She’s only been living in Savannah for two weeks. She’s able to exist in the sunshine, but silver burns her and she needs blood to maintain equilibrium.Ĭalliope (Imani Lewis), or Cal, as she prefers, is also 16 years old. It seems as though her type of vampire is a little different than the tropes the audience is used to. Juliette carries around a small pillbox containing red, oblong pills, and it doesn’t take much effort to realize that Juliette is a vampire. The episode begins with her nightmares filled with monsters and there are brief glimpses of people with fangs.
Juliette (Sarah Catherine Hook) is a 16-year-old living in Savannah, Georgia. The show is billed as a queer, modern, supernatural take on William Shakespeare’s most famous work about doomed love: Romeo and Juliet. Instead of the gothic imagery of the show’s cover art on Netflix, First Kill is a candy-colored teenage romp with more reminiscent of Clueless than of the moody, sparkly vampires in Twilight. The premiere episode of First Kill, “First Kiss,” plays a lot more like a teen romantic comedy than the promo artwork would lead audiences to believe. The following contains spoilers from the premiere of First Kill, S1E1, “First Kiss” (teleplay by Victoria Schwab, directed by Jet Wilkinson)
