But that storied sapphic tradition has not carried over into mainstream TV or film with nearly enough frequency to warrant calling the Netflix show's nascent attempt 'tired.' On Twitter, Variety 's review got ratioed for a headline calling First Kill a 'tired take' on 'teen lesbian vampires,' with folks piling on to rightfully call out the irony of labeling one of the only TV shows centered on a young lesbian love story 'tired.' Of course, there's a rich history of lesbian vampirism in literature, with Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla almost single-handedly kicking off the vampire gothic genre back in 1872. If the 92 percent audience score is any indication, LGBTQ YA fiction fans are ready to die on any hill for Calliope 'Cal' Burns (Imani Lewis) and Juliette Fairmont (Sarah Catherine Hook). As we all cautiously started watching First Kill anyway though (since sapphic trash-lovers will almost always watch anything that at least attempts to give us what we want regardless of Tomatometrics), that wariness turned away from the show itself and toward everyone who obviously just did not Get It. Then the reviews came in, with a 57 percent Rotten Tomatoes critics rating that didn't bode well for this Pride Month event.

A Romeo and Juliet-style enemy-turned-lover, biracial, lesbian high school relationship caught between their feuding vampire and monster-hunter families? Say less, and just give us more already.