Review by thesaboteur7

I really tried to like this show, because as a fan of the book (and the movie) I saw hope in getting a proper adaption of the book series, but man was I wrong.

Everything about this show is so B grade, from the amount of orange in Clary's hair, to the flashback scenes in the pilot, the show is awful.

While there are some good moments in the show (the conversation with Jace and Alec, and Alec and Isabelle), the actors portraying Clary and Simon really make this show unbearable. I'm not sure if these actors don't know what they are doing, or if it's just the writing, but it seems like these two characters are the worst. Pity they are the main characters.

I didn't initially want to write a bad review for the show, but after struggling through the first episode and four minutes of the second episode, Simon's reaction to Isabelle ("hot! uh, the runes) seems like a joke meant for eleven year olds.

Maybe the show was doomed from the start when they refused to allow the author of the book series, Cassandra Clare, to have any input in the show what-so-ever. Sure they have every right to change plot details, and I understand that, but to make the dialogue so awful, cringe and just idiotic in general, I have to wonder why Free-form allowed this pilot to be made to series.

I will probably keep watching it, just out of hope that the show improves (or they recast the leads) but until then, I will try not to pay too much attention to any scene involving dyed orange hair or glasses.