The Evermoor Chronicles (season 1)

The Evermoor Chronicles (known as Evermoor in the four-episode miniseries) is a British television series that aired on Disney Channel. It was produced by Lime Pictures with filming taking place in the spring of 2014. The series premiered on 10 October 2014 on Disney Channel in the United Kingdom, on 17 October 2014 on Disney Channel in the United States and Family Channel in Canada, and on 31 October 2014 on Disney Channel in Australia and New Zealand.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) In a stark contrast to most of Disney Channel's other programming, this series is a lot more serious in tone and it features an overarching narrative. In this case it centers around mysteries of a small town Tara's American family and British stepfamily moves to with a tapestry that a select number of magic sewers can use predict the future using golden thread, and in rare cases the legendary Supreme Everine can even cause the future to happen. In fact, a handful of people have referred to  The pilot miniseries centers around Tara looking into some of the oddities of the Manor they're staying in and discovering she was the Supreme Everine destined to save her family from an evil scheme, and the proper first season is about Tara going through further training as the Supreme, learning to master her powers, helping out various companions and dealing with a threat involving her aunt and the Founder Everines. Various people even went as far as to call this show as the House of Anubis of Disney Channel considering both series are not only British shows but also oddballs among mostly comedic and kid-friendly networks.
 * 2) Amazing performances from the majority of the main cast. Stand outs include Naomi Sequeira, Georgia Lock, Finney Cassidy and Jordan Loughran, among others.
 * 3) Even though the series is an urban fantasy with mystery and magic subplots, the series is at its core, a coming-of-age story which focuses on the the loves, lives and tribulations of teenagers.
 * 4) There are a number of romantic subplots that the main cast involved in, with one of the some standouts being Tara trying to hang out with Cameron, and Sorcha gaining emotions and feelings for Seb.
 * 5) Sorsha may be an Everine for her Circle and Tara may be the Supreme Everine, but the show rarely, if ever, treats them as being superior to the others. Tara for example, still has a lot of insecurities considering her vast power and the responsibilities that come with it.
 * 6) Even Otto, Evermoor's local snoot and source of knowledge throughout the town, tends to feel invisible as most people who come to him for advice tend to take him for granted, and he barely had any true human friends before meeting Tara and her gang. Not to mention being separated from her demigod girlfriend.
 * 7) The main cast is compelling and memorable in various ways.
 * 8) * Tara Crossley is a creative and imaginative girl, who turns out to be the chosen Supreme Everine with the ability to cause events in the future to happen. However, as previously mentioned, she has a lot of insecurities due to recently discovering her abilities and the responsibilities that come with the power. But despite wanting to be normal more than anything, she still tries to take her duties seriously and tries to use her powers and social skills to help various people. Even after losing her powers midway through the season, she still maintains her determination to protect Evermoor serving as the proud leader of a band of heroes.
 * 9) *Cameron Marsh is more than just Tara and Bella's love interest. He's an orphan with his mother disappearing at a young age (later revealed to be Tara and Bridget's fault), and carries a spider around called "Flynn" which he's magically connected to.
 * 10) *Bella Crossley is Tara's older step-sister who ends up temporarily posing as the Supreme Everine for a time to protect Tara's secret. She also gained smelling powers allowing her to tell to people's emotions are based on how or what they smell like.
 * 11) *Sorsha Doyle is an Everine-in-training with experience in Evermoor culture and history, and wants to make her own predictions. She's also in love with Seb and is trying to balance her Everine duties with her relationship with Seb.
 * 12) *Sebastian "Seb" Crossley is the most of practical and methodical member of the group. He's extremely smart and he's the only major character who doesn't have a close relationship with magic.
 * 13) *Otto is a demigod who was banished to Earth by his father as a punishment for stealing his father's chariot and accidentally causing a massive thunderstorm. Since then, he had spent the past 1000 years in Evermoor, as the town's local snoot and the guy people would go to whenever they needed information or an answer to certain questions.
 * 14) The supporting cast is also fairly memorable and they each have their own unique traits to them.
 * 15) *Jake Crossley is Tara's younger brother, and a mischief-loving prankster with a fascination for all things weird. He's usually a source of comic relief
 * 16) *Ludo Carmichael is one of the owners of the Evermoor Manor, and a close friend of Jake's, whom he'd form an investigative team with, trying to hunt and solve mysteries within Evermoor, with his cast knowledge of the town. Like Jake, he's usually a source of comic relief.
 * 17) *Fiona Crossley is Tara and Jake's mother who's also the author of the famous Tallulah Brinkworth novels based on her daughter. She's not very fond of Evermoorian customs or tradition, but when she tries to find ways to improve the town, nobody listens to her.
 * 18) *Chester Doyle is Sorsha's father who's the mayor of Evermoor, as well as a lawyer, a teacher, and owner of the Stumpy Plum.
 * 19) *Bridget McCoy is Tara's maternal great-aunt, and a former leader of the Everines, who faked to death so Tara could follow her destiny and manipulated various events from behind the scenes after a tragedy caused by the Everines resulted in her rebelling against them.
 * 20) *Crimson Carmichael is the Evermoor Manor's former housekeeper and the mother of Ludo. She rehired by Fiona and Crimson would take on odd jobs throughout Evermoor.
 * 21) *Esmeralda Dwyer is the leader of the Everines who's strict and quite mysterious. She's shown to have a strong fascination over the Supreme Everine and her power.
 * 22) The series knows to not take itself too seriously and balances out the serious drama and plot twists with some lighthearted moments and episodes. However, none of the episodes can truly be considered "filler" or pointless, since even a low-stakes episode will find a way to build up to the overall narrative and storyline.
 * 23) Memorable theme song shown during each episode, which subtly represents Tara discovering she was the Supreme Everine and hoping she could find her own way. There's even an extended version that goes even further into Tara's insecurities about her newfound powers, finding her own path and what the future would bring her.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Season 2, while not awful, can be considered vastly inferior to the pilot episodes and first season, not only because a bunch of story-lines and important plots were either forgotten or completely dropped (the tapestry, the golden thread, the Everines, Flynn, etc.), but also because the humor isn't quite as good as it was in the first season, and a bunch of key players from the past season are completely absent -- even characters like Sorsha, Seb and Tara (the main character and the Supreme Everine, may we remind you) are nowhere to be seen in this new season. Although to be fair, most of these questions are answered in a video released by the creators, but the show itself never takes the time to explain the aftermath from Season 1 finale, so anyone who didn't watch the video would be completely lost as to what happened between the two seasons.

Trivia

 * This series marks a first for Disney, in which it was completely filmed in the United Kingdom.