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“Secrets of Sulphur Springs” on Disney Channel Review by Suzanne 1/17/21
This is a good show. It’s aimed at kids, but I’m enjoying it. It’s well written. It has some good mysteries. A lot of today’s “adult” mystery or horror shows are really gross and gory. This is more like what we used to see on TV, such as “The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries,” or “Murder She Wrote.” For you younger people, it’s like “Veronica Mars,” but without the sex.
The Campbell family move back to Sulphur Springs, where dad Ben (Josh Braaten) grew up. He hasn’t been there in a long time, but he was compelled to quit his job and buy a supposedly-haunted hotel, The Fremont, to fix up and re-open. Ben doesn’t think the place is haunted, but many of the people in town do. Much of the action centers on his son, Griffin (Preston Oliver), and his new friend from school, Harper (Kyliegh Curran) as they explore the house and try to solve the mystery of what happened to Savannah (Elle Graham), who disappeared 30 years earlier. They find a lot more than a ghost. Griffin also has a mom, and a young brother and sister who are bratty twins.
Although there’s a Sulphur Springs in Texas, the series is set in a fictional town in Louisiana. The Campbell family gets a lot of warnings from the townspeople about re-opening the hotel. They don’t want Ben back in town, nor to have the hotel reopen. If you like mysteries of “family shows,” check it out.
MORE INFORMATION:
DISNEY CHANNEL GREENLIGHTS LIVE-ACTION MYSTERY SERIES âSULPHUR SPRINGSâ
Disney Channel has ordered âSulphur Springs,â a live-action, time travel mystery series from writer and executive producer Tracey Thomson (âThe Young and the Restlessâ). Chuck Pratt (âSTARâ) will serve as showrunner and executive producer. Jennifer Phang (Freeformâs âCloak & Daggerâ) directed the pilot episode. Production is set to begin in New Orleans in 2020.
ââSulphur Springsâ is a truly genre-bending mystery that will help re-define the types of stories we tell on our network,â said Jonas Agin, vice president, Original Series, Disney Channel. âItâs a chilling, heartfelt, funny adventure that we canât wait for our audience to tune into.â
The 11-episode series follows 12-year-old Griffin Campbell, whose family has just uprooted their lives to move to a new town and take ownership of an abandoned hotel in hopes of restoring it back to the lively vacation destination it once was. Not long after Griffin begins his first day at a new school, he learns that the hotel heâs just moved into is rumored to be haunted by the ghost of a girl who disappeared decades ago. Along the way, Griffin befriends Harper, a bright-eyed, mystery-obsessed classmate. Together, they uncover a secret portal that allows them to travel back in time where theyâll uncover that the key to solving the mystery may lie within Griffinâs own family.
Starring are Preston Oliver (âChicago Fireâ) as Griffin, Kyliegh Curran (âDoctor Sleepâ) as Harper, Elle Graham (âSwamp Thingâ) as Savannah, Kelly Frye (âCriminal Mindsâ) as Sarah, Josh Braaten (âAmerican Horror Storyâ) as Ben, Landon Gordon (Disney Channelâs âCoop & Cami Ask the Worldâ) as Wyatt and Madeleine McGraw (âOutcastâ) as Zoey.
âSulphur Springsâ is a production of Gwave Productions LLC. Chuck Pratt and Tracey Thomsonâs deals were brokered by Paradigm. The deals were completed prior to the expiration of the WGA/ATA franchise agreement.
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