Let me start by saying, I love Netflix! Not having to wait 3 to 6 months to watch an entire season; seriously, what could be better than that? I would also like to welcome it to the horror family.
Hemlock Grove is a brand new and horror adjacent. I say adjacent because it's not going to give you any scares, but vampires, werewolves and strange creatures are definitely on the menu.
The ingredients are, as always, a quite small little town, a high school, someone rich, someone poor, and the girl.
I haven't read the book it was based on so I cannot really say how good an adaptation it was, but what I can say is it was not half bad. The relationship between a werewolf, new in town, and an upir (code for vampire) becomes complex right when a series of bizarre killings starts. All eyes fall on the newcomer gypsy since he already admitted to being a werewolf to one of his schoolmates.
Who is killing?
Will the upir realise what it is?
Who is the mysterious mother?
What exactly is Shelley?
Who will get the girl?
What is uroboros anyway?
...and other questions will be answered, or not, in 13 nicely filmed episodes.
Let me just warn all of you it becomes a little tiresome before it reaches it's peak and I wasn't exactly a fan of the finale.
