Sad news for Twisted fans…. ABC Family has cancelled the twisted drama after just one season!

Since the summer finale earlier this year, fans have been sending “Save Twisted” petitions to the network. Social media was gaga over the show… but unfortunately, the decision was up to the ratings, which weren’t a powerhouse.

The premiere registered a mere 1.1 million viewers. By the 19th episode, they had dropped to 800,000. Twisted obviously didn’t make the cut, even though it was awesome and had so much potential!

I feel like we’re reliving Ravenswood all over again. What sucks about shows getting cut so out of the blue  is that we never really get closure– or a proper ending. Twisted surrounded Danny Desai, a young man who was charged and arrested in the murder of his aunt Tara. After leaving juvi, he came back to his hometown where he was shunned and called a sociopath.

The final episodes revealed that Danny never killed his aunt– his father did. He took the blame to protect his dad, who later died. Except that he didn’t. He faked his own death, but really died when he fell of the cliff after an altercation with Danny, who was just protecting Jo. As for his crazy juvi-mate who was sort of dating the blonde… well, he was actually her half-brother. May or may not have been Danny’s too as I think that he was totally Vikram’s kid. How will I go on with my life not knowing the truth here?

News comes just a week after Avan Jogia, who played Danny, was cast in Spike TV’s miniseries “Tut”– an indication that things weren’t looking bright for the drama.

On the bright side, ABC Family did renew a plethora of shows including season 4 of “Switched at Birth”, season 6 and 7 of “Pretty Little Liars,” “The Fosters,” “Chasing Life,” “Melissa & Joey,” “Young & Hungry,” “Baby Daddy,” and “Mystery Girls”– with scripted pilots “Recovery Road,” “Stitchers,” and “Unstrung” in the works.

I’m still wondering how Mystery Girls got renewed but Twisted didn’t. Is there any justice in this world?

RIP Twisted… it was a true pleasure.

Photo Credit: Twisted/ABC Family

Ah teen angst, hormones and high school drama! That’s literally what was felt in this weeks episode as Jo dealt with her feelings for Charlie, Danny with his obsessions that Charlie was bad news and Lacey with her newly acquired feelings for Whitney.

Danny might have started off the season being nicknamed socio but Charlie has really earned that title. When we first met Charlie, it felt like he was up to no good, but not like obsessive-stalking-kidnapping no good. As it turns out, he’s literally a sociopath whose been obsessed with Danny’s life, especially Jo and has been using his charms to seduce her and make her fall for him. The goal? The make everyone turn against Danny and think he’s the crazy one. And it’s working!  There’s no evidence against Charlie, which is why everyone is so hesitant to believe Danny’s theories that his old cell mate is trying to get rid of him and take over his life. But Danny knows Charlie best and knows exactly what he’s capable of. Everyone else just thinks that Danny’s losing his sense of reality.

Well, that is until Charlie calls up Jo and asks her to come over because Danny punched him. Obviously, we as the viewers, saw the little altercation between the two boys and know that Danny just pushed Charlie around a little bit as the nerves got the best of him with this punk. After Danny leaves, Charlie bashes his head with the door, self inflicting a wound and hoping to get Jo’s pity and love.  It probably would have worked too since Jo believes everything Charlie says and is gullible as all hell, but than Charlie started spiraling out of control showing his true colors. It felt like he was posssessed by the real Charlie, being super aggressive to Jo and talking about how he’s been waiting for her his whole life, ever since he saw her picture in juvi. Everything he’s done, he’s done for her.  I don’t blame Jo for getting totally freaked out and bolting for the door telling Charlie to get the hell away from her. As she was going home she called Danny to tell him he was right about Charlie, but it was too late. Danny had already turned himself in and was on his way to the station with Chief.

But before we dive into that, lets rewind just a little bit to see how Danny got to the point of confessing and turning himself in for his father’s murder. Danny’s been highly suspicious of Charlie since his move to Green Grove. When Jack’s arrested for the murder of his father, he knows something is up, especially when they find a phone hidden at his pad. Jack wouldn’t be that stupid. This is obviously Charlie trying to get to Danny, to make him confess so that they lock Danny up again and Charlie can take over his life. It seems like a far stretched theory but like I said previously, Danny’s the only one who knows the real Charlie… or does he. He decides to confirm this with his old parole officer. When he tells him that there’s a lot to Charlie Danny doesn’t know and none of it is good, it’s safe to guess that the story about Charlie stealing a car and ending up in juvi was a lie. He’s got problems… real problems and that was proved with Charlie’s hidden wall collage of Jo and Lacey. He wants to be Danny. The only way Danny can really save his family and friends and release Jack from prison is by turning himself in.

See, I’m not sure what Charlie’s really thinking. He want’s to get rid of Danny but he wants to keep Jo for himself in some creepy and twisted way. Except that Jo was there the night Danny killed his father and therefore is a witness to the crime. She’s also the type of person that won’t let Danny go down alone. When Jo finally gets home after merely escaping from socio Charlie’s house, she finds her mother whose seemingly upset about something. “Danny confessed to murdering his father. Do you think it’s true?” she asks Jo. “I know it is. I was there,” Jo replies in a shocking (to Tess) cliffhanger. The cat’s out of the bag now! Except the messed up part is that Danny’s confessed to Chief Masterson at the station and told him no one else knows. He’s obviously protecting Jo, but she just ratted herself out and I’m glad she did. Why should Danny take the blame for the killing when he was doing it in self-defense? No one would have believed him if there was no witnesses, but since Jo is the Chief’s daughter, he’s more inclined to believe their side of the story.  Danny also blurted out his theory of Charlie being the one who moved his father’s body and placed it in the car to make it look like an accident. Warning Chief, Charlie’s crazy and he’s after your daughter!!!

Other stories this week filled up the time this week, but with all the Charlie drama, its quite easy to forget they even happened. Tess finally contacted her birth childs adopted mother and arranged a meeting with her. When she came, she explained that Tess’s daughter Sam, died when she was just 2-years-old in an accident at the park. This news broke Tess’s heart, who has been holding out hope that maybe one day she would meet the baby girl that she wanted to name Katherine. Sidenote: Jo took the news that she had a step sister from her moms previous romps really well. Like she didn’t even bat an eyelash!!! Weird. Anyways, while Tess is looking through the baby pictures, she notices a picture of the baby with its hospital bracelet. She drives over to ask the adoptive mother if the baby had been sick right after the adoption and she mentions that picture was taken right after they picked up the baby from the hospital. Except that Tess’s baby wasn’t born in a hospital, it was born outside of town, which means that this “dead baby” isn’t her baby. The mother is trying to protect her daughter from finding out she’s adopted and meeting her real birth mother. What a twist!!!! But I have to ask, what purpose does this storyline serve to the rest of the show?

And in Lacey news, she was considering a relationship with Whitney after their kiss last week. Whitney was dealing with a lot with her father getting arrested and was kind of fed up with Danny and Lacey keeping things from her. When she got a brief chance to talk to her father, he told her to move out of the Desai house, as he didn’t trust Danny or Karen at this point. So Whitney did. She moved to Lacey’s house, where she slept on a blow up mattress while Lacey contemplated if she could really have feelings for another girl. Cue a make out session the next night and Lacey admitted that even though she was kissing Whitney, she was thinking about Danny. Thankfully, Whitney didn’t take much offense to this and the girls just went to get ice cream. Is that really what happens after you’re rejected? You just go get ice cream. Here’s my theory. **SPOILER ALERT** The previews for next week show Jo and Danny getting closer after things get dark with Charlie. Than Danny tells Jo that it’s always been her and they make out. Hmm.. Am I really suppose to believe that Danny just didn’t have feelings for Jo until some other guy developed feelings for her? And now he’s totally over Lacey?? Well if so, Lacey is going to find out and possibly look for a rebound with Whitney. That’s where I think this storyline is heading. Also, things are about to get wild on next week’s Twisted as Charlie kidnaps Jo and hold her as ransom while Danny and Lacey team up to find their friend. Twisted for sure!!! It’s good to see the show finally live up to its title.

Charlie Brown was a good man… Charlie McBride not so much. The title should actually read, you’re a sketchy man Charlie McBride there was just a typo. This boy is up to no good and Jo has become his prey. He’s the master manipulator, whose played his cards just right setting up the situation so that everyone thinks he’s this nice guy whose had a hard life, while Danny looks like the boy who always wanted to kill his father and succeeded. Charlie is confronted by Danny, whose upset that he told Jo about their juvi connection and mentioned that Danny constantly talked about killing his father. Because of this, Jo flipped out on him thinking his father’s death was premeditated. If she had at least half a brain, she’d know that’s impossible since she was there, but that’s besides the point. Honestly, this girl defended Danny during his whole stint in juvi and afterwards, but after she witnesses the crime he committed in self defense, she believes a total stranger. Classic Jo.

 Anyways, Charlie plays the victim card and tattles to Jo that Danny threatened him. This causes a huge verbal argument between the two ex-best friends. Danny is screaming about how killing his father was an accident. Yeah, it’s really smart to be screaming that stuff on the front lawn outside. Why don’t you just send Gossip Girl a tip and have it posted all over the internet while you’re at it? Obviously Charlie overhears everything and Jo confides in him, looping him in on her and Danny’s secret. Something tells me he already knew about it. The two lovebirds go on their first date, leaving Danny paranoid and convinced that Charlie is bad news. At least one of them has his head screwed on right. Danny tries to tell Lacey his speculations, but she’s not having it. Last week the couple went through a pretty bad break up and when Lacey hears Danny’s worried about Jo being on a date with Charlie, she takes it as jealousy.

Plus, she’s got a girls night planned with Whitney and their doing exactly what girls in high school do. Their going into New York City to sneak into 21+ clubs and have guys buy them drinks. Whitney’s another character on the show that just exudes bad news. She instantly grew a liking to Lacey, which was odd, but her father mentioned she makes friends all too easily. Whatever that means. The girls get their drink for free by being hot and getting hit on by Wall Street creeps. It’s all fun and games until Whitney takes it to a whole other level,  stealing a perverted mans phone, calling his wife and basically screwing up his marriage. All in the name of fun right? Whitney’s one of those girls I simply despise and can’t ever be friends with. But, that’s not all there is to her. She grew a liking to Lacey because she’s got a lesbian thing for Lacey, which was made pretty clear after she tried to get Lace out of her post Danny break up funk and planted one on her. Here’s another problem added to Lacey’s list. And she’s like Danny’s step-sister so it’s even more gross!

Charlie and Jo have a great time on their date getting food from the food trucks until Danny sends his cellmate a picture of him in his room, holding a photograph of him, Lacey and Jo that he “lost” in juvi. In reality, Charlie stole it from him for what? Safekeeping? He’s had some kind of agenda for Danny and his friends for a long time. Before going to meet Danny, he grinds his teeth, holds in his anger and tells Jo a little about himself. His mother died, his father left when he was young, he was put in foster care, fell in the wrong crowd, stole a car and got locked up. When he got out, he wanted a fresh start and remembered how great Green Grove seemed from Danny’s stories. At time like this I almost feel a little bad for Charlie. But, he’s lying so I have to keep my guard up. Jo on the other hand has fallen for his charades completely. After dropping her off home, he meets Danny, who confronts him about the picture but Charlie threatens him that if he exposes him or tries to hurt his relationship with Jo, he’ll go to the police and tell them he killed his father. Yikes! Danny should be worried, Charlie’s like a ticking bomb! Way to go Jo. You basically threw your best friend under the bus. And if it isn’t bad enough, Charlie actually goes further to play of his innocent act and tells Jo he’s living at the stables, which makes her fall even more for him. He’s really playing this the right way, making it almost impossible for Jo to believe anything Danny tells her now.

Chief Masterson continues to look for some DNA to figure out who was in the car the night Vikram died. He’s suspicious of Jack, whose been spending a lot of time at the Desai household. He finds evidence of the crime scene being tampered with and comes to Jacks place to arrest him. As this storyline progresses I think their going to pin the blame on an innocent man. In reality, I think Charlie moved to body. Why? I don’t know, but Danny will come clean to save Jack.

Jack’s also Vikram’s ex-employee and Tess mentions that Vikram faked his death because he was scared of someone. She got the vibe that it was someone he worked with. Karen finally musters up the courage to confront Jack about moving Vik’s body to protect her and Danny, and threatening her late husband but he’s completely shocked to hear these accusations and kicks Karen out of his shack. Tess confronts Karen about the adoption that Vikram covered up for and finds out that she knew all along. Karen actually has the adoption papers that Tess has been looking for. She ventures out of the city to find her first born daughter, but doesn’t wrack up the nerves to go talk to family. It’s probably best this way. The storyline is pointless and boring, just like Tess. Also, my Regina Crane is the daughter prediction just walked right out the door. Yep, there it goes. Slam. Gone.

Other Thoughts

– Where is Sarita? I feel like she needs to put Lacey back on track and Whitney in her place. No new friends. *Drake hand*

– Rico is trying to have a normal relationship with beau Andie, whose super involved with student council and he compares it to how Michelle Obama must feel. He thinks maybe she’s cheating on him but no, she’s just a virgin and thinks Rico isn’t. Geez, Andie really is clueless about the world if she thinks Rico is “cool.”

– I miss Jo and Rico’s relationship. Things used to be so simple back than.

-What do you think Charlie’s deal is? What does he want from Danny and Jo?