Witches of East End: Season 1
Average Rating: 4.3/10
Reviews Counted: 11
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 5
No consensus yet.
Average Rating: 4.3/10
Critic Reviews: 9
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 4
No consensus yet.
Season Info
Inspired by Melissa de la Cruz's New York Times best-selling novel, "Witches of East End" centers on the mysterious Beauchamp family: free-spirited artist Joanna and her two grown daughters, wild-child bartender Freya and shy librarian Ingrid, both of whom are unaware that they are gifted (and cursed) with a magical birthright. -- (C) Lifetime
Network: Lifetime
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With their idyllic small town life now turned upside down, and a formidable and ancient enemy intent on ending the Beauchamp family line, will Freya and Ingrid be able to accept their true potential before it is too late? -- (C) Lifetime
Critic Reviews for Witches of East End: Season 1
Indeed, while all the characters have boilerplate for bones - the brainy one, the pretty one, the smart aleck, the tortured hunk - crisp writing and buoyant performances keep the story from trending too trite or too Twilight.
It's almost as if True Blood tried to conceive a demon baby with Bunheads. It didn't turn out quite right, but that's why we keep all those Mason jars in the basement.
Lifetime's The Witches of East End may not be great TV, but it is great camp.
Remember ABC's Eastwick or CW's equally unsuccessful attempt to launch a witch/supernatural drama, The Secret Circle? Lifetime is hoping you don't, as it's replowing much the same ground in this new drama.
Better to power-watch multiple reruns of Charmed, which at least offered some simple pleasures. Witches of East End is just not worth a viewer's toils and troubles.
Even if the series plays it right down the middle - it's not exactly good, but not terrible either - that might be all that's needed to succeed.
Whatever the opposite of spellbinding is, that's this show.
The Witches of East End is by no means a show for fans of serious TV (Breaking Bad, The Sopranos), but viewers who appreciate a supernatural soap may find themselves under its somewhat slipshod spell.
What's utterly clear is that the starter hour picks up steam whenever loose-cannon Amick bops around -- although Ormond does a nice job of grounding its shenanigans in a semblance of reality.
Lifetime's new drama Witches of East End is a silly but entertaining story that manages to provide a little romance and suspense while letting us see the tongue in its cheek.
Soapy, silly adaptation of Melissa de la Cruz's best-seller.
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