Castlevania on Netflix falls one whip short of a good crack

Enlarge / Bad news for the bishop. (credit: Netflix)

The only great thing about the first-ever animated Castlevania TV series is how it ends: with a taste of a promising follow-up. The new Netflix "series," which is technically an 80-minute movie broken up into four chunks, concludes with everything you would want from such a video game-inspired show. Vampires. Demons. Whips. Magic. Action.

But the series' journey to that point is so tiring and burdensome that this tiny four-episode series still feels too long.

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