- Network: Netflix
- Series Premiere Date: Jun 10, 2022
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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.
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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.
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“First Kill” is a dull, predictable “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” knock-off (if Buffy was a lesbian).
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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?"
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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.
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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.
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First Kill could have been a fun teen supernatural series. But its storytelling is so clumsy it’s just very hard to watch.
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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.
User score distribution:
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Positive: 4 out of 10
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Mixed: 1 out of 10
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Negative: 5 out of 10
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Jun 29, 2022Lacklustre, tedious, repetitive, trivial, follows the stereotypical nature of queer characters which is exacerbated by the Twilight baited formula.
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Jun 15, 2022This review contains spoilers, click full review link to view.
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Jun 17, 2022