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First Kill
Season 1 Premiere: Jun 10, 2022
45
8.5
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Mixed or Average
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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13% Positive
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50% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
45
13% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
38% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
50% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
First Kill flips genre conventions and romantic cliches on their head to tell a story about belief, betrayal, and love for all with patient ears to attend.
The disappointment of First Kill is that the show itself feels like something that can only be loved moderately. It’s a pleasant distraction that goes down easy enough — but it comes nowhere near capturing the all-encompassing allure of a really irresistible binge, let alone of a forbidden first love.
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 100 User Ratings
8.5
82% Positive
82 Ratings
82 Ratings
6% Mixed
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
12% Negative
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 100 User Ratings
8.5
82% Positive
82 Ratings
82 Ratings
6% Mixed
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
12% Negative
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
The chemistry in this beautifully sapphic story, the representation, the camp of vampire and hunter dynamics was absolutely wonderful and needed. Sapphics deserve campy supernatural stories, too. I didn't know what I was missing in terms of sapphic shows until I saw this one. The show is self aware camp, and also gives us Buffy the Vampire Slayer dynamics, and finally gives sapphic lovers our two lesbians in love from the start of the series. The show is a breath of fresh air because it has nothing to do with period pieces, and is not **** baiting with maybe one kiss throughout the entire show.
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While the eight episodes are packed with CW-grade supernatural nonsense. ... It's the kind of nonsense that goes down easy depending on your tolerance for campiness and dialogue such as, "You ate my mother?"
The appeal of the genre is understandable, since as the examples above remind us, there are bountiful rewards if you get it right. It’s just when you miss that vein, you wind up with something as toothless, bland and fitfully silly as First Kill.
In some ways, First Kill does expand and improve upon the legacies of vampire fiction—particularly contemporary teen romances like Twilight and Vampire Diaries. ... Unfortunately, this show kind of bites in every other way possible.
First Kill could have been a fun teen supernatural series. But its storytelling is so clumsy it’s just very hard to watch.
Sunk by a noxious combination of flat writing and flatter directing, the actors never get enough runway to make these characters anything but facsimiles of overwrought tropes. ... The worst offense “First Kill” commits, though, is that it never sells the central romance that should by all rights be its beating heart.
Amazing show with two beautiful leads with incredible chemistry,gorgeous sapphic story with great writing, interesting and entertaining story and fun characters. Lesbian queens deserve representation netflix made the mistake cancelling this masterpiece.
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First Kill (The Musical) is probably a great story, but I couldn’t really get into the story with all the distracting songs. Directors need to trust and believe that the writing and acting will connect viewers to the story. I counted at least fourteen (14) songs in the first episode, eight songs played in the first nine minutes. While I did like the songs, it was just too much and very distracting. I plan to finish watching but will need to take it slow to really give the series a chance.
As always, if you made it this far, thanks for reading, and if you watch this series, let me know what you think.
Keep it interesting, Stay Channel Surfing!
Damian at TalkTeaV
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What we got here is a very predictable and in some ways corny mix of the Vampire Diaries and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The acting is mediocre at best, the story is so predictable that by episode 2 I had already guessed important parts of the ending. This had potential, if they had instead created something like Vampire the Masquerade Swansong, but obviously target for the teen element. Instead they went for the hype train, so the show gets rated not because of its real quality but because for who it's targeted for. Everyone knows this is pride month for the LGBTQ+ community, and interestingly enough you got something clearly made to take advantage of that. It's not a bad show, but it's also nothing outstanding or groundbreaking. If you're really evaluating the show for what it's and does, then you can see elements of several other previous shows all mixed together. And I guess it could've worked if those elements had been mixed correctly, and the story carried with it a much deeper world to be discovered. As it's, the over simplicity of it all makes it something you can see to pass the time, but it will not be something that's going to stay in people's list of recommended choices. This show literally adds nothing to the vampire genre. And in some moments it becomes more cheesey than even Twilight.
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Look at the positive reviews if you want to see - 1) Why this show bombed.
2) Who it was meant for.
Spoilers, it wasn't for people who like vampires.
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Production Company:
- Belletrist
Initial Release Date: Jun 10, 2022
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-MA
Awards
ReFrame
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
BreakTudo Awards
• 1 Nomination
