Have you been searching for a new spooky-ass TV series to binge? Trying to fit your daily dose of demons, daggers and drama all in one?
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This October 7th, The Greatest TV Series to Ever Be Created – The WB’s Charmed (1998-2006) – turned 18. What does that mean for the state of humanity? A fucking lot.
Now, you might be saying: Eric. Settle down. Isn’t that the show that made Rose McGowan and her shitty acting famous?
To which I would counter with: yeah, it totally is. But who cares if she couldn’t act? She was serving looks the entire time! Have you even seen her asymmetrical glitter dresses, paired with a chunky midriff belt, hoop earrings and a retro newsboy hat? Iconic!
Regardless of the quality of your eye for early 2000s fashion, the importance of this milestone simply can’t be negated. At 18, the show stands proudly as a fully grown adult — it had its formative years, parented and ran by Prue (Shannen Doherty), followed by its era of shaky ground mixed with substantial growth, tossed up by baby Paige (Rose McGowan). Nevertheless, at the end of its eight year run in 2006, this child was ready for self-development., In the subsequent years, it aged like a fine wine, only getting better with time.
“Distance, makes the heart grow fonder,” reads an old, obscure proverb. To be honest, I think that whoever first said it, might have been referring to the distance in time since Charmed has been on air. Now, ten years after the show’s series finale, fans (me) are hoping to conjure up more.
That is, more premonitions from Phoebe (Alyssa Milano) for our more tender, philanthropic moments and explosions from Piper (Holly Marie Combs) when we want to channel her high-blood-pressure-inducing attitude and just can’t bare to sit through the fucking headache that is ABC Family’s Pretty Little Liars.
However, Alyssa Milano took to Twitter this past March to dis-spell any rumors of a reunion, sending shade towards CBS, who holds the right to the show, for even tabling the idea. For now, we Charmed Ones just have to relish in the sheer genius of the episodes themselves, all of which are available now on Netflix.