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The Worst Direction, Acting, Everything EVER!

posted 10 years ago by shreyajain-vmmc12
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This show was unbearable! I saw the first episode, and it was torture to sit through it. I thought it was an hour long, and was shocked to see it was only 22 minutes.

The direction is egregious. The scenes are very badly edited. The music, the special effects, again horrible. Never have I seen a show screw up butterflies.
The script was not funny, and at times it was downright annoying. The acting was way over the top... The whole thing was extremely irritating to watch.

I cannot understand how a TV channel let this show air.

It looked like a bunch of 10 yr olds fooling around with make up and a camera. In fact, given the chance maybe the 10 yr olds would do a better job. Until I saw this show, I never imagined a show as bad as this could exist in this world.

[–] ofuoku71 10 years ago

Just seeing the ad was enough for me. Not even Disney Channel would sink this low.

[–] PopSixSquish 10 years ago

Eeeeeeyep.

For corn's sake, what does anyone need all these miserable, repetitive attempts at shows for, anyway...? This looks like a poor man's Sabrina or something. Just watch Sabrina. Like, wow. Doy.

[–] rubyredjewel 10 years ago

The OP beat me to it in starting this post. Everyone connected with this show has failed at making it work. Extremely bad in the direction,writing & acting.

First of all I don't think they should have picked a teen witch story. Disney covered that pretty well with both "Sabrina the Teenage Witch" & "Wizards of Waverly Place". This fails so bad in comparison. This is the most poorly executed production I've ever seen on network or pay tv. The performances in the episodes come of like everyone is doing improv. All of the actors (adults & kids) at one time of another speak their lines with hesitation. Another major problem is the plot of each episode doesn't flow. There's no beginning, middle or end. It's as if the characters are doing a first run through of their lines while having no idea what the eventual story will be. Those of us watching also have no idea. The fact that some of them know who the witches are while others do not, is wasted. When secrets about whose a witch or the Evil One or the Chosen One are revealed, there's no payoff! The moments of revelation just die. The absolute worst is character development. The so called bad girl witch is so unlikable there's no reason for the character to have a mother. Usually the bad character will end up having fans just for that reason. Won't happen here! Her so called boyfriend (also the good guy)dumps her for the good girl witch and she has no reaction. Meanwhile the actress playing the good girl witch has a confused look on her face all the time no matter what's going on with the character. When she's supposed to be happy or sad or surprised or scared, she has the same confused expression every time! Also she and the actor playing the boyfriend have no chemistry and their characters have no personality.

I forgot to add the good guy has a complete family (mother,father & 3 siblings) that alone could make another gawd awful show. At times they show up in the story with no explanation then disappear just as fast!

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[–] gccates 10 years ago

I think this show is hilariously bad but I need to correct you on a few things. This show is the English remake of the show Grachi which was made by Nick Latin America and was successful. Now one could make an argument about Grachi capitalizing off the success of the English language Wizard's of Waverly Place
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ74_MGNrM0.

Sabrina the Teenage Witch is a franchise from Archie comics. Sabrina the Teenage Witch the series ran on ABC before switching over to the WB and it was not Disney produced it was Viacom produced. Sabrina the Animated Series was produced by a company owned by Disney but it didn't originally run on Disney either. Sabrina the Teenage Witch has syndicated on both Nick and Disney. So no Disney didn't have it covered with Sabrina because it was never a Disney show.

But yeah writing, casting, acting, directing are all horrible on this show. It probably might have been better if they writing didn't seem to be targeting 5-9 year olds. And they should've cast older/older looking actors. Say in the 18-21 range to play the teens

[–] PatchouliMoonsong 10 years ago

It looks like they filmed it with a Flip camera.

[–] Liverbirdy1 9 years ago

I watched one episode of this with my kids and omg! I couldnt believe what I was seeing, The editing, the format, the acting... everything about this show... I was expecting Tommy Wiseau to walk into a scene! Crazy how Nick could let this air. 😨

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[–] lawrence142002 9 years ago

I'm right with you. I was at a buddy of mine's house this weekend and he still watches Nick from time to time for iCarly reruns. Well, he'd gone out of the room and this show had come on. I suffered through 15 minutes of this crap. It made me sad to see just how far Nick has fallen since I was last watching it 15 years ago. Everything about this show made me wanna puke. The kids are horrible actors. The direction is better in a high school stage production. If this is really what kids like now, I weep for their minds. At least when I was a kid we had top nicktoons like Rocko and Rugrats. Some of the live action shows were better than others (but when I was growing up, most of the live action stuff was game shows), but nothing this bad. Are You Afraid of the Dark has aged badly, but I would sooner watch every single episode of that show in order than subject myself to another half episode of this horrible program.

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