La Strega starts with Vito a young Italian American man who enters the dress shop of a young woman named Lia, and attempts to kill her. She disarms and subdues him. Vito says Lia is "la strega" (the Italian language word for witch). Ten years ago, Vito was very ill and his mother sold her engagement ring in Lia's pawn shop to pay for a doctor. Lia allegedly switched rings, then cursed Vito's mother so that she was ill for a decade before finally dying. Vito wants revenge. Lia says it wasn't her but rather her mother who owned the pawn shop, that her mother was a witch, and that she herself is innocent. To prove it, she makes Vito promise to stay with her for two weeks, after which he may kill her or not. He agrees and as the time passes Vito slowly begins to learn what actually happened all while falling in love with the mysterious Lia.
What a really strange way to end season one, with a strange witch love story of all things. To cut to the chase the best thing about this episode is Linda Blair, she's cute and charming and really puts 100% into her role, you could tell she was really having fun here. Rob Morrow isn't really bad either and the both really work well off each other. Now for the bad news, this story is really confusing, I'm not really sure whats going on, for starters who is the witch Lia, Lia's mother, or Vito's mother, it's never really explained which really bugged me, even thought my guess was Vito's mother was the bad witch, while Lia was a good witch. I was surprised to see this was directed by a feminist woman named Lizzie Borden (yes this is true), her only efforts as director seem to be a couple of movies, and an episode of "Silk Stalkings" and "Red Show Diaries". Our two locations are the inside of a store and a small living room. Overall, there's not really much more to say about this one, the only instance of a monster is when Linda Blair witches out twice in two rather short scenes. Other then that her charm manages to make this one worth the watch, even though it has very little to offer for both a confusing story and the special effects department.
What a really strange way to end season one, with a strange witch love story of all things. To cut to the chase the best thing about this episode is Linda Blair, she's cute and charming and really puts 100% into her role, you could tell she was really having fun here. Rob Morrow isn't really bad either and the both really work well off each other. Now for the bad news, this story is really confusing, I'm not really sure whats going on, for starters who is the witch Lia, Lia's mother, or Vito's mother, it's never really explained which really bugged me, even thought my guess was Vito's mother was the bad witch, while Lia was a good witch. I was surprised to see this was directed by a feminist woman named Lizzie Borden (yes this is true), her only efforts as director seem to be a couple of movies, and an episode of "Silk Stalkings" and "Red Show Diaries". Our two locations are the inside of a store and a small living room. Overall, there's not really much more to say about this one, the only instance of a monster is when Linda Blair witches out twice in two rather short scenes. Other then that her charm manages to make this one worth the watch, even though it has very little to offer for both a confusing story and the special effects department.