The new CBS series Eternally Yoursbrings vampires to Seattle and explores the love that Charles (Ed Weeks) and his wife, Liz (Allegra Edwards), have somewhere deep down after their marriage has grown stale after 500 years together. Like many vampire stories before it, Eternally Yours plays with the idea of what a vampire is capable of, including how their abilities differ between vampires. At New York Comic Con, the cast spoke with Collider about the new show, powers, and what could potentially happen in the future for its characters.
Jesse (Parker Young) is the only vampire in their coven who has the ability to mind-wipe humans, meaning that he is someone who can make you forget that your entire family are vampires — that is, if you’re his human wife, Phyllis (Rose Abdoo). These powers are all slow-moving, though. The half-vampire children of Phyllis and Jesse are still learning their powers, and at NYCC, Jaren Lewison spoke to Collider about how excited he is to explore Max’s powers as a baby vampire.
“I’m just honestly interested in what powers Max is going to have because we do see that in our show, vampires have different powers. Not everyone has the same powers. Some of them have special powers, like Jesse is the only one that can do the mind wipe. I don’t know what powers Max has yet and he’s a baby vampire. He’s sort of… they’re coming in as we speak. So I think we all have telepathy, I think we all have the super speed that goes in short bursts. I think we all have super strength, but I’m not sure. So there’s a lot that we’re going to end up learning.”
Collider Exclusive · 8 Questions · 2 Minutes What Is Your Biggest Horror Nightmare? Elm Street · Chucky · Scream · The Conjuring
Four horror franchises. Four completely different ways of scaring you. One waits until you fall asleep. One makes sure nobody believes you. One is already in your group of friends. And one is in the house with your family. Answer eight quick questions about how you actually watch horror, and find out which nightmare was built for you.
😴Elm Street(Freddy Krueger)
🧸Chucky(Child’s Play)
📞Scream(Ghostface)
🕯️The Conjuring(The Warren Files)
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Which horror scene makes you cover your eyes? Four classic images. One of them is worse than the others for you.
02
You are home alone and you hear a noise. First thought? Everybody has one. It arrives before you have decided anything.
03
Which horror movie rule would you break first? Everybody thinks they would survive. Almost nobody actually does.
04
Something genuinely frightening happens. What do you do? Not in a film. In your actual living room, tonight.
05
How do you actually watch a horror film? Be honest about this one. Nobody is checking.
06
Somebody offers you serious money. Which do you still refuse? The amount does not matter. There is one on this list you are not doing.
07
Which feeling stays with you a week after the film? Good horror does not stop when the credits do.
08
Something wakes you at 3am. What is the worst possibility? Eight questions in, this is the one that decides your nightmare.
The Lights Just Went Out Your Nightmare Is…
Four franchises, four completely different ways of getting underneath
your skin. This is the one built out of your particular fear, why it works so well on you, and what
it would leave behind.
A Nightmare on Elm Street · Since 1984
Elm Street
Your nightmare does not wait outside the door. It waits for you
to close your eyes, which you are going to have to do eventually, because nobody has ever
won that particular argument.
Freddy is horror’s cruellest idea: a threat that lives in the one place you cannot
guard, cannot lock, and cannot avoid forever.
You are the one who is fine during the film and wide awake at two in the morning. Your
own head is where this does its damage.
These films understood exhaustion as a horror engine. The kids on Elm Street do not lose
because they are weak. They lose because they are tired.
You can lock every door in the house. You still have to sleep.
Child’s Play · Chucky · Since 1988
Chucky
Your nightmare is not really the doll. It is the face of the
person you tell, and the way they decide, very kindly, that you have imagined all of it.
Chucky works precisely because he is absurd. That is the trap: the more accurately you
describe him, the less anybody is going to believe you.
You are the one shouting at the screen because the characters are not listening. You
know that feeling from real life too.
The franchise is at its best when the adults in the room are the real obstacle, and you
have met those adults.
By the time somebody finally believes you, you will have handled most of it on your own.
Scream · Ghostface · Since 1996
Scream
Your nightmare has your number, knows your name, and has almost
certainly been inside your house before. The worst part is that you already know them.
Scream is the only one of these where the killer takes the mask off and turns out to be
somebody who was at the party.
You are the person who calls the twist out loud before it lands. You watch people the
same way you watch films.
The franchise made the rules of horror part of the plot, which means the survivors are
the ones paying attention. You would be paying attention.
Everybody is a suspect, including the person who just offered to walk you home.
The Conjuring · The Warren Files · Since 2013
The Conjuring
Your nightmare is not really about you. It is about the people
asleep down the hall, and the feeling that whatever is here is not interested in leaving.
The Conjuring films are domestic horror. The house, the family, the perfectly ordinary
room that quietly stops feeling ordinary.
Your instinct is to get everybody into one room. Your fear is protective rather than
personal, which is rarer than it sounds.
This is the one franchise where belief is the weapon. The people who come through it are
the ones who are not alone and refuse to be.
Whatever is here did not come for you. It came for the household, and you are the one
standing in the hallway.
In many bits of vampire media, the idea of powers for vampires changes depending on the established universe. Properties like Blade and Twilight allow for the idea of a day walker, or a vampire that can go out into the sun and not burn alive. But there are many layers to vampire lore and the way that it is introduced into a property. Especially when it comes to the powers that a vampire can possess. In Eternally Yours, each vampire has their own special set of powers. Some overlap, some are unique, and it is going to be fun to see how Max evolves throughout the series.
You can watch new episodes of Eternally Yours on CBS every Thursday. Stay tuned at Collider for more.
