The success of Buffy the Vampire Slayer paved the way for this series about three witches and their magical universe in our own world. The series has been popular, generally amongst the same audience which was attracted to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and has a number of loyal fans, like my little sister. It’s not really a show I got into, lack of time for it, and what have you being the main causes, but what I have experienced with this series has been pretty good, but in my opinion, nothing worth writing home about. Season three held my attention much better than the previous two seasons as it follows one continuous story arch, with each episode affecting subsequent episodes, similar to seasons six of Star Trek DS9’s Dominion war. This season focuses on DA Cole Turner who unsuccessfully tries to prosecute a demon possessed killer who attacked the Haliwell sisters friend Inspector Morris. In traditional teen-horror fashion (IE Buffy and Spike, etc) Cole becomes involved with Phoebe and it is later discovered that he is actually demon himself, a part of a plot to destroy the charmed ones. This season is pretty interesting, but still falls under a number of teen-horror stereotypes which have become tired, in my opinion. A number of moments had me asking “didn’t I see something like this on Buffy?” It’s simply a matter that I am an avoid horror fan so I am starved for complete originality. That’s not to show this show is completely unoriginal, it has enough going for it that it still remains enjoyable.

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