SummaryThis six-part drama series gives a contemporary spin on the legacy of Bram Stoker's Dracula. Philip Glenister (Life on Mars, Ashes to Ashes) stars as Rupert Galvin, who, along with his godson and friends, fights the demons walking the streets of London.
SummaryThis six-part drama series gives a contemporary spin on the legacy of Bram Stoker's Dracula. Philip Glenister (Life on Mars, Ashes to Ashes) stars as Rupert Galvin, who, along with his godson and friends, fights the demons walking the streets of London.
Demons is quite unlike another recent variation on the vampirical theme, the CW's "Vampire Diaries," in which teen-age vampires struggle with their wickedly bloody proclivities toward fanging people in the neck. And it's not like those all-American, Great Northwest vampires of the "Twilight" tales. Demons is also genuinely scary.
Lacking the subtext, satire and snappy talk that made "Buffy" golden, Demons (on the evidence of its first two episodes) has little on its mind past raising spooks and smiting them, but it does a fair enough job of that.
Demons isn't bad, and some of the makeup effects are reasonably effective; still, compared with the better angels in BBC America's portfolio, it's as weightless and disposable as the fog that enshrouds its most dramatic moments.
Demons quickly devolves into a bland mission-of-the-week show about a boy who doesn't want the responsibility of saving the world ("You can't just hijack someone's life. I had plans!") who is aided by an older mentor (sound familiar, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" fans?).