And what we have here is yet another unfortunate attempt of a British network to make a similar version of a US show, and yet promote their show by putting the US one down.

A British Buffy this is not. To be a British Buffy this would have to be interesting. There would have to be something happening in each episode. There would have to be a decent score. And there would have to be a main character you actually like. What Hex provides the masses with is a version of Buffy, without anything that makes Buffy popular. The end result is boredom.

Watching this programme, in which the main character, Cassie, is empowered after bleeding on a vase of some kind provides a nice metaphor, in the vein of Buffy, as to why pottery can be dangerous - and unsurprisingly the show continues in the same boring vein. First and foremost, this is an extended opening episode, which you would expect is because there is more happening in it. Well that’s wrong to begin with. Nothing happens. Well she gets powers and someone dies. But other than that nothing happens. The death is poorly explained to give way for a flashy montage type thing which is suppose to add to the emotial impact of the death. The powers after one hour and forty five minutes are also unexplained. And the only conflict to occur in the episode was in a dream. I don’t care if she’s some kind of psychic with precognitive dreams as well, the bottom line is it was still a dream.

Secondly, the episode was bogged down with swearing, unnecessary sex scenes, and innuendo, which is so out unrealistic for the age group they are trying to portray. Not only does this harm the ratings of this show’s reruns in the future as it will be now relegated to the wee hours of the morning it is also far from much darker and adult than Buffy. It would be more accurate to describe it as depressing and it’s attempts at maturity and being juvenile at best.

The acting is bearable, and the actors drudge through the uninspiring script as well as possible, but their is not much else to be said for it. The theme tune wasn’t very memorable. The score kept repeating itself, after an article led me to believe it would be good. The freeze frame right at the end was also tacky and uninspiring. And the music used in the club was not only dated, but the same song was heard in the first Sky One ad of the ad break after the club scene had aired, thus proving that the rights to it must have been cheap. The only saving grace to this show was that they actually made full use of colors, as oppose to most British dramas, which think they’re clever by making everything as grey as possible.

A last note: if Ryan Murphy et al from Nip/Tuck were to make this series there is no doubt in my mind that they would be able to fit the story from the whole five episodes into one feature length episode.