I was only able to get through the first episode even though Netflix did their normal full season release, and I doubt I will be binge watching this anytime soon, so this article is only referencing episode one. This is a teen drama, and since Buffy was a couple decades old and I doubt todays teens are picking up classical tragedies for their fun summer reading, the plot may seem fresh and new to who will be watching the series. I, a fifty-two-year-old gay white male, is not really the intended audience. Even with spicing up the plot a bit with having the main couples both be female the plot is just a bit cliched for me.
If the plot seems a bit familiar, besides the obvious Shakespearean references (like naming a man character “Juliette”), it is also similar to Buffy the Vampire’s relationship with Angel, where Buffy is a “Slayer” who’s first love is to a vampire. When the two meet at their high school, sparks fly and they begin a complicated relationship, akin to Romeo and Juliet. Calliope (Imani Lewis) is a sixteen-year-old who belongs to a family of “Monster Hunters”. Juliette (Sarah Catherine Hook) is a vampire who has just had her sixteenth birthday and so must make her first kill before her urges become too strong and she exposes the safety that her family has built by fitting into regular society. First Kill is a new Netflix series based on a short story by Victoria Schwab who is also an Executive Producer and wrote the first episode of the show.
