Desperate Housewitches Reviews

Costume drama

After a brief but refreshing break, it's demons as usual this week. Not for the first time, the plot sees a baddie try to lure Wyatt away from his parents. To do this, our demon-of-the-week first possesses one of his nursery school teachers then whisks him off to Magic School to summon the Source.

While the point of the episode is to wind up Piper by portraying Mandy as the perfect mother, Mandy's sickly smiles do feel rather contrived. By contrast, the possessor demon is truly chilling and the actress is excellent. 'Nuff said about those costumes.

The return of the Source is a bold move and a complete surprise. Unfortunately, his appearance is a total letdown. The build up is good but the action once he arrives is non-existent and the Source himself seems totally out of place. In fact that whole scene is weird. Leo, the Source and a demon dressed as a schoolteacher just don't work together. And that vanquish was way too easy. Why bring back someone so powerful only to have him disappear five minutes later? Surely they could have kept him on for a few episodes? Grrrrr!

There is also a major subplot involving Paige, Phoebe and Dex. Annoying though it may be to see the writers spending yet MORE time on Phoebe's boring boyfriends, I have to admit this is far and away the best part of the episode. The scene where Paige glamours into Dex's ex girlfriend then gets busted by Phoebe is hilarious.

I'm swiftly going off Billie. Her know-it-all attitude stinks (even more so because she doesn't know it all) and she's really rude to Leo in the opening scene. That said, I did enjoy seeing the two of them at Magic School. Demon Central indeed!

Score: 8.6

season 8 overall i found to be genuinly rather good all round although the previous three episodes have been quite below average...this however is charmed perfection.
Run Pioer Run made a good use of their disguises which is what made tht episode very good but this one kicks everything up a few gears,Piper starts a rivalry in such a classic style (see Desperate Housewives for similar styles of agressive behavior and the fact that it is named loosly on the hit series and one of my fave series Desperate Housewives just makes this one an early classic of the season and a late classic of the show.
although Holly of course steals this episode,Alyssa and Rose are a great presence in the episode and make it the fantastic standard it is today.
Billie and Leo have something major to do in this episode for a change and aide in kicking up the pace and momentum tht was lacking in the seasons previous episodes.
with this episode it single handedly aided the course of the series and with a special thanks to the writers of this episode season 8 reaches new heights of entertainment value and remains one of this seasons best and one of my fave episodes of the shows run.
genuine classy fun that is only topped by the return of the one and only Source Of All Evil Himself.
Great Episode!!

I mean, the rip-offs... the unoriginal storylines...
Rose McGowan and Alyssa Milano act as though they had just entered an acting class for the first time in their lives. What is with Paige sarcasm and over-acting in these four episodes?
And Phoebe coming at Paige at the house like that? Totally rehearsed and un-exciting.

I wasn't complaining so much with the rip-off from sex and the city (8x02) but this is too much. What, that Mandi is Bree, and Piper is Lynette, and the two of Mandi's friends are supposed to be , what, Susanand Gabrielle? Totally transparent!

Peter Woodward (Source) was abysmal at the very least. I just hope they don't bring back Barbas, or some other "great" demon!

Jason Lewis- He sould be killed! His acting skills amount to zero!

And Kaley Cuoco still acts as though she's still in 8 Simple Rules. (Wonder if they rip that off any time soon..)

I would give it a 1, but still, it's a 7 because...
welll, Charmed is still my favorite show and I'm giving it another chance...

but the worst episodes from seasons 1-7 are better than the first five episodes of season 8. Let's see what happens when they get "rewitched"...

Piper finds that her son has a school-play and works hard to keep up with the demand for costumes. Her mothering skills are challenged by a cruel demonic mother who wishes to lure Wyatt away and use him to resurrect the Source to become the perfect demonic family. Piper finds out about this and puts her fut down by vanquishing the Demon, which kills the Source, literalizing the old Ball-and-chain theory. The ending with Wyatt's school play was so sweet. Meanwhile, Paige magically poses as the woman Dex is supposedly sleeping with to exact vengeance, bu it backfires on her. I found this episode to be very exciting in it's conspiritorial nature and enjoyed the "fast times" with Billie and Leo.

At last one watchable episode about the sisters and not about Billie! Xd I don't have a lot to add...

The story is original, a demon trying to bring the source back! Cool idea, and the demon itself was good. The good thing about the episode is that a the end the Charmed Ones come together and kill the big bad! And Billie is in the second place (as she always should have been). The vanquish, as the whole field of vanquishes in the season, is poor. It's Piper blowing up the demon, nothing more... Maybe a spell or something... because I can't remenber when was the last time that they vanquish the episode's demon with a spell, lately they only use potions! Only! Xd

In the other hand, the stories of the sisters individualy were cool, I liked the funny moments of Paige and bla blabla bla blabla...LOL! That was so unexpected! Xd Great job. Piper has a good episode in the funny part aswell. I think that in the episode, they use the funny part and the "others shows" ideas, like the comedy of Desperate Housewives (not only included in the tittle) but they didn't a inpersonal job. It doesn't go too long out of Charmed. We have a good work of camera and a good cordination in the scenes (The scenes in Magic School were good filmed, and the scenes since Piper realized that Mandy is a demon are fantastic... You know, the hall scene, the attic scene, ect...)

Wyatt's impending school play brings out the competitive nature in Piper when her hand-sewn costume for Wyatt and her parenting ability are attacked by Mandi, the perfect Stepford-like mother. Unbeknownst to Piper, Mandi is a demon in disguise, befriending Wyatt so that she can kidnap him to use his powers to bring back The Source and create the perfect demon family. Meanwhile, bored with learning the basics of magic but intrigued with the idea of a Magic School, Billie uses a potion to send her and Leo to magic school. Once there, they realize that the school has been taken over by demons who have kidnapped Wyatt. Knowing that Phoebe feels Dex is the one, Paige worries when she suspects he is seeing another woman, and decides to intervene

Awesome episode! Billie is awesome! She is my second favorite character! I love the wat she dresse but I would have the white stuff in black. The stuff the demons were wearing that Billie later wore was awesome! I so would wear that even though the top is short. Thats my style. I also love how Paige dresses. My favorite part was at the beginning with Billie and Leo and she starts making that metal thing more than it flys out the window.

Wyatt's impending school play brings out the competitive nature in Piper when her hand-sewn costume for Wyatt and her parenting ability are attacked by Mandi, the perfect Stepford-like mother. Unbeknownst to Piper, Mandi is a demon in disguise, befriending Wyatt so that she can kidnap him to use his powers to bring back The Source and create the perfect demon family. Meanwhile, bored with learning the basics of magic but intrigued with the idea of a Magic School, Billie uses a potion to send her and Leo to magic school. Once there, they realize that the school has been taken over by demons who have kidnapped Wyatt. Knowing that Phoebe feels Dex is the one, Paige worries when she suspects he is seeing another woman, and decides to intervene

This episode was really an example of why I love this show. True it had no residual effect and did not change the course of the series but it continued to deal on themes that had been started this season and that had yet to be resolved. Namely, the identity crisis that followed the girl's rash decision from last year. Aside from that was one of the funnier and better plotted episodes of the series. We saw the best of so many characters that it's a must to see for the season. We saw one of the best Leo moments of the year. And we see what it is the sisters are so striving for... normalcy. There are moments that are so normal that it makes the series that much more believable. This episode really highlights the fact that this show is about the sister's first, magic second.