First Kill juggles a young romance with ancient rivalry themes.
The tumultuous season comes to a close on an intriguing note, with the fates of many
key players hanging in the balance.
Let's take a closer look at the 'First Kill' season 1 finale and see what happens.
WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD.
Juliette begins the series by introducing her "legacy" vampire family.
She goes through disorienting spells and stays calm by swallowing blood capsules while still
an uninitiated vampire.
Juliette cannot bring herself to kill another human, despite her family's insistence, and
thus is unable to feed like a regular vampire.
Juliette is completely enthralled when she first sees Calliope, the new girl at school.
Her crush on Calliope quickly turns into a kiss between the two at a high school party.
Calliope, on the other hand, comes from a family of monster hunters and is aware of
Juliette's true identity.
Juliette tries to bite Calliope during their kiss, and Calliope responds by stabbing Juliette
with a stake.
Both families become concerned as word spreads of a budding romance between the vampire and
the monster hunter.
Calliope and Juliette fight to stay together, and they both get their first kills in the
process.
When the vampire side starts killing people, things get out of hand, prompting the formation
of the MA'AMs A.K.A Mothers Against All Monsters, a local vigilante group.
Even as their families try to keep their respective orders at bay in order to avoid an all-out
war between vampires and hunters, the two protagonists are uncontrollably drawn to each
other.
Meanwhile, a family feud reveals that Juliette's father, Sebastian, is not a pure vampire but
a human who has been turned into one.
Sebastian and his matriarchal mother-in-law, Davina, have a fight in which the former kills
the latter.
The family keeps the murder a secret, but they are now afraid that the vampire order
will find out about Davina's death.
Davina's powerful position as Keeper of the Emerald Malkia is secretly passed down to
her daughter Juliette's mother, Margot.
Juliette saves Calliope from a kidnapping attempt by another hunter.
Juliette loses control when the man attacks them again, and she feeds on him until he
dies.
Calliope protects Juliette and dispatches the monster when the classmate who was found
dead at the party returns to school as a zombie.
Both girls commit their first murders in order to protect the other, despite the fact that
their families would have preferred them to be each other's first murder victims.
All vampires were created by the serpent from the Garden of Eden.
They were supposed to be the epitome of pure-blood vampire culture, but they've fallen out of
favor.
Juliette's first kill is a rite of passage, and she'll make her debut in front of other
Legacy families at her consecration ceremony, which serves to reaffirm their status.
When the Burns attack the gathering, the Legacy's distrust of the Fairmonts is cemented.
Sebastian (Will Swenson), Juliette's father, is killed in the raid, so Elinor strikes a
deal with her grandmother Davina to save him.
They turn him into a pure-blood with the Emerald Malkia, and then he eats Grandma.
Now Elinor and Margot (Elizabeth Mitchell) must maintain their good looks in order to
prevent the other families from claiming the serpent.
MA'AM Mothers Against All Monsters has formed a mob to flesh out monsters in the meantime.
Oliver is, without a doubt, the season's biggest villain.
He returns to Savannah to exact revenge and wreak havoc on the Fairmonts after being exiled
from the family for being particularly sadistic—which he blames on his twin, Elinor.
He wants his parents and twin sister to go through the same ordeal he did, and he wants
Juliette to turn against them.
What appears to be a minor family feud soon reveals itself to be a much larger plot to
destabilize the Fairmonts and turn Savannah into a nightmare.
The entire time, Oliver and his witch lover Carmen (Walnette Marie Santiago) have been
manipulating events.
They arrived in Savannah with a slew of monsters and have been releasing the creature to terrorize
the city.
They are responsible for the resurgence of monsters in the area, and as a result, the
residents are aware of monsters in their midst and ready to fight them.
Savannah may not be a safe haven for the Fairmonts in the future, which appears to be the point.
When we last saw Oliver and Carmen, they were showing Theo their backyard, which was full
of awaiting monsters, and basically declaring war on the city.
Both of the girls' families are going through it, and their friendship was a big part of
it.
Throughout, they defied the critics, putting themselves and their families in danger.
However, the ramifications have now spread to everyone and everything around them.
Juliette has broken up with Calliope because she has turned Theo into the things he despises
the most, and she has revealed herself to be the monster Calliope had hoped she would
never be.
The Burns family are respected hunters in the Guardian Guild, until Calliope’s relationship
with Juliette undermines that.
The Burns lead an unsuccessful raid on the Fairmonts and lose two friends and fellow
hunters while failing to kill any of the legacies.
The Guild loses faith in the Burns, and family heads Talia (Aubin Wise) and Jack (Jason R.
Moore) will do whatever is necessary to regain the Guild’s trust, and finish the job.
That is, until their kids are at risk.
The Burns may have to fight battles on multiple fronts.
Talia against Jack, then against both the Guild—who no longer trusts them—and the
monsters amassing in Savannah.