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Pretty Freekin Scary

Pretty Freekin Scary

A bland, tonally bizarre family sitcom that doesn't give its enthusiastic young cast enough to do

4.4

TV Show

United States of America
English
Comedy, Family, Kids, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
2023
Eliana Su'a, Emma Shannon, Kyan Samuels

TLDR

Parents, your child just came back from the grave; DON'T JUST SEND HER BACK TO SCHOOL

What it's about

After she is allowed to come back from the dead following a freak accident, 14-year-old Frankie balances everyday life with tasks assigned to her by the Grim Reaper.

The take

Despite the efforts of this young cast, who all seem understandably excited about the little they've been given to work with, Pretty Freekin Scary consistently makes dull decisions that fail to take advantage of the show's weirdly dark premise. One would hope for a more offbeat tone à la Beetlejuice or The Addams Family, but instead we get subpar Disney Channel shenanigans rendered in visually unappealing ways, with no coherent concept behind its version of the Underworld. And in the show's absolute resistance to engaging with tricky subject matter such as death (even in a satirical way), it only ends up making light of what its protagonist is living through. Certainly not the most appropriate time in America to release a series that's so nonchalant about children's safety.

What stands out

Here's to hoping young Yonas Kibreab, who plays Frankie's mischievous younger brother Remy, gets another shot to play around in a different sandbox beyond this show. He proves himself more than willing to do whatever the scripts require from his character—which may not be all that much in the grand scheme of things, but he's got a palpable sense of joy that doesn't deserve to be extinguished.

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