Who's the monster? You're the monster!

  Roughly a decade after the last, Twilight-driven, wave of vampire media subsided, Dracula's children are once again becoming pop culture's monster of choice. [...] Neither dastardly nor debonair, these undead creatures hang out with roommates, squabble with parents, suffer from chronic illnesses, and even experience discrimination based on differences they can't control. Vampires – they're just like us! (Except, of course, that we're still their prey.)
  Vampires have always stood in for outsiders deemed exotic and dangerous, hiding in plain sight. Emerging into a fearful, fragmented society, however, at a time when binaries like insider-outsider, oppressor-oppressed, and us-them have never felt more subjective, these new vampire narratives blur the line separating mortal souls from allegedly soulless immortals. Not only is monstrousness in the eye of the beholder, but those of us who have reflections might be just as likely to find it in the mirror as we are to catch it tapping on our window. [...]
  The new generation of vampires is anything but cryptic. [...] Netflix's First Kill, which debuted in June and was quickly canceled, to the outrage of fans, is narrated in part by teenage Juliette (Sarah Catherine Hook), whose immortal family won't stop pressuring her to complete a daunting rite of passage: slaughtering her first victim. This unique problem activates universal adolescent angst. “Even on good days, I still feel like I don't fit in,” Juliette laments. “Like everyone has it all figured out – the clothes they wear, the bands they like, who they are, who they wanna be. And I'm the only one stuck pretending.”