Let the Right One In

What idiot cancelled this show? It is clearly a good show regardless of whether it lives up to the movie it was based on. The acting is good and the characters pull you right into the narrative.

I binged watched this show, finishing the entire first season in a couple of days. I enjoyed the build up. I just don't understand how the executives that cancelled this show couldn't see the value in it. How could a show liek Webdreams last three years and they cancel this show in its first season? Who hires these executives that makes clearly bad decisions?

Please stop promoting reality shows while you cancel clearly good dramas.

I've seen both the original movie and the US adaptation. And always felt like it deserved a part two. This tv-series puts a nice twist on the original story by expanding the setting, introducing new characters and more. I really like what they did with it, honestly. I enjoy the fact that they are trying to give more details about the vampire virus while also focusing on what it's like for those suffering from it and their daily struggle to keep up appearances. I am glad that they changed some things and not just remake the movie into a tv-series. The casting is pretty good and after finishing the second episode, I am really hooked. I am curious to see where they will take the show. The reason why it's not so popular is because it's not on a major streaming service like "Netflix". But give it a try and you'll be surprised.

After 'The Passage', a too brilliant series, another super bright and full of potential show bites the dust due to the incommensurable dinosaur-brain quality of the related Network's executives who just lick at the Viewers-Cash_Performance chart.

'Let the Right One In' is so superb, so enthralling, so well-acted that most viewers are aghast and in shock at the cancellation.

I enjoyed it tremendously, loved the screenplay and plots, the cute, emotional and tender friendship between the two teenagers, the atmosphere and pace of the show and above all, the more than marvelous acting of Madison Taylor Baez who at such tender age, is already a force to reckon with. Loved her serious, powerful and very charismatic play.

One of the better ending to date, opening new horizons, just wasted.

• Screenplay/storyline/plots: 7.5
• Development: 8
• Realism: 7
• Entertainment: 8.5
• Acting: 8
• Filming/photography/cinematography: 8
• VFX: 8.5
• Music/score/sound: 7
• Depth: 7.5
• Logic: 6.5
• Flow: 8.5
• Drama/horror: 7.5
• Ending: 8.5.

Well I just now read it's been canceled!

I'm not happy. I looked forward every Friday to watching it! It was such a great series. I liked it so much more than the movie. Very disappointed!!!

I wish another streaming channel would pick it up. Too many of the shows today are canceled after just one season. I read also that American Giglio was cancelled. Now Showtime and Paramount plus are combining. Everything is combining and then they cancel so many of our shows. Many shows in the CW were cancelled also. Very very disappointed in their decision to do away with this series. It was such a good show.

I really wanted to dislike this series. In fact, I just KNEW I would dislike it because I loved the 2008 original and in my mind, there was a measure of: 'Why mess with a good thing? Contrary to popular opinion, I also liked the 2010 remake. It was in no way comparable to the original, but for the most part, IMO, it stood on its own, and more so, brought this highly original tale to the mainstream viewing public.

"Knowing" that I would dislike it 😉, however, is quite different from not watching it. And so I did.

The first few minutes proved me right. I hated it ... right before I really, really began to like it.

To begin, both Demián Bichir (the main character's dad) and Ian Foreman (the "boy" main character) deliver stellar performances. Ian, as Isaiah, a bullied, demoralized, misunderstood outcast, brings just the right amount of feeling to every scene he is in. I think very few will not feel for him. In the same manner, Demián Bichir steals the spotlight with his portrayal of a father tormented by what lengths he is willing to go and what paths he is willing to traverse for his daughter. **Below, I have included his Episode 2 "prayer" for those who did not have an on-screen translation.**

Ato Essandoh, as Isaiah's dad, is also pretty noteworthy.

Other characters are bit less noteworthy. The acting from Madison Taylor Baez who plays the girl main character, Eleanor, is especially ... wanting. Some of her lines are delivered too crisply, too "acted". This is forgivable. She is young and there are times when she too does really well.

The other thing that bothers me a bit is how seamlessly or coincidentally all these characters just HAPPEN to tie in to each other. One HAS to set aside a measure of incredulousness and reach way down for some extra believability in order to buy into it.

Still, if one can manage to do that, the series, so far, works. I would like to know how it turns out for everyone.

7.5/10

******************************** Episode 2 - Spanish Prayer.

"Hear my words lord. We have wandered in darkness for ten long years. Enlighten us and show us the way. My God and Lord, I beg you to remove this chalice of death from Ellen's (Eleanor's) lips. Enlighten us and show us the way. Answer me when I talk to you! Merciful God, ease my sorrows. Have mercy on me. Listen to my prayers, damnit!"