Castlevania s Final Season is a Blood-Filled Delight
TV series may come and go, but Castlevania is forever.
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Parting is such sweet sorrow, especially when it comes to the final season of Netflix’s animated show
Castlevania. Since 2017, the adaptation of Konami’s video game franchise has wowed audiences with not only its gorgeous animation and fight choreography but with its deeply sympathetic characters who, despite their motivations, are complex and likable; basically, everything about this show rules. So when a show is this good, it’s difficult to imagine that any ending could do the series justice. Yet, Powerhouse does just that and creates a pitch-perfect, ten-episode finale that encapsulates everything that is so amazing about the series.
By Princess WeekesMay 12th, 2021, 3:33 pm
Castlevania is returning tomorrow on Netflix, and I have been in the middle of a rewatch that reminds me why I enjoy the series: the mythos, the animation, and the fun characters well, “fun” in some cases. Love you, Isaac (Adetokumboh M’Cormack). As I prepare for my binge-watch, here are some of my hopes, fears, and desires for the upcoming season.
Hopes:
Team Vamp Ladies get to slay:
I don’t expect the Council of Styria Striga (Ivana Milicevic), Morana (Yasmine Al Massri), and Lenore (Jessica Brown Findlay) along with their fearless leader Carmilla (Jamie Murray), to succeed in creating a vampiric empire of their own, with Hector (Theo James) on their side. No, things can’t be that bleak, but I do hope that their deaths are with dignity. I have come to really love the women of