History YMMV / Haven

* JustForFun/SurprisinglySimilarStories: Shares quite a few seemingly unintentional similarities to ''Series/OnceUponATime,'' which ran concurrently and both involve a young, blonde, female protagonist who grew up in foster care and works in law enforcement in Boston finding out she is the ChosenOne meant to end an evil curse in a small town in Maine.

* JustForFun/SurprisinglySimilarStories: Shares quite a few seemingly unintentional similarities with ''Series/OnceUponATime,'' which aired concurrently and also involves a young, blonde, female protagonist who grew up in foster care finding out she is the ChosenOne meant to end an evil curse in a small town in Maine.

* JustForFun/SurprisinglySimilarStories: Shares quite a few seemingly unintentional similarities with ''Series/OnceUponATime,'' which aired concurrently and also involves a blonde, loner female protagonist who is the ChosenOne meant to end an evil curse in a small town in Maine.

** In "Ball and Chain," Duke tells Audrey he "had no control" over his sexual encounter with Helena, that she "hypnotized" him, and while PlayedForDrama, the drama is about Helena's supernatural abilities...not about the dubious consent or the double standard.

** Duke's UndressingTheUnconscious moment in the pilot, which is treated like a quirky, light moment, even though it's implied Audrey is stripped entirely naked and at this point in the series, he is literally a stranger.

** In season 5, Mara coerces Duke into a sexual relationship for the sole purpose of infecting him with new Troubles. This is never addressed with the same level of concern as it would be if the [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale genders were reversed.]]

** Which is ironic, as King wrote an episode of [[Recap/TheXFilesS05E10Chinga The X-Files]] that was not well-received by fans because it wasn't particularly scary or original.

* HolyShitQuotient: It goes ''very'' high, especially from Season 3 onwards.

* FriendlyFandoms: With the other live-action [=SyFy=] shows, most notably ''Series/{{Eureka}},'' ''Series/{{Warehouse 13}},'' and ''Series/{{Alphas}}''.
* GrowingTheBeard: While Season 1 isn't necessarily ''bad,'' it's often seen as having relied too much on the generic {{Monster of the Week}} format, which hindered its own attempts at establishing a unique identity. Season 2 and onward, however, is generally seen as where the series started to ''really'' dive into its overall {{Myth Arc}} and the show got significantly more interesting and engaging as a result.

** Creator/{{Emily Rose}}'s excellent performance as Audrey Parker has often been cited by critics as one of the greater highlights of the entire series. This is only further shown in Season 5 when she has to consistently switch between the kind yet stern Audrey and cruel and malevolent Mara, and does so flawlessly.
** Downplayed, as Creator/{{William Shatner}} already has a pretty good reputation as an actor, but many audiences were still stunned with his performance as [[spoiler:[[BigBad Croatoan]] in Season 5, if only because of how genuinely ''unnerving'' and creepy he is to be around]].
* {{Holy Shit Quotient}}: It goes ''very'' high, especially from Season 3 onwards.
* HollywoodPudgy: A most [[JustForFun/{{Egregious}} egregious]] example can be found in "Reflections", where a girl says she was teased for being fat. She's really, ''really'' not.

* SpiritualAdaptation: Some people have jokingly described the series as what would've happened if Creator/{{Stephen King}} had created ''Series/{{The X Files}}.''
** A few fans have noted that the numerous {{Mythology Gag}}s to King's body of work, themes of dimensional travel and infinite cycles, and the assemblage of a {{Ragtag Bunch of Misfits}} to fight off a {{Cosmic Horror}} have arguably made the series a better adaptation of ''Literature/{{The Dark Tower}}'' than it is of ''The Colorado Kid.''

** Wade Crocker jumps into the family curse with both feet. [[spoiler:He knifes a Troubled man to get his blood to activate the Crocker family curse, then murders Jordan whom he'd been attracted to.]]

* Crossover: Emily Rose, Nolan North, Claudia Black are all the Main Characters from the ''VideoGame/Uncharted'' Series.

* BrokenBase: Charlotte, [[spoiler: Audrey/Mara's mother]], caused this with her general demeanor as well as her treatment of her daughter. She's the one who sent her fighting [[spoiler: the troubles]] in Haven, as it should have provided a cure both to her daughter, who was turning into a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds at the time, and the townspeople of Haven, whom she'd wronged. Too bad it came at the price of MindRape on a previously innocent woman who was severely traumatized and shortly became much worse because of it, undoing part of the good she'd meant to do. Add to that the fact that while purely well-intentionned, hard-working brave and brainy, she's also manipulative, condescending and an [[spoiler:adept of MercyKill]], and you have one of the most controversial characters in the series.
* HarsherInHindsight: In-universe. Nathan's rage against Duke (with repeated references to his inability to feel) in "Harmony" feels even angrier after he reveals in "Sins of the Fathers" that [[spoiler:he blames Duke for the return of his Trouble.]]
* SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct: Outside of a few WWE fans, no one expected {{Wrestling/Edge}} to take to acting the way he has.
* {{HSQ}}: Very high, especially from season three onwards.
* HollywoodPudgy: A most [[JustForFun/{{Egregious}} Egregious]] example can be found in "Reflections", where a girl says she was teased for being fat. She's really, ''really'' not.

** Once William is revealed to be evil he does a lot of bad things, but the worst one has to be activating a baby's Trouble that causes people to die whenever it cries, so he could force [[spoiler: Audrey]] to create a new Trouble to cancel it out.
** Mara wastes no time proving how evil she is in season 5, murdering two people over two episodes for incredibly petty reasons.
* {{Narm}}: The series finale. The happy endings for some characters are nice, but they do get laid on a tad thick.

* HeReallyCanAct: Outside of a few WWE fans, no one expected {{Wrestling/Edge}} to take to acting the way he has.

* AdaptationExpansion: The show is based off a Stephen King mystery novel called "The Colorado Kid." Vince Teagues is a reporter, and the Colorado Kid is a mysterious appearing of a dead body several years before. That's about where the similarities end. Almost InNameOnly.

* FanNickname: "Fraudrey" for [[spoiler:the second Audrey Parker who showed up at the end of season 1.]]
** Ironically, it turned out that Fraudrey [[spoiler:was in fact the REAL Audrey Parker and the first one is the fake!]]

* BrokenBase: Charlotte, [[spoiler: Audrey/Mara's mother]], caused this with her general demeanor as well as her treatment of her daughter. She's the one who sent her fighting [[spoiler: the troubles]] in Haven, as it should have provided a cure both to her daughter, who was turning into a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds at the time, and the townspeople of Haven, whom she'd wronged. Too bad it came at the price of MindRape on a previously innocent woman who was severely traumatized and shortly became much worse because of it, undoing part of the good she'd meant to do. Add to that the fact that while purely well-intentionned, hard-working brave and brainy, she's also manipulative, condescending and an [[adept of MercyKill]], and you have one of the most controversial characters in the series.

* HollywoodPudgy: One of the girls from "Reflections" says she was teased for being fat. She's really, really not. She's just not a toothpick.

* HollywoodPudgy: One of the girls from "Reflections" says she was teased for being fat. She's...not.

* MoralEventHorizon: Wade Crocker jumps into the family curse with both feet. [[spoiler:He knifes a Troubled man to get his blood to activate the Crocker family curse, then murders Jordan whom he'd been attracted to.]]
** Once William is revealed to be evil he does alot of bad things, but the worst one has to be activating a baby's Trouble that causes people to die whenever it cries, so he could force [[spoiler: Audrey]] to create a new Trouble to cancel it out.
** Mara wastes no time proving how evil she is in season 5, murdering two people over two episode for incredibly petty reasons.