#hailey romain

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Have you seen Spellbound (2023-2024)?

Yes

Partially

No, but I've heard of it

Never heard of it

Remaining time: 18 hours 5 minutes

[bonobochick]

Spellbound ... available to stream on Hulu... is fine. 🔮

The writing skewed a bit younger than I thought it would (it's along the lines of Free Rein) but it's nice to have a Black female lead plus the cast has good chemistry with each other. I still have a bunch of eps left to watch.

I like to support shows with Black female leads esp young Black women, hence my tuning in to check out this show. (Emily in Paris doesn't even believe Black women exist in Paris so it's nice to have Spellbound throw tomatoes at that bit of misogynoir 🍵)

I haven't seen much chatter about this new show, maybe due to the holiday weekend, but I thought I'd throw in my 2 cents.

[bonobochick]

Spellbound | Full length Trailer | Hulu

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CeCe & Benoit at American Prom. 🪩 🎨

Spellbound 1x10

I have a few eps to go before I finish up the season all the eps. I still think it's more fine than not though it does skew younger re: the writing (think Netflix's "Free Rein"). I saw on imdb that there are 27 eps. Only 13 have been made available on Hulu so assuming there's a second half to the series that will drop at some point.

[geekcavepodcast]

Spellbound Trailer

Fifteen year-old Cece Parker Jones relocates to Paris after being accepted to the Paris Opera Ballet School. Psych, nope an "administrative error" means that all the kids have to reapply since the school is apparently not got enough integrity to honor their acceptance letters. In addition, Cece and her friends find a book of spells in Cece's Aunt Ginger's apothecary. Cece unknowingly reverses a protection spell that had been hiding her identity, summoning a nemesis. Now the teen must juggle the pressures of reapplying to the elite school (with an instructor who apparently believes that if one wants to dance then that is all they must ever think about and train for - really, why would anyone want to go to this place), keeping up with academics, spending time with new friends, and her newfound ability with magic.

Spellbound stars Hailey Romain, Margherita Barbieri, Abigail O'Regan, Etienne Moana, Sam Darius, Zac Gabriel Werb, Raven Dauda, Malou Beauvoir, Rik Young, Cameron James-King, Gomolémo Tsagaé, Imogen Mackie Walker, and Charles Baker.

Spellhound hits Hulu on August 31, 2023.