Devo in the 90s?

That shirt is just shy of the full glory of Claude 'Autumn Leaves' Tanner.

RIGHT?!? I was eyeing that shirt right off for it's some how weird poet/angular aesthetic.

I would bet good money that Shirt was from International Male. Every Costume Designer of a certain age's togo-to source for both Bud.get Mr Darcy and the Sluttiest Twink You've Ever Met. Often both at the same time.

I mean, this show seems pretty much identical to the original premise for Angel's own show. Vampire detective broods in the big city, solving crimes with a sassy female sidekick and a slightly scummy dude as his bro.

They both seem to be heavily inspired by Kolchak the Night Stalker

Both Angel and Nick harken back to Interview with the Vampire's guilt-ridden Louis. (Made even more obvious with Angel since he had blond Spike as his conscience-free counterpart, like Louis had blond conscience-free Lestat. I don't know enough about Forever Knight to guess at whether LaCroix is Nick's Lestat.) That said, the template of the remorseful vampire goes all the way back to one of the earliest vampire stories, Varney the Vampire from 1847.

I like how Nick balances a kind of charm/rockstar energy with sad-sack and scary monster.

@@zettaichan Plus just the incredibly well worn trope of broody alcoholic (read, blood drinking) detective being a staple of Noir crime for ages.

I beat this just today and was thinking to myself the whole time, 'I didn't take French, but that's not how LaCroix is pronounced, is it?'

I think of him every time I see the drink

It was particularly weird to see LaCroix in other things, because he seemed to *still* be Lacroix, just Fucking with whoever else was in the other show - but he'd look at the screen like He knew WE knew. . .

Same, I literally made a noise when I saw it.

Ditto here, this was my mom's favorite show growing up

same! I recapped them all on my website years ago (I'm on to much, much worse vampire shows now), and I love seeing other people who love this show

I think all the comments on the recent vampire video in favour of a video focusing on Forever Knight helped as well :D And now we even get a whole series of FK videos * . *

Most underrated comment ever.

I will never not take the opportunity to say "You and he were... Bu-hd-dies?" whenever I can realistically slip it into a conversation.

So, am I to assume the writers of this show were not cowards then?

@@makeitthrough_ Fuck, that show is endlessly quotable. You know Matthew Holness has released 3 audiobooks as Garth Mahrenghi relatively recently? They're called garth Marenghis Terrortome

The smartest thing this show did was start in media res with so much of its central premise: Nick is already repentant and not hittin' the human buffet, Natalie already knows and is actively helping him, and so on. Saves SO much tedium and says the show trusts the audience.

@@goddessoftransitory2038 I think that's mostly a happy accident, since the show was produced back in the day before streaming archives allowed binge watching, so long-form storytelling often didn't work.

@@jimballard1186 I'm not sure that's entirely accurate. I haven't exactly done a systematic study, but it seems to me that streaming services have incentivised quick, grab-and-hold-our-limited-attention stories. My go-to example is Doctor Who. The original Dalek story was seven half-hour episodes which broadcast once a week, and it isn't shy about taking its time. Compare that to the modern series where the vast majority of stories are one or two forty-five minute episodes, and even the very rare three-parters are more like two-parters with a self-contained prologue story. Not to say that bingeable content doesn't take advantage and tell whole-season stories, but the other side of the streaming coin is there are hundreds of other things to watch if something is too slow getting to the exciting bits.

@@hughcaldwell1034 I think the current model of most shows is opening five minutes relate to resolving the last five minutes of the previous episode. Rest of the episode is independent story, last five minutes sets up the first five minutes of the next episode. So technically almost all shows are long form now, but in the laziest way possible. Its not like some ten hour epic. More like a mix of episodic shows and the old serials.

@@fromthedumpstertothegrave3689 Exactly. A story that opens and resolves in one episode to get you interested and satisfied, then a little hook to make sure you binge.

I will henceforth consider Forever Knight as part of the Baby Oopsie/Toy Hell/whatever-it's-called universe.

Can see how you’d need your chances increased

Wait, what? I need more information. I NEED that.

@@jimballard1186 Somehow I managed to find it. I think it is just this 1 hour long episode, from a time when an hour long video was considered unheard of. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/i7WFa7VyxtWWZ4U.htmlsi=KbXP22dufqxt9a8Q

@@Rocketboy1313 You're a star. Thanks so much.

Yeah it's gonna be a nightmare to be a vampire in the 21st century because there are cameras everywhere and now everyone has a camera and video recording in their pockets now( Cellphones 😂) so Vampires gotta be careful more than ever not be caught and found out

"Have you tried not being a vampire?" I never liked Natalie's insistence that Nick could simply will himself into becoming human again if he essentially starved himself.

@@rocketdave719 i know right ! , like she thinks it's so easy for Nick to not drink blood let alone human blood like Natalie do you want Nick to starve himself and then eventually die because that's what's gonna happen Nick will die if he doesn't have any sort of blood 🤦

I'm not sure how much I support the reading that vampirism is akin to any human disability, since I'm not coming up with any human disabilities that make you want to kill and eat people off the top of my head.

@@roderick8167what I’ll never understand is why vampires drinking animal blood is some kind of evil supernatural thing. Regular humans in the real world consume animal blood all the time. We slaughter them and eat their flesh. What’s the difference between a vampire drinking cow blood, and a human eating beef?

I cannot tell you how happy this comment made me - as an also former 12 year old who wrote a lot of broken heart poetry ::fist bump::

Not even the only one! If you haven’t seen it, Blood Ties (based on the Blood Books series by Tanya Huff) also fits that description, and is one of my favorites. I particularly love that the vampire lead character has a…let’s say historically significant lineage (trying to avoid spoilers!), really fun.

It was no dream

It's on blu-ray now too!

Thank you for supporting our gal pal when I cannot. :)

Likewise. I basically grew up on the back to back of Forever Knight and Dark Shadows in the morning of SciFi Channel of the late 90s/early 00s.😊❤

As a Yankee, Forever Knight and The Saskatchewan Roughriders are among your county’s greatest cultural exports

I assure you, you're not missing too much lol

@@connorletkeman5002 Excuse you, we made Aunt Harriet's Magic Hats AND Dear Aunt Agnes. Not to mention Danger Bay

Yeah a vampire could live off cow blood but only for so long , it's like a cigarette smoker trying to stave off cigarettes and stick with nicotine patches or vaping it'll help with the craving for a little while but not forever and same with a vampire cow blood will help the craving but not forever and Nick knows this cows blood is a fix not a cure

"Mildred Thoughtslime" Yass :DDDDD

The time of the little treat is over, the Era of the Big Treat is begun

It's on Amazon prime (but you still have to buy it) and blu-ray! I grabbed the br last year but haven't watched it since I have in on digital so I don't know about the quality.

@@thedarkercarter Arr, matey.

Just… check the subscription tab friend

Not to mention that this way of handling the presence of an addiction in the life of oneself or a loved one is bad to begin with. The idea that addiction recovery is an all-or-nothing matter is dangerous for several reasons, both psychological and medical, and from the footage of that scene that's in this video it seems like her arguments boil down to "you're a self-sabotaging loser if you don't do what I say," which is kinda fucked. Still seems like a fun show, and I can tell from the other comments here that it's a strong source of nostalgia for a lot of people, but the addiction subplot (?) may not have aged well.