Brendan Murphy

But the fact that I grew up in Birmingham, I went to a state school and this like Californian school with lockers and people are wearing their own clothes.

But there was so much about that that appealed.

Also, I was a bit of a nerd in terms of I loved fantasy, I loved Tolkien, Terry Pratchett, all that sort of stuff.

And to have something that was a teen drama that was funny and clever and referencing films and books that I was kind of interested in at the same time as having werewolves and witches and all these things.

Which are, of course, you can see them as silly fantasy, but they're also tied to folklore that is really tied to, I don't know, the civilization, paganism, and certainly European folklore, which impacts...

the way that our society sort of works today.

Yeah.

So there's, I think with every vampire film or book, sometimes rules are slightly bent or added or taken away depending on what they want their characters to do.

But certainly basing stuff on like Dracula is like a pretty good text to sort of base the rules of vampires on.

Just go goth.

Like, I don't think in Buffy there's, like, garlic has an effect, but it's more, like, annoying than anything.

And crosses work to a certain extent.

And the more powerful, the more like ancient a vampire, the less that stuff works on them.

They can kind of... They're hardcore.

Yeah, absolutely.

Dracula does turn up in one episode and he can turn into a bat and do all these magical sort of wonderful things.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Where do they go?

It's dust.

I thought it was great.