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Dracula series now streaming, and the bizarre label is sticking

Collider says the Dracula adaptation now taking over Paramount Plus is the strangest of twenty twenty-six; viewers can judge the fangs themselves.

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  1. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorCollider says the most bizarre Dracula adaptation of twenty twenty-six is now taking over Paramount Plus, and the publicist we spoke to earlier called bizarre the start of every comeback.

  2. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorSo it's a vampire show that people are calling strange. I'm shocked.

  3. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorIt's spiritually Florida, Dale. A man who sleeps all day, comes out at night, and lives in a huge old place with questionable plumbing.

  4. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorThat's a retired dentist in Boca.

  5. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorExactly, and the castle is basically a timeshare with a view of the bats.

  6. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorI'll give it one alligator out of five, because the vampire only bites at night.

  7. Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorRex has sports, and I hear he bites at noon.

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