First Kill

First Kill flips genre conventions and romantic cliches on their head to tell a story about belief, betrayal, and love for all with patient ears to attend.

The disappointment of First Kill is that the show itself feels like something that can only be loved moderately. It’s a pleasant distraction that goes down easy enough — but it comes nowhere near capturing the all-encompassing allure of a really irresistible binge, let alone of a forbidden first love.

While the eight episodes are packed with CW-grade supernatural nonsense. ... It's the kind of nonsense that goes down easy depending on your tolerance for campiness and dialogue such as, "You ate my mother?"

The appeal of the genre is understandable, since as the examples above remind us, there are bountiful rewards if you get it right. It’s just when you miss that vein, you wind up with something as toothless, bland and fitfully silly as First Kill.

In some ways, First Kill does expand and improve upon the legacies of vampire fiction—particularly contemporary teen romances like Twilight and Vampire Diaries. ... Unfortunately, this show kind of bites in every other way possible.

First Kill could have been a fun teen supernatural series. But its storytelling is so clumsy it’s just very hard to watch.

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. ... The worst offense “First Kill” commits, though, is that it never sells the central romance that should by all rights be its beating heart.

This show was a solid watch and checked off a lot of boxes that viewers are looking for! I don't believe that there is anything else out like it currently. I just wish there were more than 8 episodes to a season.

First Kill (The Musical) is probably a great story, but I couldn’t really get into the story with all the distracting songs. Directors need to trust and believe that the writing and acting will connect viewers to the story. I counted at least fourteen (14) songs in the first episode, eight songs played in the first nine minutes. While I did like the songs, it was just too much and very distracting. I plan to finish watching but will need to take it slow to really give the series a chance. As always, if you made it this far, thanks for reading, and if you watch this series, let me know what you think. Keep it interesting, Stay Channel Surfing! Damian at TalkTeaV

This show sold itself as a silly lesbian vampire series and I was down for it, but I still came away disappointed. The first episode, while by no means quality television, was entertaining enough. It had an interesting structure, set up the story quite well, and had a really, really sexy kiss between the main characters. So I came away optimistic, since it was clearly wasting no time getting to what I think most of the audience signed up for. The story meandered along from there, but I was still relatively entertained up until episode 3. It was pretty contrived in the way it kept putting the main characters in the same room, but as I was there for the romance, I didn't mind it too much. We got another really sexy kiss in the third episode. The story started taking itself way too seriously after that and tried tackling topics that were too ambituous for the writers and cast. It was in a sense hillarious how stupid the plot and dialogue became at that point, and I could have forgiven this if the show remembered what the audience was there for, namely the lesbian romance. But no, they kept contriving stupid angsty drama that actively interfered with the romance in the most annoying and silly ways, and other than a few innocent pecks and hugs, we didn't get any more romantic scenes. I had a few good chuckles with the goofy dialogue here and there, but other than that I was bored out of my skull and begging for it to end. The only reason I watched until the end was because I hoped the romance might pick up again, but it never did. They even broke up at the end and since it was never renewed for another season, that's it. My advice: just watch the first episode and stop there. You'll get the jist of what the show is, and you can watch the rest of the romantic highlights (there's no that many, so don't get your hopes up) on Youtube of something. Don't let this series waste your precious lesbian time. There are better things to watch. ;)

What we got here is a very predictable and in some ways corny mix of the Vampire Diaries and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The acting is mediocre at best, the story is so predictable that by episode 2 I had already guessed important parts of the ending. This had potential, if they had instead created something like Vampire the Masquerade Swansong, but obviously target for the teen element. Instead they went for the hype train, so the show gets rated not because of its real quality but because for who it's targeted for. Everyone knows this is pride month for the LGBTQ+ community, and interestingly enough you got something clearly made to take advantage of that. It's not a bad show, but it's also nothing outstanding or groundbreaking. If you're really evaluating the show for what it's and does, then you can see elements of several other previous shows all mixed together. And I guess it could've worked if those elements had been mixed correctly, and the story carried with it a much deeper world to be discovered. As it's, the over simplicity of it all makes it something you can see to pass the time, but it will not be something that's going to stay in people's list of recommended choices. This show literally adds nothing to the vampire genre. And in some moments it becomes more cheesey than even Twilight.

Look at the positive reviews if you want to see - 1) Why this show bombed. 2) Who it was meant for. Spoilers, it wasn't for people who like vampires.