I finished School Spirits (including the season finale) AND that is how you do a teen drama!
This show is taking the murder mystery elements of Riverdale and Pretty Little Liars to heights the teen genre deserves. I don't think there is one character I dislike, despite the darker angsty premise being designed to grate on you. Every single character gives a compelling performance, even Xavier — who I lowkey want to fight — and leans into the unlikeable teen angst angle.
The weekly release format was a good call, it suits the show’s pacing and episodic cliffhangers so well. Even better, the writers establish a mystery in the pilot and stick to it. So many shows wait to pick a killer halfway through the season, basically establishing any of the clues thrown out in the first episodes lead nowhere. But School Spirits hints at the culprit from the beginning. There are no gimmicks to make it unsolvable for fans and no assumptions that guessing the outcome will somehow cheapen the story.
The final reveal of what happened to Maddie perfectly aligns with all the clues we've gathered along the way. The finale wraps things up spectacularly and proves beyond a doubt this mystery can go the distance with more seasons.
I personally would love to see what else this show has up its sleeve after that killer finale. (Also, I need more of Wally and Charley's adorable ghosty-ness in my life)
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The dungeons are under the castle.
Neither the Wizard of Oz nor the Scarecrow's ever used them. The last person to put anyone in the dungeons before today was Oz Pastoria II's mother, Ozma Scarbel. This won't be on the test.
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me: starts heartbreak high thinking its gonna be a random, aussie high-school show with stupid drama to play in the background
me, one epsiode in: completely obsessed with the characters and the show and the representation
me, at the end: the most relatable character to me is a fucking eshay
anyway, everyone say thank you heartbreak high
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💫✨ Supernatural, but it's an early 2000's teen drama. (Think 'The O.C' meets 'One Tree Hill' vibes) ✨💫
Imagine, it's a gorgeous Saturday afternoon in 2003. You're in the kitchen pouring a bowl of Resse's Puffs when you hear Ain't It Fun by Paramore from the living room TV. (Pretend this song was out then.) Knowing the hit TV show Supernatural's theme song by anywhere, you rush to the couch.
Since the hit TV show aired in the early 2000's, its all anyone can talk about. Staring heartthrobs Jensen Ackles and Jarred Padalecki, this show tells the story of brothers Sam and Dean as they navigate life raised by their father John since their mother Mary's pasisng.
🤫 Allow me to set the scene...
Tension between Sam and John has been brewing since Season 1, always butting heads on the littlest of things. Dean says it's because they're an awful alot alike but neither party seems to see it. After moving from school to school, town to town, by Season 3 it's at its peak.
Season 3 opens on an 18 year old Sammy filling out an application for Stanford. He does so in secret, knowing Dean would bitch about it and John- well John probably won't be around to care anyway. Thoughout the season we see him rebell, staying out late and going to parties he probably shouldn't be. Dean tries his best to reason with him, but Sam needs to come around on his own time.
By the season finale, tension is at an all time high. Dean reveals to Sam he knows he's leaving them for Stanford after stumbling across his acceptance letter. This prompts Sam and Dean to get into an argument which John overhears.
After some awkward back and forth, Dean eventually blabs to which John says, "Like the college?"
Sam says, "Yeah, Dad- the college."
Dean says, "Isn't that something? He didn't even tell us he applied."
More silence sits netween them before Sam asks John what he thinks. After some thought John says, "Well, if you want to go, go."
Sam looks shocked, "Really?" he asks.
"Yeah," John nods. "But if you're gonna go, you might as well stay gone."
Sam's heart drops, Dean grumbling at his father's carelessness.
This ensues a BIG argument between John and Sam, to which Sam eventually Sam says, "You know what, I will."
Sam heads upstairs to pack, Dean once again trying to be the peacemaker. Eventually the season ends with Sam walking out of the door with a classic one-liner that absolutely shocks the hearts of millions across the world.
Sam isn't actually seen in the following season (S4), giving the audience well needed view of Dean's devotion to John (but also because Jared begins his stint on Gilmore Girls.) His welcome back to the show occurs at the end of the next season where the Original Supernatural starts, but done with a little more class.
On the last episode of Season 5, we see the infamous Impala pulling up outside a college dorm. Someone steps out of the Impala but we can't tell who it is, not just yet anyway. The person walks up to the door and maybe contemplates ringing the doorbell. Eventually he sneaks in and we see him knock something over on the way in.
Upstairs a girl sound asleep hears a noise. Waking up, she shakes her boyfriend saying, "Babe. Babe, I think someone's downstairs." We got back to downstairs where the man is now looking around in the dark- but wait, there's someone behind him. Someone with a bat takes a swing at him, tackling him to the ground. They tussle back and forth, until the burglar is revealed. We zoom in to see Dean, laying on his back with a smile.
"Dean?" says familiar voice.
"Hiya Sammy," Dean replies.
Boom! Hard cut to Sam's face and the crown goes wild!!! Sam says Dean what he's doing there to which Dean says, "Dad went on a hunting trip and now he's missing. I need your help."
Cut to black, end of Season 5.
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Lol, dramatic I know, but I just get this awesome feeling of nostalgia whenever I imagine Supernatural as one of those teen drama, sentimental shows. (I've been binging those lately and they're all I can think about..lol)
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