I thought the first season of Hex set an interesting mood, as the setting were in an old castle. Kind of reminded me of the mood of Dario Argento's classic horror movie Phenomena. And I was totally swept off my feet by Christina Cole. I could go on for pages about how gorgeous she is. The best parts of Michelle Pfeiffer and Keira Knightley rolled into one. Dreamy with a capital D!
But my praise of the show ends there. Virtually no part of it makes sense in the slightest. There's a private high school in an old castle? With maybe, like, 15 students or so? There's a ghost that is incorporeal and invisible, yet has to open doors to go through them? I'm sorry, but in every single episode there are silly elements which obviously are not thought through. Previously established facts and rules are happily forgotten and contradicted, and the overall plot is unfocused and insubstantial. When several students at the school, plus a teacher, have died or gone missing, nobody of the scarce few who are left seems to find it a bit odd.
Some would say it is a show with strong female leads. Female, yes, but strong? Both Cassie and Ella spend all their time being victims! Cassie ended up being unable to overcome Azazeal's influence and died, and Ella has spent most episodes being in an insane asylum! The storyline is basically ridiculous, all the more so because we don't really know what the bad guy wants to achieve. His son is all grown now, but doesn't exactly seem to enjoy doing his father's bidding. OK, I'll wait out the plot and see if anything grand is revealed, but allow me to doubt it.
Another trademark I'd mention about this show is how all the actors are seemingly cast because they look like some more famous ones. I mentioned Christina Cole. Laura Pyper looks almost exactly like Shannen Doherty. The guy who plays Leon looks like Brendan Fehr (Michael from Roswell). Azazeal looks like Julian McMahon (Cole from Charmed, and it's no coincidence, either). Troy looks like Heath Ledger. And Roxanne looks exactly like a hundred other actresses past and current.
The fact of the matter is that Christina Cole's fantastic looks carried the show, and since she's gone, there's no longer much of a reason to keep watching. But I do, because it entertains me to see just how much farther out an already far-fetched show can get.
Thelma the lesbian ghost is the mainstay of the show. And apparently she'll dissolve when the objective of killing Azazeal's spawn has been achieved. Talk about the writers having written themselves into a corner! This way we know we're just marking time until the final episode. Excitement? Suspense? What's that? This show has certainly never heard of them.
My rating: 5 out of 10
But my praise of the show ends there. Virtually no part of it makes sense in the slightest. There's a private high school in an old castle? With maybe, like, 15 students or so? There's a ghost that is incorporeal and invisible, yet has to open doors to go through them? I'm sorry, but in every single episode there are silly elements which obviously are not thought through. Previously established facts and rules are happily forgotten and contradicted, and the overall plot is unfocused and insubstantial. When several students at the school, plus a teacher, have died or gone missing, nobody of the scarce few who are left seems to find it a bit odd.
Some would say it is a show with strong female leads. Female, yes, but strong? Both Cassie and Ella spend all their time being victims! Cassie ended up being unable to overcome Azazeal's influence and died, and Ella has spent most episodes being in an insane asylum! The storyline is basically ridiculous, all the more so because we don't really know what the bad guy wants to achieve. His son is all grown now, but doesn't exactly seem to enjoy doing his father's bidding. OK, I'll wait out the plot and see if anything grand is revealed, but allow me to doubt it.
Another trademark I'd mention about this show is how all the actors are seemingly cast because they look like some more famous ones. I mentioned Christina Cole. Laura Pyper looks almost exactly like Shannen Doherty. The guy who plays Leon looks like Brendan Fehr (Michael from Roswell). Azazeal looks like Julian McMahon (Cole from Charmed, and it's no coincidence, either). Troy looks like Heath Ledger. And Roxanne looks exactly like a hundred other actresses past and current.
The fact of the matter is that Christina Cole's fantastic looks carried the show, and since she's gone, there's no longer much of a reason to keep watching. But I do, because it entertains me to see just how much farther out an already far-fetched show can get.
Thelma the lesbian ghost is the mainstay of the show. And apparently she'll dissolve when the objective of killing Azazeal's spawn has been achieved. Talk about the writers having written themselves into a corner! This way we know we're just marking time until the final episode. Excitement? Suspense? What's that? This show has certainly never heard of them.
My rating: 5 out of 10