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Television series
German title Fiona's website
Original title So weird
Country of production United States
original language English
Year (s) 1999-2001
length 23 minutes
Episodes 65
genre Family / adventure /
mystery / thriller
First broadcast January 18, 1999 (USA) on Disney Channel
German-language
first broadcast
Pay TV : October 1, 2000
Free TV: September 1, 2001 on Pay TV : Disney Channel
Free TV: Super RTL
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Fiona's website (original title So Weird ) was an American television series that was shot in Vancouver . In the USA it was broadcast on Disneychannel from 1999 to 2001 , in Germany on Super RTL . The first seasons were about the teenager Fiona ( Cara DeLizia ), who accompanied her mother Molly (Mackenzie Phillips), a rock singer, on their tour and came across paranormal phenomena. This series ran on Super RTL, but was then canceled. The series is suitable for viewers 11-12 years of age because of the comic scenes and some horror and spookiness. Therefore, the series had a darker vibe than other Disney Channel series. In the third and final season, Cara DeLizia was replaced by Alexz Johnson , who played Annie Thelen in a revised, lighter version. After 65 episodes, Disney stopped producing the series.

First season

The first season begins with Fiona being on tour with her mother, a singer, her brother Jack (for her about the same as Scully for Mulder) the bus driver Ned, his wife Irene and their son Clu. What linked all of her paranormal encounters was her attempt to communicate with her father Rick, who died when she was three years old. Fi "met" her father for the first time in the second episode Look into the Future (original title Web Sight ), in which an unknown power sent her Internet articles warning her of the future. From alien invasions, time warps to ghosts, Fi faced all sorts of paranormal phenomena in 13 episodes. Fi also met a mighty tulpa , a bigfoot , angels and, of course, a goblin . In the season finale, Jack was possessed by a goblin named Spunkie. Fi figured out the goblin's real name - Bricriu - and saved her brother by telling him Bricriu had offered to protect Fi, and although it is understandable that Fi initially believed he was lying, later events proved that Bricriu may have been telling the truth, but this is debatable at best.

Second season

The second season is darker and comprised over 26 episodes. It began with Molly pausing her tour to record an album. Fi and her friend Candy encounter a medium who has been proven to be a cheater . However, whoever exposes the hoax is actually a medium himself who helps Fi communicate with her father through music on his old guitar. The episode ends with an emotional scene between Molly and Fi that reveals how Molly feels about Fi's search for her father. Clu took a back seat during this season as he went to college. His brother Carry was introduced to the series to fill the void. Many classic monsters appeared this season such as B. vampires , werewolves , banshees , trolls , sirens and merfolk . In a key episode, Molly reveals to Fi that her father explored the same supernatural phenomena as her. That’s what killed him. Fi was upset by her mother's decision to hide the truth about her father from her. Molly ended up being obsessed with the same goblin Jack did in season one when she revealed that goblins or other dark forces, though not necessarily Bricriu himself, may have killed her father, leading to the car accident that police believe him to be cost life. In this episode, Bricriu used Molly to kill a firefighter who was present in Rick's car accident and who was aware that Rick had passed away for no apparent reason before the accident. After that episode, Fi continued to be in touch with her father when the answer to a troll's question - Faith - came out at the last moment. The season ends with Fiona discovering that her father's twin sister was receiving messages from him while she was sleeping. The messages took Fi to a roof, where she was attacked by a demon and saved by her father's spirit. He left her a note that the spirit world was mad about what she was doing and tried to stop her. Fi was finally able to say goodbye to her father, as she had always wanted.

Third season

After the series had gone through a change into the dark and complex in the second season, one was now forced to take a lighter direction in the last episodes. The original plot for the third season was drawn up by producers Ali Marie Matheson and Jon Cooksey, who u. a. Had the idea that Fi was obsessed with Bricriu and that Molly's brother, a priest, should save her, or that Molly's alcoholism should be brought up. Also, by the end of the series, Fi was supposed to go to Hell to save her father, and of course more was to come out of Rick. Had it gone as planned, Rick would have been knocked off the roof by the end of season two, forcing Fi to keep looking. Disney disagreed with this, however, as it was feared it would be too gloomy. Thereafter, Matheson and Cooksey and DeLizia left the series. Cara DeLizia left her after the first episode that introduced Annie Thelen, a friend of the family. Fi had yet another encounter with Bricriu that ended with convincing her to give up her innate attraction to the paranormal in order to protect her family. Fi, for whatever reason, unable to see that Bricriu was acting in their best interests, locked him in a floppy disk. The attraction, manifested in a ring her father had given, was passed on to Fi by Annie when she moved in with her aunt. Molly moved the family into a new light colored house.

The story arc in Annie's story was the secret behind a ghost who followed her in the form of a panther. Her role was also musical, so she sang more often in the episodes than the older Mackenzie Phillips. The stories this season were a far cry from those of previous episodes, with plots like captivity in a painting (which followed immediately after an episode where people were trapped in photos) or an endless detention hour. Fi never reappeared that season, not even in the final episode, which was a clip show made up of episodes, mostly from the third season.

Music in Fiona's website

Both Mackenzie Phillips and Alexz Johnson sang their own songs on the series. Mackenzie Phillips' songs included the theme song In the Darkness as well as the songs Another World , Rebecca and Love is broken . Each of these songs usually related content / text to the theme of the episode in which they appeared. So the song Rebecca came to z. For example, in the episode of the same name, which was about Molly's former best friend of the same name, who disappeared at the age of 13. A compilation of Molly's songs was found in the episode The End of a Tour (original title Encore ).

The song Last Night Blues was the only thing Cara DeLizia ever had to sing on the show during its time. The song was supernaturally transferred to the characters by a dead blues musician.

The third season mainly used the music of Alexz Johnson. One of Johnson's original songs, Dream About You , appeared in the episode Das Spiegelkabinett (original title Carnival ). Towards the end of production, a music video of Alexz Johnson's Shadows was also shown on the Disney Channel.

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role actor Seasons
Fiona 'Fi' Phillips Cara DeLizia 1, 2
Molly Phillips Mackenzie Phillips
Annie Thelen Alexz Johnson 3
Jack Phillips Patrick Levis
Clu Bell Erik von Detten
Carey Bell Eric Lively 2, 3
Irene Bell Belinda Metz
Ned Bell Dave Ward

Trivia

In one episode, the family visits the city of Marfa , Texas . Fi and Jack are looking for the Marfa lights in a forest with large trees . However, Marfa is in a desert region in Texas that does not have large trees.

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