Review: The remake & # 039; Haunted & # 039; It looks nothing like the original, but has its own...
Review: The remake & # 039; Haunted & # 039; It looks nothing like the original, but has its own charms.
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USA TODAYFor fans of "Charmed", see the new version of CW is an exercise to stay calm.
In many ways, the new version of the witch show is a bastardization, a new series with a family title to attract fans before grossly disappointing them. There is enough evidence of the previous mix that it is difficult to think that it is a completely new show.
But while the new "Charmed" (Sunday, 9 EDT / PDT, ★★ ½ of four) does not look much like the old WB drama, it does not mean that the new show does not have its own value and value. Own supernatural stories. The world in 2018 is very different from what it was when "Charmed" first arrived in 1998, and Jessica O'Toole's new team of writers and producers, Amy Rardin and Jennie Snyder Urman ("Jane the Virgin), make a good job of updating the program to integrate into a society in the middle of the #MeToo movement and be more familiar with fantasy television Some of the great changes are successful, others not so much.
The configuration for the new Power of Three begins with just two: the sisters Mel (Melonie Diaz) and Maggie Vera (Sarah Jeffrey), students of a local university, where her mother Marisol (Valerie Cruz) directs the department of studies of women . Mel is an activist who supports her mother in the attempt to kill a teacher accused of sexual harassment. Maggie is a bit more superficial, mostly worried about rushing a sisterhood of women. In what seems like a normal night, Marisol calls her daughters home, but they arrive to find her dead, apparently after falling through the window of an attic.
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Three months later, the scientist Macy Vaughn (Madeleine Mantock) arrives in the city for a new job at the university, discovers Mel and Maggie, and the three learn that they are sisters. Shortly after they are finally all together, they begin to develop strange powers: Mel can freeze time, Maggie can hear her thoughts when she touches people and Macy has telekinesis. Harry (Rupert Evans), his new "white lighter", a guardian angel and mentor (now with a British accent), gives them information about his witchcraft powers and responsibilities.
One of the real weaknesses of the series is the mixture of the new mythology. Sure, the sisters are still the "Charmed Ones" and share powers with the original Halliwell sisters, but it's easy to see that some aspects of the new series have been taken directly from other fantasy shows. A frozen demon seems to have come out of "Game of Thrones". The British mentor of the sisters and the environment of the small town, the fictional Hilltown, are no different from the "observer" Giles and the village of Sunnydale in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer".
Unfortunately, it feels as if the new writers had absolute disdain for the source material, so these changes are arbitrary and widespread.
The premiere of Sunday begins in an unstable manner, with a little acting and an uncomfortably uncomfortable dialogue, but both become more secure later on. The episode is well drawn and makes an intelligent use of bad direction, avoiding some traps and clichés since it establishes the forms of fight of the monsters of the sisters.
Mantock is clearly the most comfortable of the three actors and has the most complete character. Maggie and Mel fall into the established stereotypes of a party girl and an angry feminist, but Macy is more complex: a scientist confronted with the supernatural, a woman who finds out that her family lied to her, hiding a mother and two sisters who never met. Although she is the outsider, it seems clear that she will become the leader.
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Not all changes are problematic. Combining the fight of the sisters against the demons with the #MeToo movement and other feminist protests against patriarchy is a smart move, if it is executed with a heavy hand at the premiere. Establishing the series on a university campus is an ideal way to unite these social and supernatural issues. Although the change is discordant for lifelong fans, the new show feels more modern and much less corny than the original.
If the sisters can forge their own identities, there may be room for a second "Charmed" in the hearts of the fans.
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