When I first saw the first season, I thought it was adorable. I liked Shimmer and Shine's personality and the songs were very catchy. After the second season, it was like the show lost its magic. When they switched to CGI from Flash Animation, I wanted to like it but it felt so empty. The new seasons lacked heart, the episodes put me to sleep even though they're written by amazing writers like Rich Fogel (Superman, Justice League), Greg Weisman and Kevin Hopps (Young Justice, The Spectacular Spider-Man) and Zeta was a forgettable villain even though she was voiced by one of my favorite voice actresses, Lacey Chabert.(Eliza Thornberry) but she sounded tired. What would have made the next seasons perfect is to keep the same animation and premise. Shimmer and Shine are genies in training, learning from their mistakes to become better. The next seasons could have taught kids that we all make mistakes and we learn from them to do better. But they dropped the ball hard. I would just the first season since that's where the show was perfect. I hope one day I will meet the creator and say "What happened?" I have no problem against CGI. It's a great tool for movies and TV. But when your show has established animation and you change the format in the next season, you're not going to get the same results. It will decline faster like a heartbeat flatline. The first season gets an A, 5 stars. Its other seasons gets 0 stars. Overall, the show gets 4 stars because I still respect the first season. Just watch that on repeat and pretend the other seasons don't exist.
