Read our spoiler-free review of Netflix's second blood-sucking season.
The first series of Netflix's gore-soaked and expletive-packed Castlevania adaptation went down a treat, as you'll know if you read our exhaustive review. While it was a little on the short side, it did an utterly superb job of setting the scene and fleshing out the main characters: the troubled anti-hero Trevor Belmont (The Hobbit's Richard Armitage), the brattish and grumpy half-vampire Alucard (James Callis from Battlestar Galactica) and the plucky but determined Sypha Belnades (Alejandra Reynoso of Winx Club fame) – three individuals thrown together by fate to meet the impending threat of Dracula (Graham McTavish from Outlander), the lord of all vampires who, following a brief period of peace encouraged by his human wife (and Alucard's mother, Lisa), has gone mad with vengeance after his aforementioned bride is murdered by members of the Church.
The shortness of series one was mitigated by the news that it had been commissioned for a second, longer series, which goes live on Netflix today. Comprised of 8 episodes that are around 30 minutes in lengths each (give or take), this sophomore season packs in a lot more plot, action and characters than its predecessor, while allowing the existing cast far more room to breathe and evolve. Alucard and Dracula – both of whom were given a criminally small amount of screen time in series one – are regulars this time around and that's a definite plus; McTavish in particular really gets his chance to shine here, imbuing the tortured Count with a deep sense of humanity (ironic, you might say) which is only hinted at in Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. Torn between his late wife's wish to heal the world through science and his boiling, near-uncontrollable hatred of the humans who put her to death, he's a real bag of emotions throughout, yet still finds time to deliver some of the wittiest lines in the whole production.
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