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Look - this show has its disappointments. Characters are killed, names are hard to remember, and most of the time things are going wrong. But on the bright side, 80% of the time I"m pretty shocked by the endings of the episodes (though I think that war at the wall episode was pretty anticlimactic...contemplating dropping a star just for that).

Edit: Lowered my review half a star and untracking at the finale of season 5. #ragequit.

After three years, I finished all seven seasons. It's simple, it's moral, and it's magical. I really enjoyed watching this show and I'm sad that there's no more to watch. It's the kind of show that you want to thank for being there this whole time.

The most adult-friendly kids show I've ever seen. Please, just keep in mind that it IS a kids show. Is it meant to stand up to Emmy contenders? No. ...But as long as you appreciate it for exactly what it is, you can see how heartwarming this show is, and how sometimes teaching moments are valued and even enjoyable.

I mean...I guess this show is good if you enjoy watching hours of Zach Galifianakis playing the same character he always does. As for me, it got a little old and annoying after three episodes.

You won't regret watching this show....or will you?
Startling even to the horror enthusiast, this is one of the most well-written shows I've seen in a long time. Not for the faint hearted, The Exorcist really embraces the genre at its core. This show stays true to the original by taking a stand against sacrificing gruesome and organ-squeezing imagery for the sake of appealing to a broader audience, a rare quality nowadays, when one considers the quantity of pop-horror now swelling the belly of the industry (American Horror Story, Riverdale, Scream Queens). While I can appreciate a softer, watered down series that is merely entertaining for what it is, The Exorcist reminds the viewer of the ever-expanding boundaries of cinema-quality television.

Could barely get through the first episode. The way the characters speak is mostly to explain what is going on to the audience. You'll hear 50,000 UN Units (or something like that) and then the character will say "That's a fortune." Oh really? Is that so? I definitely couldn't figure that out from your attempted gravitas. It's like a teen sci fi show that someone tried to make more adult by hiring an adult cast. At least if MTV had produced this, it would've been entertaining.

In season one, you fall in love with the show. It's dark and twisted and somehow feels new despite so many similar types of shows and movies in the vampire/werewolf genre. Unfortunately, seasons two and three ride your love from the first season for as long as it can. It's clear why this show ended, as the remainder of the episodes were simply lukewarm.

Having watched the rest of the show, including the "making of" special, this was pretty bad. It's as though the writers were like, hey we've got enough cred and famous people here to just like film for four hours.

Literally the only reason I didn't give the show a half a star was the Renata arc, which was genuinely new and funny. The rest of the show was tired, adult-aimed potty humor.

It's an objectively bad and predictable show, yet I keep watching it.

Do I like all the unanswered questions each episode? Yes.
Could I live without all the integrated Netflix advertising? YES.

While the storyline captures the complexity of the books more accurately than the movie, let's face it, Neil Patrick Harris is kind of annoying. It's true; Count Olaf isn't supposed to be likable, but at least Jim Carrey was still enjoyable to watch in the role, at least more so than NPH is in this series. And seriously, no one holds a candle to Meryl Streep as Aunt Josephine in the original.

The show stands on its own fairly well, but it's hard not to compare it to such a star-studded earlier version that hadn't exactly moved into pure irrelevancy yet.