Bleeding Cool's video: Charmed S01E01 Review: A Strong Start That Honors Updates Original Series - Bleeding Cool

Welcome to Bleeding Cool’s weekly review of CW‘s Charmed, as we take a look at the series premiere of Jane the Virgin creator-showrunner Jennie Snyder Urman’s reboot of the popular series. To say that The CW‘s Charmed reboot from Jane the Virgin creator-showrunner Jennie Snyder Urman has had a bit of a polarizing effect among the geek community when it was first announced would be a righteous understatement. But now that all of the bad press releases, pissy back-and-forths, and pre-judging are over – Bleeding Cool finally got a chance to actually watch the episode. Guess what? It’s good. Not great, but a solid start with tons of season-long potential. It has some things to smooth out…but a little “tough love” for fans of the original Charmed who are having issues dealing with this series? It’s a better pilot than the original’s, and does the three things we needed it to do: introduced characters we want to give a crap about, gave us a solid backstory, and teased some serious nastiness to come. Spoiler Warning: I’ll be covering some themes and takeaways involving major and minor plot points from the episode, so just keep that in mind. Definitely not looking for pitchforks and torches outside my apartment. Charmed s01e01 ‘Pilot’: After the tragic death of Mel (Melonie Diaz) and Maggie’s (Sarah Jeffery) mother, the sisters struggle with moving forward but face another huge shock when they learn they have an older sister, Macy (Madeleine Mantock). With the emotions of all three sisters running high, each of the girls suddenly exhibit impossible new abilities: Mel can freeze time, Maggie starts hearing others’ thoughts and Macy has telekinetic powers. While trying to understand their new powers, Harry Greenwood (Rupert Evans), gathers the sisters and reveals they’re actually powerful witches, as was their mother. He also lets them in on a little secret, he’s not really a professor, he’s their “Whitelighter,” a witch’s advisor and guide. The sisters must make the decision to accept their new destiny as The Charmed Ones…and their new duty to protect humankind from the demons that walk among us…one of whom killed their mother. Ellen Tamaki and Ser’Darius Blain also star. Brad Siberling directed the episode written by Jessica O’Toole & Amy Rardin