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This show is miles above the usual campy teen vampire show. Not that it's not got huge camp. It does. And it suffers a bit from cheesy effects & abrupt scene cuts. The first ep was so lame I bailed partway through and didn't come back to it for 6 weeks.
But when I did, I was soon hooked.
This show is entertaining as hell. Clothes to die for. Family drama worthy of the old Dynasty, or whatever your generation's benchmark for OTT intergenerational backstabbing is. Almost worthy of a telenovela. Tropes flipped upside down and back to front.
Some complain it's 'too woke' but I saw a number of well-handled scenarios that are very much in keeping with modern high-school dynamics and yet reinforced respecting others' boundaries, gaining consent, learning to become fully yourself and defining your course in life apart from your family's. All genuine adolescent dilemmas well disguised as a fun, campy vampire show.
With some deeply touching moments.
But when I did, I was soon hooked.
This show is entertaining as hell. Clothes to die for. Family drama worthy of the old Dynasty, or whatever your generation's benchmark for OTT intergenerational backstabbing is. Almost worthy of a telenovela. Tropes flipped upside down and back to front.
Some complain it's 'too woke' but I saw a number of well-handled scenarios that are very much in keeping with modern high-school dynamics and yet reinforced respecting others' boundaries, gaining consent, learning to become fully yourself and defining your course in life apart from your family's. All genuine adolescent dilemmas well disguised as a fun, campy vampire show.
With some deeply touching moments.
..and maybe a bit of Hitchcock at his most puckish.
A bit the over the top in places, and fairly predictable.
But then we all know when we see an isolated manor (or castle) filled where leeching relatives and friends form a sycophant whirlpool around a rich and controlling patriarch (or matriarch), somebody is going to die. This is no more improbable than any similar movies made entirely in English any time these past 80 years.
If the acting's a bit stilted, well, given the floating between two languages and the challenge of delivering over-the-top dialogue without the tongue firmly in one's cheek - which all actors find challenging in these kind of roles - it's hardly surprising the whole thing is not as smooth as it would optimally be be. It's better, I think, if you understand enough of the main language to catch the subtleties and cultural nods that don't make it into the English-language captioning.
The production values are decent, the setting is gorgeous, the costuming occasionally inspired. Watch it if you like Bollywood movies and Golden Age mysteries.
A bit the over the top in places, and fairly predictable.
But then we all know when we see an isolated manor (or castle) filled where leeching relatives and friends form a sycophant whirlpool around a rich and controlling patriarch (or matriarch), somebody is going to die. This is no more improbable than any similar movies made entirely in English any time these past 80 years.
If the acting's a bit stilted, well, given the floating between two languages and the challenge of delivering over-the-top dialogue without the tongue firmly in one's cheek - which all actors find challenging in these kind of roles - it's hardly surprising the whole thing is not as smooth as it would optimally be be. It's better, I think, if you understand enough of the main language to catch the subtleties and cultural nods that don't make it into the English-language captioning.
The production values are decent, the setting is gorgeous, the costuming occasionally inspired. Watch it if you like Bollywood movies and Golden Age mysteries.