School Spirits (2023)

Watchseries; Nancy Drew Meets Stephen King

I love everything about this show, everything. It is funny in a quietly ironic sort of way.... but it grabbed me. A whodunit where the victim is also a detective...why didn't we think of that before... I can't wait to see where the narrative is going. I can also see plot trajectories for a good many future seasons.

Will Simon also die and be with Maddie in the afterlife? Will the other deceased students try to communicate with the living once they realize that Maddie can talk to Simon? Will Simon and Maddie get together as a disembodied/embodied team? Will they solve other crimes once Maddie's is resolved? I love the two of them together. And WHY can Maddie speak to Simon? Are they 'twin souls'? What does the future hold for them?

Nancy Drew Meets Stephen King

I love everything about this show, everything. It is funny in a quietly ironic sort of way.... but it grabbed me. A whodunit where the victim is also a detective...why didn't we think of that before... I can't wait to see where the narrative is going. I can also see plot trajectories for a good many future seasons.

Will Simon also die and be with Maddie in the afterlife? Will the other deceased students try to communicate with the living once they realize that Maddie can talk to Simon? Will Simon and Maddie get together as a disembodied/embodied team? Will they solve other crimes once Maddie's is resolved? I love the two of them together. And WHY can Maddie speak to Simon? Are they 'twin souls'? What does the future hold for them?

School Spirits watchseries. I really expected this to be a teen angst show that was a distraction, but by the end of the first episode I was invested. Character development is quick and engaging for the main character and her living friends. The other "school spirits" start to follow quickly in other episodes, as well as other living characters.

Someone mentioned in another review about how the dead characters were able to intersect with things in the world, but that's actually explained in the first episode. There aren't many plot holes I've really found, or at least not many I can't overlook so far.

I can't wait untill the next episode.

Definitely a show worth your time if you're into YA murder/mystery. It's about time Peyton Roi List gets her time to shine instead of being written as the cringe 2nd or 3rd wheel of any given series.

Speaking of the writing, however, the writers of this show are consistently making me wonder whether it takes place in some strange alternate reality, where the movies are named differently and infamous perpetrators of assault, like Tonya Harding, were acquitted. (When she most certainly was not, even though Nancy Kerrigan did forgive her)

Not that big of a deal, but makes me worry the show may become problematic at some point. The inclusions are so odd that I just have to wonder if someone on the writing crew is trying to push a narrative.

So far this has been the freshest and most pleasant surprise among the several new series I decided to give a day in court to this season. It was also the one I heard no buzz or hype about when it first popped up on Paramount+. I gave it a shot because I saw Peyton List was starring in it and was also a producer. I thought she was very impressive in the Cobra Kai series.

I'm hanging in there with a couple of the other freshmen series and hoping they will improve but this one is up and running just fine. I'm only 4 episodes in as I write this but so far each new episode has been as good or better than the one that came before. What more could you ask for from a new show? Keep up the great work!

I found this last night and hardcore binged all 4 episodes. This show is crazy good.

Supernatural happenings- check Nuanced characters- check tongue-in-cheek humor - double check perfect balance of light and dark subject matter- yup Good use of effects- yes but I would like to see an expansion. The show's playing it cheap when it comes to needing any effects at all.

Suspense and a good whodunnit- Absolutely Lack of typical teen drama melodramatics- surprisingly

It's fresh. It's sweet. It's funny. It's dark.

My only real complaint is that absolutely ZERO of these "teens" look like they have any business near a high school. Yes, they are good actors except when it comes to acting like they're still teenagers. Or even in their twenties. I mean how old are these actors?!

But I just pretend it's set in college. And it makes more sense.

Actually, a lot of this could have been worked around a community college setting and it would have been as good.

This has been an interesting show. I enjoy the school setting and the afterlife aspect. There are plenty of questions i have. Like why do the kids have to stay at the school? Is there a heaven or god? And i hope we will get answers for them. The show reminds me a lot of the video game life is strange. While it's not exactly the same they both have similarities. They are both set in school. They both involve a missing girl. And both involve their best friends trying to find out what happened. And they both have supernatural elements. The actors seem to be doing a good job. I'm looking forward to seeing where this will go.