Review: The Secret Circle, “Pilot”
(S0101)The cast of The CW’s new fall series descended on Comic-Con over the weekend to debut the full pilot episode of The Secret Circle and to answer questions. I watched the episode out of necessity since I wanted to ensure my spot at the Nikita panel (Maggie Q!) in the same room immediately following, but since I was there anyway, I’ll give you the scoop on this new show.

Cassie (Brittany Robertson, moving on from CW’s cancelled Life Unexpected) is a teenage orphan who moves from California to live with her grandma in New Salem, a charming little seaside town somewhere in the Pacific Northwest (probably Vancouver). Once there, she meets the local kids and begins discovering that all is not as charming as it appears. See, some of the kids seem to have some deep ties to each other, and Cassie finds out that she’s connected as well since her family originally lived there.

Two girls approach Cassie at her school locker and act more familiar with her than one would expect from total strangers, then she notices that her previously locked locker has miraculously popped open. Hmm. She also meets a nicer girl named Diana (Shelley Hennig) who seems like someone she could befriend. Next she meets a pretty boy named Adam (Thomas Dekker, late of The Sarah Conner Chronicles) at a local diner, as well as his perpetually drunken father. When she leaves the diner and gets in her car, the two girls from school remain in the diner but somehow manage to lock Cassie in her car AND make it burst into flames, all while one of them mutters something about how Cassie can make it stop. Hmmmm. Adam rushes out and thinks the flames out of existence, then carries her out of the car and keeps holding her. Because flames on the hood somehow made her legs useless? That’s a pretty clumsy and forced bonding moment.

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