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Charmed - The Complete Third Season
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Protecting the innocent, vanquishing evil and evil doers, and generally righting wrongs are not exactly on the agenda of every twenty-something on the fast track to discovering what life's all about. But for the Halliwell sisters, this has become their destiny. Prue, the oldest, is driven to succeed and dislikes the free-spirited antics of the youngest sister Phoebe. Piper, the earthy middle sister, mediates between her siblings. Phoebe discovers The Book of Shadows in the attic and their witchly powers are activated, igniting a bond that reaches beyond petty, sisterly grudges. Prue has the power to move objects, Piper to freeze time and Phoebe to see the future. The sisters must band together to protect themselves, and the world, from the dark, demonic forces that seek to destroy them. It's an existence fraught with excitement and danger, but these three unique sisters wouldn't trade their "charmed" lives for anything.
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Charmed: The Complete Third Season is a little different from its previous seasons in that the long-running series, for the first time, is dominated by a single story arc that affects nearly every episode. Actor Julian McMahon (Nip/Tuck, Fantastic Four) joins the Charmed cast as Assistant District Attorney Cole Turner, who enters the show when he unsuccessfully prosecutes a demon-possessed killer who attacks the Halliwell sisters' police ally, Inspector Morris (Dorian Gregory). In short order, Cole becomes romantically involved with Phoebe (Alyssa Milano), but it's soon revealed that he's actually a demon, part of an unholy plot to destroy the Charmed Ones, i.e. the Halliwell sisters. Trouble is, Cole's human incarnation begins to battle with his demon self, and the rest of the season is really dedicated to the ramifications of his ambivalence. Even old issues on Charmed, such as the forbidden love of Piper (Holly Marie Combs) and Leo (Brian Krause), an angelic Whitelighter, become secondary to the Cole-Phoebe story. (The latter becomes supernatural when Phoebe's misery over Cole turns her into a shrieking Banshee and the pair meet up in the hellish Dark Side.) Season highlights include "Primrose Empath," in which Shannen Doherty gives a superb performance when her character, Prue Halliwell, takes on the powers of an empath and is soon overwhelmed by the emotional pain carried by scores of others. "Sleuthing with the Enemy" finds Prue and Piper, in the first of several such stories, working at opposite purposes from Phoebe, who is intent on saving Cole from capture or destruction. The clever and comic "Look Who's Barking" concerns a spell that turns Prue into a Banshee-tracking dog who gets hit by a car and briefly becomes the pet of a handsome, single man. Season finale "All Hell Breaks Loose" may be the best Charmed episode in its first three years, a scary and apocalyptic tale in which the powers of the Halliwell sisters, long kept secret, are revealed to an insatiable news media, the police and military, and dangerous crazies. Not to be missed. --Tom Keogh
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Charmed - The Complete Third Season
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Charmed- The Complete Third Season
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I enjoyed every episode of the third season of charmed. It was magical,comical,and just great all around. It kept me on the edge of my seat and wanting more. Can't wait to veiw the fourth season to see what happens to the sisters.
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Like I said the review for the second season I am a Fan of the Halliwell Girls annd will continue to be.
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Season 3: An end, but a beginning as well. A pivotal season
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Due to offscreen 'issues' between Alyssa Milano and Shannen Doherty (a running tradition with her and her television series, 90210 anyone). one or the other would have to go. Phoebe had been kept in the underword, at the mercy of The Source and all the demons with only Cole to protect her. The most emotional point in the episode is near the end when Piper is shot in front of Prue and Leo is in the underworld and cannot hear her calls for him. In order to get her sister to the hospital Prue uses her powers against the people and press because they won't move for her car, immediately showing how truly dangerous she can be. I have always lumped it together with ROSWELL, BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, DAWSONS CREEK, FELICITY and a couple others in my mind. I recommend the third season as a neccessary purchase for any and all fans of the show, and anyone who loved the WB's old shows.
Prue and Piper were left bleeding to death from wounds sustained during a demon attack. The season started off a month after the season two finale, with Piper still 'up there' with Leo (unknowing that she'd been gone this long, time moves differently 'up there'). After season three the show got steadily lighter and slightly more comedic without losing its original story of three sisters who happened to be witches with magical powers who fought evil on pretty much a weekly/daily basis. Cole and Phoebe share a doomed love unlike the 'star-crossed lovers' storyline given to Piper and Leo.
Charmed was also a show that began in the WB's heyday. This season ended the 'Prue seasons' and even though the show was funny at points, it also ended a theme of darkness in the show. It also shows that the extreme ignorance and fear that the general public, as a whole, have of all things different and unknown. The third season was the end of the series in one sense, but the beginning in another. It was the last of these shows to end and I believe it ended an era of television. It explored many things: sibling rivalry (a running theme throughout the series both before and after Prue's death), the wisdom of youth, dangerous relationships (which is more prevalent in the fourth season), father-daughter relationships, difficulties of newly weds, and more.
But instead of Phoebe coming downstairs to call for Leo to heal her sisters she is not there and the audience is left wondering if one or all of the sisters will die, if the show has been cancelled. Through out the season Prue demonstrates a distrust of Cole (although that seems to subside near the end when she sticks up for him) and never truly accepts him as her sister's love. Their entertainment was, somehow, of the same caliber, no matter how different they were. The final episode of the season 'ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE' I feel is one of the best episodes of the series. There is an episode that shows the relationship of the three sisters before the pilot. When they get to the hospital Piper dies and Prue become unconsolable and dangerous in her grief and commands Leo to accept the terms The Source gave for the use of Tempest. How the hint of such power can be revered, coveted, feared and hated all at the same time.
Cole is introduced this season, in the first episode and plays out an eight episode arch where he is a demon working to destroy the charmed ones from within, but falls in love with Phoebe instead and going rogue. The show was renewed but it was a while before they announced who they had let go. It truly introduces 'The Source' to the audience, giving us our first actual glimpse of the underworld and its heirarchy (a theme that plays an extremely large part in the fourth season and the four seasons that follow that). In one episode they learn about the true ways of natural magic. Another deals with the inevitablity of death. Time resets to the beginning of the episode and the first demon attack. That Phoebe must stay in the underworld with Cole and join the demons and evil.
It was possible to write in a death for every single character on the show, Cole and Leo included.
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hi i watched the series off and on when it was originally on TV but i must say now that i am older and watching the show in order. i can honestly say i love the show the special effects rock. the cast has great chemistry and the stars pack a punch with Witty dialog and a very sexy show for TV since the bra-less nipple alert in a lot of episodes would not make it on the main networks thanks wb for all the mammaries you are missed Duane
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