Count Abdulla

How I managed to sit through this show is nothing short of a miracle comparable to the one on the Hudson.

Every character is insufferable, every line grates on you like nails on a blackboard, while being delivered by an actor or actress as out of place and over the top, as the SNL crew trying to do the most serious of Shakespeare. Every joke is either as bland and inoffensive as a 1950s knock knock joke or as aggressively woke as a Lilly Singh skit on an American college campus.

I'm not sure if this show has any redeeming features, but I can't find them.... I don't know if the BBC made this show, but all their fingerprint hallmarks are there.

A British/Pakistani GP is bitten by a vampire and hilarity unfortunately doesn't ensue. On the positive side its nice to see a comedy exploring and set in the British/Pakistani community which is much under-represented on our screens.

I'm just not sure this will work for a broadstream ITV audience as its been written in a very niche vein. Its not a patch on C4's 'We are lady parts' - Nida Manzoor's anarchic and irreverent music comedy about a Muslim female punk band, which deservedy won her a Bafta last year.

The script could have been better with more laughs and often seemed more concerned with virtue signalling than being funny.

Might have found a bigger audience on C4 or BBC3 as its main appeal will be to a much younger audience than ITV gets.

Nothing special about the production values and no stand outs in the cast, overall a disappointment - hard to see being re-commissioned.

The 30 minute episodes are a perfect length for this fast paced series; I only planned to watch a couple of episodes and ended up watching the whole series. Yes, there are some of the usual Asian jokes (overbearing mum etc...) but in amongst the comedy, there are some serious issues too which elevates this from just another funny but ultimately forgettable show. I also love how this is such a different take on the whole vampire genre - the usual posh pale vampires only make an appearance later on and even then, they aren't the main event. Great casting too - Kathy the Vampire had me in stitches. I'm curious as to what season 2 holds after the fantastic end to this first season.

Great to see this ensemble cast pull together such a well written script in a condensed 6-parter. Yes, many of the cliches about Indians pop-up, over-bearing mother, Indian boy-girl issues ... but having watched the episodes a few times, writer and director have crammed in a lot of funny content here. Perhaps lengthier episodes / or just more episodes would have helped developed the characters further and built up the ending. Each episode plays on classic Asian - English themes: Halloween and Eid clashing, Toff vampires versus Kathy and her working class roots. Particularly loved Shafi, a rough rogue with his heart in the right place and his mate with the bat!

As a fan of the vampire genre, I have seen just about every interpretation, but by far this was one of the best. As the recent entries of Interview with a Vampire, What We Do In the Shadows and Reginald The Vampire, this show adds another viewpoint that we normally don't see. As this series masterfully blends the culture clash trope with the Vampire comedy, as we find a female Vampire with a East Indian fetish who just so happens to bite a down on his luck Indian doctor, which is where the series gives a nod of the hat to Scrubs. As this concurrently running tropes altogether should not work but this one does. As the delving into the world of Muslim families will remind viewers of Bend It Like Beckham and Ramy but recently having seen Polite Society, this absolutely harkens to many of that brilliant movie's themes. I can only tell the viewer to give it a chance as it will surprise you just how funny and insightful it is while carving out its own niche in the vampire genre.