Tear Jerker / Dracula (2020)

• In "Rules of the Beast", Jonathan dies as a vampire before he and Mina could be properly married. In just about every other adaptation, one of them is always cured and the two can at least have their happily ever after and move on with their lives as a married couple. But in this version, Mina will have to move on with her life alone essentially.
• In "Blood Vessel", we have Tahini drink poison when her father Dr. Sharma faces a tough decision between seeing her shot by Lord Ruthven and letting her be killed by Dracula (or worse, be turned into a vampire, something Dr. Sharma vowed he'll never let her become).
  • What's more, we have the Grand Duchess who not only dies at Dracula's hands, but lost her mother on the night she previously met Dracula on her 18th birthday. She may have fond memories of Dracula as a young woman, but one can't refute it was stained with the tragic loss of her mother. The implication is that Dracula also killed her mother.
  • Dorabella, poor thing, doesn't know that her fiance only married her for her money and the closest thing she has to happiness is the vision of her would-be family that Dracula grants her.
• Lucy's death. She may be a self-absorbed, narcissistic party girl who thinks everyone wants something, but she's completely broken when she learns that the cremation robbed her of her beauty, the very beauty she gave up her humanity to preserve.
  • What's more, it took her turning into a cremated vampire (and getting killed) to see that, despite her belief everyone is Secretly Selfish and wants something, Seward unconditionally loved her.
• Dracula fears the holy cross because it's a painful reminder to him that everyone in his family has died an honorable death but not him.
  • The way Zoe words it makes it even more tragic. Dracula's aversion to the cross isn't simply something he got overnight. Rather, it started out as a small embodiment of his shame, and stretched over the course of centuries, until it festered into an anxiety trigger of acknowledging his dark past.
• In "Dark Compass", the audience learns Zoe has cancer. It's strangely the saddest, most poignant plot twist on the show.

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