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Lucky American Nina Martin has been accepted as a scholarship student at an English boarding school. But she arrives at Anubis House in the middle of a mystery: another student, Joy, recently left the school without a word of farewell. All signs of her presence have been erased and the teachers seem to be encouraging everyone to forget she was ever there. Her roommate, Patricia, suspects that Nina's arrival has something to do with Joy's disappearance and disrupts every attempt Nina makes to settle in. Meanwhile, Nina helps an elderly woman from a nearby nursing home and receives in return a pendant marked with the Eye of Horus and the injunction to find and protect a treasure hidden in Anubis House. With the help of her ditzy roommate Amber and sympathetic bookworm Fabian, Nina sets out to find the treasure, dodging Patricia, the teachers, and Anubis House's strange caretaker, Victor, who is hiding secrets of his own.
A US/UK co-production based on a Dutch-Belgian original (which also has a German recension with a catchy opening theme song), House of Anubis follows in the tradition of E. Nesbit, Enid Blyton and J.K. Rowling: a group of minimally supervised young people uncovering the clues to solve a (possibly ancient, possibly occult) mystery in the teeth of opposition from their adversaries, the only adults to pay much attention to them. ( Read more... )
House of Anubis is tasty mind candy -- not as imaginative as Dark Oracle, but an entertaining ride. I marathoned season two over the course of a week, staying up well past my bedtime to watch just-one-more-episode after just-one-more-episode. If you know any twelve-year-olds who haven't seen it, introduce them to it, and perhaps lurk about in the background while they're watching. If it pushes your buttons as it did mine, you're in for a treat. Season one is currently streaming on Nick.com here, except for the penultimate episode and season finale, which for some odd reason aren't included on this playlist. Season two's playlist is here. A third season is beginning production, probably for broadcast early in 2013.
A US/UK co-production based on a Dutch-Belgian original (which also has a German recension with a catchy opening theme song), House of Anubis follows in the tradition of E. Nesbit, Enid Blyton and J.K. Rowling: a group of minimally supervised young people uncovering the clues to solve a (possibly ancient, possibly occult) mystery in the teeth of opposition from their adversaries, the only adults to pay much attention to them. ( Read more... )
House of Anubis is tasty mind candy -- not as imaginative as Dark Oracle, but an entertaining ride. I marathoned season two over the course of a week, staying up well past my bedtime to watch just-one-more-episode after just-one-more-episode. If you know any twelve-year-olds who haven't seen it, introduce them to it, and perhaps lurk about in the background while they're watching. If it pushes your buttons as it did mine, you're in for a treat. Season one is currently streaming on Nick.com here, except for the penultimate episode and season finale, which for some odd reason aren't included on this playlist. Season two's playlist is here. A third season is beginning production, probably for broadcast early in 2013.
