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** It also counts as as a meta one for Billie Piper. She absolutely dominates the scene, delivering several impassioned monologues (or one long one interrupted twice by Clare) as she goes from vulnerable to domineering to seductive. She even slips in an Irish accent, invoking Brona, at the most heated part of the speech!



** Though not a single one of them is able to touch Dracula in a fight, the fact they all went up against the Lord of all Vampires and lived to tell about it is amazing in of itself.

!!Meta
* One for the show makers; for the Grand Guignol, ''they actually built a complete theatre,'' from the bar to the auditorium to backstage, and even to the dressing rooms!
** And tore it down and rebuilt it for season two as a full-scale replica of a Gothic castle for Evelyn Poole's home.
* The blood ball in "Glorious Horrors" is appropriately ''terrifying'', but also stunning to watch. Showtime has a featurette depicting how they green-screened Dorian's portrait gallery so the walls and ceiling could rain blood, as well as the acting/choreography required to get a dozen lead actors and two dozen professionally-trained dancers to waltz while being sprayed with fake blood.
* Eva Green insisted that she actually be tied down during the possession/asylum scenes.
* Kudos to Reeve Carney for playing Dorian as so outwardly gracious and glamorous that plenty of fans were shocked that he murdered Angelique in cold blood. Even viewers who knew all along that the character's literary incarnation was a total villain were taken in by his facade, thinking someone so boyishly-charming and elegant must not have slipped into true evil yet... which is ''exactly'' the point of the Dorian Gray story!

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** Though not a single one of them is able to touch Dracula in a fight, the fact they all went up against the Lord of all Vampires and lived to tell about it is amazing in of itself.

!!Meta
* One for the show makers; for the Grand Guignol, ''they actually built a complete theatre,'' from the bar to the auditorium to backstage, and even to the dressing rooms!
** And tore it down and rebuilt it for season two as a full-scale replica of a Gothic castle for Evelyn Poole's home.
* The blood ball in "Glorious Horrors" is appropriately ''terrifying'', but also stunning to watch. Showtime has a featurette depicting how they green-screened Dorian's portrait gallery so the walls and ceiling could rain blood, as well as the acting/choreography required to get a dozen lead actors and two dozen professionally-trained dancers to waltz while being sprayed with fake blood.
* Eva Green insisted that she actually be tied down during the possession/asylum scenes.
* Kudos to Reeve Carney for playing Dorian as so outwardly gracious and glamorous that plenty of fans were shocked that he murdered Angelique in cold blood. Even viewers who knew all along that the character's literary incarnation was a total villain were taken in by his facade, thinking someone so boyishly-charming and elegant must not have slipped into true evil yet... which is ''exactly'' the point of the Dorian Gray story!
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