Castlevania

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Season 3
  • Network: Netflix
  • Series Premiere Date: Jul 7, 2017
Season #: 4, 3, 2, 1
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  1. Collider
    Reviewed by: Dave Trumbore
    Mar 2, 2020
    100
    The team behind Castlevania Season 3 absolutely knocked it out of the park with this batch of episodes. They deliver the action, the intrigue, and the food for thought that elevates the source material into what’s easily one of the best video game adaptations ever made.

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7.5

Generally favorable reviews- based on 56 Ratings

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  2. Mixed: 7 out of 56
  3. Negative: 9 out of 56
  1. Loucetios
    Mar 8, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click full review link to view. Terrible and cringe. Putting aside the gay sex, misogyny and open nihilism. The season failed to deliver a satisfactory end to anyone's story. The magician guy who we'd been following all season jumps into the hallway and we just never hear from him again seemingly, despite that being the goddamn focal point for like 4 or 5 goddamn episodes. Are you **** kidding? You're just going to leave it like that?

    We follow this vampire girl torturing and seducing the hellforge guy for the entire season only for it to end in "he's my slave by magic".. well why the **** didn't you do that from the start? Meanwhile her lesbian vampire sisters are just pure cringe, straight out of dA fan fiction. They also do absolutely nothing for the entire season yet comfortably take up half an episode at times. Useless characters that serve no purpose other than to appeal to a perceived lesbian audience. Utterly ridiculous. Their entire plan has so many holes in it and makes very little sense. What is their motivation for any of this?

    In the final episode all the character development and bonding between characters gets thrown out the window in an act of abject nihilism, with completely unreasonable behavior from all parties concerned.

    It's as if they fired all the writers and for the last episode got a spurned edgy 15 year old teenager to write it. Garbage "subverting expectations" nonsense will be the excuse for pissing away an entire season on nothing. The show is really a statement about how people are just terrible and are always manipulating each other.. bravo, so **** deep.

    With regards to the sex scenes and characters, yeh it's terrible and cringe in just about every regard. I don't want to watch porn. I want to watch an entertaining story. Watching gay or straight sex in a TV show is porn. It'd be equally as cringe if Alucard bedded the chick and they showed him just pounding away on her ala Game of Thrones. Another show that rested on shock value **** with very little actual substance beneath it all. In this case the sex really served no purpose AT ALL. They had no reason to do it. The entire thing just made no sense.. they wanted to be nice to him but it was all an act? Why bother with sex? Wait until he's asleep. The whole thing smacks of some allegory that sex is just a manipulation. It's so cumbersome and poorly executed that it fails to be believable at all.

    The animation is quite bad frankly. The still artwork is also terrible pretty much. 90% of the focus is on the character artwork which isn't amazing frankly. So much photoshop and effects have been put in to hide the blemishes. They can't get Sypha's hair right to save their lives.

    This season has some great parts with Belmont, Sypha and the magician. The show rapidly needs to steer itself back towards that or it's going to be the template for how "progressive" characters ruin a show.

    Netflix need to wake up and understand that people WILL just cancel their sub. Nothing is holding me to them now and Disney or Amazon are both reasonable alternatives.    … Full Review »
  2. Eolmith
    Mar 8, 2020
    0
    Again Netflix destroyed a well stablished franchise, they transformed Alucard into a gay character, as usual they force an progressive agendaAgain Netflix destroyed a well stablished franchise, they transformed Alucard into a gay character, as usual they force an progressive agenda on everything.… Full Review »
  3. ScienceAdvisor
    Mar 6, 2020
    5
    The same long wait for action that does not really start until episode 9 (of 10), with childish script where adults in charge are fairlyThe same long wait for action that does not really start until episode 9 (of 10), with childish script where adults in charge are fairly moronic, and dialogue that uses far too much copy and paste of itself, episodes after episode. Just like the first two seasons, except this time the stakes are far less impressive and the inconsistency in power levels established over the last few years, becomes untientionally funny (or cringe-worthy). If you really want to watch, you can skip straight to episode seven without really missing much. That tells you all you need to know.… Full Review »
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