House o' Anubis

General summary:
The series follows a group of teenagers living in the titled Anubis House, which serves as a boarding house for a British boarding school. Nina, an American girl who had been living with her grandmother after her parents died, leaves the U.S. to attend the school. She arrives at the school right as another resident, named Joy, suddenly leaves without warning.
Unfortunately for her, Nina ends up rooming with Joy's best friend, Patricia. Patricia instantly distrusts Nina, believing she had something to do with Joy's disappearance, and is catty and mean to her (something that no one else in the house calls her out on, sans Fabian).
A couple days later Nina meets an old woman named Sarah/Emily (she seems confused as to her real name) who gives her a necklace and cryptically warns her about the "black bird" or something like that. In any case, it's obvious to the audience she's referring to the stuffed crow the evil landlord of the building keeps in his office.
(We know the landlord is evil because he's seen burning a stuffed animal that Joy "left" behind, after he told Patricia he'd mail it to Joy - oooo, spooky. Also, his name is Victor, which is just an evil name in general.)
Patricia then leads the rest of the people in her house in forcing Nina through what is essentially a hazing. Despite the protests of Fabian, Patricia tells Nina she has to go up into the attic (forbidden, of course) and bring something back.
Nina agrees to do it, steals the attic key, goes up there in the middle of the night while everyone else looks on, is predictably locked in the attic by Patricia, and has a momentary freak-out when Victor uses the spare attic key to go upstairs and check everythnig out. Luckily the weird necklace that the crazy old lady gave to Nina opens a secret passage, which Nina conveniently falls into, thus hiding her from Victor! Woo.
All of this leads to: Nina discovering a potrait in the attic with Fabian, which leads them to pry open a stair, under which they find a key. Also, Patricia eventually realizes (via the nice housekeeper) that Nina had nothing to do with Joy's disappearance.
Meanwhile, there's this other separate love triangle/square going on with the other members of the house that I can't be bothered to write here.
Episode summary:
I missed the very beginning of this episode, so when I started watching Patricia and Mara (the resident house genius/math girl) are talking and getting ready for a party Mick and Amber (the shallow, slightly stupid, but attractive couple) are throwing. Patricia admits she was wrong about Nina, then decides to...go through her stuff? Um, okay...
She finds the two keys, and Nina's diary, which she then reads, and finds out (surprise, surprise), Nina thinks she's a mean person! Wow, that's a revelation, since you just spent the past week or so accusing her of stuff she didn't do for absolutely no reason!
Two things on this: 1. Nina is a failure at hiding things. I mean really? A conspicuous sparkly box under your bed and you keep all the weird secret shit you've found AND you're diary in there? and 2. Patricia has no right to be angry, since she's going through Nina's stuff - and it's all true anyway! She should be happy Nina didn't write, "Patricia is the world's biggest bitch!" in all capital's in the diary!
In this episode of House of Anubis, Nina and Fabian go upstairs to the attic again, using the party as cover. They find out what it is the key they previously found unlocks - a box, with a weird puzzle-like thing with heiroglyphics on it, and an old, old, OLD tape-thingy.They go back down to the party, where the goofy weird kid (named Alfie) has gotten his head stuck in a moose.
Victor figures out someone's gone up to the attic because he rigged a little booby trap with a feather, and so he stops the party and asks who took the key and has been going up in the attic. This is when Alfie decides to mention that he's feeling dizzy, etc., and while Victor deals with that, Nina puts the key on the floor upstairs. Now Victor has no excuse to go through their things, though he does ground them all.
Nina and Fabian try to figure out the heiroglyphics, to no avail. This leads to the best line in the series thus far, said by Fabian about the heiroglyphics:
"It's like the Internet's just never heard of them."
F & N go to visit F's uncle, who's an antiques dealer, and show him all the stuff, hoping he can tell them more about it. While he's almost completely useless, this is the moment when I finally realized that Nina kind of reminds me of my French exchange student, with her facial expressions, so it's still momentous.

Episode ends with Patricia overhearing Victor and the policeman from a previous episode (whom she reported Joy's disappearance to, and who pretended to have called Joy and her family to check on them) have a SUPER SEKRIT powow in the kitchen.

Conclusions: Still vaguely addictive, though it's appeal is steadily waning...the lack of a sincerely hot guy on the show is slowly killing me, I must admit, and even Nina's bizarre facial movements won't be able to keep me watching this for long.
(I looked up House of Anubis on Wikipedia for a plot summary, and couldn't believe there were 60 episodes planned for the first season, until I realized each thirty minute episode is listed as two episodes on Wikipedia...)