Friday June 10, First Kill arrives on Netflix. The story of an unlikely love between two young girls, one a vampire, the other a monster hunter.
Vampires, high school students, and love challenged by differences. Almost fifteen years after the release of the first “Twilight” in cinemas, the formula still appeals. Evidenced by the new Netflix series available Friday, June 10: “First Kill”. The story of two young girls whose destiny appears to be traced by their family heritage, but whom love will come to upset. Juliette would aspire to be a teenager like the others. Unfortunately, she’s a vampire. Even more problematic, she is reaching the age where her bloodlust is felt. So she will soon have to kill for the first time.
She sets her sights on Calliope. But this one turns out to be the descendant of a long line of monster hunters. She’s trained her whole life to kill them. And the hour of his first time is also approaching. But the two young girls whose destiny seems to be to kill each other will fall in love with each other.
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Twilight, Buffy, Shakespeare
The plot therefore evokes “Twilight”, but also “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”, with Shakespearean springs. Because the lovers, such as Romeo and Juliet, come from two illustrious families whose ancestral quarrels will come to upset their feelings. Parental pressure for the children to follow their parents’ plan is ever-present, and the heroines will have to choose between disappointing their family and their feelings. Other monsters will also come to try to separate them.
The series also promises to address the theme of sexuality. The unlikely attraction between the monster and the huntress echoes their same-sex relationship. Thus, their families judge that they have nothing to do together and that their feelings are “against nature”.
Based on a short story by Victoria Schwab, “First Kill” will have eight episodes for this first season. Still little known to the general public, Imani Lewis and Sarah Catherine Hook play Calliope and Juliet respectively. We will also find Elizabeth Mitchell, seen in “Lost” or “Once Upon a Time”, as well as Emma Roberts, revealed by the series “American Horror Story.”
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