Go in cold, and you're likely to emerge with your blood boiling. This has to be seen to be believed.

It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

I am so sorry, after all of the online hype I REALLY wanted to like this. I was finally able to catch the first 7 episodes here in the states on BBC America & I was disappointed. The idea was there, even if it was ripped off from Anne Rice & her Mayfair witches, even the atmosphere and setting was pretty decent, and no one can really speak badly of Thelma. However I am a true fan of this genre and I have been spoiled by the high quality of the X-files and Buffy the vampire slayer. After experiencing what Chris Carter and Joss Wheden have given the world in paranormal storytelling I am appalled that this dreck could so easily satisfy so many. Hex is awful! The character's are not particularly interesting or sympathetic due to a severe lack of development - this blame can go on the writer's. It shouldn't be a welcome relief when a main character "bites it", as we say over here, however when Ella sticks it to Cassie we find ourselves really applauding a situation for the very first time in this show - SEVEN EPISODES IN! And I don't understand the casting of Michael Fassbender? Is he supposed to be "sexy"? Where I come from he would be the last guy picked for sports! The term "pencil-neck geek" comes immediately to mind.This show left me bored and unimpressed, Thank God it only took two episodes of x-file reruns to make me forget most of this. It is offensive to us that this show would liken itself to Buffy or any of our paranormal/SciFi shows. When it comes to murder mysteries no one can hold a candle to the Brits. However the paranormal/SciFi genre is better left to the Yanks.

My opinion on the two seasons of Hex is somewhat divided, so I'll write a separate review on both of them: Season 1: Love it. The story was excellent, the atmosphere was very good and the characters were diverse and interesting. I liked the role of Cassie, much because she brings forth the best in Thelma, who is one of the bright point of this series. Azazeal makes a very good villain, as he is clearly very complex and obviously has more sides to him than just the evil one. Season 1 gets a 10 out of 10 from me.Season 2: I really don't know where to begin. It started off so good, but lost so much of it's charm as it went on. I'm not saying that I hated it, but there are just too many things I didn't like.I found it very sad that almost all the lead characters leaves the series halfway through the second season, and the dramatical changes in in the remaining characters renders me confused and uneasy. Leon is such an example, who is by himself not a bad character at all in the second season, but is too different compared to season 1. With Cassie gone, Ella had to cover the role as the sensitive and sobbing heroine, which came to much in conflict with her original role as the disciplined, cold-hearted warrior. A little emotion is just fine and adds complexity to her character, but this gets way out of hand. Thelma also lost a lot of her charm, as she become more treacherous and backstabbing. However, I did like the role of Archangel Raphael, who was amusing.And at last, the story didn't cut it for me. The obstacles the characters have to overcome becomes fussy and makes you question what they're actually doing. There are too many loose ends from season 1. And it doesn't make any sense that Malachi suddenly has a grand evil plan in during the last episodes, when he earlier on was kind of a "twilight"-character, neither all good or evil. Season 2 underwent too much re-invention in my opinion. A 5 of 10.

Some quotes from friends of mine about the TV series "Hex":'Pretentious sub-Buffy twaddle.''"Hollyoaks" for Goths.''Moody, dark, impenetrably pointless.''As scary as a balloon on a stick.''Too mediocre to qualify for a "So Bad It's Good" badge.''Clearly written for teenagers by marketing men and seedy hacks in cardigans.''Money back, don't want.' 'Takes itself far too seriously.''Bad, bad, bad. Just really bad.''Like "Angel" but without the plot, the jokes or the acting talent.''A ghost train ride with the power switched off.''Makes me ashamed to be British.''Makes "Charmed" look like it was written by Chekov.''I'd rather watch fabric conditioner commercials back-to-back than another episode of "Hex".'So there you go. I couldn't find anyone who watched this miserable TV series who had a good word to say about it. Mind you, I'm 39 and most of my friends are of a similar age. There must be a lot of sullen teenage Goths out there who liked "Hex" enough for it to have such a high IMDb rating.

"Hex," more than any other show I can remember, plays for keeps. If henceforth all TV shows were this brave then TV would easily pass film as the most important artistic medium today. The problem is that TV depends too much on maintaining the status quo. Of course this problem has gotten better in recent years (and I'll happily give the credit to HBO), but still producers are too afraid to alienate their audience. Thus if you look back at any given show you will notice that very little changes from one season premiere to the next. The Desperate Housewives still live close by and Vince Chase still has his Entourage. My point being that "Hex" is not afraid of change. New characters replace old ones and nothing ever stays the same. If this season were a film instead of a TV show you would be hard pressed to find the lines between the episodes. We have also been trained to never believe a characters death (I'm looking at you "Alias"), and because of that this show had the ability to legitimately rattle me, in a good way.The story is quite Harry Potter-ish. A student at a boarding school gains supernatural powers and is thrust into a battle between good and evil. The main difference being that our hero here, Cassie, is not all good and much better looking. Strong characters are established from the get go. Besides Cassie we also have Thelma, her lesbian ghost roommate. Jemima Rooper who plays Thelma is the star as she represents the moral center of the show. She is good-hearted, but defiant, sex crazed but unable to do anything about it. If I were to have a complaint about the show it would be the shorthand they use to distinguish between good and evil. The theory of the shows seems to be that only evildoers enjoy bodily pleasures such as sex and smoking. This line of thought is very Puritanical and I found it annoying. By the time the monsters showed up on campus I really wasn't very excited to see them. I wanted more of the relationship between Cassie and Thelma. I know the otherworldly stuff is why people tune in to a show called "Hex," but in this case they didn't need it.If I were to find one theme from this season it would be that it sucks to be a girl in modern society because you are exploited for your body. We ca probably all agree that this world we live in is filled with evil. But being a guy I really have no concept of what it is like to have everybody I meet only be interested in having sex with me and my child bearing ability. These two things are the only things Azazeal wanted from Cassie. And because Cassie gave in to him she had to pay the price. This show is no masterpiece but it is darn good. The comparisons to "Buffy" are obvious, but this show is twice as good as that one. "Buffy" was a slave to the episodic nature of TV, whereas "Hex" sheds that skin and creates an experience that is nearly cinematic.