Here’s How to Watch Showtime’s ‘Let the Right One In’ for Free
Showtime is giving non-subscribers a free peek at Let the Right One In – their latest show inspired by the classic vampire novel.
We’ve had one brilliant Swedish movie and one not-so-great American movie based on John Ajvide Lindqvist’s novel. Showtime has decided to stretch the story into a series, and change locations. It starts with Mark and his daughter Eleanor moving into an apartment in New York. Their neighbor is a cop named Naomi Cole and her son Isaiah, who risks his life by befriending Eleanor. The little girl happens to be a vampire.
If you want to check out the show, but aren’t keen on subscribing to a new service, you’re in luck. They’re offering a free viewing of the series’ premiere via their online streaming platforms (Showtime/Pluto) as well as on demand.
Let The Right One In is about loneliness, being the strange one, and surviving. This adaptation changes the location, but not the message. Demián Bichir described how he approached playing a vampire’s father.
“This is the story of a father and his daughter and all the obstacles they have to conquer and overcome in order to keep themselves alive. Mark’s daughter has been infected, so to speak, with a very, very strange and terrible virus, disease, however you want to call it. I’m saying [it like] this because, to me, this story goes beyond any vampire story. To me, this is about many other things that we’re actually experiencing. It’s about how difficult it is in any society for anyone to be different and to try to fit in.”
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Let The Right One In Details
The cast is led by Oscar nominee Demián Bichir and Madison Taylor Baez. The series also stars Tony winner Anika Noni Rose and Ian Foreman. Award-winning playwright, writer, and producer Andrew Hinderaker (Away, Penny Dreadful) wrote the pilot and will serve as showrunner.
Inspired by the original hit Swedish novel and film, the series centers on Mark and his daughter Eleanor. Their lives were changed 10 years earlier when she was turned into a vampire. Locked in at age 12, perhaps forever, Eleanor lives a closed-in life. She is only able to go out only at night. Her father does his best to provide her with the human blood she needs to stay alive. With these emotionally charged and terrifying ingredients as a starting point, LET THE RIGHT ONE IN will upend genre expectations, turning a naturalistic lens on human frailty, strength and compassion.
Let The Right One In is available on Showtime now.
