SummaryVanessa Helsing (Kelly Overton), the daughter of the legendary vampire hunter Abraham Van Helsing awakens five years in the future where vampires rule the world.
SummaryVanessa Helsing (Kelly Overton), the daughter of the legendary vampire hunter Abraham Van Helsing awakens five years in the future where vampires rule the world.
You'd think this would lead to all manner of generic story beats. But LaBute and his writers (as well as stalwart TV director Michael Nankin, who does some truly terrific, atmospheric work in these first three installments) manage to give the material a distinctive tweak or two.
The characters take forever to make narrative connections that seem immediately obvious and no one seems remotely curious about what exactly is happening to the world. Yet even as her hours-long insistence that she is nothing “special” grows tedious, Vanessa is delightfully cranky.
It gets off to a slow start, but Van Helsing picks up in the second episode. It is also super violent and super gory. If you like that sort of thing, you might want to give this a chance.
It is excessively gory and often grotesque (the foley artists must have had a ball with this one), but that can’t make up for the fact that it’s just not particularly unique or compelling.