First Kill Review: Netflix Teenage Drama Unfortunately a Great Missed Opportunity Born From The Pen Of Victoria Schwab

Starring: Sarah Catherine Hook, Imani Lewis, Elizabeth Mitchell

Director: Jet Wilkinson

Streaming Platform: Netflix (click to watch)

Filmyhype.com Ratings: 2/5 (two stars) [yasr_overall_rating size=”large”]

On June 10, First Kill arrives on Netflix, a teen horror series written and produced by writer Victoria Schwab, based on her short story contained in the Vampires Never Get Old: Tales with fresh bites collection. The show, which mixes teen drama and horror, is yet another story with Shakespearean tones about the impossible and contrasted love of two young people with a decidedly different past and history, which draws on a long series of productions of the past but brings too much little innovation despite the interesting premises.

First Kill, is a Netflix teenage vampire romance series that turns male and female protagonists into females based on the popular trend of the creators of Netflix, who accuse Netflix of trying to push the LGTBQ genre into everything beyond fit. is trying to make everything have something like this but coming to this story, it’s clear that it’s a sales line for women who like things like Yuri, women love women, which was clear from the beginning. Anyone who is not the target audience should skip this one.

First Kill Review: The Story

The story revolves around a world of monster hunters and aristocratic vampires known as Legacy, a vampire who lives a normal life like everyone else, is exposed to the sun, has a shadow in the mirror, and can eat normal food. but only need to drink more blood which is plotted around This isn’t anything new. Because the current vampire has been adapted to various things. and have been there before and the hunter is the same. The series is nothing new with the world it creates. There is only an attempt to proceed in such a way that both sides try to harmonize with society in anonymity. Live like parents, students go to see teachers, take care of children, and socialize normally. Which turned out to be funny. Let’s go every time the characters in the story try to do something like this. Then they must meet in school after both children have problems often. Become a series of vampire headaches and raise teenage teens instead.

The love story at the center of the story is made to reference Romeo and Juliet. The heroine of the story is named Juliet. A teenage vampire, good-looking, a little charming, the other party’s name is not Romeo, but Cal is a young teenage black girl. Both sides were backgrounded as noble bloodlines from the past. The story is trying to twist the plot of Romeo and Juliet the most. at home hamper both love each other ready to leave everything to love but the problem is the family that can’t be cut off. The story often has scenes that support both. including a kiss scene with a soft love scene for each other Which is probably because the story still makes them both 16-year-olds, so there hasn’t been a scene that crosses the stage to have a relationship. The chemistry between the two is not very compatible, not Chuan In, but overall and then came out oh K If you look at how this series needs a point at this point to meet the audience who likes something like this, I am a man and still feel okay with the love scenes.

First Kill Review And Analysis

First Kill constantly tries to emulate some of the horror serial productions that have made television history such as Buffy, Charmed, and the most recent The Vampire Diaries, Supernatural and Teen Wolf, completely losing sight of its originality despite some plot premises from do not underestimate starting from the protagonist duo. Juliette and Calliopethey are the first homosexual couple to star in a TV series of this kind aimed at a young audience. With an attractive plot and two protagonists of the genre, the success of the product should almost have been taken for granted but it is not. If on the one hand, the countless slips of the screenplay mean that dialogues and situations are for the most part decontextualized and sometimes meaningless, the staging is on the verge of acceptable.

With an elementary direction, a fake use of special effects and fluctuating editing, the whole series is made up of too many lows and few highs that could make you lose interest in continuing the vision. The action scenes are tired and limping, not very dynamic and lacking that feeling of adrenaline that they should convey, the few demonic creatures that are staged are poorly made almost as if you were in front of a series b product. Note on the soundtrack which consists of truly enjoyable pop music tracks where pieces by Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, Carrie Underwood and others stand out.

Despite the potential of the two protagonists, this is exploited most linearly and predictably possible. The explicit references to Shakespeare mark yet another laziness on the part of the production to find unoriginal narrative tricks to tell “impossible” love and passion. The adults themselves, the parents, despite being present and (theoretically) important, not like in other young adult productions in which they are completely absent, are characterized by a very unripe construction that makes them childish and devoid of any authority. The secondary characters are almost entirely non-existent or forgettable.

In addition, the end of the story also tries to expand the scale of the story to a large extent. To continue the season 2 in a very ugly way. Because in the first season, this has not yet cleared any clues. (Even though I don’t have many) and the author believes that this series should not have a chance to continue. But if I could continue here, it might be because the power of the female group might be more than expected.

In a series that penetrates the Yuri genre, a woman who loves women does not have to be around. by just taking the plot of the hunter and vampire genre mixed with a Romeo and Juliet background. Which is done well and has a cuteness with a light teenage love scene. but the other part is unable to clear the story that catches celery, what do you think you will wear? The plot is in the vignette, CG with bad makeup, and every action scene is so limp that it’s like they’re playing with each other. Plus, trying to expand the story to continue with Season 2 is ugly. Make the story unfinished, nothing is cleared.

First Kill Review: The Last Words

First Kill is unfortunately a great missed opportunity. Born from the pen of Victoria Schwab, a beloved young adult author, she cannot keep alive the interest that a story like this could have aroused. Although the protagonist couple lives an unoriginal love story, the development would have been original if handled differently. Little chemistry between the characters, events that follow one another in a disconnected way, flat dialogues and too obvious and obvious screenplay ideas, make the first season of First Kill a too subdued production that may not be appreciated risking to remain a first-and last – season.