I do not like the lighting of the show. Yes I know he is a vampire, but they seem to be artificially darkening the scenes with Dracula in them and are crushing the blacks. The dark scenes are artificially muddy with a crushed black that is actually more of a dark gray.
I did the same thing for Agents of Shield after 3 weeks of watching , falling asleep , rewinding to see what I missed. So I completely see why you would cut a timer out over this one if that is the case.