https://www.ign.com/articles/vampire-ac ... isodes-1-4
Vampire Academy, the faithful 2014 adaptation of Richelle Mead’s YA supernatural romance of the same name, was a massive critical and commercial flop. The Vampire Diaries veterans Julie Plec and Marguerite Macintyre have avoided some of that film’s pitfalls by taking more liberties with the source material in their Peacock show, but they’ve inserted a whole new set of problems by trying to cobble together too many big ideas.
The first four episodes of Vampire Academy seem to desperately want to be Bridgerton, but with vampires. While Mead’s novel and the original film focus mostly on high school drama at St. Vladimir’s Academy, the Peacock show has revised the setting to age up its central characters and leave more room for adults and courtly drama. Vampire Academy could be great if it focused mostly on its beautiful people wearing gorgeous clothes at fancy parties where they smolder and scheme, but the show also clumsily tries to bring in elements of The Hunger Games and The Handmaid’s Tale by focusing on class conflict and sexual servitude.