Castlevania

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Season 1
  • Network: Netflix
  • Series Premiere Date: Jul 7, 2017
Season #: 4, 3, 2, 1
Metascore
71

Generally favorable reviews - based on 4 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 4
  3. Negative: 0 out of 4
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  1. Collider
    Reviewed by: Dave Trumbore
    Jul 10, 2017
    80
    This definitely isn’t kid friendly. And yet the violence and gore serves the story, one that’s not about a simple action-packed adventure of a trio of heroes wandering the Wallachian countryside, but the very real battle of complex heroes fighting for what’s right and protecting the innocent from darkness, death, and ignorance.
  2. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Matt Gerardi
    Jul 10, 2017
    75
    While the animation and writing in this first “season” occasionally stumble along the way, the series’ creators have gone above and beyond to wring a resonant story from a game that never really had or needed one. It’s a promising start, and while this isn’t saying much, that alone makes it one of the most successful video game adaptations to date.
  3. IndieWire
    Reviewed by: Steve Greene
    Jul 7, 2017
    67
    Gruesome, bloody, and (for most of its runtime) mostly devoid of hope, Castlevania doesn’t skimp on darkness. It never quite reaches the demented highs of its pillar-of-hellfire pilot, but by season’s end, there’s a clear mission statement for arriving at a slightly more optimistic future.
  5. We Got This Covered
    Reviewed by: Will Ashton
    Jul 10, 2017
    60
    Bleak, bold, blackhearted, brutal and very, very bloody, Netflix’s Castlevania is an uneven, weirdly paced but vividly realized and often captivating anime adaptation, one that propels the video game genre to newfound heights and a promising, if very short, glimpse at the show’s potential.

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User Score
7.8

Generally favorable reviews- based on 301 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 249 out of 301
  2. Mixed: 26 out of 301
  3. Negative: 26 out of 301
  1. Vercis
    Jul 7, 2017
    10
    Beautiful graphics, nice story and good characters. Being close to the feeling of the game yet offering something fresh. To bad only 4Beautiful graphics, nice story and good characters. Being close to the feeling of the game yet offering something fresh. To bad only 4 episodes for season 1.… Full Review »
  2. bob13bob
    Sep 4, 2017
    4
    has promise, but not executed well enough. just random fights not making sense, doesn't have the cleverness, creativeness, or characterhas promise, but not executed well enough. just random fights not making sense, doesn't have the cleverness, creativeness, or character development of many better animes: attack titan, naruto, death note, etc.… Full Review »
  3. BabeRuthless38
    Sep 19, 2017
    0
    I remember playing the original game when I was a kid, and later playing a bunch of the series up through the masterpiece that was Symphony ofI remember playing the original game when I was a kid, and later playing a bunch of the series up through the masterpiece that was Symphony of the Night. This show perfectly captures what we all loved about the games:

    - The way Trevor spends most of the series brawling with inbred peasants and slaughtering Christian priests, instead of fighting monsters
    - The fact that Trevor never meets Dracula, who is barely even in the series
    - The way we see almost nothing of Dracula's castle
    - The incessant gratuitous gore that would make Quentin Tarantino queasy
    - Trevor being a foulmouthed drunken vagabond instead of a selfless, aristocratic hero

    /sarcasm

    You get my point. Look, Warren Ellis: we get it. You hate Christianity and when you got the chance to write a story about a noble family that battles Count Dracula you instead made an ultraviolent fanfiction about corrupt, psychotic priests run amok and the scruffy Mary Sue drifter who kills them all with slurred wisecracking and whip-fu. I'm sure college sophomores will think that's, like, totally edgy, man, but anyone who just wanted to see a great series of games translated to the screen is in for a huge disappointment at this hacky, ham-handed caricature. It only shows any life once Alucard shows up, i.e. the last 5 minutes of a 100 minute series. Not worth your time.    … Full Review »
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