The unpredictable nature of Netflix’s renewal strategy has continued, with the streaming service handing out one of its fastest-ever renewals to Castlevania: Nocturne, which only premiered eight days ago.
Critics have been exceptionally kind to the video game adaptation, which currently boasts a perfect 100 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes, but that doesn’t quite tell the whole story. Over a thousand users have weighed in with their two cents to bring its audience average down to just 45 percent, and the ratings haven’t been all that great, either.
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On its first week on the platform, Nocturne only managed to sneak onto the Top 10 for English-language TV shows in eighth place after notching an estimated 2.6 million views and 9.8 million hours watched, which makes it all the more surprising that season 2 has been given the okay in such rapid fashion.
Picking up after the original Castlevania series that also aired exclusively on Netflix, it’s clear that somebody in a position of power has a soft spot for the long-running franchise and all of its associated vampiric lore, because a little over a week to be renewed is virtually unheard of in all of streaming, not just the company that doubled down on Nocturne so quickly.
Apparently, underwhelming viewership and a middling response from the people who did watch it doesn’t mean a thing in the short or long term, with countless originals still biding their time to discover their respective fates, all while a brand new series that’s little over a week old has already been granted a stay of execution.