Van Helsing

This show has a great premise, but only enough storyline for two seasons, the last three were trash. The vampires read more like zombies and the show goes to witchcraft and time travel and it's all too ridiculous. Main characters are decently acted. Lots of subplots that add nothing and serve only to waste time.

I really enjoyed the first two seasons and even.enjoyed season 3 but it went sideways and gave us practically a whole new cast by seasons 4 and 5. It was hard to watch but I kept thinking it would get back to why I enjoyed it in the first place. So disappointed in this series and where the chose to take it. Seasons 1 and 2 - I rated 8 then changed rating to a 7 after season 3. Now I'm at a 5.

Pros: 1. The storyline is pretty good.

Cons: 1. The acting is "C" at best. 2. The script is waaaay overwritten. The characters do not talk like normal people and especially not like people in a vampire apocalypse. 3. Makeup is not very good. 4. Very obvious that this was not a high-budget series.

Even though the cons outweigh the pros, I am still watching this. I can't explain why, maybe I'm hoping it will get better.

1. It began as a show about vampires.

2. In this show about vampires there was a woman who could cure the vampires.

3. Efforts were made to make a cure to end the vampires.

4. It all made sense... mostly. It was about saving the world.

The bad things:

Magic... The Screaming... oh the screaming... Good GOD the screaming!

Why did the Dark One hate the humans/her food so much?

Why go through all of that effort? What were the things that the vampires enjoyed, that made them go through such efforts to achieve it?

One side was fighting for survival, the other was just "Meh, lets kill them".

Season 5, episode 13 - No closure for some main characters.

Imagine sticking with this series since it began, hoping for a somewhat alright ending and then for it to end the way it did.

Worth watching, but the end kind of leaves a bad taste in your mouth.

Being a fan of his plays I thought that perhaps with Neil Labute at the helm this would be an interesting take on the vampire genre, but alas, it's even worse than most. Stilted dialogue, cheap production values, halfway through the first episode I was already fidgeting and eager to move on to something else.

Want something better on SyFy? Watch The Expanse.

Better recent Sci-Fi in general? Check out Humans (BBC/AMC co-production).

Looking for a vampire fix? See the original UK TV show Ultraviolet, the original BBC version of Being Human, or HBO's True Blood.

Whatever you do, don't waste your time with this.