***SPOLIER ALERT*** this post will contain some spoilers so beware.
Charmed is the supernatural drama of three sisters who discover they are witches. The hit WB show ran from 1998-2006 and still shows episodes through it's syndication with TNT. I grew up watching the Halliwell sisters every week on my TV ready to see what was going on with the "Charmed Ones". Though I was never allowed to talk about the show as my Maternal Grandmother (Shirley) is hardcore Pentecostal and any mention of anything to do with witchcraft and paganism was a sin and deserved a huge lecture. Plus I was 7 when this show started so I had to be sneaky and watch it at my Grandma Georgia's (cause my Gram is cool). I digress. Anyways the show starts off with three sisters: Prue (short for Prudence), Piper, and Phoebe Halliwell who right after their Grandmother's death (:sob:) are living in the Victorian Style house in San Francisco called Halliwell Manor. The youngest sister, Phoebe, goes into the attic (which they have been unable to get into for year because the door was stuck) and finds a spell book. She reads a spell from the first page and it somehow awakens the powers in each sister. They are from a long line of witches dating back many generations and are the "Charmed Ones". Very powerful witches capable of tipping the scale of good and evil. It's a really good show I promise.
Eventually Prue dies (my brother said it's because the actress wanted more money). Leaving Piper and Phoebe at a loss of what to do. But they find out that they have a secret half-sister named Paige who can also become a Charmed One and complete the "Power of Three". I know this sounds like some horrible supernatural day-time soap opera but honestly it's just how I explain things. The show focuses on each sister and how they grow as witches and women. It shows the complications of relationships, family, and the battle of good and evil. The sisters also work with various offices of law enforcement as the villains they are usually fighting have left behind a trail of bodies. Some of the police are in on their secret, that they are powerful witches, but for the most part they just say that they are psychics trying to help. It usually works which kind of made me question how police handled crime scenes as a kid.
Each sister has a unique power.
Prue, the oldest, has the power of telekinesis, and eventually astral projection. She is also able to cook up potions and cast spells. Unfortunatly Prue dies at the end of season 3. Most of the fandom agrees that when she died she was reunited with her soul mate Andy Trudeau.
Piper (who is my favorite of the sisters) can "freeze" time. It starts off that she can only freeze small areas around her and it only lasted a few seconds. But as she develops more control over her powers she can freeze larger spaces or single items (falling things mostly). Later she also developes the power to blow things up. She also has the abilities of potion craft and spellcasting.
Phoebe is the youngest of the original three sisters and the middle child from season 4 and on. She has premonitions of the past and future. Later developing the power of levitation and becomes an empath. She learns martial arts from her demon boyfriend Cole and is skilled in potion making and spellcasting.
Paige Mathews is the half-sister of the Halliwells. The daughter of the Charmed Ones mother and her white lighter, Paige was given up for adoption because relationships between witches and white lighters are forbidden. Paige is telekinetic and can "orb" which is a skill for white lighters. It's basically teleporting. She does develop further as a witch and white lighter throughout the series. She also can make potions and cast spells.
Now for the eye candy of Charmed. Here are our leading gentlemen:
Inspector Andy Trudeau is introduced in season 1. He grew up with the Halliwells and dated Prue briefly in high school and through season 1. He is a San Francisco Detective and is usually assigned to the cases that the Charmed ones are involved in. He's more open to the supernatural than some of the "mortal" characters.
Leo Wyatt is the Charmed Ones white lighter and Piper Halliwell's husband. Their relationship is complicated because witches and white lighters are forbidden to be together. But he and Piper manage it and fight to stay together.
This is Cole. He is Phoebe's on and off again boyfriend throughout the show. He's a demon called Bathazar and sometimes he screws the Charmed Ones over. So he's a sometimes enemy, sometimes ally. He and Phoebe actually don't end up together in the end despite the fact that they deeply love one another. Phoebe ends up with a Cupid but since he was kind of thrown in at the last minute, to me Cole was always the one for her.
Here's Piper and Leo's oldest son Wyatt. Isn't he cute?
and here he is grown up. Still cute!
This is Chris. He's Piper and Leo's second son who time travels to the past to stop Wyatt from becoming evil. Chris sometimes is an ass but he's a loveable ass.
If all this wasn't reason enough to watch there's some fun characters I think my fellow Supernatural fans will appreciate.
Look familiar?
Yep that's Mark Sheppard playing a demon in Charmed!
What about this guy? Recognize him?
Why that's Misha Collins!
Charmed is a great show and you should definitely check it out!
