WORTH WATCHING: Let in Showtime’s Teenage Vampire, ..."Showtime adds to the ranks of TV vampires with a new adaptation of Let the Right One In."Let the Right One InShowtime
SERIES PREMIERE
10/9c
SUNDAY: The chilling Swedish novel that inspired two movies and several stage versions is now a TV series, made more conventional (yet still bizarre) by its focus on a father (the excellent Demián Bichir) who’ll do anything to protect and provide for his eternally 12-year-old daughter Eleanor (Madison Taylor Baez). For the last decade, this poor child has suffered from the effects of a mysterious creature’s bite. (Symptoms: insatiable thirst for human blood, aversion to sunlight, superhuman strength, must be asked in before crossing a threshold.) As in other treatments, Eleanor befriends a young boy (Ian Foreman) who’s being bullied at school. This time, though, his mother (Anika Noni Rose) is an NYPD detective, investigating grisly murders that suggest another being like Eleanor is nearby on the loose. Elsewhere, a scientist (Grace Gummer) is drawn into a search for a vampirism cure for very personal reasons of her own.