“You hear when Apollo and Theo are fighting, Apollo’s like ‘I’m ready to go to Guild training right now.’ So you’re like, Hmm, he hasn’t even been to training. And since a baby, he’s been taught to fight as a hunter, as a Burns family member. But then what does it mean to go to Guild training? What does that mean his life is going to be, when you hear his big brother say ‘you’re not ready, you have to be 24.’ So we’re just giving you these little Easter eggs of what we might explore in the future in terms of the true and thorough mythology of the Guild.”

Savannah

First Kill is set in Savannah, Georgia, something that was integral to Henderson’s vision. “You go there and you’re like, ‘Oh my God, I want to live here.’ It’s so beautiful and just has so much character. Savannah is very much a character in the show, and I love that.” 

The city is believed to be one of the most haunted places in the country, which made it the perfect setting for the show. In the show’s mythology, monsters are a known entity, but had been driven out of Savannah 25 years ago.

“When we come to Savannah, it has been clean, as they call it, for a quarter century. Then the Burns family, because they are some of the best in the business, have been sent there because there have been monster sightings again.”

Savannah has already survived monsters, and the people of the city quickly adapt to the possibility that monsters have returned.

Monsters

Vampires aren’t the only monsters in the series. The Burns face off against ghouls, which look like zombies, shamblers, which look like malformed Predators without the dreads, and zombies, who have fine motor skills and the ability to speak.

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