Written by Gema Luna, Reporter

From the executive producer of The Vampire Diaries  (Kevin Williamson) comes a new teen drama full of magic: The Secret Circle.  The show is based upon the L.J. Smith series of the same name.

Spoiler alert!!!

Brittany Robertson (Life Unexpected) plays Cassie Blake, a teenager who losses her mother in what appears to be an accident, and has to go back to her mother’s hometown of Chance Harbor, Washington where her grandmother lives. The town, however, seems to know a bit too much about Cassie…and strange things start to  happen all around her. On her first day of school she encounters a couple of classnates that seem a bit too eager to meet her, who also happen to know a big secret that concerns her. When things happen to appear to her, as if by magic, she starts freaking out, until 5 classmates tell her that she is a witch. Everybody in town knows who she is and who her parents were, and they also know what happened more than 15 years ago, but nobody is talking.

Besides Robertson, the circle includes Thomas Dekker (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles) who plays the tortured tall, dark and handsome Adam Conant, Phoebe Tonkin (Home and away) who plays the resident mean girl Faye Chamberlain, Shelley Hennig (Days of our lives) as the nerdy and know it all Diana Mead who happened to be Adam’s girlfriend, Louis Hunter as the handsome neighbor Nick Armstrong and Jessica Parker Kennedy (Smallville) as the mean girl sidekick Melissa. The cast also includes Natasha Henstridge (Species) as Faye’s mother Dawn Chamberlain and Gale Harold (Queer as folk)as Diana’s father Charles Meade who have ulterior motives for Cassie to be back.

The Secret Circle is best described as The Vampire Diaries meets The Craft. It is the perfect CW show and follows in the same formula as Diaries but instead of Vampires it’s magic. The pilot is a little predictable if you follow other CW shows, but it is well made. The script is corny like all tween dramas, especially when they tell Cassie she is a witch ala Harry Potter way. It’s funny and as deep as any CW show can get, and it is the second time I can say that the show is better than the books (the first time was The Vampire Diaries).

So if you love The CW shows, this is another you don’t want to miss on your DVR. The Secret Circle starts tonight on the CW after The Vampire Diaries.

ComicsOnline gives The Secret Circle – “Pilot” 4 out of 5 cauldrons.

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