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- aging star Carlos, despite constantly making passes at younger actresses, gradually starts to realize that his costar's grandmother is smoking hot

That's brilliant.

- Dr. Seward [English] and Dr. Seward [Spanish] pass romantical notes to each other through their shared suit jacket [note that in the 1930 film Dr. Seward is Mina's elderly father, so this is another real win for old man yaoi]

That's also brilliant.

- vaudevillian and recovering alcoholic Pablo [playing Renfield] pines for Carmen [playing Lucia], who cannot reciprocate because she's never played a character who survived past page ten and she's determined to seduce SOMEBODY into letting doomed Lucia live until at LEAST page 15 ... which is also a plot that has strong potential to be boring on paper, but Pablo and Carmen are so unbelievably charming and the camera takes them seriously as real people with talent and ambitions.

So I had no idea this show existed until about ninety-five seconds ago, but the real-life Pablo Álvarez Rubio is one of my favorite Renfields and I am delighted that his fictional version gets a nice subplot. I shall hope the half-hour longer which the Spanish-language 1931 Dracula runs than its English-language counterpart means that Carmen got her extra five minutes.