First Kill Is the Queer Vampire Drama We’ve Always Deserved
The Advocate. “We have had crumbs, and we have had subtext. And we’ve had queerbaiting. And we’ve had tragedy porn where it never ends well, the bury your gays — all of it.” But enough was enough for Schwab, who set about writing something she always wanted and needed to see.“I grew up with Buffy and with Supernatural, I grew up eating those crumbs.
But I wanted to be in those stories. And yet, I was told — and I was told via media — for so long that you don’t exist in those stories.
Or if you do, it ends badly, she says. “And so what I really wanted to do was create a space in the genre for two girls to have a queer love story.” Her resulting short story would become the basis for Netflix’s new queer vampire drama, First Kill.
The series, which premieres on the streaming service this Friday, follows the complicated love story of Juliet and Calliope who develop an instant connection when the latter moves to town.
