History Series / Hex

Originally marketed as The British ''Series/{{Buffy|the Vampire Slayer}}'', which was true in much the same way that ''Series/{{Coupling}}'' was the British ''Series/{{Friends}}'' (which, again, was part of the early hype), ''Hex'' was one of Creator/{{Sky}}'s earliest original drama series. It told the story of a blonde schoolgirl named Cassie who gets supernatural powers with which to fight demons, but has her style cramped by her falling in love with the leader of the aforesaid demons, Azazeal, discovering that her destiny is to give birth to his child, the Anti-Christ.

Following the departure of Cassie's actor, the series was retooled into a show about a kickass red-headed immortal schoolgirl named Ella who has supernatural powers with which she fights demons. Unfortunately she was blind-sided by the Anti-Christ (Cassie's sprog Malachi)'s evil plans, the demons won, and the show's second (and final) season ended with the cast divided into the evil, the very dead, and the fleeing in terror.

In both seasons, Thelma the ghost was the heroine's sidekick and speaker of memorable quips.

** Azazeal becomes less ManipulativeBastard and more PapaWolf in the second season. However, because he wants Malachi to choose his own destiny, the forces of hell [[PutOnABus put him on a bus]] and send Mephistopheles to make sure the apocalypse goes as planned.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Malachi and Mephistopheles play chess while discussing [[spoiler: how to turn students into inkubi and succubi.]] Mephistopheles plays white, Malachi plays black. [[spoiler: Mephistopheles undergoes a [[HeelFaceTurn Heel Face Turn]] and fights for free will. Malachi ends up [[DrunkOnTheDarkSide Drunk On The Dark Side]] and gleefully goes about setting off the apocalypse.]]

* InTheBlood: [[spoiler:Cassie is descended from Rachel [=McBain=], who first made the house a demon magnet by ignorant experimentation with voodoo.]]

** Roxanne and Gemma play the Dark Feminine for all it is worth but [[spoiler: it turns out Gemma really does care about Troy as she leaves the school with him and Roxanne undergoes a moral awakening late in Series 2.]]
* LightningCanDoAnything: It can bring Anointed Ones back from the dead. Thus MagicalDefibrillator is weirdly justified [[spoiler: even though ultimately it is Thelma armed with Ella's volta that saves the day]].

* ParentalSubstitute: David Tyrell and Jo are this for Cassie with them both looking out for her wellbeing and happiness. Jo later becomes a substitute mother figure for Malachi. [[spoiler: Although that makes their [[TeacherStudentRomance later interactions]] a little more disturbing.]]

* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: [[spoiler: Subverted. Ella uses the Stone of Belial to travel back to when Malachi was an infant to kill him while he's helpless. Unfortunately Perie turns out to be the nurse on duty in the maternaity ward, and during the struggle, she stabs Ella with her own blade, forcing her to abandon the plan.]]

* FanService

** ''Deeper Into Darkness'' is a particularly bad offender. [[spoiler: Thelma tries to tell Cassie that Troy is possessed and Cassie...accuses her of being jealous]].

* RealSongThemeTune: Uses "#1 Crush" by Music/{{Garbage}} for both the opening and closing credits. The first episode uniquely used "You Can't Hurry Love" by the Concretes for the closing credits.

* VillainousBreakdown: Azazeal averts this, instead simply commenting in a dry tone, "I'd forgotten how much fun it is having Ella around..." [[EvilIsCool Evil is indeed cool]].

* WhatTheHellHero: Thelma and Raphael's actions towards the end of "You Lose" ([[spoiler: respectively, Thelma saving Malachi because she's afraid to go to Heaven ''despite the fact that Maya would presumably go with her'', and Raphael attempting to rape Ella for no reason at all]]) are pretty inexplicable.

* EditedForSyndication: The [=BBC=] America version edited out any nudity and made a number of other changes (like cutting out a scene with Felix in the first season for unexplained reasons).

** Malachi (who despite being the Antichrist, starts off as more ChaoticNeutral) does this after he gets a taste of the power that mind-controlling people brings.

* AntiquatedLinguistics: Thelma drops hilariously in and out of these as part of her attempt to convince Roxanne that she’s a messenger from God (the other parts being an angel costume and a harp that she has no idea how to play). [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments It actually works.]]

* PantyShot: Two utterly gratuitous ones in quick succession when Thelma is [[spoiler:sabotaging the electrical socket in Cassie's room]].

* HesBack: Ella in ''You Lose'', and she even namedrops it ("Didn't they tell you? I'm back!")

* WhatMeasureIsAMook: Ella has no problem with casually killing the students under Malachi's control, even though she knows that Thelma can cure them. She outright states at one point, “You have to stop thinking of them as people!”
* WhatTheHellHero: Thelma and Raphael's actions towards the end of ''You Lose'' ([[spoiler: respectively, Thelma saving Malachi because she's afraid to go to heaven ''despite the fact that Maya would presumably go with her'', and Raphael attempting to rape Ella for no reason at all]]) are pretty inexplicable.

* SpotOfTea: Invoked, as a way to slip Leon a potion that will let him see the spirit world.
-->’’’Thelma:’’’ “No, you don’t want painkillers, you want a brew!”

* LargeHam: Jez, on occasion.

** NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Azazeal and most of the Nephilim (Baraquel, Araquiel, Sariel, Ramiel). On the good side, Ella Dee, daughter of John Dee.
* MercyKill: Malachi grants this to [[spoiler: Max]].

* NewTransferStudent: Ella.

* NoBodyLeftBehind: The Nephilim combust and disintegrate after death. Averted with Jez (possibly because he was in human form when he was killed), so Ella makes it appear he committed suicide to cover her tracks.

Don't confuse this with the 80's horror flick, ''Film/{{Hex}}''

* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Thelma repeatedly calls Ella out on this.

* SchoolgirlLesbians: Thelma and Maya were dead lesbian schoolgirls. Which didn't stop them having a sex life. Prior to this, Thelma was in love with Cassie, who realized too late that she felt the same way.

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Azazeal has a number of female characters vying after him. Cassie, Jo, Perie, Rachel MacBain and even Cassie's mother Lilith seem to either have a thing for him or have had a thing for him.

* YouKeepUsingThatWord: Characters frequently mix up the singular and plural forms of incubi/succubi. Understandable for [[UnluckyEverydude Leon]], but you'd think [[DemonSlaying Ella]] would know better.

* HotForStudent: Roxanne and her art teacher in season 1, Roxanne and Jez in season 2.

* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: [[spoiler: Subverted]]