Let the Right One In: Season 1

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SHOWTIME | Season Premiere Date: October 9, 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.

[Premieres on the Showtime app and on-demand on 7 Oct 2022 and on the Showtime networkMark (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.

[Premieres on the Showtime app and on-demand on 7 Oct 2022 and on the Showtime network on 9 Oct 2022]… Expand

Genre(s): Drama, Horror, Science Fiction

Season 1 Episodes

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S1:E10. What's Done in the Dark
Air Date: December 11, 2022
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S1:E9. Monster
Air Date: December 4, 2022
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S1:E8. Or Stay and Die
Air Date: November 27, 2022

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Mike Hale

Oct 7, 2022

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. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Nick Allen

Oct 6, 2022

Hinderaker and his team thoughtfully elaborate on the human aspect of this story about families and vampires, letting its creepy elements round it off as a piece of meaty dramatic horror. Read full review

IndieWire Ben Travers

Oct 10, 2022

The set up, while at times too neat, is confident and compelling. (For what it’s worth, I breezed through six episodes.) Showtime’s series isn’t going to convince anyone it’s the best adaptation to date, but there’s enough reason yet again to welcome Ellie into your home. Read full review

Daniel Fienberg

Oct 7, 2022

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. Read full review

Joel Keller

Oct 10, 2022

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 full review

Hattie Lindert

Oct 6, 2022

Let The Right One In just falls flat. As the series jumps between goofy romance, crime procedural, family drama, and horror, it loses all its narrative steam. Read full review

The Guardian Charles Bramesco

Oct 7, 2022

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. Read full review

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Creditwheredue5

Oct 10, 2022

If the user reviewer "shoulderoforion" would have watched a bit more of the opening show he would have found out that the father of the young man who got toasted in the opening scene had been working on a cure and was sure it would be successful. Thus the experiment in the sun at the startIf the user reviewer "shoulderoforion" would have watched a bit more of the opening show he would have found out that the father of the young man who got toasted in the opening scene had been working on a cure and was sure it would be successful. Thus the experiment in the sun at the start of the episode. I would suggest to "shoulderoforion to not give up so easily and hang in their for a bit longer. He might be pleasantly surprised. I've seen both movies of Let the Right One In and liked them both. And this new version seems interesting with some promise.… Expand

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SplitMind

Oct 11, 2022

Yet another mundane and unnecessary serialisation of what was already a solid original. If you're going to make a series out of something like this, you gotta make sure you have something special, which this is sorely lacking.

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shoulderoforion

Oct 9, 2022

In this day and age, if you open a vampire show with a scene showing a vampire who's never experienced a sunrise, standing in the middle of an open area, unprotected in any way, just waiting to be fried, and of course gets fried, I'm going to take a very dim view of the minds behind theIn this day and age, if you open a vampire show with a scene showing a vampire who's never experienced a sunrise, standing in the middle of an open area, unprotected in any way, just waiting to be fried, and of course gets fried, I'm going to take a very dim view of the minds behind the entire enterprise. Took me about 10 minutes after that to say, nah, and shut it off.… Expand

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: October 9, 2022
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  S1:E10. What's Done in the Dark
  Air Date: December 11, 2022
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  S1:E9. Monster
  Air Date: December 4, 2022
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  S1:E8. Or Stay and Die
  Air Date: November 27, 2022
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  S1:E7. More Than You'll Ever Know
  Air Date: November 20, 2022
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  S1:E6. Stargazers
  Air Date: November 13, 2022
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  S1:E5. Quoquo Modo Necessarium
  Air Date: November 6, 2022
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  S1:E4. Outings
  Air Date: October 30, 2022
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  S1:E3. Broken Glass
  Air Date: October 23, 2022
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  S1:E2. Intercessors
  Air Date: October 16, 2022
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  S1:E1. Anything for Blood
  Air Date: October 9, 2022