The House of Anubis

I came down to our basement last night to find my sister watching this:

(except, you know, the actual show, not the trailer)

So I sat down to watch, because you never know, sometimes there are hot guys in Nick shows.
I'm not sure what it is about the show - probably the mystery element of it - but despite the horrible acting, cheesy music and camerawork, and a plot that is iffy, I still kind of wanted to keep watching it.
So I did, tonight, and...I still don't know how I feel. Nina and Patricia need some serious acting lessons; really, most of the girls do, though Mara isn't that bad, and I'm sure it's hard to do anything with the dumb blonde. Meanwhile, Jerome looks weird (anyone else reminded strongly of Bruce Jenner?), and Mick is just kind of blah. I find I really don't care about him at all - like he's a peripheral character, instead of a main one. Alfie is nonoffensive, and Fabian is actually not half bad.
Anyway, here were my thoughts on the second episode:
 - The facial expressions of Nina are always off. Like, seriously - they are never appropriate for the situtation. In fact, most of her acting is like that.
 - I don't understand why Nina always falls into the secret little room; you'd think after the second time she would've figured it out.
 - Victor really likes fire doesn't he?
 - Seriously, Patricia didn't think to hide the stupid folder somewhere? Why are people always such idiots?
 - Also: why exactly do Fabian and Nina not wait until Victor is actually asleep in his own room? Wouldn't that make more sense? Of course, then there'd be no drama, but still. Also, I for sure would've followed to hide in one of the boys' rooms after that whole thing, not gone upstairs when I knew Victor was awake.
 - Another issue: there's no way in hell they would be able to remove a floorboard with that little noise and that little effort unless it wasn't nailed down in the first place, and these were really, really new stairs.
 - Not all my thoughts on the show are bad: I like how Fabian takes a photo of the heiroglyphs with his phone, since that's accurate to what a real teenager would do. And it's not in this episode, but in the last one they showed the science class the kids were in, and these kids are actually learning things suited for their age! Pascal's Law! That's actually something you learn in high school chemistry! Hooray!



All in all, The House of Anubis is a totally unbelievable show (and not in a good way), and yet I still kind of want to continue watching it.
(Another weird thing about the show is the scheduling; it's really odd, with a new episode every night for the week of January 10th, but none in between those episodes and the two-night premier.)