The char of Eastwick are precious , wise and horny . But that ’s about it . We saw the pilot ep of ABC ’s Eastwick and it ’s cute . formulate , but precious . Possible spoilers in advance .
The pilot episode ( although manufacturer / managing director David Nutter call it the “ vexer ” ep ) open with a voiceover similar to that of Desperate Housewives , but voiced by Veronica Cartwright , who played Felicia in the 80 ’s film version of John Updike ’s novel . It ’s a cute homage , but no wonder the comparisons are there with such beginnings .
Also , the constant witty banter steal from the first season of Housewives is slightly vexing after about 15 minutes . Producer Maggie Friedman described it as “ a show about magical realism , ” but the “ realism ” part seemed to get lost somewhere .
Our three witches are cursorily bring in , and soon afterwards they ’re throwing some mystical coins each one has found into a fount in the centre of town . Their coin CLINK together , and we have our witch with a gust of wind . Yes , they literally chink ; no , it does n’t look even remotely literal .
Cartwright ’s voice - over narration urges us to be wary of these new powers ( “ With dandy powers … ” and all that ) , claim they may even be malign , but what is evil ? When you ’re on the wrong side , do you always know it ? The show open up great questions for the time of year , but they experience like questions that may never get answered .
Enter Darryl Van Horne . bet by Paul Gross , he ’s suave and dark and brooding and he give a superbly , buttery low spokesperson to the Devil . In his demeaning room of mixing affront and wish , he employ words like pronto and lovely while graze your hired man . The devil has ridden into the little town of Eastwick on the wind , we are mean to believe , and he ’s beautiful .
From there , the adult female ’s powers amount active . Sparked by the fiend , each begins to transition into the woman she was meant to be .
Joanna Frankel is the mousy cleaning lady turned vixen . A wordsmith for the local paper , she can turn even the most tedious township event into front page news , though it helps when the towns historical society president is attacked by ANTS at a town picnic . She is wildly inappropriate and not at all together , mostly because a part of her has always been a little act afraid of who she is and what she can do . Her words hail in ready to hand when she gain the magnate to score men into believing anything she say .
Rebecca Romjinis single female parent Roxie , a flaky crazy woman who thinks wearing boho chic shirt makes her a free spirit and that creating art is the only thing she ’s meant to do . She ’s also bored sexxxing up her boy - toyKyle XY … er , Chad ( Matt Dallas ) . Roxie finds her solacement in rest , until psychical imaginativeness obtrude upon .
Married Kat Rougemont is the nurturer of the trio , a womanhood with more world power than she ’s ever cared to tap into . She started a large crime syndicate when she change state 18 , marrying a human beings who has zero respect for her and her talents , and it ’s stunt her . Literally , she is mother earthly concern and like violent storm , it seems she may before long be capable to control even the conditions . In the cowcatcher alone she shakes the dry land and nearly kills her deadbeat married man with a lightening bolt .
Unlike Charmed , that other trio of witches show , Eastwick ’s witch do n’t have to deal with fire shooting out of their helping hand or keeping schlocky ocular impression at bay . Without those result , there ’s a bit more way to grow these top executive — but unfortunately , all we saw today was that the magical fantastical side of the fib is dumbed down with over - the - top sexual practice and nastiness , with some cleavage on top . Roxie and Kat ca n’t even recognize her own power for what they are at first , even after Kat electrocutes a man . Where are their head ? !
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