Castlevania

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Season 3
  • Network: Netflix
  • Series Premiere Date: Jul 7, 2017
Season #: 4, 3, 2, 1
User Score
7.5

Generally favorable reviews- based on 56 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 40 out of 56
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 56
  3. Negative: 9 out of 56
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  1. Lordgrey
    May 23, 2020
    1
    Many people who give a low rating, in the first place in their dissatisfaction put the scene of the bi-sex of Alucard with a girl and a guy at the same time. It seems strange to me, the third season is not ruined by this scene, nor is it that Alucard could sleep with a guy. The season is ruined by a complete hack in terms of narration, the logic of events, the elaboration of theMany people who give a low rating, in the first place in their dissatisfaction put the scene of the bi-sex of Alucard with a girl and a guy at the same time. It seems strange to me, the third season is not ruined by this scene, nor is it that Alucard could sleep with a guy. The season is ruined by a complete hack in terms of narration, the logic of events, the elaboration of the individuality of characters and so on.

    After watching the first and second, the third season looks just awful. In the 8 series, nothing happens at all except completely empty and meaningless dialogs. The last two series are no less stupid and senseless meat with some erotic. At the same time, the plot is oversaturated with second-rate characters that are absolutely uninteresting to me as a spectator and absolutely does not reveal either their storyline or the storyline of the main characters. Moreover, all participants in this theater of the absurd behave like absolute, incapable of development and mental activity, idiots.

    Next comes the visual, drawing and animation, they are much simplified, the animation has become more twitchy, the drawing is sketchy and angular.

    Further, the claim to staging battle scenes. If in the first two seasons the visual could withstand some kind of balance between stylization, entertainment and realism, then in the third realism was simply completely eliminated as a component and fights turned into a complete absurdity with magic acrobats running through the air in anime-like style and a hunter fighting with two whips. Why didn't he do that before? I didn’t know how, but now he learned? didn’t want or was the situation when he fought with Dracula himself not critical enough to activate the God Mode? In general, the third season is just awful. Perhaps the fourth I will not wait any longer.    … Expand
  2. commando41
    Mar 30, 2020
    3
    Complete and utter waste of time! To be fair it is incredibly tough to top season 2, but all in all it felt like a throw away GoTs season.
  3. Loucetios
    Mar 8, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand 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.    … Expand
  4. 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 agenda on everything.
  5. Clutcher
    Dec 12, 2022
    0
    This season is the moment where the series jumps the woki mc woke shark. Avoid at all cost, unless you have a boner for vampire gay sex.

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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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