Yeah. It's the leprechaun episode. Where to begin? It's a ridiculously stupid storyline, with the same concept as the Sandman one a couple of weeks back: some magical creature with special powers is threatened by a demon, who wants the powers for himself. There are rainbows and pots of gold and Irish accents that make you want to put a drill through your ears. The leprechauns themselves are preachy and annoying, Seamus in particular gross and horny and determined to come on to every Halliwell he encounters.There's just too much to hate here. You've got successful Broadway actors chewing the scenery as they try and break into television and wind up in a shittier-than-usual episode of Charmed. Two presumably lesbian demons who are given little to do. A redundant Piper kidnapping. Pat Benatar scraping the bottom of the barrel of her career. Paige whining over having so little money that she can't afford new clothes, alienating the entire audience in the process because she prefers to complain instead of getting a fucking job!!!! And on, and on, and on...
Phoebe bugs for the entire episode. Her expose on internet dating is annoying, and her flirtations with Jason Dean feel spectacularly contrived. The writers are also pretty insistent this season on making her reprehensibly selfish, with the frequent interruptions here of her latest internet fuck-buddy Cyrano73 beeping on her palm-pilot. Ugh.
Lucky Charmed is hideous; an offensive, worthless sack of misery that should have never seen the light of day. What makes it truly shocking is the fact that it's not the worst episode of the season, that particular shit-show right around the corner. Yikes. F
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Guest stars Dominic Fumusa (Saleel); Mark Povinelli (Seamus); Monika Schnarre (Jenna); Phina Oruche (Jada); Cork Hubbert (Councilman); Michael Gilden (Finnegan); Drew Wood (Erik); Eric Dane (Jason Dean)
Writer Curtis Kheel Director Roxann Dawson
Oh Lord, you really ripped it to shreds, I love it!
ReplyDeleteThis episode is the epitmoe of everything 'Charmed' does so spectacularly wrong. And those accents are the WORST Irish accents I've ever heard, and I'm f*cking Irish. I'll leave it at that until I post up my own review in a few weeks.
PS: This just made me excited to read your season 8 reviews.
Hahah agree with you both. What a horrendous failure of an episode. It still boggles my mind how the script for this episode was even allowed to be produced! I wish the 3 of us were on the Charmed writing staff. We'd undoubtedly come up with some epic episodes :) Not that it would be difficult since they hit rock bottom with episodes such as this one!
ReplyDeleteWhat is the issue with Phoebe continuously dressed like a slut? especially at work? She is obsessed with wearing half shirts 24/7.
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