Part of what has brought Mark and Eleanor back to New York is a series of recent, gory homicides that Mark thinks may be vampire-related. Together, Mark and Eleanor have an elaborate system to cope with her vampiric urges, all while Mark has been on a decade-long quest to find the creature that turned Eleanor and hopefully to find a cure. And when she attempts to enter a domicile without permission, very bad things happen.

She has an insatiable appetite for blood. Even in what is also the loosest adaptation of the material to date, creator Andrew Hinderaker is still able to use it as a platform for some new undercurrents that I found interesting, if not wholly successful.ĭescribed as “inspired” by the novel, Hinderaker’s Let the Right One In focuses on Mark (Demián Bichir) and his 12-year-old daughter Eleanor (Madison Taylor Baez), who return to New York City after leaving 10 years earlier when Eleanor was 12. Showtime’s new Let the Right One In is easily the safest incarnation to date, jettisoning many of the darker elements of sexuality and gender fluidity that make the source material so potent.

Sunday, October 9 (Showtime)Ĭast: Demián Bichir, Madison Taylor Baez, Anika Noni Rose, Grace Gummer, Ian Foreman, Kevin Carroll, Nick Stahl, Jacob BusterĬreator: Andrew Hinderaker, inspired by the book by John Ajvide Lindqvist

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