User Reviews

I vividly remembered watching this one in my younger days when it came out. So this was really like a fresh never seen episode of Are You Afraid Of The Dark. I didn't think I was gonna enjoy it as much as I did. But the characters and the casting was really top notch for this one.

A play in a play that becomes all too real. Ancient times of the leprechaun's meeting up again! It's not the best of the series but it rates well in my books for season 1. 8/10. The actors were really nicely casted for this episode and the child actor was really likeable in his role that made this one work so well. Recommended for a watch.

I love "Are You Afraid of the Dark" and even though the show had some of the campiest subject matter and some of the worst acting I've ever seen, I'm still a fan. However, this episode always irked me because of all the cultural inaccuracy. The writers of the script obviously just picked whatever they could from Irish folklore, threw them into a blender and hit frappé.

Lets start with the title of the play that the main character Jake stars in, "Will-O the Wisp." The plot of the play has nothing to do with this particular light spirit. Next, we'll look at the antagonist, Aaron. He is supposed to be a banshee. A banshee? First of all, banshees were female spirits who were tied to a particular family and signaled when death was coming by their wailing. Aaron looks more like a troll or a goblin.

And last, but definitely not least, the changeling. In this episode, Aaron turns Jake into a frog. This is completely wrong. Historically, a changeling is the offspring of a fairy, troll, elf or other legendary creature that has been secretly left in the place of a human child. It is not some amphibian that was once a boy. If the writers had just stayed true to Irish culture, this episode would have made a lot more sense.