Her unique blood gives her the ability to turn vampires into human beings giving her an edge in this war of good vs. ![]() The series features Tekken star Kelly Overton as Vanessa Van Helsing, the descendant of infamous vampire hunter Abraham Van Helsing who awakens after thinking she was dead into a post-apocalyptic nightmare where the world is without sunlight and vampires constitute a significant threat to humans everywhere. Ever since the first episode aired on July 12, 2016, fans can’t seem to get enough of the fantasy horror drama. Van Helsing is inspired by the Helsing series of graphic novels from Zenescope Entertainment. ![]() ![]() 6.5 out of 10.When it comes to post-apocalyptic action shows on Netflix, there is no denying that Van Helsing is one of the top tier choices on the streamer, and it is absolutely no surprise as soon as the fifth season ended, the need for knowledge regarding Van Helsing season 6 would increase substantially between both fans and subscribers. An ancient vampire (Keith Arbuthnot) is captured in a crypt, in a mountain and only the Van Helsings can let him out (you might ask why would they do that, to be honest I’m still wondering that – it’s the part of the plot that made no sense by the end but I’m hoping next season there’ll be a logical explanation).īut, you know what, I enjoyed this season. The Van Helsing girls were split apart and hidden because Van Helsing blood is special but one of the twins (Vanessa) also carried forward blood from the first vampire (not revealed as a character in this season) after their mother was exposed whilst carrying the pair. The conspiracy side goes nuts with a shadow organisation still in existence that was researching vampires. Not only does Sam become even more interesting as a vampire than he was as a human but we also get his entire backstory laid out to us, which worked really well. Ok there is a degree of the Joker… there really is, but this vampire is mean and bad – with a single Achilles’ heal of Mohammed (Trezzo Mahoro), the human who actually means something to him – in a twisted way. What was really rather cool was the sub-story around Sam (Christopher Heyerdahl, Sanctuary, Matthew Blackheart Monster Smasher & Are You Afraid of the Dark: Tale of the MidnightMadness), the human revealed as a serial killer last season, who is now a vampire – but what a vampire. She doesn’t have Vanessa’s powers… until Vanessa bites her too. A mysterious ninja turns out to be Scarlet Harker (Missy Peregrym, Dark Angel: Love in Vein & Reaper: I Want my Baby back), who turns out to be Vanessa’s long lost (and forgotten) twin sister. Meanwhile Axel (Jonathan Scarfe) returns as a vampire – but one somehow holding out from feeding but not dead/feral – looking for Vanessa to cure him. Indeed a weather station is sending balloons out, with maps, enticing people to their above cloud stronghold. The various parties are split apart and come together occasionally as Vanessa considers going above the cloud lines. ![]() However, when Vanessa turns her back – as her bite undoes vampirism – sunlight destroys the mortal Dylan how is not explained but makes a sense in the series' logic. What we discover, as things unfold, is that Dylan had been experimented on and so no longer had an aversion to sunlight. Our heroine Vanessa Helsing (Kelly Overton, True Blood) was held prisoner in there and her daughter, Dylan (Hannah Cheramy), had been turned. So, we left season 1 with a raid on the vampire citadel of Dimitri (Paul Johansson). We get the return of some familiar characters, some weirdness and a huge amount of conspiracy. Perhaps I’ve just bought into it that bit more but this season turned it up a notch. Whilst I did point out that Season 1 was a sy-fy show I did also say that there was something worthwhile within it.
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