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Hands down, the worst movie I've ever seen. If I could give it less than one star, I would.

I knew it was propaganda when I started, but the depiction of Christians as being so oppressed that a bible in a student's locker warrants a trip to the principle's office is such a ridiculous persecution fantasy that it's offensive to rational Christians.

If you're a fan of Bill O'Reilly, you will enjoy this film. If you have any common sense, this movie is nothing short of an awkward, obnoxious fantasy.

Ignoring the message, though, the movie was still bad. The acting is flat and awkward, the characters are unrealistic (seriously, is the reputable and world-renowned attorney so incompetent in his own field that some old fart can beat him in his own game with nothing more than a night of reading?), and every scene they tried to make touching felt clumsy. The protagonist is so over-the-top patriotic it's hard not to laugh at him a little. (Come on, using a giant American flag as a motorcycle cover? Really?)

I heard it was good so I gave it a shot and watched the first season. It was very "meh." I had a hard time getting my head around some ideas, like how the wicked stepmother chose to curse them with such a horrible curse that other witches wouldn't dare do it, and that terrible curse was making them live regular lives in a quaint upper-middle class town in Maine (Oh the horror..). It feels like an incredibly counterproductive way to torture someone since the only one who knows anything abnormal is even going on is the wicked stepmother to begin with.

I also have an incredibly hard time with some advice characters give to one another. ("you had a closed adoption and want to leave because the adoptive parents told you it's not cool to just hang out with the kid? You better stay and hang out with the kid every day." & "you don't want to adopt the kids you just found out you had through a one-night-stand because you don't really want kids and can barely make ends meet on your own, never mind the attention kids need? Better guilt you into it.)

The protagonist is terrible, incredibly nosy and judgmental person that the show keeps trying to portray as a good person. There's too much suspension of disbelief in the everyday mechanics of the show, despite that it's a fantasy. (*spoilers* Seriously, she has absolutely no right to be around her child, never mind take him from his adoptive mother. She has no credentials to be the sheriff of the town or in the police force to begin with. Her psychic abilities are never explained or explored.)