The Worst Witch (CBBC 2017) review

I watched this series in less than a week, it was only 13 episodes long but I'm not the greatest at binge watching anything if I'm honest.

The 1st time I watched this series I wasn't sure about some of the episodes, they seemed very spaced out with no connection to the previous episode. I think this was because it was only 1 episode a week so I probably forgot what happened the episode before, but watching it back all in one lump sum proved my 1^st thoughts to be wrong as I noticed little number of plot holes or anything  that stood out as being horribly wrong with any part of it

As far as I'm aware of there hasn't been a show like this on CBBC since The Sarah Jane adventures so I think it was a great idea to give it a chance & the way they did it was amazing.

All the magical elements looked so realistic, this surprised me as I wasn’t really sure what to expect , I don’t really think I put much thought into it or that it was just a kids T.V show so they probably wouldn’t give it a big enough budget to do many visual effects but I think I  probably expected to little so was pleasantly surprised.

I loved how at the start of the series Mildred is a ordinary girl who will be starting secondary school after the summer but keeps seeing magical things that see can’t explain, not being able to understand how she has powers, as far as she knows none of her family have ever been witches, this makes the series more interesting as Mildred isn’t just a witch who struggles to keep up she’s struggling to keep up as she’s never before been taught any magic or anything about the new world. She has suddenly been flung into.

Despite this Mildred continues to work hard and doesn’t just give up, I think this is a very important message to send out to young people who feel like they don’t fit in or like they can’t do something just because they struggle with it or other people put them down for not being at the top. This also teaches children that you should believe you can achieve anything you put your

mind to it & can get better at anything if you give it your all and really go for it.

Throughout the series Mildred nearly gets expelled on quite a few occasions due to not being able to keep up with her peers or for causing trouble but she somehow manages to save the school on several occasions by using her general knowledge or whatever found around her.  I believe this is an important lesson as it teaches that there is always something that you are good at you just need to believe in your strengths not to think or worry too much about what you can’t do as there is always something you can.

Mildred’s friendship with Maud and Enid also plays a vital part of this show as we get to see the ups and downs of their friendships; with them sticking together & helping each other when trouble arises, through thick and thin. Mildred’s rivalry with Ethel is also a very interesting element to this show especially as Ethel is trying so hard to stand out and all Mildred wants is to fit in, Ethel has the chance to use this to her advantage using any opportunity to get to Mildred and put her down.

Regardless of whatever Ethel says Mildred always rises above it, this teaches  to always raise above others attempts to get you down or make you feel bad about yourself, although Ethel and Mildred are worst enemies when they need to they can work together, by doing this they manage to help save the school proving that no matter how different you are to a person you can come together ,working  together to figure out a solution to the problem and then resolve it.

I thought all of the acting in this series was really good especially for young girls who haven’t had a lot of experience (I know some of them have but most haven’t , not sure about west end productions tho) of acting on screen.

Another thing I also loved was that they stuck to Miss Cackle’s academy being an all girls school where as nowadays they tend to add boys into these shows but they kept mostly  to the original book series (other than Enid being black). I also loved how the main people writing and producing the show were women I feel this is very important as I don’t think many men could write a show based around teenage girls as they don’t know what it’s like to be a young girl growing up as they haven’t experienced it, this is also important as it creates less plot holes for the show as everyone working on the episodes remained the same through the whole series.

Thank you for reading my 1^st ever TV series review,Ive done 1 film review before but this is something I really wanted to try, it took a long time to get to a point I was happy with so I really hope you’ve enjoyed it.