12 year old Vlad doesn't want much, really: to go to school, make a few mates, maybe try out for the rugby team. Normal kid stuff.
The problem is that Vlad's not a normal kid: you see, his surname is Dracula. While he's not technically a vampire yet, and can eat garlic or go out in the sun all he likes, all that can be expected to change by the time he is 16.
Vlad's father, the current Count Dracula, can't wait for that "unhappy day", but Vlad himself is not on board with the whole biting people thing (unlike his older sister, who can't wait to become an evil Queen of the Night). And after the family is forced to flee their native Transylvania by an angry mob, he seizes the change to have an ordinary life. He even manages to get his father to (reluctantly) agree to make do with meat milkshakes in place of feeding off the living ... for a while, anyway.
Yep, things might turn out okay for Vlad. Just as long his new woodwork teacher doesn't turn out to be a vampire slayer, or anything ...
This is a light family comedy that plays with the traditional 'generation gap' angle via the wrinkle of it being a vampire family (and their human neighbours, of course), and does so quite successfully. I had a good time with all 14 episodes.
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