First Kill Season One Review
There is an immediate cultural backlash to anything that looks too heavily targeted at teenage girls that permeates discussion of most young adult works. Unfortunately, First Kill is a decent idea and some solid fine details buried beneath an avalanche of problems all too familiar to the genre.
The series is based on a short story by showrunner V. E. Schwab, who has several other literary projects heading to the screen in the near future. The difficulties of stretching a 34-page short story into just over six hours of streaming TV content are demonstrated by this work in a way that could be taught in screenwriting classrooms.
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In scenic Savannah, Georgia (shot on location, to great effect), a town known for various hauntings, 16-year-old Juliette becomes instantly infatuated with her new classmate Calliope. Jules comes from an ages-old line of high-born vampires who have evolved beyond most classic downsides of the species. Cal comes from a family of monster hunters and has been trained from birth to kill things that go bump in the night. Juliette and Calliope's romance is a whirlwind, instantly overwhelming both young ladies' instincts to kill the other. The comparisons to Romeo and Juliet are both entirely intentional and mentioned in the script far too often.
The title refers to the fact that both Juliette and Calliope are on the precipice of their momentous first kill. Juliette is set to kill her first human for sustenance while Calliope is preparing to slay her first monster. The expectations of each family are the most prominent aspect of the storytelling. Both families are shockingly well-realized, with a lot of interesting details that unfortunately fail to go anywhere. The
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