Based on the “gothic punk” tabletop game released several years earlier (can this description get any more 1990s?), “Kindred: The Embraced” was an attempt to cash in on the supernatural spirit of “The X-Files” and the “sexy vampire” craze of the period (Tom Cruise’s “Interview with the Vampire” came out just two years earlier). It fails on both counts, instead coming across as turgid and lame. And despite a healthy marketing budget and the genre cred afforded by cast member C. Thomas Howell, it lasted for only eight (!) episodes before disappearing into the night.
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