Had the idea for a Forever Kinght reboot for years . A female vampire is recruited into a secret x-files like wing of the RCMP that investigates paranormal cases. And her origin story is that she was one of the original maidens sent by the king of France to Quebec and speaks to her sire only in French It really would check all the boxes for “CanCon”
When I tell you I had an unhinged obsession with this show, specifically Nick. I was a 12 year old girl who desperately needed Nick to read my dark broken heart poetry written about him. Yes it rhymed and yes it was illustrated with drawings our our wedding and our future children.
I watched the first episode of First Knight and it freaking great. It's like if Anne Rice wrote a cop show with the people who made Highlander the Series. This is high praise.
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.
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.
Man I forgot how much I love this show. Kudos to the costume designer who managed to give Nick a white button- down which evokes both a poet shirt and also the early 90s Devo 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 was 13 in 92, and loved this show. I spent the next few decades seeing cast from this in other things and saying “That’s _____ from Forever Knight!” And then whomever was in earshot would just be like “You’re talking nonsense, weirdo.” Except no one else was everyone around.
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. . .
I loved this show when I was a kid. I used to stay up way way past my bedtime to sneak downstairs and watch it. At least until I got a VCR, and just started recording them instead.
I *just* turned a friend on to this show by describing it as, "Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, but not ironically." It slaps, as do you. Thanks for being so awesome, Mildred. 🖤
@@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
This brings back a long-forgotten memory of being a sailor in the US Navy, being up late on the midnight shift and watching whatever DVDs someone had gotten from a black market in Taiwan. I don't remember ANYTHING about this show other than that I didn't finish it. I guess memories are sorta like that sometimes, hope nobody was hoping for a big conclusion! Anyways, it's sorta fun sometimes when an ancient unused brain cell gets reactivated.
I have never been so excited to receive a UA-cam notification. I used to watch Forever Knight with my grandmother when it was in syndication on what was then the Sci-Fi Channel. I feel like I somehow willed the Forever Knight-athon into existence with the sheer force of my own nostalgia, but I know it’s just Mil-dread being our collective Canadian horror hero. Thank you, Mil-dread.
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 * . *
I just went ahead and bought the entire series on DVD because Amazon Prime paywalled the SECOND season. Go to hell, Amazon Prime. I love this show, and particularly Deborah Duchene as Jeanette. She was terrific and had great comedic timing.
I am so happy to see people who love this show. I have never seen anyone who knew about this until I watched Mildred ranking vampires. The songs they play when he's being moody and brooding are so early 90's. I'm going to crack open my DVDs after this series is finished. 💜🦇💜
I love this show so much. Like to the point where I own the original film Nick Knight (which I actually saw when it originally aired on TV) and the series on DVD (which I watched on network TV as it originally aired in the US). This is the original vampire detective show, before Angel, before Blood Ties, before Moonlight, before True Blood, there was Forever Knight. And I absolutely love LaCroix. Nigel Bennett really did an amazing job of portraying him. Subscribed to watch these videos!!!
Okay so just started watching the show, fucking love it. Literally the first scene where there's these subtle strings playing, presumably the soundtrack, the way the camera pans mid scene and its actually diegetic with LaCoix playing some kind of violin in the same room. Amazing
I first heard of this series while vacationing in Nicaragua in 96. Never got to see it until it returns on Sci-Fi channel. By that time i somehow lucked into watching Nick Night with Rick Springsteen, that this series 1st season is a remake of.
I definitely saw at least 5 episodes of Forever Knight as a kid and they left a lasting mark on my psyche, and itch that is at the back of my mind saying "Hey, what was up with that?" but nothing severe enough to make me actually seek it out.
I watched Forever Knight as preteen-teenage on a UFH channel by sitting on the kitchen counter and holding the tv at just-the-right angle. As a small town Kansan (USA) I thought it was so sophistocated and exotic. Nick/Nat is still one of my all time romances.
I loved this show and I am so excited you are going to be covering it. It doesn't get the love it deserves these days. And the only thing I can say about portraying cops as the heroes...well in the 90's many of us still hadn't seen the truth yet. Cop shows like this showed that only a few cops were bad, and the heroes of the show always brought those kinds of cops to justice. It's kind of amazing to look back and realize how much movies and TV shows were propaganda.
I remember liking "Forever Knight" for its worldbuilding -- how, in the late 20th Century, it was easier for vampires to blend in with society because so much of our world runs on a 24-hour clock and night shifts need to be manned. But as a disabled person, I hated the angst Nick feels over his need to be cured of his vampirism -- and how much pressure his love interest puts on him to be "cured," especially since he has found a more ethical way to meet his needs.
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?
How fun. I love it when UA-cam people do something just because it is their desire to. Like when Allison Pregler did a comprehensive rundown of that proto-Buffy series about a young woman who is a werewolf.
@@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. ua-cam.com/video/UOU8RAao27Q/v-deo.htmlsi=KbXP22dufqxt9a8Q
Amazing, my middle school self is celebrating. As a 12 year old, I would sneak into the family den at 1am to gratify the dark curiosities of my adolescent yearnings by watch the us broadcast. Still a special place in my heart.
Thank you, Mildred! This show was my jam when I was younger. I watched reruns of it religiously. It irked me so much when Buffy fans fawned over Angel being such an original concept because Nick Knight was right there and way more interesting and compelling (in my opinion). Happy to see the show getting recognized because it was really good and now you're making me want to revisit it too since it seems like it held up well.
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.
Man, Scaredy Cats videos always make me so unreasonably happy! When Mildread says "This is my channel and I can make videos about whatever I want" I get an incomparable surge of dopamine. Yes, you can, Mildread! And I hecking love listening to you talk about whatever you want, you're a hecking delight to listen to! You always make me laugh, and it's just lovely that you exist and create! Thank you for that!
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
Heck yeah, my mom used to watch this show. Golden age of late night syndicated sci-fantasy, filmed in Canada and aired on basic cable between ads for 1-900 numbers and new age compilation albums.
God damn it, Forever Night is amazing. During my youth the code among the vampire larpers, I knew that we were into vamper shit war crossing our arms, raising our left hand in an arch, but not lifting our elbow. End by taping your temple. This was a hand sign for the sun passing over the CN tower during the day passing timelapse. We were unrefeenablly nerdy.
a Canadian vampire police procedural?! How in the nine hells have I never heard of this, and God bless you Mildred for giving me my next show to binge!
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.
Wait, you mean to tell me I'm going to get a new Scaredy cats video EVERY DAY for 22 days straight?!! My birthday was two days ago but I'm counting this as a present
I remember watching this show in the mid-90s but I actually started on season 2. I remember really liking the show but at some point later when season 1 was available and I started watching it, I recall it being not as interesting. I wish I remember more detail about what exactly it was I loved about season 2 and what I found lacking in season 1 but apparently these ~30 year old memories are very fuzzy.
@@ScaredyCatsTV Definitely. Also, that "Vegeta-coded" line now lives rent-free in my brain. It has popped back into my thoughts repeatedly and I chuckle internally each time it does. Also, how the hell did I miss the obvious sexual tension between Knick and LaCroix?
I LOVE THIS SHOW!!! I've still got my DVDs from the 2000's. Third season is super weird but fun anyway. I'm old enough to have watched this on the USA network when it first aired. And now I'm a patron.
The other day my girlfriend pointed out that I usually fall asleep with this weirdly goofy grin on my face. She seemed a little suspicious and jealous. She’ll never know it’s because I’m thinking about “SpOoKy-HeAtHeR-sYlViA”
I just started taking my husband through my "cheesy vampire soap opera" while we make art together. I used to watch Forever Knight in highschool & college while creating art for my classes. The story: Once my husband & I got our electricity, internet & water back (5 days later) after Hurricane Helene destroyed our WNC, we needed something enjoyable but not too intense to take our minds off of the daily dose of nightmare fuel we see everyday. Somehow, I ended up searching for funny reviews of the show and magically, it was the same year you made Se1!😂 We've loved watching your description (the good & the bad of this show) & can't wait to see your Se2 & Se3 episodes. Thank you for making recovering from this hurricane a little less horrible, Scaredy Cat❤
It's my birthday today and omg I could not ask for a better present than this deep dive. I also adore this show and it's great to see it getting some much deserved love! Great video!
Have started watching this now thanks to forever-knight-athon and like. Love it, great, might have to switch to watching on my phone tho cuz oh man, 360p on a big ole hd tv sure is something
I know Geraint Wyn Davis from Cube 2: Hypercube and the outer limits. I love silly, schlocky scifi, horror and fantasy so I'm a little upset with myself that I never saw this, it looks like a cheaper but somehow better version of Kindred: The embraced.
As a huuuuge fan of Forever Knights as a kid I'm stocked about this new series and can't wait to see the rest of them. Also I remember seeing the Rick Springfield version of this episode on TV and then a few years later running across the Canadian series and being very very confused as to why Nick was someone totally different now.
I started taking psychic damage with in moments of this video’s start. Flashbacks from highschool whooshing back. I’m so stoked about this review series. Thank you thank you thank you.
How did I forget Nigel Bennett was on this show? This was legit my mom's favorite show growing up and I was a huge Lexx fan. Shake memory is the first to go
Forever Knight was released here in Oz about the same time as an American vampire show but they were more like lawyers or something serious like that. Guess which got all the adverts pushing it. That's right, it was the one that didn't last a season while the good one ( this one ) got to do a few. A much better show. This show was the sexual tension between Nick and Nat.
I'm literally so hyped for this, I just started watching this series last week and was thinking to myself "I sure hope Mildred Thoughtslime covers this." This has made my entire week
Due to UA-cam being terrible at letting me know a video has been posted, I'm learning of this series you're doing nearly A WEEK afterwards? Well I had to leave a comment to address that injustice first of all, second of all..This show. This show actually existed? I half thought I dreamed it. This and the eyeball and slime motif is how I, a Canadian of a certain age, know you Milly are also a Canadian of a similar age. It's good that one of us is doing this and I'm glad it's you Milly, keep up the good work!
Yessss! I'm so excited for this series! This show was my favorite back in the day and I can't wait to hear all your thoughts on it! I always wanted a cool ass apartment like Knight had.
You act like watching Forever Knight is such a punishment! I know you're joking, but I'm all in! I loved this show when I was a kid! To me, it had the feel of a rated PG Interview With the Vampire. The first couple of seasons and the tale end of the last are required vampire watching! The show isn't perfect, but it was danged good for what it was! An interesting tid-bit was that it originally aired as a tv movie and Rick Springfield played Nick. Nick Knight, Vampire Detective, which ironically, came out right when Batman did. The other irony being that the full show came out about the time Batman 2 was released. Rick Springfield played a great Nick, but I don't know how well it would have worked if he had been the character full time. He's much more broody in the role. Davies has that humor aspect that makes him a more complicated lead and probably better for the show. In the original pilot, which is pretty much the first two episodes of the series with a different cast, the coroner is a man and Lacroix comes across as more of a thug vampire. The version in the show is sooooo much better. In a lot of ways, Lacroix and Nigel Bennett's portrayal of him, makes the show for me. Can't wait to watch the next one.
Love this show! Used to watch it on the "Crimetime After Primetime" block on CBS in the US. I remember there was an episode where the flashback was Nick and Lacroix meet a young dude on a train in Germany just after WW1. Lacroix considers "bringing him over", but then decides the dude has just a bit too much of an evil vibe. Cut to dude shaving, and the reveal of his famous mustache.
I had a bunch of friends who were obsessed with this show back in the 90's. I was just discussing with a friend of mine a few months back the difficulty of finding a copy of the complete series on DVD. He had really been wanting to see the show again.
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.
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Had the idea for a Forever Kinght reboot for years . A female vampire is recruited into a secret x-files like wing of the RCMP that investigates paranormal cases. And her origin story is that she was one of the original maidens sent by the king of France to Quebec and speaks to her sire only in French
It really would check all the boxes for “CanCon”
Ok you got my sub for the "Nick is a monster....Nick is a police officer, and less concerningly a centuries old vampire." line lol
When I tell you I had an unhinged obsession with this show, specifically Nick. I was a 12 year old girl who desperately needed Nick to read my dark broken heart poetry written about him. Yes it rhymed and yes it was illustrated with drawings our our wedding and our future children.
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::
There's actually a TV movie pilot for this show. It's called "Nick Knight" and stars Rick Springfield.
I watched the first episode of First Knight and it freaking great. It's like if Anne Rice wrote a cop show with the people who made Highlander the Series. This is high praise.
Ezri Dax sighting!
I've always maintained that Nick served as a partial template for the character of Angel in the Buffy-verse. You know, the tortured sad-sack template.
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.
Man I forgot how much I love this show. Kudos to the costume designer who managed to give Nick a white button- down which evokes both a poet shirt and also the early 90s Devo aesthetic.
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 was 13 in 92, and loved this show. I spent the next few decades seeing cast from this in other things and saying “That’s _____ from Forever Knight!” And then whomever was in earshot would just be like “You’re talking nonsense, weirdo.” Except no one else was everyone around.
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. . .
I cannot express enough how fucking hype I was after Mildo announced this plan. I watched this show on SciFi back in the day and loved it.
Mildred has grown too powerful. There is no hope of stopping them
I loved this show when I was a kid. I used to stay up way way past my bedtime to sneak downstairs and watch it. At least until I got a VCR, and just started recording them instead.
I *just* turned a friend on to this show by describing it as, "Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, but not ironically."
It slaps, as do you. Thanks for being so awesome, Mildred. 🖤
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
This brings back a long-forgotten memory of being a sailor in the US Navy, being up late on the midnight shift and watching whatever DVDs someone had gotten from a black market in Taiwan. I don't remember ANYTHING about this show other than that I didn't finish it. I guess memories are sorta like that sometimes, hope nobody was hoping for a big conclusion! Anyways, it's sorta fun sometimes when an ancient unused brain cell gets reactivated.
A homicide detective who works the night shift because he's a vampire is a pretty solid story.
I have never been so excited to receive a UA-cam notification. I used to watch Forever Knight with my grandmother when it was in syndication on what was then the Sci-Fi Channel. I feel like I somehow willed the Forever Knight-athon into existence with the sheer force of my own nostalgia, but I know it’s just Mil-dread being our collective Canadian horror hero. Thank you, Mil-dread.
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 * . *
Oh wow, 22 videos minimum this month? I can't wait to get invested in these characters and plot lines!
I just went ahead and bought the entire series on DVD because Amazon Prime paywalled the SECOND season. Go to hell, Amazon Prime.
I love this show, and particularly Deborah Duchene as Jeanette. She was terrific and had great comedic timing.
"...with a K" Weird they named him Knick Night.
Was only vaguely aware of this show, so glad you are doing a marathon of it, can't wait to see more!
Most underrated comment ever.
I am so happy to see people who love this show. I have never seen anyone who knew about this until I watched Mildred ranking vampires. The songs they play when he's being moody and brooding are so early 90's. I'm going to crack open my DVDs after this series is finished. 💜🦇💜
I love this show so much. Like to the point where I own the original film Nick Knight (which I actually saw when it originally aired on TV) and the series on DVD (which I watched on network TV as it originally aired in the US). This is the original vampire detective show, before Angel, before Blood Ties, before Moonlight, before True Blood, there was Forever Knight. And I absolutely love LaCroix. Nigel Bennett really did an amazing job of portraying him. Subscribed to watch these videos!!!
Okay so just started watching the show, fucking love it. Literally the first scene where there's these subtle strings playing, presumably the soundtrack, the way the camera pans mid scene and its actually diegetic with LaCoix playing some kind of violin in the same room. Amazing
I first heard of this series while vacationing in Nicaragua in 96. Never got to see it until it returns on Sci-Fi channel. By that time i somehow lucked into watching Nick Night with Rick Springsteen, that this series 1st season is a remake of.
fun fact, the local prince (ruling position of the vampire government) in vampire: the masquerade - bloodlines is named after lacroix from this show
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
im willing to bet that its not a coincidence that theres a flirty vampire named Jeannette running a club in this show either
I definitely saw at least 5 episodes of Forever Knight as a kid and they left a lasting mark on my psyche, and itch that is at the back of my mind saying "Hey, what was up with that?" but nothing severe enough to make me actually seek it out.
Rewatching 20th century garbage set in your home town is the BEST. Every year I rewatch Dark Angel
This was my Favorite show in the 90's, hands down. Thanks for reviewing it!
I watched Forever Knight as preteen-teenage on a UFH channel by sitting on the kitchen counter and holding the tv at just-the-right angle. As a small town Kansan (USA) I thought it was so sophistocated and exotic. Nick/Nat is still one of my all time romances.
I was a HUGE fan of this show. Got the DVD's years back. Highly recommend it. The further along it goes, the better it gets. Well, until season 3.
I loved this show and I am so excited you are going to be covering it. It doesn't get the love it deserves these days. And the only thing I can say about portraying cops as the heroes...well in the 90's many of us still hadn't seen the truth yet. Cop shows like this showed that only a few cops were bad, and the heroes of the show always brought those kinds of cops to justice. It's kind of amazing to look back and realize how much movies and TV shows were propaganda.
I remember liking "Forever Knight" for its worldbuilding -- how, in the late 20th Century, it was easier for vampires to blend in with society because so much of our world runs on a 24-hour clock and night shifts need to be manned.
But as a disabled person, I hated the angst Nick feels over his need to be cured of his vampirism -- and how much pressure his love interest puts on him to be "cured," especially since he has found a more ethical way to meet his needs.
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?
"More on (Nigel Bennett) tomorrow..." = a multi-part series about Lexx?
How fun. I love it when UA-cam people do something just because it is their desire to.
Like when Allison Pregler did a comprehensive rundown of that proto-Buffy series about a young woman who is a werewolf.
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.
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@@Rocketboy1313 You're a star. Thanks so much.
Amazing, my middle school self is celebrating. As a 12 year old, I would sneak into the family den at 1am to gratify the dark curiosities of my adolescent yearnings by watch the us broadcast. Still a special place in my heart.
The best follow up to the Baby Oopsie trilogy, a month straight of Forever Knight reviews!
I will henceforth consider Forever Knight as part of the Baby Oopsie/Toy Hell/whatever-it's-called universe.
Thank you, Mildred! This show was my jam when I was younger. I watched reruns of it religiously. It irked me so much when Buffy fans fawned over Angel being such an original concept because Nick Knight was right there and way more interesting and compelling (in my opinion). Happy to see the show getting recognized because it was really good and now you're making me want to revisit it too since it seems like it held up well.
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.
Man, Scaredy Cats videos always make me so unreasonably happy! When Mildread says "This is my channel and I can make videos about whatever I want" I get an incomparable surge of dopamine. Yes, you can, Mildread! And I hecking love listening to you talk about whatever you want, you're a hecking delight to listen to! You always make me laugh, and it's just lovely that you exist and create!
Thank you for that!
I legit could not be more excited for this. I loved this show. Let’s fuckin goooo.
I'm stoked and brammed.
Love this show. Thank you for doing this. "Crimetime after Primetime" was how I saw this back in the 90s.
I don't think I've anticipated a terrible wig with more aimless excitement
I mean, if a Vampire can live off cows blood, I don't really see the issue. I mean, lots of people eat steak, so morally not different at all :D
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
I am so stoked for this series
My bisexual ass imprinted on this show in ways I may never recover from
Can see how you’d need your chances increased
Heck yeah, my mom used to watch this show. Golden age of late night syndicated sci-fantasy, filmed in Canada and aired on basic cable between ads for 1-900 numbers and new age compilation albums.
God damn it, Forever Night is amazing. During my youth the code among the vampire larpers, I knew that we were into vamper shit war crossing our arms, raising our left hand in an arch, but not lifting our elbow. End by taping your temple.
This was a hand sign for the sun passing over the CN tower during the day passing timelapse. We were unrefeenablly nerdy.
a Canadian vampire police procedural?! How in the nine hells have I never heard of this, and God bless you Mildred for giving me my next show to binge!
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.
As a Canadian kid who had chronic insomnia, I had this and The First Wave
Wait, you mean to tell me I'm going to get a new Scaredy cats video EVERY DAY for 22 days straight?!! My birthday was two days ago but I'm counting this as a present
I remember watching this show in the mid-90s but I actually started on season 2. I remember really liking the show but at some point later when season 1 was available and I started watching it, I recall it being not as interesting. I wish I remember more detail about what exactly it was I loved about season 2 and what I found lacking in season 1 but apparently these ~30 year old memories are very fuzzy.
I know what it was: Not enough LaCroix in season 1
@@ScaredyCatsTV Definitely. Also, that "Vegeta-coded" line now lives rent-free in my brain. It has popped back into my thoughts repeatedly and I chuckle internally each time it does.
Also, how the hell did I miss the obvious sexual tension between Knick and LaCroix?
This is what your entire UA-cam Career has been building up to, and I'm all for it!!
This was one of my favorite shows growing up; thank you for covering it!
I LOVE THIS SHOW!!! I've still got my DVDs from the 2000's. Third season is super weird but fun anyway. I'm old enough to have watched this on the USA network when it first aired. And now I'm a patron.
I have been waiting for you to talk about Forever Knight for SO LONG, Mildred
I just noticed... but the backer drawings really improved over the years.
Thanks, Comrade. I loved this show when I was a kid. 😃
The other day my girlfriend pointed out that I usually fall asleep with this weirdly goofy grin on my face. She seemed a little suspicious and jealous. She’ll never know it’s because I’m thinking about “SpOoKy-HeAtHeR-sYlViA”
My husband's favorite spook show forever
"I thought i would make fun if it more" One phrase for you: Season 3.
You’re too good to us, Mildo❤
YESSSS i watched this whole series in college! For years I was afraid I made it up. I never met anyone else who watched it.
It was no dream
It's on blu-ray now too!
Thought Slime AND Scaredy Cats today? I glisten with anticipation
Yay!! Forever Night-a-thon!!
My first Patreon shout-out! I feel so blessed. Thank you Mildred!
Thank you for supporting our gal pal when I cannot. :)
I am 29 seconds into this video essay and I need to express how intensely I am here for this series. It is incredibly niche, but I am that niche.
I just started taking my husband through my "cheesy vampire soap opera" while we make art together. I used to watch Forever Knight in highschool & college while creating art for my classes.
The story: Once my husband & I got our electricity, internet & water back (5 days later) after Hurricane Helene destroyed our WNC, we needed something enjoyable but not too intense to take our minds off of the daily dose of nightmare fuel we see everyday.
Somehow, I ended up searching for funny reviews of the show and magically, it was the same year you made Se1!😂
We've loved watching your description (the good & the bad of this show) & can't wait to see your Se2 & Se3 episodes. Thank you for making recovering from this hurricane a little less horrible, Scaredy Cat❤
In order to beat the Vampire Killer, we need the skills of a Vampire Killer.
It's my birthday today and omg I could not ask for a better present than this deep dive. I also adore this show and it's great to see it getting some much deserved love! Great video!
Have started watching this now thanks to forever-knight-athon and like. Love it, great, might have to switch to watching on my phone tho cuz oh man, 360p on a big ole hd tv sure is something
I know Geraint Wyn Davis from Cube 2: Hypercube and the outer limits. I love silly, schlocky scifi, horror and fantasy so I'm a little upset with myself that I never saw this, it looks like a cheaper but somehow better version of Kindred: The embraced.
thank you for being the only one to mention Hypercube, I felt so alone
I haven't seen the show since it was originally on the air, but I do remember liking the show. Mostly anyway.
AHHHHH!!!! FOREVER KNIGHT! My household is gonna re-watch this along with you! We're SO FREAKIN' HYPE!
Holy shit how have i never heard of this show?
(It's because i grew up without cable in the southern US over a decade later)
As a Canadian who grew up without cable, this show was EVERYTHING (when my parents would let me watch it lol). Thanks for this!!
As a Yankee, Forever Knight and The Saskatchewan Roughriders are among your county’s greatest cultural exports
I love how the intro suggests that we are not all 100% on board with this turn of events 😂
I remember watching this in the US on, I think, the SciFi channel. I hope the rest of it holds up like this episode does, I remember liking it.
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.😊❤
hell yes I loved this show in 5th grade I'm so here or this!
As a huuuuge fan of Forever Knights as a kid I'm stocked about this new series and can't wait to see the rest of them.
Also I remember seeing the Rick Springfield version of this episode on TV and then a few years later running across the Canadian series and being very very confused as to why Nick was someone totally different now.
I love hearing about Canadian TV. As a USian, my only exposure was Degrassi and You Can't Do That On Television, with occasional PBS limited series.
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
I've been waiting for this video my entire life. Thanks Mildew!
I started taking psychic damage with in moments of this video’s start. Flashbacks from highschool whooshing back. I’m so stoked about this review series. Thank you thank you thank you.
You could see that guy's pulse when they were showing the puncture wounds on his neck... LOL
Oh Mildred, you're spoiling us today.
How did I forget Nigel Bennett was on this show?
This was legit my mom's favorite show growing up and I was a huge Lexx fan.
Shake memory is the first to go
Wow, finally! A show about a horrible parasitic monster who prays upon the weak and helpless…and is also a vampire!
"None of you can stop me!" Can we encourage you instead? You're doing great. Keep it up! Make the content you love!
Forever Knight was released here in Oz about the same time as an American vampire show but they were more like lawyers or something serious like that. Guess which got all the adverts pushing it. That's right, it was the one that didn't last a season while the good one ( this one ) got to do a few. A much better show.
This show was the sexual tension between Nick and Nat.
At least being a vampire he's more openly honest about his evil past, unlike the cops
I'm literally so hyped for this, I just started watching this series last week and was thinking to myself "I sure hope Mildred Thoughtslime covers this." This has made my entire week
"Mildred Thoughtslime" Yass :DDDDD
Due to UA-cam being terrible at letting me know a video has been posted, I'm learning of this series you're doing nearly A WEEK afterwards? Well I had to leave a comment to address that injustice first of all, second of all..This show. This show actually existed? I half thought I dreamed it. This and the eyeball and slime motif is how I, a Canadian of a certain age, know you Milly are also a Canadian of a similar age. It's good that one of us is doing this and I'm glad it's you Milly, keep up the good work!
Just… check the subscription tab friend
Yessss! I'm so excited for this series! This show was my favorite back in the day and I can't wait to hear all your thoughts on it! I always wanted a cool ass apartment like Knight had.
You act like watching Forever Knight is such a punishment! I know you're joking, but I'm all in! I loved this show when I was a kid! To me, it had the feel of a rated PG Interview With the Vampire. The first couple of seasons and the tale end of the last are required vampire watching! The show isn't perfect, but it was danged good for what it was! An interesting tid-bit was that it originally aired as a tv movie and Rick Springfield played Nick. Nick Knight, Vampire Detective, which ironically, came out right when Batman did. The other irony being that the full show came out about the time Batman 2 was released. Rick Springfield played a great Nick, but I don't know how well it would have worked if he had been the character full time. He's much more broody in the role. Davies has that humor aspect that makes him a more complicated lead and probably better for the show. In the original pilot, which is pretty much the first two episodes of the series with a different cast, the coroner is a man and Lacroix comes across as more of a thug vampire. The version in the show is sooooo much better. In a lot of ways, Lacroix and Nigel Bennett's portrayal of him, makes the show for me. Can't wait to watch the next one.
Schanke: that weird janitor in The Breakfast Club.
I love this channel so much.
Vampires are higher than humans on the food chain so draining them is morally neutral
I'm so excited for this. Forever Knight, and shows from that era, are some of my favorites.
Love this show! Used to watch it on the "Crimetime After Primetime" block on CBS in the US. I remember there was an episode where the flashback was Nick and Lacroix meet a young dude on a train in Germany just after WW1. Lacroix considers "bringing him over", but then decides the dude has just a bit too much of an evil vibe. Cut to dude shaving, and the reveal of his famous mustache.
Yes! My fave horror channel doing my fave vampire show! This is all my things!
The time of the little treat is over, the Era of the Big Treat is begun
He is also called Swine the Impaler.
I used to watch this show religiously when i was a kid. It was one of my favorite shows.
I had a bunch of friends who were obsessed with this show back in the 90's. I was just discussing with a friend of mine a few months back the difficulty of finding a copy of the complete series on DVD. He had really been wanting to see the show again.
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.