Believe
NBC
Sundays, 8 p.m.

If you love to watch paranormal scenarios to where there is good and evil fighting to contain it, then you will love the new television series Believe. When Bo Adams (Johnny Sequoyah) is taken from an institution where she has lived in for all of her childhood by Milton Winters (Delroy Lindo), a father figure to Bo, they are forced to go into hiding and run from Roman Skouras (Kyle MacLachlan). When Winters decides that he cannot be the only one protecting Bo, he breaks William Tate (Jake McLaughlin) out of prison to protect her. At first, the plotline and overall point of the show was very confusing to grasp. So many questions surface but are soon replenished by the shocker at the ending of the first episode. The actors do a good job sticking to their characters when it comes to certain situations. You begin to have a love-hate relationship with Tate because of the way he treats Bo but when his sarcasm and bitterness is gone, you really get to see how vulnerable he is to his emotions. Other than a few predictable moments in this hour long show,  it will have you begging for more of Bo’s abilities and more of Tate’s role in the series. I would recommend this show to any age group because of the action and the suspense. Overall, very suspenseful and family friendly. -Jaci Chavera

Rating: 4.5 of 5 stars

Created by award-winning director Alfonso Cuaron, this series has had an interesting start and is sure to lead the viewers into a story full of blurred black and white lines. The pilot begins with falsely convicted murderer Tate [Jake McLaughli] escaping prison with a little help, only he owes a favor for it. For the forseeable future, he must protect and care for paranormally gifted girl Bo [Johnny Sequoyah]. The show is refreshingly new and full of surprises taht I can say I did not see coming. The special effects and plot are well thought out and seemingly real. At one point, when a fellow gifted child from Orchestra, the program that tried to keep Bo hidden away, used his powers to simulatnelously build a miniature and a giant lion out of blocks, the effects were incredibly well done and the blocks had a realistic movement to them. As for the characters, I was a bit irriated with the stubborness and continual bashing (sometimes little, sometimes more) of Tate’s personality. In all honesty, we don’t get to see much beyond the stereotypical ‘criminal’ methods adn motives. Bo, on the other hand, astonshes me with how she can be so generous and feisty at the same time. I was not disapointed with what personality I had seen from her and the fact that she gave all the money they had away. At teh end of the pilot, a surprising connection is revealed to only the audience and I was slightly disappointed that no other character has figured it out yet. The show focuses on the extent of Bo’s powers and all that can be affected by them. It’s violence free and disapproving of Tate’s criminal methods so it is family friendly. All in all, Believe is great thrilling suspense that’ll make you want to tune in every week. -Michelle Contreras

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars