Vampires are back in town, and Mina has a close connection to them...
Don't let the appalling title put you off – this is by far the strongest episode yet of the series. It helps that everything that looks like a plothole is actually explained as you go along – with the possible exception of why Galvin thinks that his car is suitably inconspicuous enough to use on a stakeout!
There's a nice level of black humour throughout, helped by the restrained performance of guest star Ciaran McMenamin as Quincey. Devotees of Bram Stoker's original Dracula novel will see the episode's twists coming from a mile off, and everyone buys into the convention of making reference regularly in conversation to the twist once it's been explained to the audience, but oddly never saying anything until that point!
It's Zoe Tapper's episode, and she gives a strong performance as the conflicted Mina. If they ever did a proper rendition of Alan Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, this episode proves she could play that version of Mina too.
With enough of a different take on vampire lore to make it interesting, this is what Demons should have been like from the start.
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