I saw the other half of the first ep of the new season this morning, the local PBS station here in NYC runs the same ep twice in a row at the beginning of a new season.
I found it interesting, kind of neat how Abby added a new twist to a game of Hide and Seek, how do you find someone who can disappear. I liked how Maria didn't believe that Abby's wand would work at first, you could hear the skepticism in her voice. Of course when it did she was faced with another problem, a really broken toaster. Interesting that The Count didn't go to the fix-it shop with them for his monocle, instead he called for an optician.