explosion in popularity in the mid-2000s, but they’ve always been lurking in the darkness. From the vampy (and campy) 1960s soap opera Dark Shadows to modern series like Interview With The Vampire (which is in the midst of its second season), the genre just won’t die. And luckily, there’s something for everyone: True Blood boasts steamy romance, Preacher gets violent AF, and What We Do In The Shadows has one of the best comedic ensembles going. Here are our 25 favorite vampire shows. Dig in.
This list originally published in October 2023. It was updated in May 2024.
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While Buffy was groundbreaking in many ways, it didn’t connect with me because I found Buffy whiny and insufferable. I preferred the other characters by far. I do consider Angel to be the superior series because Angel’s arc is more interesting.
I agree that Angel (the series) is better, but Angel (the character) is also quite insufferable. Imo, lead characters are seldom the most interesting ones.
Also , Boreanaz was a decent actor , but that ‘Irish ‘ accent he had to do in flashbacks …ouch.
And he was even married to an Irishwoman at the time! You’d think she’d either have helped improve his accent or at least tell David not to try.
To be fair, David Boreanaz gave an Irish accent a shot but when they had that episode where everyone was ‘rewound’ to their past selves before they’d met (and in Angel’s case before he was a vampire), they had enough self-awareness to have him wondering why he didn’t sound Irish anymore and American instead. They gave it a shot and decided not to return to that well!
Buffy was ‘that show Entertainment Weekly raved about’, which when it finally made its way to the other side of The Pond I thought “it’s okay I guess”. It was a fun show and I mostly liked the characters, but I didn’t feel it was anything special.Like you I preferred Angel, which laughably was originally shown on Channel 4 at 6pm cut to shreds. Then got shunted off to a late night slot, where it was allowed to show all the vampire biting stuff (and blood).
I remember watching it on Sky rather than Channel 4 , which was fairly uncut .I vaguely remember someone at the time saying that the two shows related to different points in peoples lives , Buffy was teenagerdom , Angel was early twenties and moving out , finding your place in the world etc.. which is probably why I just couldn’t be bothered with Buffy , but watched Angel back then.
I think Sky had first run rights, then Channel 4 aired about a year later. Still amusing that Channel 4 actually thought 6pm was a suitable slot for it.
Not only was it cut to ribbons, it had originally been scheduled to run at 9pm, to mesh with the corresponding BtVS episode on BBC2 at 8pm. After a couple of weeks, they stopped for a week while they decided what to do about the complaints (an even split of complaints about the cuts, and about the gore – Gawd bless you, Channel 4’s and Buffy’s viewers), then for the rest of the year, the shows were a week out of sync. I remember the fury well.
The “chosen one” constantly whining “Why me? Why couldn’t I lead a normal life instead?” is a tedious trope that gets used again and again not only in Buffy but medieval fantasy, science fiction, and superhero stories as well. It would nice to see someone who just accepts their fate and gets to work for once.
I feel like that’s Luke Skywalker and Harry Potter. Neither of them really resists the call. Luke is all “let me at em!” to a fault.
To be fair that was really only Buffy’s thing in the first season and maybe extending into the second a bit. By around Season 3 she’s fully embraced her destiny and even gets protective of her role when other Slayers show up.
It came back now in then in the later seasons. She has a whole song in “Once More with Feeling” complaining how she’s not allowed to be like other girls and how everyone expects her to save the day rather than solving their own problems.
Which song is that?Her first big number – “Going Through the Motions” – is about how routine her life as a slayer has become and how she can feel her passion for it draining away, while her second – “Walk Through the Fire” – is about how alone and alienated she feels, especially after being brought back from the dead against her will. Nothing about her story in that episode is about wanting to be normal.
It’s “Life” — the whiny song that she sings to the demon while fighting his minions — “You work [blow with pool cue]
So hard [blow]
All day [throws pool cue, impales third minion] To be like other girls.
To fit in in this glittering world.” And how she needs “something to sing about” because all this heroism is so tedious. Yes, I get it that she was pulled back into the living world from heaven, but the whiny act isn’t endearing. I’m not a big fan of the Netflix Matt Groening series Disenchanted, but the part where Bean brings back Elfo from heaven and he’s all bitchy about it was funny because it reminded me of this scene.
I loved the musical. I think the overarching theme was Buffy not being able to tell her friends they ripped her out of Heaven. Which isolated her even further. And now she was back and every moment was pretty much Hell.
It’s always faintly ridiculous. One teenager who finds superpowers and near invincibility to be a burden and certainly not at all awesome and the predominant collective fantasy of the last fifteen years is an interesting character choice; as the default setting it rings pretty false.
Legend of the Seeker did this I believe. He didn’t whine, he just accepted his fate.
Being The Slayer is a burden. And she saved the world. A lot.
Quite wild to find Buffy whiny and insufferable when that’s basically Angel’s entire thing.
As much as I loved Buffy (a lot), Angel became the better show – and the more realistic one in that much like real life, the good guys can occasionally raise a fist in defiance to the bad guys but ultimately the bad guys win (insofar as they’re beyond the simple win/lose dynamic for starters). Also, how Angel turned from an uncompromising idealist into a monster himself in doing so. Unlike Season 1 Angel, Season 5 Angel sacrificed a lot of innocent people just to gain advantages that helped him reach his (ultimately temporary) goals in the end.
To be fair, Angel had to sacrifice Holland Manners because he loved Fonzie.
I loved Buffy because I was literally in the same year of high school she was and her demons were total metaphors for my demons. I whined about them just as much as she did.
I found Angel more insufferable than Buffy, honestly. Yes, Buffy could act like a total teenager sometimes, but she was literally a teenager so at least that’s authentic writing. Angel is like 200 years old (and looks like he’s 30) yet he frequently acts less mature than Buffy. In both shows, the lead character is one of the least interesting ones, but they work as an effective focal point for a great supporting cast to circle around.
Anyway, both shows are classics, but Angel is still the better show because there’s a clearer overall story arc, better character development and a terrific ending (some people hate the Angel finale, but they’re wrong and they should feel wrong.)
A lot of Buffy was enjoying the rest of the Scooby Gang. I was a Giles man myself
Buffy also gets points – or Mr Pointys – for giving rise to the whole “X as subtext for adolescence, but the supertext is also adolescence” genre. Without it, there would be no Veronica Mars, no Gossip Girl, no Wednesday, to name but three.However good or bad someone may think it as a show on its own merits, its importance to the medium cannot be overstated.
They are both great shows but to me I think Buffy was more successful at capturing high school and college than Angel was at capturing adult life in a place like Los Angeles. I think people forget how bad Angel was in its first season and how much it absolutely benefitted from the crossovers and fan loyalty because it would not have made it as a standalone. Also season 4 is a complete mess and season 5 is great but feels like a different series entirely. Buffy comes out on top compared to other teen shows in a way Angel doesn’t compare to more grown up shows.
The first 3 seasons of Buffy are better than anything Angel ever did. maybe it was because he was on them? I don’t know, but once they left high school the show never recovered.
Salem’s Lot only at number 19?
More than 40 years later, I still can’t sleep if the curtains are open.
I saw the Glick brother at the window at way too young an age.
How can so many utterly forgettable shows rank above the utterly terrifying Salem’s Lot?
I was wondering about that myself. Maybe because it’s a miniseries, and thus, there are only a handful of episodes? Just speculation on my part
I was 10 in 1979. In the UK we had a show called Points of View where people would write in with comments on TV shows. It went out about 8.30pm. As part of a bit on Salem’s Lot they showed a clip. The jump scare at the end of the clip sent me and my parents through our lounge ceiling.
Wow, Vampirina isn’t even on this list?!
She may be blue with pointy teeth, but she’s not so different underneath
Bold of you guys to include *SPOILERS* Midnight Mass right there in the headline image since the fact that it’s about vampires is kind of a big spoiler for the show.
Yeah, I don’t know. I watched it knowing nothing beforehand, and in the first episode when the dude drags the giant trunk into his house, ‘vampire’ was my very first thought. And the evidence mounts pretty steadily, even if the devout idiots on the island can’t see it.
Also you know the lady in old-age makeup is going to become young again somehow
I’ll pick on the AVClub as happily as anyone else, but since this is a countdown of best vampire shows ever made, and Midnight Mass most certainly is one of them, isn’t its inclusion in general going to be the spoiler?
Penny Dreadful’s finale was planned? I call bullshit on that. It was horrible and felt like a last minute rush job. The whole show went from okay to laughably bad to excruciatingly bad. It was a big waste of a great cast and premise.The Strain was horrible too.Preacher should be ranked higher since it had its moments and was overall decent, and Cassidy was easily the best character.
Yeah, to me it seemed obvious that the entire PD crew were tired of the show, ready to move on, and still needed to deliver four more episodes. Such a disappointing endgame for such an (initially) entertaining show.
I adored the OG Penny Dreadful for Eva Green mainly, the rest of the cast too, and of course the lusciousness of the production. The reviewer’s offhand comment that the City of Angels spinoff was excellent made me lol. Excellent, it was not.
True Blood is a master class of how a show can go from fantastic to utter shit in later seasons. (see also, Game of Thrones).
I was ok until I saw this was ranked? Being Human should have been top 3 , I mean ranking “Interview with the vampire” higher … which has had ONE episode so far , that’s ridiculous.Also no Dracula? either the 2013 series , or the 2020 miniseries (which up until its last episode is pretty good , although that last one goes off the rails completely)
I think the US remake of Being Human is one of the rare examples that a US remake was better than the original. The UK series just carried on for too long and eventually replaced the entire main cast, sometimes between seasons.
TBH I preferred the UK one ,as I thought it had a lot more charm than the reboot ,(since it was a load of supernatural people living in a grubby English/Welsh town , rather than glamourous Americans ), but that’s just me .And yes it did completely replace its main characters over time , (the only other show I’ve seen do that was LoT , and even that kept at least one original.) I think the problem was that it acted like such a good showcase for their talents that they got poached .But the new cast were excellent as well.Its one of those shows that I’d love to see remade or rebooted.
The core concept is good (a vampire, werewolf and ghost in a sharehouse) but I think the UK version turned into a soap whereas the US version actually had a focused storyline that was about the house too.Amusingly I did see a boxed set of the UK full series that on the cover art had all of the main characters and I thought “lol none of these were ever all together at the same time”
I watched the US version’s season 1, and it dragged it’s heels so very much. One thing about our version, it wasn’t afraid to burn through plot.
This! The US version was so much fun. Occasionally cheesy, occasionally its camerawork a bit…shaky (not literally). But it also had heart.And anything that keeps Sam Witwer coasting on genre-gig paychecks is inherently scoring extra credit.
Ranking Interview with the Vampire at all after one episode is stupid.
Yeah — I’m seeing 4 major omissions here:Dracula which was BONKERS (Dracula as Tesla?? Yes please) and sexy and amazing!Dracula which had 2 great eps and 1 ep we’ll ignore.Chapelwaite with Adrian Brody! Pretty good — better than seasons 2 and 3 of Hemlock Grove, anyway.Being Human (US) — surprisingly I LOVED this adaptation! Arguably better than the UK version…..!And….. can we include Lost Girl on here? Does a succubus count as a vampire….?? Can it because Lost Girl is awesome?
Schlocky 90’s vampire show Forever Knight made the list, but not the BETTER schlocky 90’s vampire show “Kindred: The Embraced”?
Moonlight is way too low, True Blood is too high, and based on everything I’ve heard, from often being completely word for word derivative of the Buffyverse, to lore inconsistencies, to baffling creative choices, none of the CW shows deserve to be anywhere near this list. Also, Jenny Nicholson made a 153 minute movie about the Vampire Diaries that’s incredibly entertaining for fans and non-fans alike.
Whatever happened to her? Did she leave YouTube for one of those paid competitors or did she just tire of making videos? Her YouTube channel is basically dead.
She released that video about the church plays a few months ago. Making any video essay, regardless of topic, requires extensive research, a script, and many hours editing, and when they’re as long as Jenny’s videos, it becomes exponentially more time-consuming. If I remember right, she has several videos in the works, and she also makes Patreon-exclusive content to help pay the bills in between, and I honestly wish I had access to them because the clips she posts of that stuff seem great.
“she also makes Patreon-exclusive content to help pay the bills in between”Going by what I can indirectly estimate, her Patreon income could at least be in the multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.
Yeah, there’s basically no chance that that is the case.
16,254 patrons (for now) at an estimated average of $2.50 each, the maths may speak for itself.
Hit up her Patreon. She has a lot more freedom there and I imagine she’s much less exposed to harassment there as well.
I’m genuinely surprised that Netflix is pulling Hemlock Grove. It was terrible, yes, but it was technically the first original Netflix series, predating even the now infamous House of Cards. These days one often calls Lilyhammer the first Netflix show, but that is kind of cheating because that was really just a Norwegian show that Netflix got the North American rights to.
Buffy is too high; What We Do In The Shadows is too low.
If you’re of a certain age, you probably feel just a little anxious looking at this picture.
No Hotel Transylvania the animated series. I mean it is not that good, but I imagine that a lot of these shows probably aren’t very good. That said, the Hotel Transylvania movies are actually way better then they have any right to be. I would also add that the Johnny/Mavis relationship is one of the best human/vampire relationship in the history fiction. Better than any movie or tv relationships I have seen, mostly because the manage to make it not creepy.
The only way Hemlock Grove belongs at #25 is if no writer could think of a 26th show for this list.If that’s the case, I noninate Bunnicula. I haven’t seen it, but I enjoyed the books as a kid, and it can’t be worse than Hemlock Grove.
Thank you! Hemlock Grove is absolute garbage. Unwatchable, truly. (Penny Dreadful was pretty terrible also, despite great production design and like, one good performance.)
Ultraviolet with Susannah Harker, Idris Elba, and Jack Davenport was quite good I thought, less constrained by vampire mythology than some of these shows
I must have watched Ultraviolet over 20 times. That scene with the coffins at the end of Episode 5 was exceptional in a show full of remarkable moments (like the end of Episode 1 and 2 being just two others).The US pilot somehow manages to be even worse than the usual inferior remake and somehow made Idris Elba look bad despite his playing more or less the same role which is quite the anti-achievement!
Idris Elba? Say no more. Do you know where this is streaming?
It seems to be on youtube
Thanks!
Also, Amazon, PlutoTV, Roku Channel, etc. All with ads, though.
netflix
In your pants, apparently. But – and I say this with a lifetime of untarnished heterosexuality – I don’t disagree.
They also managed to make a series about vampires without ever (a) using the word “Vampire”, or (b) making the absence of the word super-distracting.
The list should include Ultraviolet, a late nineties UK tv serial from Joe Ahearne that starred Jack Davenport, Idris Elba, and Sussanah Harker. It is a smart horror/thriller, easily binged at only six episodes, and can be found on Tubi, Pluto, etc. Plus I think the unsold U.S. remake pilot can be found on Youtube.Also, as others have written, the original Salem’s Lot mini-series ought to be much higher up in the rankings.
Scrolled down to see if anyone mentioned Ultraviolet and glad both yourself and Evil Lincoln beat me to it.
Yes, Ultraviolet is comfortably superior to every single show on this list, bar only maybe Buffy and Angel and possibly What We Do in the Shadows (all of which are less consistent, but Ultraviolet is only 6 episodes so it’s hard to judge completely fairly).It’s also the show that introduced the world to Idris Elba many years before The Wire, and he immediately gets the two greatest vampire kills in screen history. The cryochamber scene is still an absolute masterclass in building tension and his character’s solution to the trap is still utterly fantastic.
Ultraviolet was excellent. Must have watched it 20 times or more. Knowing it was a UK show, I knew its run would always be limited but I was disappointed it didn’t get a second season or even that holiday special they were talking about.There as a US pilot which eventually leaked that spectacularly missed the entire point of the original, as often happens in these cases. Somehow made Idris Elba look much worse than he was in the original show too despite playing more or less the same part.
Thought it would be on the list, glad to see I’m not the only person who rates it highly.
Hey – I never heard of Ultraviolet. Now I have, and a little peek at the internet tells me you’ve done me a great favor. Thanks!
Ultraviolet is easily the best vampire show ever produced. Really wish they had gotten it together for season two, or that the US version had worked out in the mode of The Office.
WWDITS and Preacher both ranked too low.
This list is proof that vampires aren’t that interesting after all.
Yeah, why doesn’t anyone do something with zombies? They are so underused.
It could just be recency bias on my part, but I’m just so consistently charmed by What We Do in the Shadows that it will remain #1 in my heart.
No, I’m right there with you. And you know the biggest reason why? It’s one of the rare vampire properties that has a true sense of history. Like, you actually believe all these people have been alive for centuries… because they’re so damn out of touch! On top of that, though, a vampire having a sense of long-lived, genuine history goes a long way to give them the most important quality they need: to be inherently, tangibly unreal.That was always my favorite part of Dracula (both Bram Stoker’s original and, yes, the 1992 Francis Ford Coppola film): you just got such an unshakeable sense of vampires being inherently weird, as in “uncanny, preternatural and mystifying.” It’s like they simply operate on a whole different plane of existence.Very, very few tv shows or movies or… anything, really, seem to hone in on that, and yet WWDitS does regularly and casually….or, you know, it’s also funny as shit. That, too.
Emperor Palpatine (Carter): Yeah. Boy, that guy (Seth Green) rubs me the wrong way. I mean, has he ever made anything successful? Greg the Bunny, Four Kings, and that godawful puppet show. It’s on, like, channel 100 or something.
Luke (Chris): Well, I think he’s had some successes. Buffy the Vampire Slayer was successful.
Emperor Palpatine (Carter): It was not popular. Entertainment Weekly said it was popular, but it wasn’t. Hardly anybody watched that show.
Darth Vader (Stewie): Yeah, I never caught it.
— Star Wars Family Guy: “It’s a Trap!”
I guess nobody told the A.V. Club that everything Joss Whedon did is awful and totally null & void because he turned out to be a garbage person.
Have you considered never commenting on the internet ever again? Maybe think it over.
Whedon is trash & deserves his exile, but BtVS is still next level phenomenal.
I think they are being sarcastic.
Am I being rhetorical?
Recent vampire shows that should’ve been considered: Mars Red, Case Study of Vanitas, Vampire in the Garden, Sirius the Jaeger. Older: Seraph of the End and Shiki (‘salem’s Lot dialed up to eleven with a similar pallette to Gankutsuou which itself is Monte Cristo in space as Dracula).
Well shit. I was just about to watch Midnight Mass and had no idea vampires were involved. Thanks.
I liked Moonlight better when it was called Angel.
Buffy is the only sensible number one, but I’m glad to see The Vampire Diaries ranked so high as well. Julie Plec is a huge Buffy fan and you can definitely tell in some of the wild storytelling choices on TVD.
Buffy Summers is my all-time favorite hero. I learned so much about bravery in the face of adversity and personal responsibility from this silly show about a valley girl slaying demons.And that wasn’t just the character – Sarah Michelle Gellar did a great job of oscillating between comedic timing and heroic beats. Loved her as the original Kendall Kane on All My Children, so was good to see her break the mold, as it were. Yes, little me watched soap operas.
When I was a kid and the show first came on (9 years old at the time), most other kids didn’t even know who I was talking about when I’d say who my favorite hero was.The Master scared the sheit out of me. Just his face was nightmare fuel for lil’ me.
I still always think Season 5 and onward were unnecessary. I enjoy some of the stories we got out of it (The Body, Once More… With Feeling!), but I always felt Dawn (the Key) would have been better off as but a grain of sand on one of the many California beaches (try finding that, Glory!) than a whole show altering character. Now that I know why she is there, I understand this abrupt injection a little more. Hate the character, but truly respect Michelle Trachtenberg’s ability to step in and step up given the grossness.Anywho, yeah – Buffy is legitimately the best of the best when it comes to the vampires. Both because of the show, and in spite of what we know of it now. The ability of the cast and crew (that weren’t creeps) is timeless, and really helped laid the groundwork for heroic serials as we know them now.
TvD deserves to be right behind Buffy & Angel on this list. Rank #8 is blasphemy!
Why isn’t Carmilla on this list?
Dang, no love for Kindred, huh? Might be remembering with rose colored glasses but vampires mixed with Mafia? Neat.
No one remembers Vampire The Masquerade?I loved it at the moment.
Missing from this list is The Gates (2010), a show about a cop who has to keep peace in a gated community with vampires, werewolves, and witches.I mean, I wouldn’t put it high on the list, but I kinda dug it.
Blood Ties was a pretty good show with Christina Cox. It only lasted a season because Lifetime did absolutely nothing to promote it.
I would put The Vampire Diaries ahead of the spin-offs. It was a well written show. The Originals was ok, but Klaus was an insufferable asshole.
Confessing that I clicked just to see if “Forever Knight” made the cut. It was a pretty silly show but it did anticipate “Angel” in many ways.
It’s strength was also that it was one of the earlier mythology type shows. Former characters reappeared and died and my favorite part was that it had an actual ending. It was definitely a 90’s series, but was stronger than many on this list.
Got to make a late shout for Count Duckula as well.
He may not be on this list, but at least he is in the vampire hall of fame.
I didn’t know there were this many, and people are still bringing up more. On that note, how about American Horror Story’s vampire season? This is a fun genre for TV, even when its crappy.
And make no mistake, many of these shows were crappy (Blade: The Series! Moonlight! Van Helsing! Lol) or got crappy over time (True Blood, The Vampire Diaries Universe, and yes, Buffy’s later seasons). The most consistent show from beginning to end for my money was Castelvania, but otherwise I’d say mini-series work best. In any case, I appreciate keeping the vibes positive with each blurb. DJ Carona was very good on From Dusk Til Dawn. He is the Latino George Clooney, and should have been a breakout star.
Buffy was ‘that show Entertainment Weekly raved about’, which when it finally made its way to the Virtual Reality Jakarta other side of The Pond I thought “it’s okay I guess”.
Should have had Hellsing Abridged instead.
“Newcomer” Seth Green?! Dude has been (memorably) acting since he was a child! He was the original Chuckie, a doll chopping homicidal maniac! “Now that ain’t Dick Clark”
Dark Shadows is the godfather of all vampire TV and really should be
closer to the #1 spot. Barnabas Collins was arguably the first romantic
vampire with a conscience, and the first to search for the reincarnation
of his lost love while inventing all kinds of gothic horror TV tropes
along the way.
Castlevania needs to be higher on that list. If they had another season or 2 to wrap up the story it would’ve been better (last season felt super rushed), but S1-3 were magnificent.
Although never overtly shown as one, Morticia Addams is surely a vampire, which means the Addams Family ought to be in here, and near the top too
Angel is by FAR better than Buffy. But What We Do in the Shadows is better than both.This list is bad and you should feel bad.
Setting aside the rankings since those are subjective, a few thoughts from an internet rando:1. Angel/Buffy – loved them both. My partner watched them when they aired and then shared them with me a few years ago and I became a fan. I have stated on other posts that I thought the show was a high school drama like Dawson’s Creek with the occasional MotW, but was wrong and much happier for it. Angel, being a slightly more mature take, was great as well even with how dirty they did Cordelia. Buffy had lower lows, but higher highs.2. WWDitS is high on my list of things to watch. Heard nothing but good things.3. My mom enjoyed Dark Shadows and its wild to think a show with that premise was popular in the late 60s… but it was.4. I enjoyed the Strain, but never finished it. I stopped somewhere early season 2 when life creeped in and I just sort of did other things with my time. Is it worth finishing?5. I really liked Castelvania and Midnight Mass a lot overall, but they both suffered from the same problem: wildly uneven pacing. Both would have long stretches of pontificating monologuing which would have been fine for a few minutes, but they seemed to drag for 10 or 15. I am 1 episode into Nocturne and already the pacing is infinitely better; hopefully that keeps up.6. I completely forgot about Blade – I think it was on Spike TV, when that was a thing?
5. It seemed like every time someone on Midnight Mass opened their mouth, a monologue came out. And sometimes it was just bad, like the response to a yes or no question was a random anecdote. I didn’t think it was as bad with Castlevania, for whatever reason.
Agreed, Castlevania was leagues better about it.
When you repost these list with one update can you at least clear the comments so I don’t end up responding to something that is a year old?
They updated it? Well then the lack of Reginald the Vampire is an even bigger insult!!
and they updated it again and no Reg …come on! You guys only like pretty,vacant vampires I take it.
No one remembers Kindred: The Embraced, but the show had potential. The lead actor died in a motorcycle crash after the first season filmed and it got cancelled.
That show is the epitome of “what could have been…” I was a fan if Vampire: The Masquerade, the tabletop RPG Kindred was based on, and due to Fox’s usual dickery I not only wasn’t able to find the show when it first aired but had no idea it was based on a game I loved. I finally saw it in VHS in 2001. I really enjoying the experience and found myself wanting more. Except the episode where the chanteuse absolutely butchers “House of the Rising Sun”. That rendition is unlistenable.Here’s to a streaming service giving it an inexplicable revival.
I get that these lists aren’t well-researched or intended to be taken seriously, but Ultraviolet is the best vampire show ever produced.
I actually really liked the 1-season Blade show on Spike TV. Sure, it was uneven, but how many shows come out running with consistency? I was really looking forward to S2, but oh well.Then again, I liked the Lumbly-led M.A.N.T.I.S. when it aired, LOL.
Fun fact about Dark Shadows – it didn’t start as a vampire show. It was a gothic soap opera, I suppose, but Barnabas Collins didn’t show up until like ten months into the run of the show.
Matt Fucking Berry.That is all.
Why did I read this in his voice?
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Justice for a decades-long show with a vampire character, Sesame Street! He doesn’t count?! You bet he COUNTS! And he invokes thunder when he does…
Honorable mention: Kindred: The Embraced
All of these 2000’s shit over Salem’s lot is a joke. The fear of people old enough to have seen Salem’s lot at the time it came out or a few years later in something else.I did enjoy Midnight Mass being a love letter to Salem’s lot.
Just commenting as a record that this article was reposted again in late May 2024. Cheers!
I remember the 90s reboot of Dark Shadows being worth a watch too.