‘First Kill,’ Netflix’s Lesbian Vampire Drama, Canceled After One Season

First Kill has met its untimely end at Netflix. The teen vampire drama, which comes from producer Emma Roberts and is based on the short story by author V.E. Schwab, has been canceled after one season at the streamer.

The series was reportedly canceled because it “did not meet thresholds for viewing and completion of episodes,” Deadline reports, although it saw over 100 million hours viewed in its first 28 days on Netflix.

First Kill Season 1 premiered on Netflix in June with a strong debut, landing in the streamer’s Top 10 TV series list at No. 7 and eventually reaching No. 3 before dropping off the chart following its second week.

First Kill earned mixed reviews, with Decider’s Joel Keller praising the show’s “good story,” but pointing to the “clumsy” execution, which he said made the series “very hard to watch.”

“It’s the classic Romeo and Juliet story, with two star-crossed lovers falling for each other and trying to make things work despite their opposite circumstances,” Keller writes in his First Kill review. “But the first episode is weighed down by an extraordinarily clunky execution that makes that story impossible to find.”

The official logline for First Kill reads: “When it’s time for teenage vampire Juliette (Sarah Catherine Hook) to make her first kill so she can take her place among a powerful vampire family, she sets her sights on a new girl in town named Calliope (Imani Lewis). But much to Juliette’s surprise, Calliope is a vampire hunter from a family of celebrated slayers. Both find that the other won’t be so easy to kill and, unfortunately, way too easy to fall for.”

Along with Hook and Lewis, the series also stars Elizabeth Mitchell, Aubin Wise, Gracie Dzienny, Dominic Goodman, Phillip Mullings, Jr. and Jason R. Moore.

Netflix has cut multiple original series in the past few months, including The Baby-Sitters Club, Raising Dion, Space Force and Q-Force, but fans seemed particularly devastated about the loss of First Kill. See some of the heartbroken Twitter reactions below:

First Kill Season 1 now streaming on Netflix.