Really, really bad. Putting aside the fact that I'm a fan of the novel and would have preferred a more true adaptation, the writing here is just absurd. Given that this is a three-part series, none of the episodes feel properly connected beyond chronology and cast, nothing ever feels settled and I honestly don't know what the purpose of the entire thing was. There's never any real sense of an overarching narrative. My whole time spent watching this felt like I was waiting for something to be established for the rest of the story to be built upon, but events just happen and characters just get introduced or killed and there doesn't seem to be much rhyme or reason to any of it. Aspects of it were entertaining - the count is played charismatically, and I found parts of the final act of the second episode kind of interesting, but ultimately the whole series just felt lazy and obnoxious, picking and choosing what to follow of the original lore without actually establishing or making it clear what the rules of its own world are. Are vampires afraid of sunlight? The cross? Garlic? Or are these all myths (the series technically answers this question right at the end, but it doesn't add up in the slightest)? Do mirrors hold any threat? Why does the count completely lose it when he sees one in the first episode, and then declare it all poppycock and openly parade in front of one in episode 3? What are the undead? Why do they exist? Are they the same as dracula's brides? Do they have any relation to Dracula? If they're a thing then why is it not a phenomenon the modern world encountered prior to Dracula showing up? How did Dracula survive for a hundred years without feeding and still retain his youth? What is the purpose of the Foundation beyond trying to trap him? What was thier plan? Why is his escape as simple as guessing a WiFi password and contacting a naive lawyer? Why are half the characters and plot points introduced in the last episode? What relevance do they have to anything? And what the flying monkey-sausage was that ending? I'm not a fan of Moffat, nor Doctor Who, nor Sherlock, but I've seen those shows and encountered much of his writing. Frankly, I don't know how he has a job. Hits like "Blink" must be a complete fluke. The writing here is shockingly poor; he and Gattis lay no real foundation aside from a cheap homage to the novel at the start of episode 1, there is no consistent theme to hold onto and no way of tracking the characters and thier motives. I just don't understand why this was made or what they were trying to acheive. It feels like the shaky start of a season with multiple rewrites, desperately trying to find its feet, and then giving up and tying things up at the last minute. Gosh. Not even that. It just ends. This doesn't even scratch the surface of the myriad of problems I have with this enigma of incompetence. A complete joke.