Vampires vs. Bronxx is an downright banal story that introduces absolutely nothing new to the genre. The creator recreates all patterns related to vampires and does not even try to operate them creatively. This makes the villains in the form of vampires boring, empty, and without charisma, and their motivations uninteresting. This is a big problem because the story should engage and build a sense of threat.
The concept of comedy horror is entertaining, but the potential is wasted. At first glance, you could say that it will be something like Stranger Things or more like Attack on the district with bloodsuckers in the place of aliens. The problem, however, is that instead of focusing on an interesting, quickly told story, the creator of this project decided to use a crude metaphor for American reality. Its pathology is so drastic that it catches the eye quite quickly and arouses disgust. Vampires are a metaphor for white people who want to kick out of the Bronx all people of a different skin color in order to make their own business empire there. It's all too bad an attempt to bring up racial issues when we see the characters as Blacks or Latinos and the vampires say a rather suggestive formula: no one cares if you disappear. Unfortunately, when it is more important for authors to have a poorly written social message, and not to build a good foundation for a story, it cannot end very well.
Especially the banality of the story that wastes solid ideas again and again. The humor is rudimentary and the resolution of the conflict is simply bizarre. I don't mind basing Stranger Things kids bike stories on them, but it has to make sense and some basics. And here a group of pegs, garlic, holy water, and just like that, one two, end the vampire problem in the neighborhood. The farther away, the worse, because you feel that what had the potential for something much better - a story with humor, gut and idea - is simply a poor mediocre. Such a banal ending of the plot makes this threat (despite some solid scenes of tension and horror) almost comical.
The problem is Vampire vs. Bronx is fine to watch. If the entertainment value had a character and an idea (and not a poor reproduction of genre clichés), even this grossly introduced metaphor of reality would not be a problem. And it is neither funny nor exciting nor funny. A waste of potential, the skill of the actors (Shea Wigham and Zoe Saldana in the episodes) and a solid idea for something much better. A few good moments are not enough to consider it a thing worth watching...
