School Spirits Season 2 keeps all the best parts of Season 1, maintaining the series' soapy charm and sneaky twists. Read our review.
Just like fashion trends, teen mystery dramas never really go out of style. Take the first season of Paramount+'s School Spirits as an example: a supernatural, YA murder mystery that felt like a worthy successor to the deliciously angsty roadmap laid down by Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Pretty Little Liars, Teen Wolf — plus a smattering of CBS sitcom Ghosts — while charting its own defined course in a way that made it a breath of fresh air in an often overcrowded genre. Here was a whodunit unafraid to pursue the deadly plight of its ghostly protagonist with all the grimness such a topic deserves, but never indulging in enough gloom to prevent the series' charming, coming-of-age heart from shining through.
