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- SHOWTIME
- Oct 7, 2022
- SHOWTIME
- Oct 7, 2022
Summary Mark (Demián Bichir) tries to provide enough blood for his daughter (Madison Taylor Baez) who was turned into a vampire 10 years ago as a 12-year-old in this series inspired by John Ajvide Lindqvist's Swedish novel and the 2008 film of the same name.
Created By: Andrew Hinderaker
- SHOWTIME
- Oct 7, 2022
- SHOWTIME
- Oct 7, 2022
Summary Mark (Demián Bichir) tries to provide enough blood for his daughter (Madison Taylor Baez) who was turned into a vampire 10 years ago as a 12-year-old in this series inspired by John Ajvide Lindqvist's Swedish novel and the 2008 film of the same name.
Created By: Andrew Hinderaker
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 18 Critic Reviews
63
50% Positive
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
50% Mixed
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
0% Negative
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Its familiar elements are ordered and executed with above-average intelligence and polish, enough that you can overlook a couple of gaping coincidences that keep the plot moving. Most important is its strong cast.
This show will not equal the artistic impact of the original film, but it retains its meditative qualities while upping the horror and the narrative intrigue, and it may be the case that it attracts more American viewers in the end.
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Based on 11 User Ratings
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36% Positive
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The show is most interesting when the kids are at the center; each has what the other needs. Foreman and Baez are genuine and touching, and it’s easy to invest in their story, with fingers crossed for a good outcome.
Let The Right One In is a bit uneven, mainly because some stories are less interesting than others, even if they’ll all get connected somehow by the end of the season. We just want to see how Mark and Ellie manage Ellie’s unusual life, and we want to see more of that as the show goes on.
Read the book and see both movies first. Once you know the story and accept that this isn’t definitive, its complementary merits have some value, even if the show doesn’t offer the devastating variations on a fertile theme that I would have hoped for.
Thanks to a raft of solid performances and some promising possible paths forward, there’s reason to believe that things may yet grow more intense and bizarre. It’s hard to shake the nagging feeling, though, that Hinderaker’s small-screen remake is too defanged for its own good.
Suffers from the same ailment of needless elongation due to a surfeit of subplots padding the original text. A feature’s worth of story cannot always be made to fill a serial run time, but it seems that that’s not going to stop anyone from trying.
