History Series / KissMeFirst

* MsFanService: Leila and Tess appear partly naked in several scenes. Many of them aren't even sex scenes-Tess sleeps topless and gets Leila to do the same.

* FanService: Leila and Tess appear partly naked in several scenes. Many of them aren't even sex scenes-Tess sleeps topless and gets Leila to do the same.

** The group call themselves Red Pill after the scene in ''Film/TheMatrix''. Leila even makes an internet search where she learn as much.

* UnwittingPawn: Adrian pretends to be Leila's father so Jonty will give him informations and keep tabs on her.

** Mania has a mental condition and substance abuse problems. [[spoiler:When her father had a stroke, she was high and never called an ambulance, resulting in him ending up in vegetative state]], which causes a rift in her family worsened by her unwillingness to follow the instructions of her psychiatrist.

* GenderEqualEnsemble: Save for Adrian, who's the leader, Red Pill is made up of three girls (Mania, Jocasta and Tippi) and three boys (Force, Calumny and Denier). Adrian himself is balanced out when Shadowfax joins, making a total four and four. [[spoiler: It might be averted if you consider Jocasta a boy or still played straight if you consider her a trans girl.]]

Leila is a lonely young woman. Her single mother just passed away and she has to rent the spare room in her house and take a job at a small internet cafe to make ends meet and maintain her habit of ''Azana'', an MMO WideOpenSandbox computer game. There, after a couple of weird incidents she finds "Red Pill", a group of youths who gather in areas inaccesible to other players, created by their leader Adrian, who seems to have unusual freedom and control within the game. Leila soon meets and befriends Mania (whose real name is Tess) in real life. But all is not what it seems. As events develop, it seems Adrian's intentions aren't as charitable as he claims and his influence over the members of Red Pill is driving them in dangerous directions. Now it's up to Leila to fight and expose Adrian before he drives the whole group to self destruction.

* ChildProdigy: Adrian was very good with programing since a very young age. In fact, it's implied [[spoiler: he's the one who created ''Azana'']].
** Denier is seen tinkering with electronics in his room and appears to know what he's doing. The result was terrible, but the device did work as intended.

* DrugsAreBad: Zigzagged. Drugs are first seen when Leila and Jonty go clubbing with Tess and are depicted as just another element in a wildfun party night. Later, it becomes clear that Tess actually has a substance abuse problem and even uses them to self harm. Tippi talks about providing sexual favors in exchange for drugs and both of them take red pills provided by Adrian which are implied to facilitate his control over them.

** Calumny's mother is a victim of DomesticAbuse by his father. Everytime we see him in his room there's very aggresive yelling audible in the background. To make matters worse, Calumny is convinced somethingin him triggers his father's violent behaviour and thus he's to blame for his mother's suffering.

** Leila is an orphan struggling to make ende meet after seing her mother waste away. The worst part? [[spoiler:she was the one to end her mother's suffering by her request.]]

* LoveMakesYouEvil: Initially the case with Kyle, who does some dirty work for Adrian in exchange for the means to meet with Jocasta. Not so much later when he keeps at it even after that motivation is removed.

* MercyKill: [[spoiler: Leila's mother]]requested to be put out of her misery. Her wish was granted, but the person who did it still feels like a killer.

* PapaWolf: He's not her father, but the manager of the internet cafe offers to rough up whoever's bothering Leila when she admits to being distracted by personal problems.

* TheReveal/ InternalReveal: They happen in quick succession. The audience learns Jocasta's secret just one episode before Force does. But they're seprate enough for the question of how he'll react to build tension of its own.

* VirtualReality: ''Azana'' has this as an optional feature, as can be seen by Leila sometimes accessing it with the simple monitor and keyboard set at her job, but characters almost always use the virtual interface.

* LoveMakesYouEvil: Initially the case with Kyle, who does some dirty work for Adrian in exchange for the means to meet with Jocasta. Not so moch later when he keeps at it even after that motivation is removed.

* TheReveal/InternalReveal: They happen in quick succession. The audience learns Jocasta's secret just one episode before Force does. But they're seprate enough for the question of how he'll react to build tension of its own.

* DoubleAgent: [[spoiler: Kyle]]

** Calumny's father is an abusive father and husband, and Calumny blames himself for it.

* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Downplayed. While the events don't allude to a specific real case, hate groups such as neo-nazis are known to recruit from troubled youths in the internet, giving them a sense of community, belonging and purpose, and then weaponizing the loyalty thus gained into hate and violence. One of the most obvious allusions is that "red pill", the way the group in the show calls themselves, is an expression used by these sort of groups to refer to "enlightenment" to the truth and rejection of the "indoctrination" of ideas, these ideas being things like "women, LGBT and non-whites are people too."

* ChildProdigy: Adrian was very good with programing since a very young age. In fact, it's implied [[spoiler: he's the one who created ''Azana'']]

* HollywoodHacking: Subverted. While there's little that the audience can see of the actual hacking, it seems to involve much more coding, exploitation of system flaws and attempts at various known tricks and much less RapidFireTyping and TechnoBabble than what is usually portrayed in visual media.

* ChildProdigy: Adrian was very good with programing since a very young age. In fact, it's implies [[spoiler: he's the one who created ''Azana'']]

* TakingYouWithMe: Ben / Denier improvises an explosive vest to kill himself and his caretaker.

''Kiss me First'' is a 2018 British SciFi Thriller distributed in the UK by Channel 4 and worldwide by Netflix.

Leila is a lonely young woman. Her single mother just passed away and she has to rent the spare room in her house and take a job at a small internet cafe to make ends meet and mantain her habit of Azana, an MMO WideOpenSandbox computer game. There, after a couple of weird incidents she finds "Red Pill" a group of youths who gather in areas inaccesible to other players, created by their leader Adrian, who seems to have unusual freedom and control within the game. Leila soon meets and befriends Mania (whose real name is Tess) in real life. But all is not what it seems, as events develop it seems Adrian's intentions aren't as charitable as he claims and his influence in the members of Red Pill is driving them in dangerous directions. Now it's up to Leila to fight and expose Adrian before he's driven the whole group to self destruction.

* FrameUp: Leila ends up on the run for Adrian's crimes, since there's security footage of her visiting Denier before his death.

* GracefulLoser:

* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: All the members of Red Pill have in tough situations and find in the group the acceptance and understanding that their real lives fail to provide.

* ThereAreNoTherapists: Averted. Most of the members of Red Pill are in situations that make it difficult to get professional help. Tess, however, has a family with the means and concern to take her to psychiatrist. Too bad Tess is antagonistic to him and refuses to be admitted to the clinic or even comply with her outpatient medication.

* VirtualReality: Azana has this as an optional feature, as can be seen by Leila sometimes accessing it with the simple monitor and keyboard set at her job, but characters almost always use the virtual interface.

''Kiss me First''is a 2018 british SciFi Thriller distributed in the UK by Channel 4 and worldwide by Netflix.

* CoolCar: Kyle drives around in a Ferrari, it's implied that Adrian got it for him.

* DysfunctionJunction: All members of Red Pill have less than happy lives, who have left them with deep mental problems.

** Mania has a mental condition, this and her substance abuse caused her to be useless when [[spoiler: her father had a stroke, resulting in him ending up in vegetative state]], which causes a rift in her family worsened by her unwillingness to follow the instructions of her psychiatrist.
** Force is a high school or college dropout living in a somwhat remote location, has violent tendencies and seems unhealthily obsessed with his in-game girlfriend.
** We know little about Jocasta and seems to be the only one in an economically comfortable position judging by the nice apartment and the maid. However, Jocasta's parents seem completely neglectful of their child and the contrast of the real world and videogame identities implies [[spoiler: they're either a represed gay boy or a closeted trans girl.]]

* FrameUp: Leila ends up on the run for Adrian's crimes.
* GenderEqualEnsemble: Save for Adrian, who's the leader, Red Pill is made up of three girls (Mania, Jocasta and Tippi)and three boys (Force, Calumny and Denier) Adrian himself is balance when Shadowfax joins, making a total four and four. [[spoiler: It might be averted if you consider Jocasta a boy or still played straight if you consider her a trans girl.]]
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Adrian fosters a sense of gratitude and loyalty among the member of Red Pill by making them feel that they're chosen because they're outsanding and bestowing them gifts made especially for them. He then uses that same loyalty for dark purposes.
* IfItsYouItsOkay: Jack has the sincere hope this will be the case [[spoiler: it gets him beaten so bad he gets hospitalized and is unconscious for the last part of the series.]]

** The most famous Jocasta is Oedipus' mother/wife. Like her, this Jocasta is in a relationship that wouldn't exist if both members had all the facts. Also simlarly [[spoiler: things get bloddy when the truth comes out.]]

* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Downplayed. While the events don't allude to a specific real case, hate groups such as neo-nazis are known to recruit from troubled youths in the internet, giving them a sense of community, belonging and purpose, and then weaponizing the loyalty thus gained into hate and violence. One of the most obvious allusions is that "red pill", the way the group in the show calls themselves, is an expression used by these sort of groups to refer to "enlightnemnt" to the truth and rejection of the "indoctrination" of ideas, these ideas being things like "women, LGBT and non-whites are people too."

** The main character's username is [[LordOfTheRings Shadowfax.]]
** The group call themselves Red Pill after the scene of TheMatrix, Leila even makes an internet search where she learn as much.
* ThereAreNoTherapists: Averted. Most of the members of Red Pill are in situations that make it difficult to get professional help. Tess, however, has a family with the means and concern to take her to pscychiatrist. Too bad Tess is antagonistic to him and refuses to be admited to the clinic or even comply with her outpatient medication.
* UnsettlingGenderReveal: It leads to the revealer being beaten very badly.

* WrongNameOutburst: Kyle does this during sex, his partner is not amused and immediately storms out of the room.

Leila is a lonely young woman. Her single mother just passed away and she has to rent the spare room in her house and take a job at a small internet cafe to make ends meet and mantain her habit of Azana, an MMO WideOpenSandbox computer game. There, after a couple of weird incidents she finds "Red Pill" a group of youths who gather in areas inaccesible to other players, created by their leader Adrian, who seems to have unusual freedom and control within the game. Leila soon meets and befriends Mania (whose real name is Tess) in real lif. But all is not what it seems, as events develop it seems Adrian's intentions aren't as charitable as he claims and his influence in the members of Red Pill is driving them in dangerous directions. Now it's up to Leila to fight and expose Adrian before he's driven the whole group to self destruction.

* VirtualReality: Azana has this as an optional feature, as can be seen by Leila sometimes accessing it with the simple monitor and keyboard set at her job, but characters almost always use the virtual interface.

** Mania has a mental condition, this and her substance abuse caused her to be usless when [[spoiler: her father had a stroke, resulting in him ending up in vegetative state]], which causes a rift in her family worsened by her unwillingness to follow the instructions of her psychiatrist.

** The most famous Jocasta is Oedipus' mother/wife. Like her, this Jocasta is a relationship that wouldn't exist if both members had all the facts. Also simlarly [[spoiler: things get bloddy when the truth comes out.]]

* DisfunctionJunction: All members of Red Pill have less than happy lives, who have left them with deep mental problems.

* UnwittingPawn: Adrian pretends to be Leila's father so Jonty will give him informations and keep tabs on her.

* ThereAreNoTherapists: Averted. Most of the members of Red Pill are in situations that make it difficult to get professional help. Tess, however, has a family with the means and concern to take her to pscychiatrist. Too bad Tess is antagonistic to him and refuses to be admited to the clinic or even comply with her outpatient medication.

''Kiss me First''is a 2018 british SciFi Thriller distributed in the UK by Channel 4 and worldwide by Netflix.

Leila is a lonely young woman. Her single mother just passed away and she has to rent the spare room in her house and take a job at a small internet cafe to make ends meet and mantain her habit of Azana, an MMO WideOpenSandbox computer game. There, after a couple of weird incidents she finds "Red Pill" a group of youths who gather in areas inaccesible to other players, created by their leader Adrian, who seems to have unusual freedom and control within the game. Leila soon meets and befriends Mania (whose real name is Tess) in real lif. But all is not what it seems, as events develop it seems Adrian's intentions aren't as charitable as he claims and his influence in the members of Red Pill is driving them in dangerous directions. Now it's up to Leila to fight and expose Adrian before he's driven the whole group to self destruction.