Shows of no Redeeming Value I have Watched #2: Kindred: The Embraced

[lesbiassparrow]

Right, I'll admit it upfront, I own the DVD of this one. Admittedly it was only $10, but still that's quite a bit as this show only ran for 6 episodes. This was a vampire show based upon a role-playing game (which I have no idea about, but there you go). It was made by Aaron Spelling which should tell you all you need to know, really, and was about vampire clans living in San Francisco. Hey, at least they didn't call them vampyres.

There was also a plot involving a cop trying to uncover the truth and a newspaper reporter who got involved with the head vampire. No, it wasn't very good, but you could surely tell that from the heading of this entry, couldn't you? But it had Mark Fraenkel in it, whose big film before this was the very funny 'Leon, The Pig Farmer,' and who was very attractive in a sort of business suited sort of way.



This is Julian Luna. He's the head vampire of head vampires in San Francisco. He keeps all the other vampires in line and makes certain they don't nibble the San Franciscans to death. And pay their parking tickets and things like that which is good of him. He rules with an iron fist and will kill people off as well.





Here's another vampire from a different clan kissing Julian's hand. They say it's a mark of respect because Julian is prince of the city. I say it's part of an elaborate courtship ritual. After all, this vampire appears to live in Julian's basement:





Here's Julian looming over a cop who thinks that something might be awry in the fine city of San Francisco. Oh, and I think Julian got his lover killed, so he's a bit mad about that too. But I must say that that is some nice looming.




Julian has a vampire ex-girlfriend. She runs a club of some sort and is keen to rekindle the relationship:




But Julian is dating a reporter, who isn't the brightest because she hasn't really worked out that he is a vampire yet. But I guess you don't really expect that sort of thing and Julian doesn't seem to snack on her, so all is (sort of) well.




Here's another vampire with the unfortunate name of Sonny. He was also a cop.




One last shot of Julian, who was very comely indeed. The house looks suitable for a vampire too and he opens the gate very well.




In conclusion, not a good show, but I will watch most things with vampires in them for a bit and it had them aplenty. It had an awful lot of subplots involving rival vampire clans who wanted to take over the city and depose Julian from his princehood. It was like the Godfather meets Dracula with a cop show thrown in for good measure. Three shows for the price of one! I'm not convincing anyone, am I?

Comments

[meret.livejournal.com]

I remember that show! I mainly watched it for Mark Frankel. I thought he was cute. :)

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

Someone else who watched! Frankel was cute, though the show was fairly bad...

[raincitygirl.livejournal.com]

I remember that show, too! Oh my God, it was SO BAD. Like, Melrose Place bad, but with prosthetic fangs. But, I watched it anyway and was kind of sad when it wasn't picked up (not surprised, mind you). In a cracktastic, totally without nutritional value sort of a way it was good fun.

But yes, Mark Frankel was very cute. I'd seen him in a couple of British things, including a rather odd but very funny little comedy called Leon the Pig Farmer. It's about an observant London Jew who discovers his biological father is a Gentile pig farmer, and has some trouble coping with the shock to his worldview. Offbeat little film, but good.

And then he died in a car accident or something, which is a shame, because he was awfully cute. And he managed to keep a straight face while saying some absolutely atrocious dialogue in Kindred.

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

It was terrible, wasn't it? But I still went ahead and bought the DVD and it was as bad as I remembered and also as cracktastic.

I love Leon the Pig Farmer.