First Kill

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Season 1
  • Network: Netflix
  • Series Premiere Date: Jun 10, 2022
Metascore
45

Mixed or average reviews - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 8
  3. Negative: 4 out of 8
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Critic Reviews

  1. CNN
    Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    Jun 11, 2022
    35
    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.
  2. The Daily Beast
    Reviewed by: Laura Bradley
    Jun 14, 2022
    30
    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.
  3. Decider
    Reviewed by: Joel Keller
    Jun 10, 2022
    30
    First Kill could have been a fun teen supernatural series. But its storytelling is so clumsy it’s just very hard to watch.
  5. Variety
    Reviewed by: Caroline Framke
    Jun 10, 2022
    30
    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.

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User Score
4.5

Mixed or average reviews- based on 10 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 10
  3. Negative: 5 out of 10
  1. JoshuaJTaylor3
    Jun 29, 2022
    0
    Lacklustre, tedious, repetitive, trivial, follows the stereotypical nature of queer characters which is exacerbated by the Twilight baited formula.
  2. Popacr77hdhdei
    Jun 15, 2022
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click full review link to view. Trash, don't waste your time, anyway I just wish to watch a good TV show again but it seems that everything is so woke and trash these days… Full Review »
  3. aquarichy
    Jun 17, 2022
    10
    My favourite Netflix show of 2022. Great characters with great actors with great chemistry. Fun, goofy, and campy tone. Refreshingly skipsMy favourite Netflix show of 2022. Great characters with great actors with great chemistry. Fun, goofy, and campy tone. Refreshingly skips some tropes (doesn't wait until the end of the season to arrive at some pivotal points, but attends to them in the first episode and the rest of the season deals with the chaotic repercussions.) A queer story where the queerness isn't a source of conflict - those stories are important, but it's also important to sometimes tell stories where queerness is normal, as it ought to be. Recaptures the fun of monsters, previously found in Buffy et al.… Full Review »
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