History Series / Moonlight

* RealityEnsues: When Josh gets shot in episode 11, Mick and Beth attempt to resuscitate him with CPR as a last resort. CleanPrettyReliable is averted, and Josh dies anyway - as most people do when administered CPR in real life.

* DeadpanSnarker: Josef.
** "Sorry, not questioning your loyalties. Vampire solidarity. Rah, rah, rah and all that."
** "Hey, you have a soft spot for the mortal ones. A fascination with all the charming things they do, while listening to the 'tick, tick, tick' of their own looming demise. That's fine. That's good. Everyone needs a hobby."
** "You seriously drink this stuff? What is it, like, non-fat, soy, vegan blood?"
** "Hey look. I know you have morals and scruples and that's fine, sort of."

** They can [[spoiler: become human again with a specific drug, though the effects don't last.]]

* UnexplainedRecovery: [[spoiler: Coraline survived her experience with fire despite it destroying vampires easily.]]

* CurseThatCures: Beth asks Mick to do this for her fatally wounded fiance. He refuses. [[GenreSavvy He musta seen that ep of]] ''Series/ForeverKnight.''

* {{Fanservice}}: Beth's cameraman attaches a mike to her bra in the first episode. Her shirt hangs open then, and [[spoiler:Christian]] rips it open again later.
** For those more inclined towards men, both Mick and Josef are seen shirtless.

** DecapitationRequired and KillItWithFire: The only ways to kill a vampire for good are by fire or beheading. All other common methods either only hurt but do not kill (sunlight, silver, staking) or don't bother them at all (crosses, garlic, holy water).

* VegetarianVampire: Averted by Nick surviving on bagged blood he purchases. Most vampires still find him quite strange.

** GameFace: When vampires are about to kill, their eyes turn pale blue and their fangs pop out.

* Really700YearsOld: Josef is specified to be "four hundred going on thirty".

* ShoutOut: [[LeeroyJenkins Leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeroooooooooooooooooooooooy Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeenkiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnsssssss!!]]

* NotGrowingUpSucks: {{Discussed}}} in the fifth episode, with a teenage vampire whose voice will never drop and whose acne will never get better. [[spoiler:He murders sex workers out of frustration from being a 200-year-old virgin]]].

* OurVampiresAreDifferent: They can [[spoiler: become human again with a specific drug, though the effects don't last.]] While they mention an aversion to sunlight, Mick is often seen in daylight. It seems as long as he shades his eyes, he's fine. In reality, as long as he doesn't stay out too long, he'll be fine. Sunlight acts more like a poison than an incinerator.
** Vampires also have a pulse. Staking them causes paralysis, but burning and beheading seem to be the only ways to eliminate them.
** [[{{Irony}} Ironically ]], the sunlight and the paralyzing stake is actually more "true" to the vampires of the original Dracula story than any other of the modern vampires.
** Vampires are allergic to silver, which is actually a neat way of reconciling the whole silver bullet thing with the vampires' lack of reflections in mirrors (which are, or at least used to be, backed with silver) and that you can't take a photograph of them (silver salts in film emulsion), but a ''digital'' photo is fine. Garlic and crosses don't bother them at all.

* AristocratsAreEvil: The vampires descended from the French royal family. [[spoiler: I.e. Coraline's family.]]

* VampireDetectiveSeries Obviously.

Not to be confused with ''MoonlightLady'' nor ''Series/{{Moonlighting}}''.

* CantGrowUp: All vampires. The implications of this are discussed in the fifth episode, with a teenage vampire whose voice will never drop and whose acne will never get better.

* [[CantGrowUp]]: All vampires. The implications of this are discussed in the fifth episode, with a teenage vampire whose voice will never drop and whose acne will never get better.

* [[CantGrowUp Can't Grow Up]]

* DeadpanSnarker: Josef

* OddFriendship: Josh is a man who revels in all the pleasures of being a vampire while Mick hates them above everything else. They're best buds with plenty of HoYay.

* SilverHasMysticPowers: Film and mirrors made with it can't picture vampires.

* [[IHateYouVampireDad I Hate You Vampire Wife]]: Mick hates Coraline for turning him. Partly because [[spoiler: She apparently did it without giving him any r3eal choice in the matter]] and as such he never had a chance to say yes or no to the idea. We have no idea if he might have accepted the change if she'd been upfront about it with him.

* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: Mick finds out that he might have a son with a friend's wife he slept with while they both thought his friend was dead. It seems likely at first, given that the baby was born seven months after his friend got back. [[spoiler: However it turns out Mick isn't his father due to a secret DNA test, and the son was just premature.]]