Supernatural book series featuring teenagers are EXTREMELY popular these days. It’s only a matter of time before these books get made into movies and/or television shows. Kevin Williamson is best known for creating Dawson’s Creek. But he’s also created Scream and The Vampire Diaries. His latest television series, The Secret Circle combines all of those shows into one.
Here is the synopsis of The Secret Circle straight from The CW:
“Cassie Blake was a happy, normal teenage girl – until her mother Amelia dies in what appears to be a tragic accidental fire. Orphaned and deeply saddened, Cassie moves in with her warm and loving grandmother Jane in the beautiful small town of Chance Harbor, Washington – the town her mother left so many years before – where the residents seem to know more about Cassie than she does about herself. As Cassie gets to know her high school classmates, including sweet-natured Diana and her handsome boyfriend Adam, brooding loner Nick, mean-girl Faye and her sidekick Melissa, strange and frightening things begin to happen. When her new friends explain that they are all descended from powerful witches, and they’ve been waiting for Cassie to join them and complete a new generation of the Secret Circle, Cassie refuses to believe them – until Adam shows her how to unlock her incredible magical powers. But it’s not until Cassie discovers a message from her mother in an old leather-bound book of spells hidden in her mother’s childhood bedroom, that she understands her true and dangerous destiny. What Cassie and the others don’t yet know is that darker powers are at play, powers that might be linked to the adults in the town, including Diana’s father and Faye’s mother – and that Cassie’s mother’s death might not have been an accident.”
My First 10 Thoughts on the “Pilot” Episode of The Secret Circle:
1. At least we have moved on from vampires and werewolves. It’s time for witches to get a show of their own.
2. If you watch ABC Family you will find plenty of similarities between The Secret Circle and one of their new shows The Nine Lives of Chloe King.
3. Good to see Britt Robertson back in a starring role after the short-lived CW show Life Unexpected.
4. All the characters are typical high school drama stereotypes (mysterious bad boy, bitchy mean girl, best friend who is nice to you at first but later hates you when her boyfriend likes you more than her, etc.).
5. I want the ability to make it rain whenever I want to, and I’m talking about throwing money up in the air and watch it fall to the ground.
6. Probably the most simple and catchy theme song ever (la la la la…la la la la..la la la la).
7. The CW really LOVES to recycle actors as the main villain, Charles Meade, is played by Gale Harold, who was also a not so decent guy on the one season wonder Hellcats.
8. Plenty of mystery surrounding this show. If they can focus more on that, and less on the high school drama it could be halfway decent.
9. The biggest problem is that we have seen this show before in various forms. So far there is nothing new to see here.
10. BUT it is on the right network and has a decent lead-in, so it could gain an audience. Unfortunately, since this show airs on Thursday nights at 9 p.m. Eastern Time it has no chance of even coming close to any of the Big Four networks.
