First Kill

Over the course of eight episodes, all of which drop on Netflix today (June 10) when the review embargo tellingly also lifts, the drama follows Juliette and ...

Instead, Hook and Lewis’ complete lack of chemistry makes their dynamic so stilted that these moments come out of nowhere to land with an awkward thud. (If anyone has chemistry on this show, it’s maybe Mitchell and Wise as their clashing mothers, but maybe that’s just the exhaustion of trying to locate a spark on this show talking.) 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. Instead, “First Kill” hangs Hook and Lewis out to dry with uninspired faux “banter” and poorly staged “sexy” scenes. The Romeo and Juliet parallels are of course intentional, but too obvious to be particularly clever, Sapphic twist or no. Over the course of eight episodes, all of which drop on Netflix today (June 10) when the review embargo tellingly also lifts, the drama follows Juliette and Calliope (aka “Cal”) as they struggle to balance their birthrights with not just the hell that is high school, but their immediate attraction to each other.

Imani Lewis (Calliope Burns) · Sarah Catherine Hook (Juliette Fairmont) · Aubin Wise (Talia) · Jason Robert Moore (Jack) · Dominic Goodman (Apollo) · Phillip ...

She also played Clementine on Zoo during the second and third seasons, and had a recurring role in Chasing Life. First Kill is streaming on Netflix as of June 10. Will Swenson plays Sebastian in First Kill. Swenson’s fans know him best for his work in the theater. He has appeared in the films Kicks, August Falls, and He’s All That. Netflix fans may recognize Swenson for his recurring role in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina as Pan. He’s also appeared in episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, The Good Wife, and Law & Order: Criminal Intent. It’s sure to be a great show for fans of vampires. She also had a recurring role as the Snow Queen during Once Upon a Time Season 4. Wise also appeared in the film Dimlland. the Bronx, Farewell Amor, The Forty-Year-Old-Version, and Premature. Her first major gig was as Tanya on The Get Down. The following year, she appeared in Bo Burnham’s critically acclaimed film, Eighth Grade, which made it on many best movies of 2018 lists. She wants to continue her family’s monster hunter legacy but finds herself conflicted when she starts to fall for one of her enemies. The series follows a legacy vampire and a legacy monster hunter who fall in love, very Buffy The Vampire Slayer meets Romeo and Juliet, but a little more modern, racially diverse, and queer.

Throughout the season, vampire Juliette (Sarah Catherine Hook) and vampire hunter Cal (Imani Lewis) have been yearning for one another as their romance has ...

Together, Juliette and Oliver give the key to Elinor’s storage locker to the police, where they find the driver’s licenses of the dozens of people Elinor has killed over the years. Determined to keep this unfortunate turn of events under wraps, Margot (Elizabeth Mitchell) decides it’s her time to be the new Keeper, eager to step into the role and leave her mother in the past with most of her outdated traditions. Where the family stands at the end of the episode is unclear, as all three children are quite separated from their parents. However, it isn’t until the confrontation when Elinor threatens the rest of the Burns family that Juliette makes the decision to join Oliver and take Elinor down for her crimes. With so much on the line going into the season finale, as Oliver (Dylan McNamara) continues trying to get Juliette on his side and with relationships up in the air, the season finale is completely game-changing. Instead, she helps him escape, taking him to Oliver to stay alive, be safe, and learn control. After the fight with Elinor (Gracie Dzienny), Cal and Juliette walk into the bathroom to see Theo (Phillip Mullings Jr.) and Apollo (Dominic Goodman) on the floor, with Theo seemingly having bled out. Everything is too loud, too bright, and the thirst for blood is unquenchable. While she’s terrified of what’s happening to him, Jack (Jason R. Moore) immediately takes action and straps Theo down in the family’s basement, preparing to defeat the monster that, in his eyes, has taken the place of his now-dead son. Out of the four other Burnses, Talia is the only one absolutely dead set on not murdering Theo, while both Cal and Apollo side with their father and refuse to believe that any part of their brother remains. The first season of Netflix’s First Kill has come to a truly unpredictable end. Their bond has created quite a few obstacles — for themselves and others — and led to several near-death experiences, forcing the two to lean on each other more than anyone else.

"First Kill" follows teen vampire Juliette Fairmont and hunter Calliope Burns, whose romance is tested when Calliope's brother Theo meets a shocking fate.

"I just thought that was just so clever. "So, that's one of the only elements that I brought into the room and I said 'I want this' and like fought for it every single time it came up moving towards the end of the season. "I actually read the script with Imani in my trailer and every time, after each scene, we just kept screaming louder and louder." "We were so excited! "I was like, 'I want this I want this I want this!' I mean, I didn't have the constant context of the bible, it's completely different, it happened a different way, but it always happens in relation to Juliette in the way that it does in the show. It is shortly revealed that Theo is now a vampire, and towards the end of the episode Juliette reveals to Calliope that she is the one who turned him because she didn't want to see her hurt.

6. First Kill's Imani Lewis was cast as Calliope after a long casting process. Although it was a fairly quick casting process for Juliette (Sarah Catherine Hook) ...

Many people thought First Kill was based on a book, which is a reasonable assumption since most Netflix originals are based on books. When Netflix bought V. E. Schwab’s short story, the streamer hired her to adapt it into a television series. After a highly competitive bidding war, Belletrist Productions won rights to V. E. Schwab’s short story, which Netflix gave a series order to in October 2020. According to TheCinemaholic, a local school was used as a backdrop for the fictional Lancaster Academy. It was also reported that Colonial Park Cemetery in downtown Savannah was used as a setting. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Sarah Catherine mentioned that she received the casting call for the show via email from her manager. The incredible showrunner Felicia D. Henderson spoke with The Knockturnal and said that pre-production started in the fall of 2020, and then production took place for six months in 2021. But once Juliette and Calliope meet, sparks fly, and both of their tasks to make their first kill become much more complicated. All Calliope wants to do is prove to her family that she has what it takes to join them on their monster-hunting missions. First Kill is now streaming on Netflix and it’s what everyone is currently watching and talking about. So if you’re on the fence about watching the vampire series, we’re here to tell you to join us and hop on the First Kill bandwagon. We meet Juliette, a teen vampire who has reached the age where she must make her first kill to join her powerful vampire family. In addition, it looks like various neighborhoods were used as backdrops as well.

The Netflix teen drama First Kill is Romeo and Juliet for today's audiences but with a lesbian vampire high schooler falling for a female vampire hunter.

On the other side of town, Calliope ( Imani Lewis) comes from a long line of monster hunters and is trying to prove to her family that she's ready to make her first kill. The deeper setup is well-to-do vampire Juliette ( Sarah Catherine Hook) is pressured by her family to make her first kill not just as a rite of vampire passage, but because she biologically needs blood that she's tapped herself and can't sip sanguine Capri-Suns anymore. It's a classic tale of girl meets girl, vampire girl realizes other girl is a vampire hunter, girl tries to rip out girl's neck, girl stakes girl through the heart, girls fall in love anyway.

The queer vampire drama follows the events that unfold after a monster hunter and a vampire go against their respective families to be together.

Oliver goes on to confide in Theo that he came back to Savannah for the sole reason of ruining lives. Talia Burns, under the pretext of bidding farewell to Theo, frees him and leaves him with Oliver Fairmont. First Kill' is one of those few shows that are filled to the brim with characters but function optimally irrespective.