Created and written by David S. Goyer, Blade: The Series follows of course Blade, a "daywalker" human, half-vampire vigilante who vows to hunt down the vampire scourge that has infected Detroit. Following the events of the trilogy of films before it, the series takes the Marvel character and quickly moves into a fairly expected serialized format, with a new street drug "dust" being pushed by different vampire gangs known as "The Houses", and so many very dumb romance sub-plots. The action is okay, but often in that very frequent cuts, lots of moving cameras, very obvious rubber weapons kinda campy way, but it works for what it is I guess. Again the plots themselves are where this really falls apart, its just so much copy paste of the existing crime format but now with vampires involved. The series does take a small amount of time to go into some of Blade's backstory / origin story, which was always fun, I would have much preferred a prequel series vs what we got, but oh well. The greatly named Sticky Fingaz stars as Blade, and while he doesn't quite live up to Wesley Snipes before him (who could), his delivery is ridiculous enough its fun, if not somewhat bad acting. If you've watched the films and liked them, this isn't as good, but its definitely content, so I'd say go for it. If you're just looking for something to get hyped for the new Blade 2025 film you can just stick to the movies. Wouldn't likely recommend.
Review of Blade: The Series
