Wow! Such a good movie.

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Note: Tried to generalize but may contain enough information to be considered spoiler material.I really wanted to love this show. I thought the lead characters, centering around Chloe (Skyler Samuels), Amy (Gracie Gillam), Paul (Ki Hong Lee) and Jasmine (Alyssa Diaz) were outstanding and played their roles well. In particular, Gracie Gillam had tremendous range. Ki Hong Lee was just perfect as the supportive wannabe "sidekick" geek.The series started off well with great potential. Where did it fail? The conspiracy simply got out of control, where every close contact was an enemy out to destroy the Mai or Chloe herself.For a group of beings with cat-like powers, under attack by adversaries who played their hand early... this ancient group of (presumably) warriors did little to nothing to defend themselves.They did not investigate Chloe's boyfriend, which would have begun to clue them in. They did not followup on Jasmine's boyfriend - simply accepting this very weird looking character at face value. They did not share knowledge - preferring to remain clueless. They insisted on creating an awkward love triangle where one of the main protectors was essentially a stalker - disinterested in piecing together the larger picture.The leader of the Mai in that region also surrounded herself with children and also did little to share knowledge or even acquire it. She did this despite that fact that Chloe herself was under constant attack. While the enemies were tenacious, the "good guys" were oblivious.While I enjoyed the first 3/4s of the series, by the last few episodes I was spent and frustrated. Many of the central characters just got dumber and dumber.Rating this a 6 because of the characters, story concept and because it did start off well before self-destructing by series end.

First a confession. This is my third draft of this review, each one written further along as I watched the first - and last - season. I have never done this before. And I have been writing reviews for a very long time. (Before computers. Back in an age when very few people did it, and those that did were paid for their work.) So, the question becomes, what is there about this seemingly innocent Disney-esque summer knockoff of Buffy that creates such confusion and bafflement? Simply this -- whatever meds the writers were on when they penned this fiasco (if ever there was a series that deserved to be cancelled, or euthanized, this was it) the FDA should investigate, and quickly. For the first nine episodes we have an awkward setup of a typical metaphysically-driven, teenage, coming of age, superpowers yet to be revealed, story. Nothing new, especially given the competition. And the awkwardness, the fact that the scripts can't seem to decide between whimsy and dark magic, between frolic and death, is not unexpected, given the producers and the delivery channel. Although I found the pacing uneven, by episode 9, I had come to view this production as more about relationships than plot, the harmonies/conflicts among the would-be Scoobies was, on average, entertaining. With standouts, such as Samuels, the lead, and Coppola, who mesmerizes in a supporting role. Then, just as I thought I had nailed the Zen of this series, along comes episode 10, the finale. And what a finale it is! Murder, mayhem, lying, weapons, poison, betrayal, WOW, false identities, gunshots, the death of the heroine -- a viewer would be forgiven for thinking they had tuned into the wrong show. Not only did it leave all (repeat ALL) plot threads un-resolved, but it opened up brand new ones. And the tone. So depressing that people on Prozac could backslide merely from watching a few minutes, even by accident. Could the writers possibly have imagined that by ambushing the viewer in the finale, they could somehow buy another year or two of production to make amends? Or, more likely, they were already tipped off that the series was not likely to be picked up, so they figured, hey, let's have some fun anyway? I will end with this -- there are Rob Zombie productions which, overall, are kinder to the audience than this was.A footnote in time --> Chloe King may yet go down in history (for TV students of the far future) as the most OUTRAGEOUS PRODUCT PLACEMENT in the history of the medium. Which is really saying something, considering that most dramas of the 1950s were essentially excuses to sell a single brand of soap (hence the term, "soap opera"). You can almost hear the pitch by the adman, "See, we'll do something no one has ever done before, we'll have Skyler's character fall in love with a Kia, and then, after longing for a few episodes, her mother will pay half and she will get the car on screen. Sure it is only a few second of air time, but subliminally teenage girls all over the world will suddenly develop a craving for a new Kia and they'll expect their parents to pay half. If this works, we'll try it with ovens, hedge trimmers and maybe a Jacuzzi."

I started to watch this a couple of weeks ago without knowing much about it. I just read the plot summary and thought that i would give it a try. I found the first episodes kind of boring, the characters was quite silly and the main character Chloe exaggerate on a level i don't even understand. Saying "ehm" with a "afraid of being caught"-look all the time didn't make me like it more. So, I didn't like it that much, but with a lack of things to do i kept on watching. When I got to episode 7 (or something) it got a little (read:just a little) bit interesting. But in the whole I didn't like it. Maybe I am just to old for this, but don't misunderstand me, I am not over 20 yet. I would not recommend this to people who want to watch a great show. But I can maybe recommend it if you are looking for something just to enjoy or laugh about, because it is a little bit fun and sweet after all.

Great show with an amazing cast, good plot lines and wondering what's to come. Can't wait for a 2nd season!!! Please bring back this show. I've read that ABC is thinking of canceling "Nine Lives of Chloe King". Oh I hope not, it seems that channel companies bring on new shows that are hard to follow any story lines and bad characters. Then they cancel the good family shows, I know-I know people want edge and real everyday life shows, but come on. Who really cares about finding a guy on a show where you really don't care about being there, you only want your 15 minutes of fame. You make a mockery of relationships and marriage. I must be from a different era I like the shows, where we can BELIEVE in love, friendship, honesty and people. Just because every other word is not ++(*&^%% or people are not running around in hardly any clothes doesn't mean it's not a good show.