V Wars Review: 5 Ups & 3 Downs

2. Too Trigger-Happy (Particularly With Female Characters)

When you're dealing with vampire shows, death is an inevitability. With that, it's hardly surprising that a lot of people die in V Wars. That being said, the show is often a little too trigger-happy, killing off characters that are portrayed as being important to the plot, just so their death can accelerate someone else's arc by motivating them further (as if being involved in a vampire apocalypse isn't motivation enough).

It's perhaps effective in the first number of instances but, as it goes on, it really begins to wear thin. Each main character death feels less impactful than the last one - to such an extent that it begins to feel almost predictable.

This is particularly prevalent when it comes to the female characters as, every time it seems that we're introduced to an agent, doctor or wife close to the matter, they're swiftly killed off in one fell swoop. It's not all of them, and it does happen with relatively important male characters too, but the pattern does get quite noticeable as the show progresses.