“What I love about it is because…they are this incredibly quote-unquote normal family where the baby sister is spoiled, but at the same time just wants to be like her big brothers wants to be treated as an equal. It’s a family with a lot of love,” she said. “The parents love each other and they love their children and they’re super tight-knit. They have dinner around the table. They have to be respectful and…oh yeah, we hunt vampires at night.”

“And so there’s this wonderful way of introducing this loving Black family into [the show],” she continued. “And then within that loving Black family, they have a 16-year-old lesbian daughter, yet that’s not what the show is about because everyone in that family has love for who they are.”

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Overall, Henderson hopes that fans will be able to connect to the show as a piece of media that represents them. When talking about her resume, which includes Sister Sister, Moesha, The Quad, The Punisher and Fringe, Henderson said she feels First Kill artfully combines her love for genre television and television that showcases multifaceted Blackness.

“What [First Kill] does is it brings it all into one. Like, if you would have said to me, like, what do you care about most? I would say what I care about, what I love to do is [tell stories about] relationships,” she said. “And I would love to write those relationships in a genre space, in a sci-fi space, in a fantasy space. I love fantasy. Um, you know, and I love, um, magical reality. So I’m like, I’d love to put people who look like me in that space. Sci-fi, fantasy, magical realism, those are my sweet spot.”

“This show represents the sweet spot of what I love doing and what I do best. No matter if I was writing a show that took place on the moon or took place in hell. Family would still be somewhere in there,” she continued. “Somewhere in there would be how people treat each other. There would always probably be a father-daughter relationship because I love writing father-daughter relationships. So whether it is about monsters and monster-hunters, what’s at the center [and] makes all of that kind of stuff work are the relationships.”

First Kill drops on Netflix June 10.