Television series

Vampire Academy

Name: Vampire Academy
Genre: Drama, Romance, Supernatural
Released: 2022
Cast: Sisi Stringer, Daniela Nieves, Kieron Moore, J. August Richards, Jonetta Kaiser

Other titles called Vampire Academy: the 2014 film.

Urban fantasy

A supernatural boarding school drama about the fractured friendship between two young women—one a vampire Royal, one a half-vampire Guardian—navigating elite politics, ancient threats, and the question of where loyalty belongs when power and class collide. Think *The Cruel Prince* by way of *Gossip Girl*, but with fangs and a genuinely dark edge.

TVMaze rating

1.4

Should you watch it?

Watch it if you enjoy a close-knit friendship at the centre of a supernatural school saga, where class snobbery is as dangerous as the monsters and a teen-novel romance runs underneath.

Skip it if you want the vampires to be properly frightening, since the threat here is mostly intrigue and palace politics dressed in gowns, and the romance tends to lean earnest.

What it asks of you: Ten episodes of roughly 49 minutes each, so it is a light, brisk commitment that moves through school life and court rivalry and rewards easy, unhurried viewing.

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