User Reviews

It took me at least two attempts to watch this pilot but I was intrigued enough to give it a try. There seems to be an assumption that people will come to the series knowing what to expect, so there's no real attempt to disguise what the show is about. Instead, a mythology that the original version took at least two seasons to establish is set-up in a one scene infodump from Harry: the Charmed Ones, their witch ancestry, the Book of Shadows, Whitelighters and the Source of All Evil. Plus the season four addition of an unknown half-sister.

This is sensible, but unfortunately the show has confused feminism with misandry. A lot of people thought Donald Trump being elected president was a sign of the apocalypse, but that's no reason to make it a sign of the actual apocalypse. This wouldn't be too bad if it was a one-off joke but this hatred of men permeates the whole episode. In the opening minutes, we have Mel telling a girl making out with her boyfriend that she can withdraw consent, just to be unpleasant (a comment that is then echoed by sister Maggie to her demon-possessed boyfriend, which is more uncomfortable than triumphant), before making racist and sexist comments to a new professor and agreeing he should be ashamed to be a man. (She's also a lesbian, just to make it really clear she's a man-hater.) This character is so awfully misanthropic, hating literally everyone including her own sisters, that I was hoping for a surprise first episode death. Hopefully this is just an unfavourable first impression, since she does seem to have resolved to let go of her anger by the end. We're encouraged to hate a group of protestors saying not all men are bad, as if they're somehow wrong. And the episode ends with us being told not to trust the only man not presented as a demon or a potential rapist (two things which seem to be almost interchangeable).

It's not all bad. There are some interesting mysteries set up with the murder of the sisters' mother, it's hard not to feel a thrill at the closing Power of Three spell, younger sister Maggie is basically likeable and making older half-sister Macy a scientist is an intriguing idea. And she's played by the devine Madeleine Mantock, last seen as one of the best things about the travesty that was the Tomorrow People reboot, which shows that it is possible to have a remake that's more of an insult to the original than this is. But hopefully this is as low as it's going to get.

Easy to discredit a reboot when the original series was so beloved. And as much as I enjoy the 1998 series, I was impressed with the darker beginnings and updated special effects. Story line was consistent with what we expect. However, this was a pleasant surprise and improved as the episode progressed. Nice minor cliff hanger at the end to peak your interest.

At first I was like all Charmed fans I did not want to watch it without the original cast. I then decided let me give it a shot and I am glad I did. I watched this as a new witch show then trying to compare it to the original. The script could use a little fine tuning and the cast can use a little pointers here and there but their acting is not bad (lets all remember Billie's crying when she killed her sister, horrible acting). I wish people would just sit down and watch it as it is a new witch show with the Charmed name and not compare it to the original. Once you look past that you may like it.

This has to be one of the most poorly written series of the 2018 season. While this is not "Shakespeare" even a show of this type must have a minimal level of credibility. This show is so poorly written that the glaring plot holes are so large you could drive a Semi Truck through them. At one point in the pilot, one of the sisters expels a demon by shaking baking soda at it! This would make high comedy -- except it is not even remotely funny. The writers confuse demonic possession with how to clean a shower drain!

Also disturbing is the "Ethnic Balancing" of the central characters. The three central characters are supposed to be sisters -- but one is a Latina, one is Black, and one is ....generic Canadian. Pick an ethnicity, pick ANY of these ethnicities and build a show from that - but do not have such blatant tokenism it is offensive.

Fans of the original series will be especially disappointed by this horrible reincarnation..; perhaps we should throw a box of baking soda at it!

Besides the horrible acting, did they find the youngest, most feminist kids to write this garbage? It shows they did in the first two minutes!! They really focus on driving the feminist point home with this garbage!! These are just facts of what this garbage is!! I've noticed that no one has pointed this out but they have made the "mother" out to be trash!! That's the cleanest way to put it!! All there of the "sisters" are by different races of men!! The one "sister" just happens to move there 3 months after the death of "mom" and she stops dead in her tracks in front of the house with a look of terror on her face, LMAO!! This has to be taken off the air ASAP!!