Charmed: Zauberhafte Hexen

Three sisters share a house in San Francisco. Being descended from witches they have special powers. They use these powers to fight crime and evil.

Entertaining. A tad formulaic but the plots are reasonably interesting. The three main characters are given depth and this contributes positively to the sub-plots and the engagement level.

Engagement does diminish from Season 4 onwards though. Rose McGowan / Paige is irritating and is not in the same league as Shannen Doherty / Prue.

The first 4 series are good, entertaining, funny on occasion, but half way through series 5 it goes downhill...fast. The stories become ridiculous, the acting is unconvincing and wooden, and the special effects are less than special.

I recently started watching this show a few months ago (it is shown on the televisions at the gym where I workout). When it first came out I thought it would be more along the lines of "Bewitched" only with more of the single girl on her own slant of "Mary Tyler Moore". However, as I started looking at it, it really was more like another creation by the late Aaron Spelling, "Charlie's Angels". The show pretty much is one of your standard issue action series with a supernatural twist. However, the thing that saves it is the relationship between the three sisters. Also, to me the show seemed to pick up steam once Shannon Doherty quit and was replaced by Rose McGowan. That seemed to put more of a humorous element into the show that it seemed to lack due to her character Paige's lack of experience at being a witch. This definitely is one interesting show.

This is a wonderful TV show with great episodes that, in serial fashion, depict a constant battle between good and evil. Evil, as in the Source, is very clever and wears many disguises. This is what's great about this show. Evil is never fully defeated, although the lackeys are destroyed quickly, the greater evil persists. This presents a constant challenge to the Power of Three and they must always be on their guard. Other WB shows allow the hero or heroine to win very easily and the hero or heroine is too sarcastic. Charmed, however, has the right mix of all elements and the writers appreciate that evil forces that are truly dangerous and formidable create a more rich, tense atmosphere. The fourth season was very good, and I liked Rose as Paige very much. The chemistry between the sisters also carries the show and their personalities seem real and three-dimensional, while other shows of this genre fail in that regard. This is one of the best written shows on television. It really deserves more critical recognition and respect, but if that doesn't happen, I'll still enjoy it.

I still to this day am watching "Charmed" episodes as they even after all these years continue to air weekday mornings on "TNT", proving the popularity is ever lasting as the series became a pop culture magnet. Set in the city by the bay San Francisco you have three Halliwell sisters that being Piper(Holly Marie Combs) Phoebe(the sexy Alyssa Milano) and Prue(Shannen Doherty) who live together and they are special they have powers plus they are modern day witches! They have the special abilities to stop time, move objects, and see into the future. And along the way each episode and each season they battle the forces of supernatural evil from ghosts, demons, warlocks, and monsters. Many episodes are interesting and entertaining involving stories that involve the past of old enchanted fairy tales and it's always nice to see the girls cast up powerful spells and potions from their book of shadows as black magic and wicca is well on display in this series. Also at the end of the third season after Prue is no longer Paige(Rose McGowan) a half sister is introduced. These witches were sexy and modern day as several eye candy scenes were memorable as each had some intimate between the sheets scenes with their boyfriends, and to spice the series up I remember some episodes in which the girls wore sexy colored bras(I remember Alyssa sporting one very silk sexy multi colored bra in one episode late in one season of the series!) Really not everyone's cup of tea, yet if you like beautiful sexy women and a series that involves witches and good and evil with spells and magic then cast your eyes on this.