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It's on par with shows like Henry Dranger and the Thundermans. They all have similar ratings which should be no surprise.

Like them, this show has quirky ideas and potentially fun scenes and stories. The only thing in the way is the profound lack of nuance that all these shows have.

Comedy is best paired with a little bit of seriousness. These characters need to be fleshed out more and in ways logical to the story. For example, "the overly friendly do gooder becomes best friends with the punk rock villain next door" is extremely intriguing. But they don't do it well. Its rushed over and forced. This could've been something that develops over the course of the show but they rush it in favor of easily forgettable gag plots.

I want that intriguing situation.

I have never seen anything like this. This is like Thundermans but as villians. I have always thought, since there are a lot of tv shows a about a superhero family, why isn't there a show about a super villian family. Well, now there is. It's cool, funny, original and exciting.

From the first sound and first sentence it's a carbon copy of every other show. Same "jokes", same way of speaking, same stuff. Don't waste your time, no matter what.

There's a rule in television that if you take a successful show, and reverse the basic concept of it, the new show you created will also be a success. For example, "American Idol," a show about judges helping to discover unknown singers. And "The Masked Singer," a show about well known celebrities trying to stay unknown.

Here, Disney takes the Nickelodeon show "The Thundermans," about a family of superheroes hiding out in a suburban setting and flips it with "Villains of Valley View."

The concept actually works pretty well, as the early scripts are pretty cute and seem to follow a logic that makes them fit the reality of the series. And the performances by the main cast are at least as good as their heroic Nick counterparts, with. James Patrick Stuart as the Dad, occasionally showing some of the humor of Robbie Rotten from "Lazy Town" (remember him?), Lucy Davis as Mom, both sweet and savage, The two teen sibs - Isabella Pappas as Amy and Reed Horstmann as Jake, constantly at each other's throats (just like Phoebe and Max Thunderman were) and the kid sib, Colby, played by Malachi Barton.

Of course there has to be someone who is in on the secret, and that's their neighbor and Amy's good-hearted classmate, Hartley, as portrayed by Kayden Muller-Janssen.

The fun of the series is in the fact that the family is used to being overtly nasty, and now has to give it all up just to fit into society! The potential for fun and mayhem is as high as any for this kind of series, and promises some of the wildest concepts of any live action Disney comedy. So far, so bad!

This show I'm sure is great for children.

It's a copy paste formula with a bad laugh track.

Lacks substance and good acting.

It seems like a good concept poorly executed.

Thought it may be fun to watch, 10 minutes in got bored and looked for something with more depth and less cringe.

"The Villains of Valley View" is a sitcom about this family of supervillains who now have to live out an "ordinary lifestyle" I'll be honest, I somehow randomly saw an ad for this show. I decided to check out the show, and I actually enjoyed it! A lot of people have been comparing this show to Nickelodeon's "The Thundermans" but reversed. I can definetly see why they are. The jokes are actually pretty good. Not every joke hits, but there were some surprisingly funny jokes. If you like supervillains, or a quick laugh, I'd check out "Villains of Valley View."

If we review this show on all the nice stuff, like acting and script and music etc it would be 2 stars, but if reviewed on humor and funny it would be 10, so I give it 7. It's a funny dumb show. But at least (aside from youngest son - terrible) it's not cringe and actors are pulling it.

Unfortunately, this show is really uncreative and unfunny so, even if very young kids enjoy it, if you can read this youlhate it. For some reason they decided to put a laugh track in it, maybe so you can tell when it's supposed to be funny. Super disappointing.

Great show and one of my favorite actor 'Malachi Barton' is in this show.

Thank you for creating this show and I highly recommend this show to anyone else.

The show is kinda eh but the concept is good, and i think little kids would enjoy it. It's definitely better than most things coming out on disney channel at the moment.

It's okay if Disney produce series for braindead people, cause only braindead people work for Disney. But then, don't expect high votes for it. People are sick n tired of stupid comic superhero trash ruined by too much Marvel and Disney Coops. Everything Disney put their hands on nowadays gets a load of garbage. Its just an annoying, stupid childish Hanna Montana Waverly Place teen copycatcrap with superheroes instead of stupid teen girls. 1 star is still to much.

This feels like the typical show of the late 80s. The incredibly flat jokes, followed by canned laughter. The amount of overplaying is just unbearable too.

Maybe they think, that 6 year olds like stuff like that, but even they have seen better. Is this a bad joke? There are no words how bad it is.

Let me just say that I was definitely one of the skeptics when it came to this show. I thought it would be bad considering how Disney Channel (at least in the last 7-10 years) has had a track record of releasing really bad shows that last no longer than 2 seasons. For example Coop and Cami Ask The World, Shake It Up, So Random, etc. Villains Of Valley View seriously surprised me. The jokes were funny, the characters were interesting, and the costuming was a major step up for Disney Channel. People say this show is a shameless rip-off of The Thundermans (which wasn't that good of a show to begin with) but as someone who's watched both, they certainly have similar premises but VERY different executions. Villains Of Valley View, to me, just seems like a nice callback to older shows people have loved before and repurposing it for the newer generation. Give Villains Of Valley View a try if you want a feel of old Disney Channel, it may surprise you.

The Villains of Valley View has a lot of flat jokes and exaggerated acting that remind me of bad sitcoms from the 80s-90s. It feels like Disney saw Lab Rats and The Thundermans and decided to mix them, but they made the main characters evil.

I'm very confused as to what Disney is trying to get across with this show. For example, The Thundermans and Lab Rats taught kids about making good decisions and that you should cherise your family. But since the characters in this show are villains, those positive messages aren't showing. These characters are extremely unlikable. They barely make good decisions and they never suffer the consequences of their actions. Not to mention the family acts like they hate eachother majority of the time, the only episode where it seemed like they genuinely cared for one another was episode four: "Belt, Bulls & Superfans." This entire show just looks like a jumble of The Thundermans and Lab Rats but with bad guys. This show is just Disney attemtping to recreate shows from the early 2010s. Specifically shows that centered around superheroes living in the the suburbs. The whole reason those shows worked were because the main characters were good people. When you turn them bad, it throws the entire show off balance.

I still find the show relatively endearing though. If you turn it on in the background and don't pay too much attention, you might find it good. But if you want to be genuinely entertained, go watch something else.

The acting is ok for a TV show, but it doesn't stand out either. The idea of a family of super villains having to hide from the law and the fellow villains is an ok and interesting concept. The script falls short of delivering a joke that doesn't feel like it hasn't be brought already in a couple of other TV shows before. The character setup seems to be mostly ok with the oldest son wanting to blend in, the daughter fighting with being a villain/bitch and the father being an evil genius. That is good for creating situations later in the show. The mother's character feels lackluster in design and the youngest kid does not have any characteristic than trying out his new superpower.

I personally can't see this show getting another season.

Like all of the post 2000 Nickelodeon and Disney Situation Comedies, it has a few different layers to it. The layer I enjoy is the dry-sarcastic language humor which has nothing to do with the storyline. All of these shows could (and are) about anything, but its the dry-sarcastic responses between characters that conveys the humor. The storylines are just generic vehicles for the language humor. People don't realize these shows are all written by people generally in their mid to late 40's and they write stuff that makes them laugh. I know I would have never found the humor in these shows as a kid, you have to be over 40 to catch the humor. It's humorous to me when people think just because a show is on one of these networks, it must be a stupid kids show. Nothing could be farther from the truth. I know its hard to get over that hump at first to accept that these shows are every bit as adult as the shows on other networks. The plots are not the draw here, all sitcoms have been using the same 30 storylines since the 1960's. Its all in the sarcasm that has absolutely nothing to do with plots.

I never liked to watch sitcoms, but this one is surprisingly entertaining.

It doesn't take the whole superhero/supervillain society too serious, comparable to the movie "Sky High" maybe. The actors are all good, especially the actress who plays Amy sticks out, she's fantastic. Even the SFX are decend for a sitcom. The script is well-written with not too flat jokes but actually good fun which makes all characters likeable in their own way.

I can't wait to see where this family's adventures in their new U. S. suburb life will lead them in season two.

Yay, I guess I found the first sitcom I like!

This is just unbelievably bad. I wasn't expecting much, and I NEVER watch these type of shows, but the poster looked interesting and I thought it may be like the Incredibles, but nooo.

So not only was it one of the most forced and unfunny things I've seen in a long time, but they actually added a prerecorded laugh track, yeah, not a live audience laughing, which they couldn't because no one would laugh to this.

You know you have a real loser on your hands when you have to add prerecorded laugh tracks to the show.

The cast was just ridiculously bad on so many levels.

Big FAT no!

Takes a few episodes for the actors to really get into their characters and believing in them (besides the girl who plays Hartley who is amazing since ep1). But give it a chance and they grow in you quick. It's a fun take on an evil family trying to blend into society. Finally a show with parents who aren't the same boring caring, lovable, responsible adults. Instead it's fresh seeing them struggle to not act evil and villainous. After 9 episodes you feel similar story telling and family lesson learning that Wizards of Waverly Place brought you. This show is Family friendly. Villains need love.

It's entertaining, definitely a kids/teen show but has some funny jokes and such. It's basically Wizards of Waverley Place except with villains, so when you compare the two obviously this is one is lacking, but if you take it as something new, it's pretty decent.

The family dynamic is a bit weird at first, they seem like strangers who just happen to live together, but as it goes on I feel like they got their groove, and I'm thinking that's why there are many bad reviews.

If given the chance it's entertaining enough to pass the time. The jokes are corny but tell me a kids/teen show that doesn't have corny jokes?

Why do Disney think that laugh tracks are still ok in 2022? The show may or may not be decent but the canned laughter just kills any chance of enjoying it. I couldn't get through the first episode. This is where I would add a "boo" track if I could.

I am so totally not the audience for this show, I'm not a kid and haven't watched any of the precedents. I'm just watching it because I subscribe to Disney Plus, it isn't about punching people and I thought the premise sounded cute. The humor is predictable and snarky but what strikes me most is the art direction -- both costuming and set decoration are just weird. Do kids really dress like that? Why would villains bring abstract art sculptures to Texas? I watch people on sitcoms behave incomprehensibly badly to one another all the time but in this one the writing gives them an excuse to be a-holes, they're villains. Overcoming their villainy could offer a very powerful message to the right group of youngsters but can't they do it without the horribly ugly presentation?

The Villains of Valley View is an exciting and hilarious new sitcom. Super powered villains take center stage in this show, sure to be a fan favorite.

The series follows the Madden family, a group of ex-super villains who are in hiding from other villains and superheroes. The family tries to blend in but the task proves to be harder than they expected.

There is so much to love about The Villains of Valley View. This is the first sitcom to follow a family of villains instead of heroes. Every character is extremely complex and chaotic; however, the family balances each other out. Jake (Reed Hortsmann) is hilarious in the way that he's the only family member who wants to be normal. Amy (Isabella Pappas) is a headstrong powerful girl who works for what she wants. She and Jake balance each other so well, considering they're as opposite as possible. Amy's friendship with next-door neighbor Hartley steals the show. Audiences can see themselves in both Amy and Hartley, and we're left wanting more of their friendship. The chemistry between parents Eva and Vic is strong. We don't know much about their history together but every so often there's a heartwarming scene that gives insight about the relationship between them. Eva and Vic are the most unlikely couple the Disney Channel has ever had, and they're quite possibly the best, too. There's never a dull moment in The Villains of Valley View.

Some of the messages in this series include things such as Amy teaching her friends and family that it's okay to be yourself and that you don't have to fit in to society's norms. Amy owns who she is, her style and her villain background, and is completely unapologetic. Meanwhile, Hartley shows Amy that there's always good in the world and to have a positive outlook on life.

I give The Villains of Valley View 5 out of 5 stars and recommend it for ages 8 to 14. It premieres only on Disney Channel June 3, 2022. By Heather S., KIDS FIRST.