Vanessa Helsing, distant relative of famous vampire hunter Abraham Van Helsing, is resurrected only to find that vampires have taken over the world. I watched the first 4 eps and Iam out - everything in this show is okayish but the story is incredible bad written. everything of those 4 first eps told in a 90 minute movie would have been a watchable and maybe even a good movie but the whole show is filled with redundancy and repetitiveness and blablabla and what I don't like most in a show about survival are ppl acting like idiots and who would be killed in any given real emergency situations within a couple of hours and not in days or years… This show may be bearable for die-hard-fans of the vampire-genre, just to fill their needs till some good stuff about vampires come around, but as I like the horror genre in general - I watch a lot and give every show at least a few eps try - Van Helsing is for me like Containment (the show about a virus outbreak): it has nothing special, new or good etc. to offer, and just gives me the impression of a show done in hast and without real care. And as I have no trouble to find a lot better-made movies or shows to watch in my spare time, Van Helsing is dead for me. Episodes 1 to 8 are very slow. The vampires and the way that they are portrayed similar to dirty homeless people with normal teeth and the feral ones seem to skulk around like retarded monkeys or maybe irradiated feral children out of a 1980's style Mad Max film. Bottom line - the vampires are poorly done. They could have and should still make a change to the vampires to amp up their scariness factor by 10. Right now it's almost silly and sitting around a 2/10 on the scary scale. All that being said, the shows first 7 or 8 episodes are slow moving, and the narrative is not very good either. We know it's the vampire apocalypse and VanHelsing is some kind of special human/Vampire hybrid that has the power to turn vampires permanently back to human form. We know the vampires want her to run experiments on her so they can make a daywalker breed of vampire. Once the humans escape the city the story actually begins to get better and things are better explained. By episode 13 we know the protagonists real name is VanHelsing and she comes from a long line of hunters. The story is interesting by this point and maybe pulling a 7/10 on IMDb as opposed to the 5/10 it has been rocking since launch.<br/><br/>If the writers and directors made a few changes to the show starting in the second season (providing it gets one) then this show could be great. Here are my suggestions:<br/><br/>1. Maker the vampires scarier, especially the feral ones. Make them mutate and gain strength to the point that even the intelligent vamps fear from lack of feeding. 2. The intelligent vampires need some teeth, literally. Make them more powerful then they are, and limit their numbers somehow. I mean if the world is now 95% vampires how on earth is there enough blood from humans to feed them? 3. VanHelsing needs some special powers when she drinks blood or something. 4. Backstory on what caused the apocalypse…we need some.<br/><br/>I hope this helps!
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