I have never take in anything quite like the season two premiere ofCharmed . The series has rejoin but it ’s not a happy reunion . Instead , this was a elephantine bonfire where everything and the kitchen cesspit were thrash into the flame and leave to burn off . I still have no idea how I feel about it .
After Charmed twine its first season back in May , the seriesswitched showrunnersand there was a big flurry made over change the focus to be more about supernatural storylines . This raise alarms for me . The original Charmed set forth go downhill after God Almighty Constance M. Burge maltreat back and permit Brad Kern take over , throw the focus from sisterly bond paper to supernatural costume changes and petty squabbling .
However , I was willing to give it a chance . Since theseason finalewas about Mel , Macy , and Maggie take over for the Elders as leaders of the magical residential area , focusing on supernatural stuff felt up like a natural way for things to go in season two . Keep calm and Harry on , right ? Boy was I naïve .
Yeah, shit’s about to pop off.Photo: Colin Bentley (The CW)
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“ Safe Space ” started off innocuous enough , with the sis hosting a raging political party at their house . Danger is still lurking in the shadows , with a crone informing Mel that her whitelighter has gone missing , but overall things are start pretty well . Then , the next morning , the babe are attacked by a mystifying assassin handle bombs , blades , and a Hot Topic - friendly hooded coating . This seems like a typical baddie that ’d be defeated by the end of the episode . You ’d be mistaken . This outcome is patently so bad it wholly change the fabric of the show .
Within the span of three second — desire me , I chase after it — everything about the show goes up in fire . Their childhood home base is junk , the Book of Shadows is destroy , and they ’re sent through a portal that strips them of their powers and dump them clear across the country in Seattle . They do eventually get their house back because , apparently , habitation can travel through portals and become invisible . Do n’t ask , it ’s Charmed .
Guess we just live here now.Photo: Colin Bentley (The CW)
This is n’t just a impermanent alteration of context for the sake of play . I ’ve watched the first three episodes of the season : This is where we are now . Maggie is no longer in school . Macy is n’t a scientist . Niko is ostensibly gone for good , with no Bob Hope of resolve after her and Mel ’s atrocious goodbye . Everything about their former sprightliness has been tossed to the winding , including the powers that made them the Charmed Ones ( though that could change ) . The first season may as well be a prequel YA novel about how things used to be .
The rest of the installment is spend setting up our new condition quo . The sisters have set up coterie in the Elders ’ Professor X - style control center , hidden inside a co - working slur call Safe Space ( har har ) , where they can traverse beldame in suffering and travel now to their localization using hepatic portal vein . They ’re confronted by demons suggest at something dark rising and we get introduced to the new love interest now that Parker and Niko have presumptively gone extinct . Charmed is also leaning severely into Macy and Harry ’s sexual tensity with a side - game involving the assassin ’s secret identicalness — I’m sure you’re able to approximate who . I do n’t pick the show , honestly ; their chemistry was one of the best unverbalised thing about the first time of year .
I have never seen a series pull something like this before . We ’ve see shows make shifts to lift thing up after a lackluster first season . For model , caption of Tomorrowchanged from a dramatic event to a clowning and was much stronger for it . But LoT still exploit within the framework of the world it had already determine up . To have a series so drastically upend its story , throwing everything out the windowpane to start fresh with something new ? It ’s not only strange , it ’s uncomfortable . It reek of desperation and makes me care how long the serial can last .
Guess we just live here now.Photo: Colin Bentley (The CW)
I ’m indisputable some fans will wish the newfangled - new Charmed , and maybe eventually I will too . But for now , I ’m kind of lost . I already spent 22 episode getting to bonk these characters and their world . I ’m now being told that none of that matters , and I have to be honest : I do n’t wish it .
Random Musings:
contentedness warning : There ’s a distressful instant toward the end of the episode where we see a woman who ’s been hanged . Kinda comes out of nowhere . It seems like the show is experimenting with disconsolate imagery , but I go for it ’s not just for shock value .
The mo I reckon Safe Space I knew this was n’t going to be a temporary storyline . You do n’t spend that much money on a multi - level , multi - room lot if you ’re not plan on it being a major part of the series .
I ’m going to get real pale of the Safe Space doodad really tight .
I did like how they explained away the red of other Whitelighters , as it makes horse sense that if the Elders die out out they would too . It also explains why Harry is still around , since he was no longer attached to them . On that note : How does Harry manage to keep get hotter ?
Why is there a Wiccan workshop inside a co - working blank space , anyway ? I mean , apart from the fact that the Charmed Ones postulate it and to give Mel a new love interest . I presuppose that ’s reasonableness enough . But I ’ve put to work in co - operative spaces . They usually do n’t include Wiccan depot .
RIP Niko . I do n’t mean I ’ll ever get over how wrong they did her .
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