Let the Right One In (TV Series) Anything for Blood (2022) User Reviews

Let The Right One In's adaptions have been slowly building toward this.

[artfuldragon · 9/10 · 12 August 2023]

This is a loose adaption of the book, but not so loose that it doesn't deserve to use the Title of the book. Eleanor's story isn't nearly as tragic as Eli's, and Mark isn't as Horrible a person as Hakan, the character he is very loosely based on. Mark is a man who's daughter was attack by a vampire, a little over a decade ago. Mark struggles w/ feeding her and giving her a sense of normalcy in her life. Eleanor struggles w/ Loneliness, fear of loosing her father, and shame from needing blood to live. Whenever i watch an adaption, i always interpret name changes as a sign that the character will be drastically different, and that is definitely the case w/ Isaiah (stand in for Oskar character). In the book/movie when Eli meets Oskar he is stabbing a tree w/ a knife, fantasizing about killing his bullies. The only similarity between Oskar & Isaiah is that they are both bullied. Isaiah has never thought about using a weapon against his bullies. For an adaption that was never trying to be a 100% copy of the book, it's pretty good.

I don't know what audience this is aimed at.

[kmfdm10392 · 5/10 · 10 October 2022]

I saw Matt Reeve's "Let Me In" first, then read the novel, then watched the Swedish movie "Let The Right One In." I can say the writers of this TV series have taken components of all of these and made a decent, but VERY toned down version of this story. They've even introduced a side plot that teases the "why and how" that has absolutely nothing to do with the novel. I understand that making the young vampire an actual girl (who apparently was "turned" maybe 10 your years ago) and not a eunuch, and making her "protector" (the person who obtains blood for her) her father and not a pedophile (things the book went really deep into) is making this more palpable for a mainstream audience. But this story has been told via an incredible novel, a Swedish movie and another really well done American movie. So why the series? I thought the whole vampires on TV thing was over when "True Blood" limped to an embarrassingly bad end in 2014. During the end credits of the first episode it says this series is "based upon the novel" (and they use the Swedish name of it, to make it seem more "true to the source" perhaps) and I was hoping that because it's on AMC, the home of some really great TV, it would be better than it is. I don't hate it, I will probably watch another few episodes, but I just don't see it holding up or holding my attention.