The impression I got from a couple of people who saw it is that Hex aspires to be like Buffy and is actually more like Charmed.

Well, at least aiming for Buffy and missing leaves room for a bit of quality. Imagine what it would be like if they were aiming for Charmed and missed.

Hex is just woeful. Utterly woeful.

Hex is just woeful. Utterly woeful.

I haven't seen it, but I was skeptical because in Entertainment Weekly, the creators said something like "Unlike Buffy, we take the genre seriously." Um, yeah. Good luck with that.

It is sitting on my TIVO, I am curious

Watched on TiFaux. The Fairuza Balk-looking character actually turned out to be more of a Kelly Osborne type. It's mildly entertaining, if you like old Hammer films, without the vintage kitsch.

"Unlike Buffy, we take the genre seriously." Um, yeah. Good luck with that.

If they mean horror, I find that easy to believe. Buffy used horror tropes but it wasn't really a horror show. Wasn't the genre-breaking what some people found appealing?

Wasn't the genre-breaking what some people found appealling?

It certainly was for me. I can't stand regular horror, barring rare instances. Once I got over my pre-concieved notions about the show and actually watched it (the WBs "creepy announcer guy" made me think it was just normal horror.) I fell for it pretty quickly when I started catching re-runs on FX.

What the exec. producer said was "Charmed treated witchcraft like a romantic comedy. Buffy was a send-up of the genre. Hex takes itself seriously."

That's the quote. "Send-up" sounded dismisive (and not quite the right description) to me in light of the "takes itself seriously" comment. Maybe I'm reading it wrong. I mean, yes, Buffy played with the tropes, but they could also pull out something like HUSH.

It struck me as dismissive, too, but I'm willing to believe that it's not how he meant it.