SnoopyStyle Sadie Hawthorne (Charlotte Arnold) is a nature-loving science geek near Toronto. She is trying to navigate high school and new loves with her best friends Margaret Browning-Levesque (Jasmine Richards) and Rain 'Rainbow' Papadakis (Michael D'Ascenzo). Her older brother Hal (Justin Bradley) is annoying. Her parents are well-meaning.The first season has socially awkward Sadie use her expertise about the natural world to understand her human relationships. It has an earthy unique take on the high school kids show genre. It's lovely. It's charming. The kids are all nice. It has an indie innocence about the material. It's different from the other flashier Disney kids show. The second season and the half-third mostly minimizes the nature aspect to get more in line with very other kids show. The kids remain nice but it does lose the uniqueness of the first season. They even put some makeup on Charlotte. The transition leaves the show a lesser version of other Disney shows and does not last for a full third season.

Ddey65 Many in America have unfairly criticized this new Disney Channel TV-series as being yet another "Lizzie McGuire," simply because the show is for and about a girl in her early teens. For the record, I'd like to point out that this is a Canadian TV-show, and that shows like "American Dragon; Jake Long," and "The Suite Life of Zack & Cody" don't have preteen girls as main characters at all, even if Brenda Song & Ashley Tisdale outshine the Sprouse Twins.Charlotte Arnold, who looks more like Emma Taylor-Isherwood of "Strange Days at Blake Holsey High," plays Sadie Hawthore, an aspiring animal, insect, and reptile biologist in her freshman year at R.B. Bennett High School, who thinks the laws that apply to nature apply to the ways of mankind as well. Her best friends, Margaret Browning-Lesveque(Jasmine Richards) and Rain Papadakis(Michael D'Ascenzo) are a fashion queen and an unlucky guy respectively. Her older brother Hal(Justin Bradley), is a standard goof-ball, jerky-idiot sibling with a fledgling rock band. She also has a crush on a boy on the school football team named Owen Anthony(Kyle Kassadjian, who shortened his name), but unlike Lizzie McGuire's Ethan Kraft, and Daria's Kevin Thompson, he actually has a brain under that helmet(Also, Daria didn't have a crush on Kevin).No, Charlotte Arnold is no Hilary Duff, and while that's not a condemnation of Duff, it's still fine with me. It's also what makes her such a likable character. The show itself was written by those who wrote the Canadian kid's show "Our Hero," but you can easily figure that out by the narration between the scenes. Perhaps fewer Americans have seen those shows and that's why they make a false comparison to Lizzie. And while other children's programming that's shown on both cable television and network affiliates get the "Educational/Informative" label in order to fend off the wrath of anti-media zealots, this one deserves such a label.When I originally wrote this comment, the show was focused on Sadie's love of nature. In the second season, that primary feature, which is what made both the main character and the show so unique, is slowly being whittled away. Not that this is enough to make me turn away from the show, but I can only hope the natural aspect of it isn't completely forgotten.

rachel7949 I love this show. Although Sadie is a little crazy she is still a normal teenager. I know what putting up with a brother feels like, and the writers really show how frustrating it is to put up with another sibling. I love this show and I Tivo it all the time so I can watch them. Sadly they don't show it very much on Disney channel and I wish they would. The actors are great. Sadie is so real you can empathize with her and it is really convincing. I really enjoy the situations that the characters are put into, they are so real. And being a teenager, I must include that Jacob Kraemer is hot! He is one of those characters you love and hate at the same time. He brings so much life into the show. This show has made me laugh out loud numerous times. And I have covered my eyes with a pillow, when I just couldn't imagine how embarrassed Sadie must feel at some parts. I would diffidently recommend this show to anyone from the ages 11-18. I hope I have convinced you to watch and episode or two.

cheerqueeen879 Many people felt that the first season was unworthy of their time and patience and this was well true, NOW however they have fixed it up and made it more teen and less animal planet. Give it ANOTHER chance, PLEASE, you will NOT be sorry!! It is much easier to watch and there's a new romance. GIVE it another shot you WON'T regret it! They have all had a makeover. Sadie still loves her animals, but she has mellowed down, gotten more girly and has a new crush. Margaret has straightened her hair and Rain has gotten his braces taken off. This has made is appeal to wider audiences. I too felt like most of you during the first season but it's like the first season never happened. Give it a fresh start!