The summer run series of The Nine Lives of Chloe King on ABC Family that’s based on the young adult novels of the same name has drawn to a formal close after quite a lengthy wait, especially in comparison to how quickly Switched at Birth got its renewal and extension for 2012. The series, focusing on a teenager that learns she’s from a different race that has special powers and has lived in secret for centuries, ran for ten episodes but didn’t make the cut. It premiered with two million viewers but by the end of its run this summer it was just over a million. The show had a certain kind of fun to it, having watched it all, but it didn’t feel like it merited even being worth writing about because it didn’t start to capitalize on its possibilities until the very end of its run. It was definitely a fun little genre show with its comic book aspects, the fact that it was self aware of science fiction and fantasy culture rather than oblivious to it all, and it definitely had appeal to tween girls in the way it presented some good role models overall that weren’t perfect, had their flaws and took charge. While it didn’t burn up the charts, or my interest, I can safely say that several young girls my daughter knows watched it and thoroughly enjoyed it, so it did appeal to the target audience. That found it at least.
Full episodes can still be found at Hulu: