As an Original production, Love Sucks benefits from ShowX’s signature high-contrast cinematography. The show paints New York in deep blues and neon reds. Blood looks like ink. The violence is sparse but shocking—not eroticized, but treated like a messy, annoying chore.
ShowX, known for its high-budget genre deconstructions (The Revenant Diaries, Suburbia Gothic), gave director Kenji Ikeda a modest budget but total creative freedom. The result is a visual oxymoron: Gothic Grunge. Love Sucks -2023- ShowX Original
Unlike the blue-tinted, ethereal lighting of classic vampire media, Love Sucks is filmed with a fluorescent, sterile palette. The nightclub scenes look like DMV waiting rooms. The vampire lair is a studio apartment with a water stain on the ceiling. The violence is sudden, messy, and rarely glamorous—Milo often strains his back lifting bodies into dumpsters. As an Original production, Love Sucks benefits from
The Love Sucks soundtrack became a sleeper hit on Spotify. The show avoids classical music and gothic rock, instead leaning into 2023’s niche "broken indie" aesthetic. The playlist includes: The theme song, "Bleeding Out for What" by
The theme song, "Bleeding Out for What" by the fictional band Corroded Heart, is a three-minute scream about forgetting an anniversary.