Eastwick

Eastwick was on tonight on ABC at 10pm.  I didn't even know it was coming until early this summer when I was checking on which shows were coming back for a new season.  I found it on the Futon Critic website.

At first I thought the pilot episode was a rundown of the movie but what I learned from IMDB was that all the characters aren't even the same.  Daryl Van Horne is the only returning character.

The 3 Witches:

• Rebecca Romijn plays Roxanne (Roxie) Torcoletti (the Blond) and her powers are of premonition.  She dreams and it comes true which is a good power I guess but she needs to hone that skill while she's awake.


• Lindsay Price plays Joanna Frankel (the Brunette) who has the power to manipulate men with her gaze.  She can get a raise at work, make men give her all of the money in their wallets, seduce men whether they like it or not.  It doesn't work with women though which could pose a problem.


• Jaime Ray Newman plays Kat Rougemont (the Redhead) and her powers are that of the elements.  So far she created an earthquake and struck lightning down on her husband.

Then these 2 characters

• Paul Gross plays Darryl Van Horne aka the Devil.


• Veronica Cartwright plays Bun.  I'm not sure who this character is because in the movie she played Felicia Alden.  Perhaps Bun is her gramma name?

In the movie the witches were Alex, Jane and Sukie.  This new show is obviously not a remake of the movie because there are some subtle changes like for example all the names are different.  In the movie the brunette (Cher) was the artist but in this show the blond (Rebecca Romijn) is the artist.

At the end of the pilot episode, Penny (who is Joannas friend) reveals that Darryl Van Horne died so this guy is a fake.  And yes it's true.  In the movie they killed him but then at the very end of the movie they show him as like a giant so you know he's not dead, he's the Devil.  Wheres he gonna go?  Back to hell?  If he can come to earth to manipulate the witches then obviously he can come back.  You can't kill him.

So in this new show he's just found 3 new women to turn into witches.  I have a strange feeling that at the end of this season they are all going to give birth to his babies and they will kill him and all live in the mansion lol.  Maybe not, who knows.

Bottom line is that it's another witch show which is awesome.  It doesn't replace Charmed for me but it's very similar, well, if they start killing demons then it will replace it but I highly doubt it will be like that.  Whatever they do I'm sure it will still be cool.  It's a supernatural show and that's what I like to watch.