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Hey, guys, thanks for going on this nerd journey with me.
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Me juck.
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Hello everybody, and welcome to make me a nerd. I'm
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Mandy Kaplan, a mainstream mom whose mission it is to
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explore the world of nerd culture that I've been missing
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out on and slightly afraid of my whole life. I
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have a very special returning guest today. I love his face.
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I'm so excited that he's here. He's a dear friend,
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a brilliant performer in Miscast, and the editor in chief
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of Entertainment Weekly. This is Patrick Gomez.
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I am so happy to be back. Also so happy
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to not be in the valley. Yeah. I had to
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run an errand over in Studio City earlier today and
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the ten degrees change was brutal.
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Ten it's like thirty.
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It's probably, yeah, it was. It was awful.
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Oh okay, So when I said, what do you want
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to nerd out about? We we have plans to do
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more reality TV because that's really your thing. But at
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the moment, there was nothing in the zeitgeist, and I said,
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what about going in the wayback machine. What were you
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nerdy about years ago? And you gave me two options
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and I like them both. And we're going to do
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Mighty morphin Power Rangers at some point, but today we're
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doing Charmed.
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Yes, there, the Power three will set us free.
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Mandy, Oh, we're only two. Should Pete hop on?
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Pete should hop on? And we'll just chant together and yeah,
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it'll be great, but we.
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Can't hold hands, so it's not going to work. What
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is your relationship with Charmed?
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I fell in love with Charmed, you know, honestly, I
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think I didn't actually start watching it on the WB.
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I started watching it because they would air reruns constantly
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on TBS and TNT, and I was in love with
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some of the shows that they would
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air right after school,
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USA High and Surf in USA. I think that second
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title is correct. I know USA High is correct. I
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got to meet one of the actresses from it at
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Comic Com this year, and I was geeking out because
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she's one of the voices on the original Avatar the
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Last Airbender series. Okay, I was geeking out anyway it
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would come on, I believe right after that, and I
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just fell in love with the characters. I am very
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much a gay man, but kind of had a crash
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on Alyssa Milano and because you have a pulse, yes, exactly,
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and I fell in love with it. And I think
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part of it was to get, you know, into the
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psychology of it. I was figuring out myself at the
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time and was more effeminate than was the masculine standard
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in Texas. In Texas, but really anywhere this was, you know,
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the late nineties, metrosexual hadn't even become a thing that
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people were talking about. Everyone was very much manly men
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or are you know, a certain way, And just.
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To point out, you weren't in Manhattan correct, where it
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might have been more embraced.
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Yes, And so I think that there was something really
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powerful to see these women exerting their their power and
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yet also their femininity and being taken seriously. At most
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times they have to fight for it, but that being
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taken seriously and being considered very powerful. And I think,
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you know, if I'm looking back, that wasn't something I
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was processing at the time, but I now think that
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that's the case. And then of course you get the
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same thing with the Power Rangers or Disney princesses or
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Aladdin or any of them, where it's you know, it's
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these people that were living these regular lives and then
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are thrust into realizing that they were meant for something
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greater and being part of the greater good.
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And they're the heroes of their own story exactly, which
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is always inspiring no matter who you are. But when
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you are feeling like you're in a tumultuous place emotionally
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or you don't know your place in school or wherever,
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these are the stories I'm learning that just inspired nerds
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to fall in love exactly.
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And I mean, look, it started in nineteen ninety eight,
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which was kind of the height like all of the
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girls at school at the time were you know, oh
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I'm a witch now, you know, I mean like witchcraft,
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like the craft was out. It was around, you know,
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practical magic, Buffy, all of that, and so this I
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didn't I miss the boat on all of those, and
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Charmed was just the one that I caught it right
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right on the wave. So I think there was also
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a little bit of that where you know, which which
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culture and that sort of thing was was big, and
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this was the one I latched onto from all of that.
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Well, I am very much a gay man and I'm
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hot for a Lissa Milano, So there you go. She
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is stunning. It's frustrating. The pilot is called something Wika
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This Way Comes and the storyline is reunited in the
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grand Victorian house of their childhood, a trio of sisters, Prue,
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Piper and Phoebe Hallowell discover they are gifted witches. Little
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do they know that their newfound powers mean that they
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are now prey to evil forces. It is such a
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clean pilot. It is well constructed, funny, sexy sets up
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the world so easily. Really, from the moment we see
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the sisters, we get it and I find that impressive.
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Glad you liked it, and and they it got picked up.
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Part of it was a cost saving measure, but it
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got picked up off of just like a twenty minute
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teaser is not the right word. But they didn't do
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a film, a full pilot. They filmed a twenty minute
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sort of experience, the kind of you highlights, Yes, proof
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of concept, and it was it was picked up based
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on that.
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Was that the one with Lori Rahm.
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It was
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An actually fun fact Aaron Spelling, who was, you know,
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the executive producer behind the series. He originally wanted Shannon
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Doherty to play the middle sister, Piper, and Holly red
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Combs to play the younger sister, Phoebe, and they had
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to literally show him because they grew up on screen. Obviously,
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Shannon had done Beverly Hills nine two one oher Hally
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red Combs had been on Picket Fences, so he watched
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them grow up on screen and he was like, no, no, no,
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you're not the right ages for the older sister and
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the middle sister. And they had to literally Hollywood comes
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has said that she literally had They had to bring
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out their IDs and show him that they were old
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enough to play those two characters. And they felt that
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those were the ones that they should play because they
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were really good friends. Hillary also has a story where
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she was got in the car with Channon to go somewhere.
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She saw the script in the back seat and she
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was like, oh my god, have you read it yet?
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Because she fell in love with it and and Shannon
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jo was like, no, it's a Spelling production, Spelling production,
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and of course they had, you know, she left nine
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or two and O with a lot of drama, and
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she was like, I'll never be considered for it, and
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Holly Marie had to tell her. She was like, they
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sent it to you for a reason, obviously, so they
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want you. And then you know the rest is at
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least we'll get into that, but at least three seasons
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of history.
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I really don't get the love for Shannon Alherty as
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an actress, and knowing she's difficult, you know, and tends
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to self sabotage all the jobs she got, I never understood.
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I don't think she's a very good actress, is what
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I'm saying. And I'm sorry that upsets you.
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It doesn't upset me. I don't know that I ever
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loved Charmed for the acting in general. Not to say
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that everyone on it was horrible, but but you know,
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I found the show intentionally a little cheesy, and I
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found her I would say flatness to kind of work
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and counteract that. But I don't disagree with anything you're saying.
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I think you kind of I found ways to justify
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why maybe some of her acting was the way that it.
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Was so in your second time on my podcast, I
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like that you're not disagreeing. You know the rules here.
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Oh, I mean it's any time I'm with Mandy.
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No.
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No, I certainly would not be afraid to defend her
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if I felt otherwise. But no, this is a show
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you watch for the for the fun and and the
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effects and the silliness for sure.
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Okay, so you said cheesy. I found this way less
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cheesy than I thought I would.
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Well, okay, the pilot, Yes, I think I think this
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show gets a little.
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All the ones I watched, I thought it would be
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campier and like, oh boy, I didn't find it that way.
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For those of you that have not watched Charmed. For Mandy,
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I chose episodes that were really important to the plot
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because I felt like it kind of gave you the
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grand scope of the story of the series. That being said, Mandy,
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there are episodes where they end up in an alternate
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universe that's like a film noir and it's narrated by
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a character and there's crazy things happening. Or there's another
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one where they end up in like a fairy land,
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or it's all a musical like. There's certainly those episodes,
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but those are more, you know, one off sort of
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where it's a little bit more episodic. I chose the
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ones that were more serial and serious for sure, but
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it was it was very fun and silly. I might
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have to send you over a few clips just to
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show you how silly it could get.
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Those sound like fun and I always appreciate those episodes
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when you know, like on Hot and Cleveland they didn't
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end and made a musical or I love a departure
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like that. There is a lot of soap opera crossover
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in the casting. Is it the same casting director as
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Days of Our Lives or so?
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I think most of all, they've said that there is
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something called the spelling jaw, particularly when it comes to men,
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and like the hair like. He was very particular with
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who he wanted cast, and a lot of that all
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lines with the soap opera aesthetic. So I think that
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that's why you were seeing a lot of it. But
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he also likes to pull from his past projects, which
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you know, some of the people that he potentially was
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going to cast for other roles in the show, he
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continued to go back to people that he'd worked with
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on nine O two and zero or some of his
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other series. He kind of he was like an early
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Ryan Murphy where he kind of had this repertoire of
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actors that once he once he liked you, you were in.
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Like I said, even Shannon, if she went through drama,
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she was back in a few years later.
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Yeah, well that's nice. I like that kind of loyalty. Yeah.
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This was the biggest premiere for the WB ever.
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And they did not They did not, not that they
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didn't want to support it, but the WB was a
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fledgling network and obviously didn't it's not around anymore. They
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confined with UPN to become the CWU, and they only
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had enough money to put advertising behind one show a
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year and one new show a year, and it was
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felicity for this premiere and so charmed. They kind of
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were just like, we'll see. They had didn't even give
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it a full season pickup, and then all of a
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sudden it came out and just exploded and the rest
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the rest came to be.
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Well, I imagine it has huge international appeal and rerun appeal, and.
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It translates, translates very well, and you can like as
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much as as much as like I said, I gave
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you the very serial episodes to watch. There was a
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lot of episodic nature to it. So you could pop
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in pop out, like like I came into it, you know,
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I remember waiting because this was back in the late nineties,
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before you know TiVo or or streaming that you could
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find things that at your fingertips. I remember because if
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you watched Charms, they would air it in the morning
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and in the afternoon. I think two episodes in the morning,
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two episodes in the afternoon, and they were on different cycles,
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like one was, you know, halfway through season two and
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the other was partially through season one, and they would
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just kind of start over once once they got to
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the wherever the most recent episode had been. And I
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remember like calculating when to tune in to watch the
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pilot because I'd never seen it. I'd started like a
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couple episodes in, and I remember being very excited the
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first time I got to watch the very first episode.
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That's adorable. I'm just picturing a young struggling with your
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identity Patrick just flipping for this show.
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Also super super pop culture TV NERD, like sitting there like, Okay,
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they're out of this episode, and then three weeks and
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then they'll probably take a day off her labor day.
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Lori Rahm and the unaired pilot. She left because of
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religious reasons. Did I read that right?
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venture to guess, because it's so unclear that she either
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wasn't getting along with someone or didn't test well enough.
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because if you ask some people, she left because she
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weird answer that I feel like the answer was actually
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that she didn't test well. They wanted someone else, And Okay.
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I read religious reasons, but I will give you you
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a fun fact. She is married to my tax guy.
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all these years later, maybe get the big scoop. But yes,
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I've heard multiple stories over the year. I also know
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that Aaron had wanted a list of Milano and Right,
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and that the network said, we'll give you two of
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the three, but we get to cast the third. And
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so he chose Shannon and Holly Mary Combs, and so
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they were like, well, we're going to cast this third sister.
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found a way to be like, you know what, that's
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not working, let's go with someone else, and then wait
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until the last second. And apparently she came in like
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very last minute.
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rest of the episode too.
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But you can tell Shannon Doherty's hair just changes so much.
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the length changes, it's intense.
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it's very interesting. Her take on Piper on Phoebe is
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a little less Ditzie's not the right word. She played
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her a little more like the other two sisters, a
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little stronger, and I think the dynamic, particularly the beginning
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of Phoebe being a little bit more of the like younger.
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I'm the younger sister plays a little bit better. Yeah.
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I liked all three of them, and I liked that
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cheesy soap opera, some comedy. It's it's hard to qualify
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and put in a genre which makes it really fun.
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They certainly dance through all of that. I also, yeah,
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it's like rewatching it, like you know, somebody around them
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of them. Like anytime there's like a guy that says something,
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you're like, h like that doesn't sound right, which I
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thought was was really really great. One of the other
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interesting things is one Aaron Spelling had to promise that
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the was about these women, like they didn't want any
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male characters really at least at the start. And a
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character that will meet later, Leo they had to sneak
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in on episode three, is like a handyman and they
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already knew where he was going as a character, but
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they didn't tell the network. They were like, oh, yeah,
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it's just this handyman that's doing some stuff around the house.
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He'll have a couple of lines, and then like they
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just kept writing him in and then like slowly revealed
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to the network that like, nope, we've got all these
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plans and sorry, it's a guy.
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Wow. He he is not my favorite. I found Leo
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just to be one note, you know that he's just
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like I'll go to the underworld and see what I
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can do. That's all He says in the episodes I saw, so.
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You know there's there's episodes where him where he shined
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was his love story with Piper, the middle sister.
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an actor named Eric Scott Woods was uncomfortable saying bitch,
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so so the crew dubbed the word in with a
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different actor's voice. But it's the same. It's one time
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they got somebody to go bitch and then they just
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used that bitch no matter what this actor was doing.
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the same. So I got to notice.
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That it's like it's like their Wilhelm scream. The what
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it's like the Wilhelm scream. It's this scream that was
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recorded for like early days of filmmaking. It's this man
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just going oh something like that. And if you listen,
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if you listen to basically any if you you can
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hear it basically any
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lot of people reuse this. It's kind of an inside joke.
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Now you are.
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Such a nerd very much, so.
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All right, well that's the pilot that the pilot brought
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to you by Midriff. They are all wearing will.
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Crop tops throughout will croptops.
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And there is so much you know when I go
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on like the wiki fandom to see.
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Or the Wicca fandom, Uh huh you've been there.
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Uh, there's so much about the powers and the spells
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and the terms. Do you know if it's any of
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it is actual WICCA stuff or were they just making
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it all up and calling it wicca or they didn't
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really use the word wicka.
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Right at the very beginning, they were worried about backlash,
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you know, people saying that they were you know, devil work,
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like they were worried that that that would turn people off.
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complaining of that, like oh, you're trying to promote the
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devil and all this sort of stuff, But then do
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they also got people that actually did practice wika and
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they were like, none of this is actually accurate, like
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what are you doing? So so it was it was
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they weren't pleasing anyone by exploring uh wicca, And I
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think I think they the pun was too good to
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walk away from. But otherwise, yes, I think if I
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think if WICCA wasn't in the title, you'd just been like,
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oh witchcraft, you wouldn't have tied it specifically to Wicca itself, right.
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Which is which is a religion. It's not just a
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you know, a trend or a or you know, a practice.
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It's like an actual religion.
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So yeah, so I think they didn't do themselves any
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favors by putting it in the in the title, because
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they were actively shying away from it. In fact, Uh,
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you know, in the beginning, they tried to show that,
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like they went to church, and they did. They were
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trying to show all these things about like no, see
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that these these are good witches and they're you know,
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they can go to church, they can do these things.
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And then uh, you know, later on they were able
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to have a little bit more fun.
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Yeah. Well, the next one I watched was season three,
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episode twenty two, All Hell Breaks Loose, when Piper and
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Prue are exposed as witches. Phoebe sacrifices herself to the
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dark side to save them, but the deal destroys them all.
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Did I get that right?
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You got that right?
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I mean, you know, feel like a good description of
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this episode.
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I mean there's a lot that goes on in the episode,
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but if you had to still it down to a line,
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you know, she does it to kind of save them,
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but also she's you know, in love with this guy
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that's being held down there. And there's a lot going
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on with Phoebe there beyond what you just mentioned for sure.
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So the hot cop from the first one or the
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hot investigator is gone. What was his deal ted King?
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Yes, so they had a few. There was always like
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new cops coming in, and other than Dorian Gregory who
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played Darryl, other than him, none of the law enforcement
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lasted long. They kind of were like one at most
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two season characters. And when it came to particularly like
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romantic interests, other than than Leo and for I would say,
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I would say, oh god him forgetting his last name.
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But Julie from Niptock, Juline McMahon, yes McMahon, who recently
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passed away, which is so sad. The two of them
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were really the only two men that lasted as well
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as as long as Dorian did as well. So the
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guys kind of came and went, and again it was
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about the women and that was something that they wanted
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to hold true to as well.
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Okay, good. I'm glad he didn't. Did you miss him kidnapped? No?
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I just I was like,
where's that hot cop guy?
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Who was also from Days of Our Lives? Everyone was
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from Days of Our Lives except Finola Hughes, who's from
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General Hospital. We'll get to her. Okay. My first reaction, oh,
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thank god they grew their hair out, because those little
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pixie cuts were so specific to the late nineties and
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it was, you know, it dated it for me.
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So and that was another spelling rule. No one could change.
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No one could even put their hair up or where
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they couldn't wear it any differently. For the first six episodes,
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he was very much like, the audience has to recognize
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you and like know exactly who you are, and you know,
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if they're only half paying attention, they still need to
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be able to say this is that character, this is
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that character. So they weren't allowed to touch their hair
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for the first six episodes, and then obviously over time
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they had a little bit more control about what they
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were wearing their hair.
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But Tyrant, now did Tory or Randy ever guess? Uncharmed,
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I don't believe so. Spelling For those of you who
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are thinking, are Mandy and Patrick just talking about their friends.
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I mean, aren't they No, I can't recall that ever happening,
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and I feel like I would have.
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Because didn't Tory Spelling and Shannon Doherty not get along?
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Or was that Jenny Garth?
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I mean, I don't think Shannon Doherty. Yeah, I think
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think Shannon Dohorty got along with pretty much anyone other
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than like I said, her and Hollymry Crumbs were really
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really close and remain so in the years after Charmed two.
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So it is deeply yeah, and it is deeply sad
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to watch this show and these people are of my generation.
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I know you're younger than me, but to know Julia
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McMahon's gone chin and Doherty's gone, it's just it's really Yeah,
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it's disheartening and sad and too soon. Oh. What I
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wrote was what happened to the hot detective from the pilot?
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Do you know him? Can you introduce us? That is
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what I wrote.
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I will, I will have to figure that out.
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And in the first episode, Darryl the cop is skeptical
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and doesn't know what's going on, but by this episode
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end of season three, he is in on it. He
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knows who they really are, and he is all about
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protecting them. How did that shift happen for him?
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Uh? You know, for him, it was realizing that because
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when he first discovers it, he thinks they're evil. You know,
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he's just like, I don't understand this, like this is
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but he starts to see that what they do is
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good and so then he starts to kind of help
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cover stuff up for them. And because law enforcement continues
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as as we see as the series goes on, law
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enforcement and new like, they all start to question why
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people are dying in their house or you know, why
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they seem to at the restaurant they work at or
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you know, places that they are Like crimes and or
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deaths seem to continue to happen in very weird ways.
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And so I mean, story wise, I think they just
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needed somebody to help. That make sense, to get somebody
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off their back. But for him, it was very much
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an experience of seeing what they what they did, and
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how they would do good and help him and help
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others when they were in need.
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And this show is twenty five years old, but when
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the media is haranguing them and outside the house and
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following it feels very today.
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Yeah, I mean, you know, everything's It's interesting though, because
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I had actually an Uber driver asked me about this
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the other day when they learned what I do. She
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was saying, you know, I feel like there used to
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be paparazzi everywhere, and you saw these paparazzi shots and
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long lens situations and catching people in situations that they
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don't know that they're being watched, or you know, they're
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pounding them across the street or walking into restaurants. And
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she was like, I don't feel like I see that
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as often. And I think that that actually was the
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case for a little bit. I think social media killed
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it a little. I think also the average consumer starting
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to understand how detrimental that could be when you know,
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you were seeing celebrities getting in car accidents or you know,
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having the mental health breakdowns because of it, and I
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think that there was a huge backlash. And I do
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feel like in the last like three or four months, though,
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we've started to see an upswell again of that sort
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of of that sort of thing in the media of
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you know, that long lens, Like here's someone on vacation
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on a boat and it's like you clearly it's so
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00:26:06.440 --> 00:26:08.920
grainy that that has to be taken from a camera,
481
00:26:09.000 --> 00:26:12.559
and good camera, but from miles away sort of thing.
482
00:26:12.599 --> 00:26:13.519
And it's interesting.
483
00:26:13.559 --> 00:26:16.000
I hate that. It's like I'm on my yacht. I'm
484
00:26:16.119 --> 00:26:19.160
just trying to relax with my Crystal. Leave me alone.
485
00:26:19.519 --> 00:26:21.680
Crystal is your friend, right right?
486
00:26:21.799 --> 00:26:28.720
Yeah? You know, okay. Side note, total tangent. I recently
487
00:26:28.799 --> 00:26:31.720
heard that there's a theory that Britney Spears shaved her
488
00:26:31.759 --> 00:26:36.319
head because drugs can be detected in your hair for
489
00:26:36.839 --> 00:26:39.200
much longer than in your bodily fluids, I guess, and
490
00:26:39.240 --> 00:26:41.599
she had to submit for drug testing, so that's why
491
00:26:41.640 --> 00:26:42.440
she shaved her head.
492
00:26:42.839 --> 00:26:46.359
I have heard that, and I've heard that since it happened,
493
00:26:46.400 --> 00:26:48.960
because she obviously was worried about them taking her kids away.
494
00:26:50.160 --> 00:26:51.920
Who's to say what's true, but that is that is
495
00:26:51.960 --> 00:26:55.279
something that I've heard in the in the mix as
496
00:26:55.480 --> 00:26:56.920
a reason. For sure.
497
00:26:56.960 --> 00:27:00.440
Well, I listened to her book because I'm a thorough investigator,
498
00:27:01.079 --> 00:27:04.680
and she claims it's like, you know, everyone always told
499
00:27:04.680 --> 00:27:06.200
me what they wanted me to look like, and I
500
00:27:06.200 --> 00:27:08.480
didn't want to be their barbie anymore, so I shaved
501
00:27:08.480 --> 00:27:11.319
my head to prove a point.
It's pretty flimsy Patrick.
502
00:27:11.880 --> 00:27:15.039
I mean, you know, it's it's like Lori Brahm leaving Charmed.
503
00:27:17.200 --> 00:27:22.279
It all comes full circle back to Charmed brought to
504
00:27:22.319 --> 00:27:28.160
you by Middrift. Sophoebe goes underground to get coal and
505
00:27:28.279 --> 00:27:33.319
that's Julie McMahon and they have hot chemistry. They have
506
00:27:33.400 --> 00:27:36.079
a kiss down there that I was like, whoo, I mean,
507
00:27:36.400 --> 00:27:39.279
I wouldn't mind kissing either one of them.
508
00:27:39.480 --> 00:27:42.960
Yeah. No, This was one of the major romances of
509
00:27:43.000 --> 00:27:48.079
the show, for sure, and one that I certainly was
510
00:27:48.200 --> 00:27:52.240
very invested for reasons.
511
00:27:53.000 --> 00:27:56.119
In that kiss, the music swelled. It's very soap opera
512
00:27:56.240 --> 00:27:58.119
esque in a lot of moments.
513
00:28:00.240 --> 00:28:05.039
You know, it's gonna be soapy and fun and uh sexy,
514
00:28:05.119 --> 00:28:08.839
and certainly they checked all the boxes for sure.
515
00:28:09.200 --> 00:28:12.480
What was your relationship with Spelling? Were you? Was this
516
00:28:12.559 --> 00:28:14.440
around the time of nine o two and oh or
517
00:28:14.440 --> 00:28:15.799
no that was before this?
518
00:28:16.119 --> 00:28:20.759
It was yeah, Nice and Melo's Place, Uh were ones
519
00:28:20.799 --> 00:28:24.759
that I definitely missed I was aware of, But I
520
00:28:24.839 --> 00:28:28.400
was watching the reruns of Charlie's Angel, like you know,
521
00:28:28.480 --> 00:28:33.759
I missed I missed that earlier nineties spelling that I
522
00:28:33.920 --> 00:28:36.519
was at the right age to catch the reruns of
523
00:28:36.559 --> 00:28:41.119
the previous era of Spelling, so I was familiar with him,
524
00:28:42.279 --> 00:28:45.599
and which was interesting for the time because, uh, you know,
525
00:28:45.640 --> 00:28:48.759
that was a time before we before Shonda Rhimes, before
526
00:28:48.880 --> 00:28:53.480
Ryan Murphy, before we really knew people behind the scenes,
527
00:28:53.480 --> 00:28:56.920
at least that you know, if Enterty, a weekly reader
528
00:28:57.079 --> 00:28:58.720
like that sort of stuff would have would have known.
529
00:28:58.960 --> 00:29:01.680
But the average consumer now, I think, knows what the
530
00:29:01.759 --> 00:29:03.279
term showrunner means.
531
00:29:03.319 --> 00:29:06.480
And so true like TV Guy would definitely feature the
532
00:29:06.559 --> 00:29:12.000
actors from shows, but everyone knew Aaron Spelling's name. Yeah,
533
00:29:12.039 --> 00:29:13.920
and so seventies, that's crazy.
534
00:29:14.160 --> 00:29:16.680
Yeah, so even even you know, prior to that, like
535
00:29:16.680 --> 00:29:19.000
I knew Aaron Spelling was the guy behind Charlie's Angels
536
00:29:19.000 --> 00:29:21.759
before I'd even knew Charms. So yeah, he certainly was
537
00:29:21.759 --> 00:29:25.880
somebody that was a unique, unique producer in that way
538
00:29:25.880 --> 00:29:29.359
that we knew who he was. So that so that
539
00:29:29.440 --> 00:29:33.319
was mainly my relationship. So again Charlie's Angels, three women
540
00:29:33.400 --> 00:29:38.880
exerting their power and kicking ass, and here we are again.
541
00:29:39.599 --> 00:29:43.079
Yeah, I mean it really probably started with should we
542
00:29:43.119 --> 00:29:47.599
reboot Charlie's Angels? Yes, but let's make them witches, I mean.
543
00:29:47.920 --> 00:29:51.960
Yeah, Although I'll give a huge shout out to Constance Birge,
544
00:29:51.960 --> 00:29:57.079
who was the creator of the series. She based this off.
545
00:29:57.160 --> 00:29:59.000
She based the fact that it was these three women
546
00:29:59.200 --> 00:30:01.839
and thearticularly the character of Phoebe is her and like
547
00:30:01.880 --> 00:30:04.839
she had two older sisters and kind of based the
548
00:30:04.880 --> 00:30:09.039
personalities around them. She had a very clear vision of
549
00:30:09.039 --> 00:30:12.079
how each one of these three characters should be portrayed,
550
00:30:12.799 --> 00:30:15.680
because to her, it was bringing her sisters to life.
551
00:30:15.960 --> 00:30:18.680
And was this a comic? I read? I read it
552
00:30:18.720 --> 00:30:20.519
was based on comics.
553
00:30:21.000 --> 00:30:27.079
There have been comics since then. There's been since in
554
00:30:27.119 --> 00:30:31.559
the start as one, not to my knowledge, but there
555
00:30:31.640 --> 00:30:34.759
is a whole comics series. I've only read like one
556
00:30:34.839 --> 00:30:36.799
or two of them, but there's a whole comic series
557
00:30:36.839 --> 00:30:41.000
that came out afterwards that explored other things where like
558
00:30:41.079 --> 00:30:43.119
Daryl gets powers and like there's there's like a whole
559
00:30:43.119 --> 00:30:47.200
bunch of other really fun stuff. But no, I believe
560
00:30:47.240 --> 00:30:51.279
this was original, an original concept that Constance, I mean,
561
00:30:51.599 --> 00:30:55.960
Witchcraft is how original. But she definitely brought this not
562
00:30:56.039 --> 00:30:58.559
based on a source material. I'm ninety nine point nine
563
00:30:58.599 --> 00:30:59.400
percent sure.
564
00:30:59.440 --> 00:31:01.880
Okay, I trust you, but she's the expert.
565
00:31:01.920 --> 00:31:03.640
But she also wrote one of my other favorite series
566
00:31:03.640 --> 00:31:06.599
of the era, wrote on one of my other favorite
567
00:31:06.640 --> 00:31:08.160
series of the era, which is was Judging Amy with
568
00:31:08.200 --> 00:31:11.759
Amy Brenneman and Tyane Daily.
569
00:31:12.119 --> 00:31:14.759
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
570
00:31:13.920 --> 00:31:16.759
So I was. I was a fan of her as well,
571
00:31:16.759 --> 00:31:19.119
although although you know, not like Spelling, did not know
572
00:31:19.160 --> 00:31:22.640
her name at the time or that she wrote on
573
00:31:22.680 --> 00:31:25.559
that show. It was a Spelling show, it wasn't a
574
00:31:25.599 --> 00:31:28.200
Constance burd show. But I now know different.
575
00:31:30.000 --> 00:31:34.279
Yeah. I never watched Judging Amy, but I can. Yeah,
576
00:31:34.359 --> 00:31:37.519
I know the reference. So we're at the point of
577
00:31:37.559 --> 00:31:42.720
this episode where the paparazzi's outside the girls are about
578
00:31:42.720 --> 00:31:46.960
to be exposed for being witches because they are fighting
579
00:31:47.000 --> 00:31:49.880
crime on the street, and a news team films it,
580
00:31:50.319 --> 00:31:52.880
so they are everybody wants a piece of this story?
581
00:31:53.359 --> 00:31:56.440
Can I say, did you notice in rewatching it? I
582
00:31:56.519 --> 00:32:00.680
was like, how, like you can barely see who they are.
583
00:32:00.720 --> 00:32:02.000
It's like at the back of their heads.
584
00:32:02.279 --> 00:32:03.559
Yeah, how do they find their house?
585
00:32:03.759 --> 00:32:05.000
How did they find their I mean, I know it
586
00:32:05.039 --> 00:32:07.119
was nearby, so I could see, like, I guess if
587
00:32:07.119 --> 00:32:08.960
you're a really great journalist, or like showing it to
588
00:32:09.000 --> 00:32:12.519
the neighbors and they're like, oh, yeah, that's Piper, Like maybe,
589
00:32:12.599 --> 00:32:15.359
but there's no explanation of how it goes from seeing
590
00:32:15.440 --> 00:32:16.720
the back of their heads.
591
00:32:16.519 --> 00:32:18.559
We need to find these girls, and then they're at
592
00:32:18.559 --> 00:32:19.000
the house.
593
00:32:19.200 --> 00:32:21.880
Yeah. Also, yeah, that van was not like I know
594
00:32:21.960 --> 00:32:23.400
that they were helped, like you know, they were, they
595
00:32:23.400 --> 00:32:26.279
were busy, but that van wasn't like hidden or around
596
00:32:26.319 --> 00:32:28.160
the corner like it was right there. So it was
597
00:32:28.200 --> 00:32:29.359
a little bit on the girls too.
598
00:32:30.599 --> 00:32:35.799
Yeah, yeah, yeah, And they as the swell of media
599
00:32:35.839 --> 00:32:40.039
outside their house is trying to get the story, a
600
00:32:40.079 --> 00:32:43.960
wacky blonde neighbor comes over and says, I'm a witch too,
601
00:32:44.200 --> 00:32:47.119
I'm one of you. I can help, And I started
602
00:32:47.119 --> 00:32:49.720
typing for the record, I don't trust her.
603
00:32:50.400 --> 00:32:50.880
Look at you.
604
00:32:51.279 --> 00:32:52.519
Maybe I'm a witch.
605
00:32:52.759 --> 00:32:54.519
There you go, that's my gift.
606
00:32:55.079 --> 00:33:00.000
Right. Turns out she's effing crazy breaks into their house
607
00:33:00.359 --> 00:33:04.960
and they go like this and listeners, I'm putting my
608
00:33:05.200 --> 00:33:08.519
hand forward in a forceful way, which makes somebody fly
609
00:33:08.640 --> 00:33:10.720
through a window. It happens about one hundred and seventy
610
00:33:10.720 --> 00:33:14.839
five times per episode. So the whacky neighbor is insulted.
611
00:33:15.039 --> 00:33:20.079
So then she comes back with a gun and shoots Piper.
612
00:33:20.720 --> 00:33:24.440
I it even rewatching it. The amount of blood because
613
00:33:24.440 --> 00:33:27.279
that show was not known, like, yes, there was battles
614
00:33:27.279 --> 00:33:28.839
and people would be burst.
615
00:33:28.519 --> 00:33:33.240
Before disintegrate, though they just turned to dust, and there's
616
00:33:33.279 --> 00:33:34.440
not a lot of blood exactly.
617
00:33:34.480 --> 00:33:37.160
There wasn't a lot of blood, and so I remember,
618
00:33:37.200 --> 00:33:39.599
like the guns and you're not exactly sure what's going
619
00:33:39.640 --> 00:33:43.200
on or who, like where did the bullet go? And
620
00:33:43.240 --> 00:33:45.240
then all of a sudden, all of a sudden, there's
621
00:33:45.319 --> 00:33:48.880
just all this blood. And that was I mean, I
622
00:33:48.920 --> 00:33:53.640
think intentionally that was really really shocking and that I
623
00:33:53.720 --> 00:33:56.200
remember watching that for the first time, and I remember,
624
00:33:59.319 --> 00:34:03.319
but even rewatch it, that was still like caught me
625
00:34:03.359 --> 00:34:05.400
by surprise, even though that memory is in my head
626
00:34:05.400 --> 00:34:06.279
of that moment.
627
00:34:06.400 --> 00:34:09.000
And I wrote, oh god, I'm crying it Charmed, what
628
00:34:09.079 --> 00:34:09.440
the fuck?
629
00:34:10.480 --> 00:34:11.880
And you only watched one episode.
630
00:34:12.800 --> 00:34:15.239
I had only watched one before. I thought it was
631
00:34:15.280 --> 00:34:18.679
well done. I thought the acting was really great on
632
00:34:18.719 --> 00:34:21.440
both Shannon Doherty and Holly Marie Combs's part. I was,
633
00:34:22.400 --> 00:34:24.880
I don't know, I'm also in an emotionally raw place,
634
00:34:24.920 --> 00:34:26.880
so maybe it was just triggering, but I was like,
635
00:34:27.199 --> 00:34:29.679
oh my god, I'm crying. I really thought it was
636
00:34:30.920 --> 00:34:34.079
well done. I keep saying well done, but I did.
637
00:34:34.199 --> 00:34:36.199
And Shennondhty directed this episode.
638
00:34:36.280 --> 00:34:40.639
She did that's coming up. I want to back up
639
00:34:40.679 --> 00:34:44.239
just for a split second. So they show interviews with
640
00:34:44.239 --> 00:34:47.719
people on TV, like the neighbors and the you know,
641
00:34:47.760 --> 00:34:50.760
the people of the town, which is supposed to be
642
00:34:50.800 --> 00:34:53.519
San Francisco, but it is very clearly a sound studio
643
00:34:54.039 --> 00:34:54.639
or a lot.
644
00:34:54.960 --> 00:34:58.199
Yeah, they've got a lot on Paramount, and they.
645
00:34:58.079 --> 00:35:01.159
Do so many exteriors of the bridge and they want
646
00:35:01.199 --> 00:35:04.159
you to believe it's San Francisco so much, but it
647
00:35:04.360 --> 00:35:08.519
is very much a lot. So in one of the
clips,
648
00:35:08.599 --> 00:35:11.840
they're interviewing a neighbor and it's Susie Johnson or Susie
649
00:35:11.880 --> 00:35:15.480
Johnson from tenth grade. Right, it's just a little blip,
650
00:35:15.920 --> 00:35:20.440
but holy hell, she looks like Jenny Garth. And I said, ooh,
651
00:35:20.519 --> 00:35:24.199
that's probably not an accident because Shannon Doherty is like, ugh,
652
00:35:24.840 --> 00:35:26.360
Susie Johnson.
653
00:35:26.360 --> 00:35:29.559
And you know, like, I do not catch that, but
654
00:35:29.880 --> 00:35:32.679
I don't disagree with you. That is so interesting.
655
00:35:33.079 --> 00:35:37.159
Yep, I'm on the case. Okay, So I wrote Shannon Doherty,
656
00:35:37.440 --> 00:35:41.000
who directed this episode, didn't know this was going to
657
00:35:41.000 --> 00:35:44.960
be her last. We're getting to the drama, yes, And
658
00:35:46.119 --> 00:35:49.239
she was interviewed and said I thought I would even
659
00:35:49.280 --> 00:35:52.280
come back in direct episodes. I didn't know I was
660
00:35:52.320 --> 00:35:57.920
getting let go and that it was as hard of
661
00:35:57.960 --> 00:36:00.360
a line in the sand as it was tell me
662
00:36:00.840 --> 00:36:02.960
everything what happened to Patrick?
663
00:36:03.440 --> 00:36:05.519
Well at the time, you know, now there's a lot
664
00:36:05.559 --> 00:36:09.079
more information out there. At the time, you have to
665
00:36:09.119 --> 00:36:10.960
catch them doing a little bit of an interview on
666
00:36:11.079 --> 00:36:15.000
entertainment tonight or a snippet, particularly between seasons they weren't doing.
667
00:36:15.360 --> 00:36:18.000
You know, it's not like now where or even a
668
00:36:18.000 --> 00:36:21.679
few years later where or TMZ might catch somebody like
669
00:36:21.880 --> 00:36:25.559
walking to dinner, or they might go on social media
670
00:36:25.679 --> 00:36:28.760
and say something. So the little bits of information we
671
00:36:29.000 --> 00:36:35.840
had were small, and I think what's interesting is that
672
00:36:36.599 --> 00:36:39.480
it broke the week before the episode aired that that
673
00:36:39.599 --> 00:36:43.199
was going to be her last one, So watching it,
674
00:36:43.639 --> 00:36:47.119
we knew. But obviously that's at least weeks, if not months,
675
00:36:47.159 --> 00:36:50.760
after they filmed it that it solidified. But you know,
676
00:36:50.840 --> 00:36:59.440
there'd become noticeable drama, particularly between Elisa Milano and Shannon Doherty,
677
00:36:59.840 --> 00:37:03.800
and the network was like, you all have to like
678
00:37:03.920 --> 00:37:07.840
you all in production meaning spelling and co like, you
679
00:37:07.880 --> 00:37:11.280
all need to figure this out, and it's it's got
680
00:37:11.320 --> 00:37:16.760
to be one or the other. And ultimately it was Alyssa,
681
00:37:16.880 --> 00:37:19.199
and I do wonder how much you know, you mentioned
682
00:37:19.199 --> 00:37:23.440
how much
she had chemistry with Julian, and I think
683
00:37:23.519 --> 00:37:26.039
that perhaps that the power of the fact that there
684
00:37:26.119 --> 00:37:29.840
was two people. And I'm not sure what Julian's relationship
685
00:37:29.880 --> 00:37:32.199
with Shannon was, but I do wonder if the fact
686
00:37:32.199 --> 00:37:34.440
that that relationship was so central to the show was
687
00:37:34.519 --> 00:37:38.760
maybe one of the reasons that it was the decision
688
00:37:38.960 --> 00:37:44.280
was was her over Shannon. But it was certainly dramatic
689
00:37:44.360 --> 00:37:47.920
for the fans regardless about like how it was all
690
00:37:47.960 --> 00:37:50.960
going to happen, because you watch it and there isn't
691
00:37:51.199 --> 00:37:52.639
like at the end of the episode, there's not a
692
00:37:52.760 --> 00:37:56.480
clear it's kind of open ended, like Phoebe's down in
693
00:37:57.119 --> 00:37:59.400
the We say down, but I guess it's somewhat down
694
00:37:59.440 --> 00:38:01.719
somewhere in the under it is, right, and it was
695
00:38:01.760 --> 00:38:05.119
in the underworld, and so you know, there's a version
696
00:38:05.159 --> 00:38:07.840
where Phoebe got stuck in the underworld and she's not
697
00:38:07.840 --> 00:38:10.599
coming back, or there's a version where Shannon, like they
698
00:38:10.719 --> 00:38:12.679
left it very open, right.
699
00:38:12.519 --> 00:38:14.760
And they didn't have to make any decisions because they
700
00:38:15.719 --> 00:38:18.480
the way they handled it. We'll talk about first of all,
701
00:38:18.519 --> 00:38:21.440
backing up when you started talking you said between seasons,
702
00:38:22.159 --> 00:38:24.800
and I thought you called it between Z's and I
703
00:38:24.880 --> 00:38:26.760
was going to end the podcast.
704
00:38:27.800 --> 00:38:29.239
That that would be a fair that would be a
705
00:38:29.239 --> 00:38:31.280
fair thing to do. What are the rally shows I
706
00:38:31.280 --> 00:38:33.480
know we've talked about possibly doing in the future, Big Brother.
707
00:38:33.800 --> 00:38:38.039
There was a I believe he was from Brazil. He
708
00:38:38.119 --> 00:38:41.039
was from somewhere in South America and he was competing
709
00:38:41.079 --> 00:38:45.840
on the show and he and he was had been
710
00:38:45.880 --> 00:38:48.760
bickering with somebody and it was silly though, not like
711
00:38:49.119 --> 00:38:50.920
you know, screaming at each other, and he was like,
712
00:38:50.920 --> 00:38:53.199
I think we just need to go on a hyathus.
713
00:38:54.159 --> 00:38:56.239
And there was this huge back and forth about like
714
00:38:56.320 --> 00:38:58.360
what are you saying? And he's like, a hyathus like
715
00:38:58.400 --> 00:39:00.079
a break and they're like, is that is that a
716
00:39:00.440 --> 00:39:04.079
non English word? He's like no, he just kept screaming hiatus.
717
00:39:04.119 --> 00:39:07.679
And then they eventually realized he was saying hiatus, and
718
00:39:08.480 --> 00:39:10.440
so hyathus is is.
719
00:39:11.880 --> 00:39:13.719
Now I'm in the know, Yeah.
720
00:39:13.559 --> 00:39:16.000
Between between Jesus is the new Hyatus.
721
00:39:16.280 --> 00:39:23.320
Yes, but I think that and you might know differently.
722
00:39:23.360 --> 00:39:27.599
And I'm not here to bad mouth anyone, but everything
723
00:39:27.639 --> 00:39:30.559
I've heard about Alissa Milano is that she's a delight
724
00:39:30.639 --> 00:39:34.719
to work with. And I feel like the set might
725
00:39:34.760 --> 00:39:37.960
have said, do we get a vote, we vote Alyssa
726
00:39:38.079 --> 00:39:41.159
keep her. And you know, both you and I said,
727
00:39:41.639 --> 00:39:43.920
we're both gay men who were immediately in love with
728
00:39:43.960 --> 00:39:45.800
Alyssa Milana on the show. I just think it was
729
00:39:45.840 --> 00:39:49.880
a no brainer. Yeah, you know, Spelling had danced this
730
00:39:50.039 --> 00:39:53.000
dance with Doherty before, so just get rid of her.
731
00:39:53.840 --> 00:39:55.679
Yeah, I mean, and I think that that probably also,
732
00:39:55.719 --> 00:39:59.199
if I'm thinking about it from a producer perspective, plays
733
00:39:59.199 --> 00:40:01.760
into it, like she she's known as the bad girl,
734
00:40:01.960 --> 00:40:05.440
like this makes you know, sense that sort of thing.
735
00:40:07.519 --> 00:40:10.800
But it certainly was dramatic. I will say you can
736
00:40:10.880 --> 00:40:14.280
notice the ten in retrospect, knowing that they were not
737
00:40:14.320 --> 00:40:17.280
getting along. I do wonder how much of that went
738
00:40:17.320 --> 00:40:20.480
into the writing of the fact that Phoebe and her
739
00:40:20.719 --> 00:40:24.079
like they they're basically don't interact in this episode and
740
00:40:24.599 --> 00:40:27.239
in the episodes prior to it. Prior to I mean,
741
00:40:27.480 --> 00:40:29.599
you could see that sort of like separation of they're
742
00:40:29.639 --> 00:40:33.840
not really in scenes together, so you could see it
743
00:40:33.960 --> 00:40:36.000
in retrospect. You can see it even on screen.
744
00:40:36.519 --> 00:40:39.960
Well, you had me watch the season four premiere to
745
00:40:40.000 --> 00:40:43.360
get back to it, and that is Charmed Again, Part
746
00:40:43.400 --> 00:40:47.360
one and two tricky. It was a two parter Phoebe
747
00:40:47.440 --> 00:40:50.000
and Piper grieve over Prue's death and struggle with the
748
00:40:50.000 --> 00:40:52.320
demise of the Power of Three until they discovered the
749
00:40:52.320 --> 00:40:56.960
existence of half sister, Page a White Lighter. I thought
750
00:40:56.960 --> 00:41:00.760
they handled this masterfully. They just talked about out well
751
00:41:01.000 --> 00:41:04.679
when Prue died, but we didn't see it. It was
752
00:41:04.880 --> 00:41:09.559
just something that happened off screen, and I thought their
753
00:41:09.599 --> 00:41:13.360
grief felt real.
I thought their acting was lovely and
754
00:41:14.000 --> 00:41:14.840
they made it work.
755
00:41:16.159 --> 00:41:19.199
I agree. I mean, everyone was tuning in to see
756
00:41:19.239 --> 00:41:21.199
how they were going to handle it, and I think
757
00:41:21.239 --> 00:41:26.719
that they totally nailed it. And there was a lot
758
00:41:26.760 --> 00:41:31.440
of speculation over how the show would continue, because obviously
759
00:41:31.480 --> 00:41:35.239
the whole premise was built about these three sisters and
760
00:41:35.280 --> 00:41:38.320
the power of three and how do you move forward
761
00:41:38.400 --> 00:41:41.280
with the show that has been all about that and
762
00:41:41.320 --> 00:41:45.920
then suddenly only has two. The other thing I will
763
00:41:45.920 --> 00:41:48.800
say about about this the fact that they didn't really
764
00:41:48.880 --> 00:41:52.039
explain a lot other than just saying that that happened.
765
00:41:53.079 --> 00:41:54.920
And this, you know, this is still the era pre
766
00:41:55.320 --> 00:41:58.639
TVO where they were spoon feeding us a lot more
767
00:41:58.719 --> 00:42:01.320
as viewers, because you know, I had to try to
768
00:42:01.400 --> 00:42:04.599
find the first episode when it would reair on t
769
00:42:04.719 --> 00:42:09.599
n T or TBS. People thought they had missed for
770
00:42:09.639 --> 00:42:12.840
the premiere sure like sure, well for two reasons. One
771
00:42:12.880 --> 00:42:14.480
because they did it the way they did it, where
772
00:42:14.480 --> 00:42:16.960
they kind of just or you know, you jump forward
773
00:42:17.000 --> 00:42:17.480
a little bit.
774
00:42:18.320 --> 00:42:21.079
But also September eleventh, it was.
775
00:42:21.119 --> 00:42:24.079
Yeah, it premiered. It ended up premiering October fourth, like
776
00:42:24.079 --> 00:42:26.079
they had to re air it because it was you know,
777
00:42:26.239 --> 00:42:30.199
dealing with nine to eleven was obviously still fresh, fresh
778
00:42:30.239 --> 00:42:33.280
in everyone's minds and on television and everything. So uh,
779
00:42:34.079 --> 00:42:37.599
people were worried that they missed the first episode.
780
00:42:37.800 --> 00:42:40.159
I'm good on them. They fixed you know, they fixed
781
00:42:40.159 --> 00:42:43.119
a problem, and I thought they made it quite clear.
782
00:42:43.679 --> 00:42:46.480
Graham's appears in this episode. Has she appeared before this?
783
00:42:47.039 --> 00:42:50.440
Oh? Yes, Grahams and uh and their mom like they
784
00:42:50.760 --> 00:42:54.079
were constant they conjure correct, they were. They were constantly
785
00:42:54.119 --> 00:42:56.159
popping in in that sort of way to be helpful
786
00:42:56.199 --> 00:43:00.800
in various times or explain things from their past. They
787
00:43:00.800 --> 00:43:02.159
did a lot of time jumping too.
788
00:43:03.079 --> 00:43:07.119
I love that Graham's mock basically mocks the whole show,
789
00:43:07.159 --> 00:43:12.280
and she's like, just start rhyming. Do a spell start rhyming,
790
00:43:12.559 --> 00:43:15.559
and it's you know, she's acknowledging that these spells are
791
00:43:15.639 --> 00:43:22.480
ridiculous and basic, and I found her very charming. Also
792
00:43:22.559 --> 00:43:25.840
considered for the part of Page Jennifer Love Hewitt, Charisma Carpenter,
793
00:43:25.880 --> 00:43:29.480
Tiffany Feast and Eliza Doushku and Sleigh moon Fry.
794
00:43:30.079 --> 00:43:32.679
Half of them spelling alums. So there you go, he
795
00:43:33.519 --> 00:43:34.480
has his girls.
796
00:43:34.800 --> 00:43:36.840
They all would have been great.
797
00:43:37.079 --> 00:43:37.320
Yeah.
798
00:43:37.519 --> 00:43:40.559
I would imagine Charisma Carpenter would feel like really more
799
00:43:40.599 --> 00:43:43.159
demons and or snowfings.
800
00:43:43.480 --> 00:43:44.840
Oh, I was gonna say, but what did you think
801
00:43:44.880 --> 00:43:45.440
of Rose?
802
00:43:45.920 --> 00:43:51.199
I thought she was great. Yeah, yeah, I watching her now.
803
00:43:51.320 --> 00:43:54.880
Rose McGowan is such a different feel. I always liked her.
804
00:43:54.920 --> 00:43:56.440
I liked her and scream. I liked her as a
805
00:43:56.480 --> 00:44:00.079
young actress, and then I know she didn't do a
806
00:43:59.920 --> 00:44:04.559
lot of quality stuff because Harvey Weinstein blacklisted her and
807
00:44:05.599 --> 00:44:10.840
so she couldn't get prestige parts. So that's a shame.
808
00:44:10.960 --> 00:44:13.400
I think she's really talented and really DearS.
809
00:44:13.880 --> 00:44:16.559
One of the things I loved as a huge fan
810
00:44:16.599 --> 00:44:23.760
of the series was watching also the progression of Hollywood
811
00:44:23.800 --> 00:44:27.079
Ray Combs's Piper, because she went from being the middle
812
00:44:27.119 --> 00:44:31.639
sister to being the older sister, and you know, at
813
00:44:31.679 --> 00:44:33.880
this stage you don't see it, but maybe you felt
814
00:44:33.960 --> 00:44:36.519
it a little bit in watching the final episode I
815
00:44:36.559 --> 00:44:40.719
had you watch, But I think she did a fantastic
816
00:44:40.800 --> 00:44:45.360
job of evolving into I am now the caretaker and
817
00:44:46.480 --> 00:44:48.880
the leader of the family. And I thought that was
818
00:44:48.920 --> 00:44:50.679
a real I thought that was a really beautiful thing
819
00:44:50.719 --> 00:44:52.679
to watch that character evolve in that way.
820
00:44:52.880 --> 00:44:54.719
She always felt that way to me. I don't know
821
00:44:54.760 --> 00:44:57.199
if it's because she wasn't wearing mid drift tops and
822
00:44:57.360 --> 00:45:01.639
wasn't as flirty and she was just more grounded. So
823
00:45:01.719 --> 00:45:05.840
to me, she always felt like the older sister personality wise.
824
00:45:06.159 --> 00:45:08.960
You know, have you made a pilgrimage to thirteen twenty
825
00:45:09.039 --> 00:45:11.559
nine Carol av in Los Angeles to the house?
826
00:45:11.800 --> 00:45:14.559
I have not, but it's on my I have, like
827
00:45:14.599 --> 00:45:17.199
I have a list of that. Yes, let's do it.
828
00:45:17.239 --> 00:45:19.239
We'll do make the inert on the road.
829
00:45:20.559 --> 00:45:23.280
I would love that. Yeah, I found out that's where
830
00:45:23.280 --> 00:45:26.159
they took all the exteriors. I wonder if it looks
831
00:45:26.199 --> 00:45:30.519
the same. I did notice that Alisa Milano, even though
832
00:45:30.559 --> 00:45:34.440
I praised their performances, three quarters of the way through
833
00:45:34.440 --> 00:45:37.079
the episode, she breaks down and says like, I haven't
834
00:45:37.079 --> 00:45:39.559
cried about Preu yet and I'm gonna let it go.
835
00:45:40.559 --> 00:45:45.239
There were no tears, Well, I know there are. They
836
00:45:45.239 --> 00:45:47.920
could have put tears on her face, and I've just
837
00:45:47.960 --> 00:45:51.199
felt like that was Alissa Milano thinking I'm not going
838
00:45:51.280 --> 00:45:52.840
to shed one tear for her.
839
00:45:53.280 --> 00:45:55.960
Yeah. I think that might have been something to play there.
840
00:45:58.239 --> 00:46:05.559
We're on to you, Alissa Milano. I liked this episode.
841
00:46:05.840 --> 00:46:09.599
I it was twisty in turny. I thought the introduction
842
00:46:09.719 --> 00:46:11.840
of Rose into the gang and how she finds out
843
00:46:11.880 --> 00:46:14.320
she's a witch and their sister. I thought it was
844
00:46:14.360 --> 00:46:18.280
all great. And then at the end they are in
845
00:46:18.559 --> 00:46:20.679
the club. I guess Piper owns a club.
846
00:46:21.000 --> 00:46:21.480
P three.
847
00:46:21.920 --> 00:46:22.360
P three.
848
00:46:22.719 --> 00:46:25.199
This was the age where everything on the WB was
849
00:46:25.239 --> 00:46:28.719
also promoting musicians, and they would like tell you what
850
00:46:28.840 --> 00:46:31.599
songs played at the end of every episode in today's
851
00:46:31.599 --> 00:46:33.960
episode you heard, and then it would like give you
852
00:46:34.000 --> 00:46:35.519
the name an artist, and like where you can go
853
00:46:35.519 --> 00:46:36.880
buy out the single.
854
00:46:37.239 --> 00:46:39.480
I remember that snow Patrol, I remember, yes.
855
00:46:39.400 --> 00:46:42.159
Oh yeah, So P three was was there a way
856
00:46:42.199 --> 00:46:42.599
to do that?
857
00:46:43.320 --> 00:46:45.920
And they're in the club through the whole last shot,
858
00:46:46.320 --> 00:46:49.719
last scene and they're talking like this at the table
859
00:46:50.760 --> 00:46:56.760
and there's music in the background like so soft, and
860
00:46:56.760 --> 00:46:59.519
they're able to sit at a club, a dance club
861
00:46:59.679 --> 00:47:00.800
and just to have a chat.
862
00:47:01.039 --> 00:47:02.880
Maybe that's one of their witch powers, and we just
863
00:47:03.079 --> 00:47:05.719
they never expressed it.
864
00:47:05.719 --> 00:47:06.599
It's
ridiculous.
865
00:47:06.840 --> 00:47:10.559
Yeah, although right now, speaking of witch powers, though, the
866
00:47:10.639 --> 00:47:13.880
other thing that it was really impressed with this, which
867
00:47:14.320 --> 00:47:16.440
was the whole because I know, obviously Leo is a
868
00:47:16.519 --> 00:47:20.559
character that got introduced in between the previous two episodes
869
00:47:20.880 --> 00:47:24.360
and is very established by the between these in between these,
870
00:47:25.719 --> 00:47:29.880
but Page is a I was I would never correct you,
871
00:47:30.119 --> 00:47:33.360
but Page is a half white lighter, not a full
872
00:47:33.400 --> 00:47:37.960
white lighter because from Wiki, so there we go. Wiki
873
00:47:38.119 --> 00:47:42.800
is a big fat liar because her mother was a
874
00:47:42.840 --> 00:47:46.840
witch and her father was a white light a dentist, Yes,
875
00:47:46.920 --> 00:47:49.519
a dentist. So her father was a white lighter, which
876
00:47:49.519 --> 00:47:53.320
is basically a guardian angel for magical beings. And that's
877
00:47:53.360 --> 00:47:57.519
a forbidden romance, which is why she had Yes, okay,
878
00:47:57.719 --> 00:47:59.519
soap opera. So it's a forbidden romance that was never
879
00:47:59.519 --> 00:48:03.800
supposed to have because basically it was like your the
880
00:48:03.880 --> 00:48:05.920
grays anatomy. It's like it's like your resident, You're an
881
00:48:05.920 --> 00:48:08.280
intern in your Resident who's supposed to be helping you
882
00:48:08.599 --> 00:48:10.840
and you you have a relationship. You know, this was
883
00:48:10.840 --> 00:48:13.519
her guardian angel, and she has a relation. Their mom
884
00:48:13.559 --> 00:48:15.480
had a relationship with him. So the baby was a secret,
885
00:48:15.480 --> 00:48:17.960
which is why no one knew about it and all
886
00:48:18.000 --> 00:48:20.760
of that. So she's half White Lighter which is why
887
00:48:20.800 --> 00:48:22.719
she has a little bit of White Lighter power, but
888
00:48:22.800 --> 00:48:24.360
not all of the White Lighter power, which has the
889
00:48:24.360 --> 00:48:28.360
powers to heal, and you can trans you can teleport yourself.
890
00:48:28.400 --> 00:48:32.199
And what I loved though, is that the powers of
891
00:48:32.239 --> 00:48:34.440
the Charmed Ones all this is where I'm gonna super
892
00:48:34.440 --> 00:48:36.440
nerd out with you. The powers of the Charmed Ones
893
00:48:37.639 --> 00:48:40.280
were dictated and so in addition to the fact that
894
00:48:40.280 --> 00:48:42.000
there were supposed to be three of them, they also
895
00:48:42.039 --> 00:48:44.480
were supposed to have very specific powers. And what I
896
00:48:44.519 --> 00:48:49.880
loved is they didn't have Page come in Rose McGowan's
897
00:48:49.960 --> 00:48:55.719
character come in and just have Shanadherty's powers. He came
898
00:48:55.760 --> 00:48:59.199
in and had the ability to move things with her mind,
899
00:48:59.400 --> 00:49:01.320
but it was has she had the White Lighter bitten
900
00:49:01.400 --> 00:49:02.840
her and she could move it and was in a
901
00:49:02.880 --> 00:49:05.599
different way. She was teleporting things rather than moving them
902
00:49:05.639 --> 00:49:08.960
around in like a more dramatic way. Uh, And I
903
00:49:09.000 --> 00:49:11.480
thought that that was a really really smart way to
904
00:49:11.880 --> 00:49:14.840
get around what they had created as a as a
905
00:49:15.320 --> 00:49:17.880
must be part of the lore, but do it in
906
00:49:17.920 --> 00:49:19.400
a way that was new and different. The other one
907
00:49:19.440 --> 00:49:22.239
I'll say is that Heilly rick Combs. Again, this is
908
00:49:22.360 --> 00:49:25.840
forcause you can't see me. Heill mack Combs has this
909
00:49:25.920 --> 00:49:28.559
like motion every time she freezes or eventually her powers
910
00:49:28.599 --> 00:49:31.079
evolve and she can blow things up.
911
00:49:31.199 --> 00:49:33.280
It's like you're flicking water off your fingernails.
912
00:49:33.280 --> 00:49:37.119
Get yes, click. She just like did that in the pilot,
913
00:49:37.440 --> 00:49:39.039
and she was like, I had no idea the first
914
00:49:39.039 --> 00:49:40.920
time I did that I would be doing that nine
915
00:49:41.039 --> 00:49:43.360
billion times. Same thing with saying the power three will
916
00:49:43.360 --> 00:49:45.199
set us free, which is the spell that they say,
917
00:49:45.599 --> 00:49:49.639
uh far too often to get rid of a big demon.
918
00:49:50.880 --> 00:49:53.079
They they were like, we had no idea that would
919
00:49:53.079 --> 00:49:54.599
be a thing we would do in half the episodes,
920
00:49:54.639 --> 00:49:56.239
and you notice over time they do it less and
921
00:49:56.280 --> 00:49:58.639
less because they were like, we cannot do that anymore,
922
00:49:59.519 --> 00:50:00.119
I am.
923
00:50:00.039 --> 00:50:03.159
Imagine, especially for the actors there. They got to call Bs.
924
00:50:03.679 --> 00:50:05.119
I love that when I asked you to be on
925
00:50:05.119 --> 00:50:08.280
my podcast the first time, you said, I'm not really nerdy.
926
00:50:08.679 --> 00:50:14.159
I'm not nerd about things, Okay, yeah, I sure. What
927
00:50:14.239 --> 00:50:16.800
is the fandom for the show, Like, are there calms
928
00:50:17.039 --> 00:50:21.000
and role play and how does this compare to the
929
00:50:21.000 --> 00:50:24.239
fandom for Buffy which is immense or something like that.
930
00:50:24.360 --> 00:50:27.719
It's certainly like, like I said, there have been comic
931
00:50:27.760 --> 00:50:32.440
books and there's a rewatch podcast that the character that
932
00:50:32.480 --> 00:50:38.360
you haven't met, but basically spoiler alert, Piper and Leo
933
00:50:38.920 --> 00:50:41.719
uh have two kids and one of them ends up
934
00:50:41.719 --> 00:50:44.880
coming back to them from the future. Uh, And it's
935
00:50:44.880 -->
00:50:47.079
a whole season of like is he is he really
936
00:50:47.119 --> 00:50:48.760
our son? Or is he a demon that's pretending to
937
00:50:48.760 --> 00:50:50.559
be our son? And all this sort of stuff. But
938
00:50:50.639 --> 00:50:53.239
he hosts the actor who played that character hosts a
939
00:50:53.239 --> 00:50:57.760
podcast with Holly Mrira Cumbs and Brian Kraus who plays Leo,
940
00:50:58.639 --> 00:51:01.599
where they rewatch and it's very popular and they certainly
941
00:51:01.679 --> 00:51:03.360
get to go all go and do all the cons
942
00:51:03.400 --> 00:51:06.199
and and all of that sort of stuff. Role play.
943
00:51:06.199 --> 00:51:08.199
I'm sure people enjoy on their own. I don't know
944
00:51:08.199 --> 00:51:11.519
if there's like particularly you know, I mentioned Survivor, Like
945
00:51:11.519 --> 00:51:13.559
people go and play Survivor, Like I don't know, people
946
00:51:13.599 --> 00:51:15.800
are like showing up and LARPing as charm characters. But
947
00:51:16.079 --> 00:51:17.559
I'm sure somewhere might exist.
948
00:51:18.920 --> 00:51:22.000
I hope so. And if I could pull off a
949
00:51:22.000 --> 00:51:25.119
mid drift shirt, I would do it. The last one
950
00:51:25.159 --> 00:51:30.360
we watched was the episode twenty two, season seven something Wika.
951
00:51:30.440 --> 00:51:33.320
This way goes a play on the first one. I
952
00:51:33.400 --> 00:51:38.039
did not write down a plot summary, but it starts
953
00:51:38.079 --> 00:51:42.039
with song, the song playing over shots of the city
954
00:51:42.039 --> 00:51:44.639
at night. And the song is so awful, and they
955
00:51:45.280 --> 00:51:49.679
it's called heartless Evil by the heroes Lie and I wrote, God,
956
00:51:49.719 --> 00:51:54.559
it sounds like Creed trying to be docin. It is awful,
957
00:51:55.000 --> 00:51:58.599
and there are It goes on and on because they're like, look,
958
00:51:58.599 --> 00:52:01.000
we're in San Francisco. Do you get it? Do you
959
00:52:01.039 --> 00:52:08.000
get it? I this was Darryl's final episode. He didn't die,
960
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but he left the show.
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So one thing that I didn't tell you that you
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may have researched and found out was they they thought
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they were being canceled.
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This felt like it, That's what I wrote. I didn't
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find that, but I said, it feels like a series finale.
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Did they not know if they were getting picked up?
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They not only did they not know, Like the writing
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on the wall was we're not getting picked up, and
969
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so this was written. So we'll talk about the plot points,
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but just now look at it through the lens of yes,
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one hundred percent. This was written as like our final episode,
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which is why I chose it as the last one
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on the list, because I can talk to you about
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season eight in a minute. But this is the end. Internationally,
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this was the end. They'd actually didn't send season like
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when it aired in China and anywhere internationally for the
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most part, at least initially. I think maybe now in
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syndication and stuff it airs, but initially it didn't get
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sent out to other countries.
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I didn't take a ton of plot notes. And here's
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why I started writing. I must admit it is feeling
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00:53:17.320 --> 00:53:21.400
very redundant. They disappear, white lights, bodies being thrown across
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the room, bad guys, disintegrating the incantations. I guess the
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four you gave me. That makes sense, And now I'm
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curious to see ones that our departures. You know, not
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as many of these witchy tropes. And I watched them
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all over two days, so I was burnt out on
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the plot.
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I wasn't.
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I was just like, oh, really, they can just shoot
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someone across the room again. Oh, he disintegrated again. It
992
00:53:48.719 --> 00:53:51.639
just was a lot of I'm going to get those girls. Bah,
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I'm gone, I'm going to get those girls. Bah.
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00:53:54.280 --> 00:53:58.719
Right, Well, spoiler, if you felt that way about this
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00:53:59.280 --> 00:54:02.119
Power Rangers, you're real gonna feel about feel that way.
996
00:54:03.000 --> 00:54:06.320
But but yes, I mean it was as much as
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it was a serialized series, it was very episodic in
998
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the sense of that all that kind of happened in
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Washrant's repeat. But do it in a different setting. Do
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it in a magical fairyland, do it in a film
1001
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noir environment, do it in the future or in the
1002
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major past. So yes, I'll have to send you a
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list of just like really just fun one off ones
1004
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in there. And Justin Baldoni Alert, Yes, justin pre Jane
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00:54:38.199 --> 00:54:40.719
the Virgin, pre Blake Lively.
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00:54:40.440 --> 00:54:44.239
Drama Variety pops up as a henchman, essentially a very
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00:54:45.800
hot henchman.
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Yes, he's in there. And Becky Newton from Ugly Betty Also,
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I used.
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To know her, Oh amazing in the day. She was
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00:54:55.360 --> 00:54:57.840
so sweet and it's hard to believe someone that's stunning
1012
00:54:57.840 --> 00:55:00.840
and talented is so sweet. And I knew her brother
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00:55:00.920 --> 00:55:06.280
Matt they were very nice. I read that Kaylee Quoco
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00:55:06.360 --> 00:55:09.199
joined the last season, and I love Kaylee Quoco was
1015
00:55:09.440 --> 00:55:12.360
but was she the Ted McGinley.
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00:55:11.440 --> 00:55:16.440
I mean its season so so basically what happened was
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00:55:16.719 --> 00:55:19.320
at the point the reason that they thought they were
1018
00:55:19.320 --> 00:55:21.679
getting canceled was because that was the writing on the wall.
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00:55:21.800 --> 00:55:29.039
But then the WB and upn UH started to discuss
1020
00:55:29.440 --> 00:55:31.599
merging and eventually becoming what would be the c W
1021
00:55:32.280 --> 00:55:36.199
and basically they didn't want to invest in launching a
1022
00:55:36.239 --> 00:55:41.079
new series in the final year of the network, and
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00:55:41.119 --> 00:55:43.079
so they were like, why don't we just give Charmed
1024
00:55:43.119 --> 00:55:47.519
one more season and then we'll cancel it before we
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00:55:47.679 --> 00:55:51.920
become the CWUH. So that's so we get this. The
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00:55:51.960 --> 00:55:58.480
final season does introduce Kaylee Quoco as like a young
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witch who needs guidance and they take her on. What
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I also love though, is this episode ends, which I
1029
00:56:09.239 --> 00:56:11.440
want to get your thoughts on how that season seven
1030
00:56:11.480 --> 00:56:15.719
finale ended, but where basically they glamor themselves to look
1031
00:56:15.800 --> 00:56:18.480
like other people to everyone. So to each other, they
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00:56:18.519 --> 00:56:21.559
look like themselves and they can go live their lives
1033
00:56:21.719 --> 00:56:23.960
knowing who each other are, but to everyone else in
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00:56:24.000 --> 00:56:26.599
the world, they look like completely different people and so
1035
00:56:26.639 --> 00:56:29.159
that theoretically no one will know that they're the Charmed Ones.
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00:56:30.239 --> 00:56:32.920
What did you think of that as a potential series ending.
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00:56:33.840 --> 00:56:36.639
I mean, I liked it because it was allowing them
1038
00:56:36.639 --> 00:56:40.719
their freedom and it was touching. I recently did Black
1039
00:56:40.760 --> 00:56:44.039
Mirror the Nosedive episode and I love the end with
1040
00:56:44.079 --> 00:56:46.440
Bryce Dallis Howard in the jail with the guy and
1041
00:56:46.480 --> 00:56:49.119
they're screaming and they can finally be free to just
1042
00:56:49.159 --> 00:56:53.159
screen their heads off. And I thought, after being persecuted
1043
00:56:53.880 --> 00:56:57.639
for seven seasons, it's nice to think these witches could
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00:56:58.880 --> 00:57:02.920
just live their lives. Yeah, as these other a you know,
1045
00:57:03.039 --> 00:57:06.599
they put in three other actresses, but you know, but
1046
00:57:06.639 --> 00:57:08.639
it's really us. I liked it.
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00:57:08.760 --> 00:57:12.000
I liked it too. I also love that they found
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00:57:12.039 --> 00:57:15.320
a way for them to nod to Darryl and you're
1049
00:57:15.360 --> 00:57:17.679
sending Daryl off knowing that they're actually okay that they
1050
00:57:17.719 --> 00:57:20.199
didn't blow up in the house, because what they want
1051
00:57:20.199 --> 00:57:21.639
everyone to think is they blew up in the house
1052
00:57:21.639 --> 00:57:27.480
when they blew up the big bad of the final season,
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00:57:28.400 --> 00:57:31.440
and I thought they did a really great job of that.
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00:57:32.639 --> 00:57:34.639
And then they come back for season eight and what's
1055
00:57:34.639 --> 00:57:38.599
funny is they have different actresses. Becky Noton does not
1056
00:57:38.639 --> 00:57:41.800
come back for season eight. They have different actresses playing
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00:57:41.880 --> 00:57:45.360
the glamoured versions of the charmed ones. And what I
1058
00:57:45.360 --> 00:57:47.320
thought was really smart because you're like, Okay, well, now
1059
00:57:47.360 --> 00:57:49.400
what do they do because they've got they look like
1060
00:57:49.440 --> 00:57:52.239
different people? Will they just go back to looking like
1061
00:57:52.280 --> 00:57:54.599
their old selves or how does this work? And the
1062
00:57:54.639 --> 00:57:57.880
show was really smart and they actually kept these new
1063
00:57:59.000 --> 00:58:03.639
but old selves that they'd created of their glamour bodies,
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00:58:04.239 --> 00:58:09.119
and if they were walking around and if they caught
1065
00:58:09.159 --> 00:58:12.239
themselves in a mirror, it was that actress, but if
1066
00:58:12.239 --> 00:58:14.079
they were just walking around the house or everything else,
1067
00:58:14.079 --> 00:58:16.360
it was them. And so that was the way that
1068
00:58:16.400 --> 00:58:18.920
the show is showing you like, oh, this is they're
1069
00:58:18.960 --> 00:58:21.480
seeing each other as themselves, but like other people are
1070
00:58:21.480 --> 00:58:23.360
seeing them as this And I thought that that was
1071
00:58:23.400 --> 00:58:26.599
a really smart thing. Eventually that goes away, but it
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00:58:26.760 --> 00:58:29.480
just there was no budget for season eight. They again
1073
00:58:29.519 --> 00:58:31.719
they were kind of just letting it whether on the
1074
00:58:31.800 --> 00:58:35.400
vine to get through the end of the WB So
1075
00:58:35.440 --> 00:58:38.840
they had to shoot everything like it was shot a
1076
00:58:38.880 --> 00:58:40.320
lot on the
Paramount lot, but they had to shoot
1077
00:58:40.360 --> 00:58:42.519
basically everything on the Paramount lot, which is why you
1078
00:58:42.559 --> 00:58:45.559
get a lot more like indoor scenes and things, and
1079
00:58:45.760 --> 00:58:48.159
they had the Magic School that got introduced later on,
1080
00:58:48.199 --> 00:58:50.119
which the Magic School in general was like a concept
1081
00:58:50.119 --> 00:58:50.800
that I didn't love.
1082
00:58:51.159 --> 00:58:52.800
Oh, they opened a magic school.
1083
00:58:53.199 --> 00:58:55.440
They well they get involved in a matter of school
1084
00:58:55.440 --> 00:58:59.880
and they there was a headmaster and then they got
1085
00:59:00.559 --> 00:59:04.800
then they end up running the school, which again cheesy
1086
00:59:05.000 --> 00:59:07.079
like like the magic School stuff I didn't love, but
1087
00:59:07.079 --> 00:59:08.800
I understand the show. I had to evolve and find
1088
00:59:09.000 --> 00:59:11.639
also ways to shoot indoors and and you know, so
1089
00:59:11.880 --> 00:59:14.360
there was like kind of this like Harry Potter School,
1090
00:59:14.360 --> 00:59:16.400
which I'm sure also came into play there. They were
1091
00:59:16.440 --> 00:59:20.320
leading into into the Harry Potter and that was very
1092
00:59:20.320 --> 00:59:24.719
popular at the time. But they also didn't have money
1093
00:59:24.800 --> 00:59:29.159
for all of the old main characters, which is why
1094
00:59:29.239 --> 00:59:33.159
Darryl never comes back. Leo Brian Cross who plays Leo,
1095
00:59:34.079 --> 00:59:36.880
is like gone half the season because he becomes an elder,
1096
00:59:37.400 --> 00:59:39.679
who are like the ones that like run the laws
1097
00:59:39.679 --> 00:59:43.760
of Magic. He's an elder and is always up like
1098
00:59:43.960 --> 00:59:46.360
with the or we say up. It's so interesting. We
1099
00:59:46.400 --> 00:59:49.800
have these like biblical like he's wherever the elders live
1100
00:59:50.840 --> 00:59:52.599
for most of the season, and just like pops In
1101
00:59:52.679 --> 00:59:59.960
and out, so season eight, Yes, exactly, I season eight.
1102
01:00:00.599 --> 01:00:03.840
The show ended with season seven for me, and that's
1103
01:00:03.880 --> 01:00:06.119
no shade to Kaylee Quoco, but it just like she
1104
01:00:06.239 --> 01:00:09.679
came in and was a whole different vibe, and I
1105
01:00:09.800 --> 01:00:12.280
love her. I think she's very talented, but it just
1106
01:00:12.320 --> 01:00:14.679
to me didn't match the show. And she was intentionally
1107
01:00:14.800 --> 01:00:16.800
very blonde and young and like what am I doing?
1108
01:00:17.840 --> 01:00:21.960
And the show just was never the same. So to me,
1109
01:00:22.119 --> 01:00:23.760
to me, the show ended with season seven.
1110
01:00:24.000 --> 01:00:28.760
How angry are those actresses that they didn't get to
1111
01:00:28.840 --> 01:00:30.639
come back and revive their roles?
1112
01:00:31.000 --> 01:00:36.320
Yeah, but Janis Dickinson it plays one of them at
1113
01:00:36.320 --> 01:00:38.239
one point, so you know they were having some fun
1114
01:00:38.280 --> 01:00:39.840
with it.
1115
01:00:39.199 --> 01:00:40.639
But season eight didn't happen.
1116
01:00:41.159 --> 01:00:41.880
Yeah, exactly.
1117
01:00:45.480 --> 01:00:49.360
Yes, Oh my goodness. Okay, I am going to tell
1118
01:00:49.360 --> 01:00:51.840
everybody my business and then if you would like, you
1119
01:00:51.880 --> 01:00:54.880
can share where people can find you. And thank you
1120
01:00:54.960 --> 01:00:57.559
so much for sharing your love for Charmed with me.
1121
01:00:58.920 --> 01:01:01.039
I want to tell everybody that make Me a Nerd
1122
01:01:01.159 --> 01:01:04.559
is a production of True Story FM. The engineering is
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01:01:04.639 --> 01:01:09.840
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01:01:09.880 --> 01:01:13.400
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01:01:13.519 --> 01:01:17.800
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01:01:17.880 --> 01:01:23.400
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01:01:23.519 --> 01:01:28.519
I think yeah, Mandy Miscast. If you are feeling very supportive,
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01:01:28.639 --> 01:01:31.760
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01:01:31.800 --> 01:01:37.239
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Now get rid of those ads and join and help
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01:01:43.920 --> 01:01:47.679
me keep this mission going. Thank you, Patrick Gomez. Where
1133
01:01:47.719 --> 01:01:52.079
can people find more of you? And you're delightful writing
1134
01:01:52.119 --> 01:01:53.519
about the industry?
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01:01:54.039 --> 01:01:57.760
Sure well, and Entertainment Weekly has ew dot com and
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01:01:58.119 --> 01:02:03.199
Entertainment Weekly or ew on most so for my own socials,
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01:02:03.239 --> 01:02:06.840
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01:02:06.880 --> 01:02:10.960
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01:02:11.039 --> 01:02:14.079
if you're a charm fan or not happy to touch
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01:02:14.239 --> 01:02:17.360
at that or as Mandy said, all things reality TV.
1141
01:02:17.599 --> 01:02:20.440
And I look forward so to being back sooner than
1142
01:02:20.519 --> 01:02:22.280
later and getting nerdy with you again.
1143
01:02:23.000 --> 01:02:25.360
I love it so much, and if you are in
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01:02:25.440 --> 01:02:29.360
Los Angeles and this is before October fifth, please please
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01:02:29.440 --> 01:02:32.519
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01:02:36.239 --> 01:02:43.400
performing alongside of and other phenomenal performers and me. Thank
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you all for listening. Until next time, stuck