May 8, 1996 Wednesday<\/p>\n
Pg. 3<\/i><\/p>\n
The soap opera about vampires living in modern-day San Francisco ends its spring tryout at 9 tonight.<\/p>\n
Reportedly, Fox is seriously considering bringing it back next season for the 9 p.m. Monday slot.<\/p>\n
Tonight’s finale has head vampire Julian (Mark Frankel) taking his human lover Caitlin (Kelly Rutherford) to a cabin in Napa Valley, where he plans to reveal his blood-lust secret. But they are ambushed by hitmen from a rival vampire gang. Meanwhile, human cop Frank Kohanek (C. Thomas Howell) suspects his partner (Erik King) is a vampire.<\/p>\n
If that description confuses you, you’ve not been watching this sexy steamer about a secret society called “The Kindred” and how they operate undercover – and under covers when it comes to sex.<\/p>\n
The 1990s finds vampires organized into high-rolling clans. The Brujah are thugs like Al Capone’s boys. Gangrels are streetwise hot- heads who travel in motorcycle gangs. The Nosferatu are evil-looking underground dwellers.<\/p>\n
Trying to keep the Kindred in line is Julian, a sort of retro Rudolph Valentino. He’s played by London-born Frankel, last seen in the James Bond-like series “Fortune Hunter” in 1994.<\/p>\n
Also, Julian maintains a tightrope-walking truce with vampire-stalking homicide Detective Kohanek, who’s hip to the Kindred game.<\/p>\n
These bloodsuckers are caught up in various love stories and power struggles much like the characters on “Melrose Place.”<\/p>\n
But they can get a little kinky. For example, in need of comfort in one recent episode, Julian spent the night with his dear departed wife, first crawling onto, then seeping into, her grave.<\/p>\n
The show is reminiscent of “Dark Shadows” but with a younger, pop-culture, Fox-audience touch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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