The city of Wallachia are under siege by Dracula who has unleashed an army of demonic creatures on the people as Trevor Belmont fights to save the city.
If you're a fan of the series, or have an hour and a half to kill and want to see some gross demons (and a nerd friendly voice cast), there are worse ways of spending your time.
Castlevania's writing steals the show. While the dramatic story progression sequences are all well-handled and serve their purpose, it is the show's humor that will catch you off-guard time and time again.
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.
Stuffed with both gothic imagery and startling violence, this adaptation is not for kids, but teens and adults, particularly gamers, may find something intriguing to chew on.
It's to the credit of the new, brief adaptation on Netflix that it manages to get something relatively focused out of the whole mishmash. But it also tries a little too hard to find profundity in a series that hasn't been terribly concerned with it.
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.
