“So Weird” (IMDB/Disney Channel)
As a kid, my favorite show was about death. Well, not just death: it was also about faith, sacrifice and trying to make sense of life’s ineffable mysteries. Strangest of all, I watched it on the Disney Channel.
ran for three seasons from 1999 to 2001. It was Disney’s attempt to create a kid-friendly version of “The X-Files,” tapping into an in-vogue fascination with ghosts, alien encounters and other paranormal phenomena. In practice, it became something more: a meditation on mystery and mortality.
It was an enormously important piece of art for me as a young person, reflecting my own fears and fascinations with the strange, complicated world of adulthood. As I’ve grown up it has only become more resonant, and my appreciation for its artful handling of grief, faith and life’s big questions has only deepened. “So Weird” is a rare TV show that can speak to you at both 14 and 34.
10 Essential Episodes of Disney Channel’s So Weird Vulture.com 2/1/2021
Often cited as the starter show for many horror fans today, Disney Channel’s
So Weird now available to stream on Disney+ follows Fiona “Fi” Phillips (Cara DeLizia), an internet-obsessed teen who investigates the paranormal. Every episode starts the same: Fi gives a bit of history about what spooky, supernatural story she and her brother Jack (Patrick Levis) will encounter. She then reveals the next stop on her rock-star mom Molly Phillips’s (Mackenzie Phillips) first solo tour following the death of her husband and bandmate Rick (Chris Gibson), who died when Fi was 3 years old. From aliens to astral projection, each episode and tour stop highlights a new paranormal phenomenon, usually digging deeper into how Fi and her family continue to process Rick’s death and try to avoid grief along the way.
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