‘First Kill’ Showrunner Blames Netflix Show’s Cancellation On Marketing That Never Went Beyond Teen Lesbian Vampire Element - Deadline
On Tuesday, Netflix put a stake in First Kill after just one season.In the series, teenage vampire Juliette (Sarah Catherine Hook) sets out to make her first kill so she can take her place among a powerful vampire family.Both find that the other won’t be so easy to kill and, unfortunately, way too easy to fall for.
“I so enthusiastically signed on to this show [because] it has something for everyone,” Henderson said in an interview today with the Daily Beast, “strong women leads, supernatural intrigue, an epic, Shakespearean battle between warring families, and a prominently featured Black family in the genre space, something Black viewers crave and a general audience needs to be treated to.”.7 with 30.3M hours viewed.
3 in its first full week of release with 48.8M hours viewed, trailing only Stranger Things Season 4 and Peaky Blinders Season 6.
Henderson executive produced First Kill alongside Schwab as well as Roberts and Karah Preiss through Belletrist Productions