I miss 2009, when this show was on TV exactly 5 years ago on CN Real. Yeah, I'm writing about the show years later as all of the other 4 reviews on this show were from 2009. But, I have to write about this show because it was like my favorite TV show on TV 5 years ago. A lot of people seemed to even like it. I mean there were bad reviews on the Internet, including IMDb. But, on Facebook there seemed to be a lot of people who liked it. If I can remember correctly, there were a lot of people who called the number during the last episode to win some of the give away franchise from this show. I even had a couple of friends liking it. It is too bad that this show wasn't as well received as it could have been. Interestingly, some of the things you do like aren't very popular. You might find a couple other people who like it as much as you, but it doesn't have a very high rating. While there are other things you don't like that are very popular. An example of that, I just left a review on the Napoleon Dynamite film as that film became very popular especially among franchise, and I don't understand why such a stupid movie would be so popular? What was good about this show. Well, I hope it doesn't count as a spoiler, although there is no plot for the TV show, just teens experiencing the paranormal. Basically, the whole show was about 5 teens: Jackie, KC, Riley, Sam, and Zach. I've seen all the episodes, I even bought them on Itunes. Itunes might be the only place you can find the episodes. You'll hardly see anything on the Internet about The Othersiders, so my review might be very helpful. Basically, each episode started off at The Othersiders Headquarters which I believe was the garage at Riley's house. You'd see these characters having fun and joking around. They'd research places that are supposedly haunted or have reports of paranormal activity. They'd decide which place to go and then we'd see Riley driving them to that location. It would be day when they got there, and then the scene would skip to night. We'd see the characters set up base camp, and with their equipment they'd go around the location they were in to try to explore every area, especially areas with reports of paranormal activity. You'd see the characters quietly walk around the place and whispering while they were keeping contact with each other. The screen would mostly be green as we saw them explore the house. They also used thermal cameras to see if they could detect anything out of the ordinary along with Call and Response. You would actually see some real paranormal activity on the show, some scary stuff and often times during the scary scenes they'd switch to commercials where we wonder what would happen next? They gathered as much evidence as they could and leave. The next day, they'd go back to The Othersiders Headquarters and go over all the evidence they had, where we got to see real paranormal activity. Then they'd all decide individually whether they considered the place haunted or not, like if the paranormal activity could be explained or if it really was paranormal activity. Then, Sam would post their evidence online and we could vote if we considered the place haunted or not. It's no longer a website. I for one feel sorry for the show not being popular, being underrated and not getting the praise it deserved. I mean what was good about the show, well let's think about the teens: Jackie was the Researcher, KC the case manager, Riley the lead investigator, Sam the webmaster, and Zach the tech manager. These teens were by all means great role models. You always saw the characters getting along. At one moment they'd be joking around, the next moment they'd be exploring a haunted house in the dark. These characters would basically always be smiling when they were individually on screen speaking about their experience and spoke clearly. You never heard the characters swearing, they never talked about things like wanting to get involved in alcohol, drugs, or sex. Mostly what they talked about is paranormal activity. I considered Sam the biggest role model in the group and probably most popular member. At age 14, where most guys seem annoying he was always nice with a pleasant smile, always seemed happy and positive about everything. So yeah, it's great to see teens who explored the paranormal as role models. Also, you almost never saw anybody else on the show besides them. There ought to have been other crew members who helped them film scenes in the paranormal I mean, since the camera showed them from each angle. So, there ought to have been cameramen that weren't mentioned making it look like those 5 were the only ones on the show. Well, I'll tell you you won't be able to find much on this TV show on the internet. This IMDb review I'm leaving will probably tell you more about the show than you can find on most sites. There used to be an Othersiders website where you would see each place they investigated along with the Paranormal Activity Sam posted, and you could vote yourself whether you thought it was haunted or not. But, no more. It seemed like most of the negative reviews from this show were people judging it for being a live action show on Cartoon Network, CNReal along with being similar to Ghost Hunters, and wondering if the show was real. It's too bad people were too judgmental of a good show. People should not always just judge a book by it's cover.
Review of The Othersiders
