The Secret Circle
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 74 Ratings
- Summary: Cassie (Britt Robertson) moves to Chance Harbor, Washington, after her mother dies and discovers she is one of several high school girls who descend from powerful witches, in the drama based on the books by L.J. Smith (who also penned the Vampire Diaries books).
- Genre(s): Drama, Fantasy, Horror
- Show Type: Ended
- Season 1 premiere date: Sep 15, 2011
- Episode Length: 60
- Air Time: 09:00 PM
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Positive: 8 out of 20
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Mixed: 11 out of 20
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Negative: 1 out of 20
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80This air of familiarity notwithstanding, the pilot is splendidly rendered; effective in the expected ways in a way that makes you forget you expected them.
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60Secret Circle is competently performed and produced and liable to entertain anybody not old enough to remember Alyssa Milano and Shannen Doherty doing pretty much the same stuff in Charmed back in the 20th-century day.
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60The Secret Circle isn't stunning out of the gate. It does seem to understand what it wants and needs to be.
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16Based on a book series from the same author who ginned up The Vampire Diaries and drawing upon every market-tested trope the witchy-poo genre has to offer.
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Positive: 15 out of 21
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Mixed: 1 out of 21
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Negative: 5 out of 21
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