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- AMC
- Dec 16, 2021
- AMC
- Dec 16, 2021
Summary Indigenous Australian vampire hunters Tyson (Rob Collins) and 17-year-old Shanika (Shantae Barnes-Cowan) seek to stop the final vampire colony located in the middle of the South Australian desert in this drama created by Warwick Thornton and Brendan Fletcher.
Created By: Brendan Fletcher, Warwick Thornton
- AMC
- Dec 16, 2021
- AMC
- Dec 16, 2021
Firebite
Season 1
Season Premiere: Dec 16, 2021
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Summary Indigenous Australian vampire hunters Tyson (Rob Collins) and 17-year-old Shanika (Shantae Barnes-Cowan) seek to stop the final vampire colony located in the middle of the South Australian desert in this drama created by Warwick Thornton and Brendan Fletcher.
Created By: Brendan Fletcher, Warwick Thornton
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 4 Critic Reviews
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100% Positive
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There’s enough early momentum supported by convincing performances, chemistry between the two leads, a setting that is its own character, vampire encounters, and general whoopee vibrations that indicate how much fun co-creators Thornton and Fletcher likely had in making it. It’s palpable and contagious. Let’s hope it doesn’t later betray the promise it kicks off with.
All these productions have a strong sense of place, but Firebite is something else. You wouldn’t want every new show to be shot in Coober Pedy – but damn, it works for this one.
Barnes-Cowan and Collins are just so arrestingly good, both together and apart, that they’re a treat to watch even when the story is dragging.
At times, the images evoke found footage, and at others they’re infused with the inkiness and sense of depth of a comic book panel, but their inconsistent aesthetics feel haphazard rather than considered. ... In contrast to the strained physicality of the fight scenes, [the blow-up between Tyson and Shanika] bottles not just Tyson’s grace, but the acuity with which Firebite explores the dangers of monsters real and imagined.
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