Castlevania
8/10
I
decided to take a break from watching the second season of Black
Mirror and feeling weird an check out the new Netflix Castlevania
series. I played the video game back in the 80's but I'm not married
to it and didn't follow it throughout its many incantations. I say
this to point out that I have no idea where the story went so I'm not
upset whether or not this one stays true to whatever happened in the
games. This starts with this lady finding Dracula and trying to
convince him to learn more about humanity and he'll teach her
science. It works but backfires when the church burns her ass at the
stake. Dracula finds out and he is like “Fuck everything!” and
gives folks a year to make peace with their god before he returns and
kills them all. He does. Its violent as fuck.
Meanwhile
Trevor Belmont is trying to not care. He's getting drunk in a bar
when these guys notice he is a Belmont who are being blamed for evil
being released. Trevor ends up whipping these dudes asses and makes it
to a town that is being attacked by demons every night. The church is
trying to cut some shady ass deal while killing some people known as
Speakers. Trevor ends up fighting demons, a cyclops, and church folk.
This
show had surprisingly good dialogue and I found out that it was
written by Warren Ellis. The voice work is good as well as the story.
The art is all right. Just a basic anime style, nothing to wrote home
about. Each episode was just twenty five minutes long so I ended up
watching the whole thing while ironing my clothes. Check this out if
you have Netflix and are slightly interested in this game or story. I
had fun watching this. It feels more like a movie broken up into parts than a series.
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