Something the writers have failed at is an imaginative storyline based on the actual books. One of the best reads was The Secret of Skull Mountain. There was no magic or fortune tellers in the books that I can remember. I can't stand this stuff and I don't watch it. I subscribed to Hulu to watch it and turned it off for good when I found out it was magic. The books were much more innocent. Also I don't like the time period of the series. It should have been the 40's with vintage props. Why do writers go for the low hanging fruit. It's so easy to go for ghosts and curses, but a lot harder to make a story where it seems something is one way only to find out it was just some creepy man who was smuggling something into a cave. I'm not impressed.
Review of The Hardy Boys
