ORBzine - "Charmed" April 2000

Greg Vaughan as Dan Gordon [ 2 ]

Karis Paige Bryant as Jenny Gordon [ 2 ]

Charmed [Season 2, Episode 1] Witch Trial
Shown 13th January 2001 [Saturday]

The girls are back again, and while Doherty has lost her love interest, Piper [ Holly Marie Combs ] has gained one. Ms Combs looks a LOT sexier than she used to [for no apparent reason], and instead of running a restuarant she is now trying to start a nightclub.

Plot-wise, a demon steals the Book of Shadows and sets last season's villains free one by one.

Charmed [Season 2, Episode 2] Morality bites
Shown 20th January 2001 [Saturday]

Brian Krause pops up again, and TPTB instruct him to turn the Book of Shadows to the page on time-travel. The girls become their future selves, with Phoebe due to be executed in a matter of hours.

Charmed [Season 2, Episode 3] The Painted World
Shown 27th January 2001 [Saturday]

Overwhelmed by the competition for a job at a dot-com [everyone else has a Degree], Phoebe casts a smart spell on herself.

Meanwhile, Prue and Piper try to rescue a man trapped in a painting. They tell him the year is 1999, which tells us when the show was made ...

Charmed [Season 2, Episode 4] The Devil's Music
Shown 3rd February 2001 [Saturday]

The sisters' newly-opened bar is attracting little custom. Their Guardian Angel [Brian Krause] helps by getting a RL band [Dogwallah - possibly the band of Milano's husband] to play there.

However, the Band's manager ensures their success by feeding groupies to a demon. Why bother? To hell with the demon and the band, why not just shag the groupies?

Charmed [Season 2, Episode 5] She's a Man, Baby, a Man!
Shown 10th March 2001 [Saturday]

There's a heatwave in town, and the 3 sisters are in heat. Phoebe [ Alyssa Milano ] is having visions of seducing and murdering men, and the african-american cop asks Piper to help solve the murders. It turns out the murderer is a succubus, a witch gone bad who drains the testosterone of her victims.

The girls cast a spell to attract the succubus, to check that Phoebe is not the killer. Phoebe is cleared, but Pru [ Shannen Doherty ] is turned into a man. Well, I say man but she's only about 4 feet tall and has a wimpy looking goatee [not to mention a very strange, supposedly masculine voice] so things are relative.

The Guest Star Band at the girls' bar is The Cranberries .

Charmed [Season 2, Episode 6] That Old Black Magic
Shown 17th March 2001 [Saturday]

The Charmed Ones come up against a wicked witch with a magic wand.

Charmed [Season 2, Episode 7] They're Everywhere
Shown 24th February 2001 [Saturday]

Phoebe spends her spare time working in a hospital. One of the patients was put into a coma by brain-sucking warlocks, and they are after his twentysomething son.

Meanwhile, Pru and Piper are mistrustful of their own respective love interests. The girls cast a mind-read spell on themselves.

Charmed [Season 2, Episode 8] P3 H20
Shown 3rd March 2001 [Saturday]

Pru [ Shannen Doherty ] is sitting beside the lake where her mother drowned, when she sees a man murdered by a water-demon that drags him into the lake.

Alyssa Milano brainwashes a mixed-gender group of blue-uniformed cub scouts into staying away fom the lake with the wordsvWater bad, earth good. Unfortunately we never get the obvious pay-off; the children refuse to bathe, shower or go out in the rain.

This episode includes a scene that illustrates perfectly how this show takes three beautiful babes and then makes them look completely unatractive. These are grown women, but when they run [in high heels, in spite of which they STILL look like midgets] they wave their hands around like ...

Charmed [Season 2, Episode 9] Ms Hellfire

Charmed [Season 2, Episode 10] Heartbreak City
Shown 17th March 2001 [Saturday]

Cupid gets mugged by a demon [Clayton Rohner - G vs E ], who steals his ring. The demon plans to use it to break up all the relationships that Cupid created between men and women. Hmm - usually the only ring that can do that is a marriage ring!

Cupid goes to the Charmed Ones for help. I know why you can't find love, he tells Phoebe. Well, it's a mystery to me. Especially when the next scene features her in a flimsy t-shirt with no bra on ... [drool ...]! Pru likewise forgoes support in her evening dress while on a night out with the cop guy from Jason vs Freddy.

Charmed [Season 2, Episode 11]
Shown 24th March 2001 [Saturday] Reckless Abandon

The sisters look after an abandoned baby, which illustrates their lack of parenting skills. The baby was abandoned because of a ghost that cursed its grandmother, Stephanie Beecham . The moral of the story? True love is evil. Like we didn't know that!

The starting credits of this episode are subtly different from the others in the Season: the shot of Shannen Doherty in her leather bra-thing is missing. This also explains why Holly Marie Combs looks sexier in some episodes than in others: that damn fringe of hers keeps coming and going!

Charmed [Season 2, Episode 12] Awakened
Shown 7th April 2001 [Saturday]

Pru [ Shannen Doherty ] breaks the rules of witchcraft.

Charmed [Season 2, Episode 13] Animal Pragmatism

Men are turned into beasts. Gee, original metaphor. Since the manimals are still innocents, the girls can't vanquish them ...

Charmed [Season 2, Episode 14] Pardon My Past
Shown 21st April 2001 [Saturday]

Phoebe [ Alyssa Milano ] has strange fits, as if she is being attacked. Brian Krause [now an ex-Angel] suggests it is a message from a past life. Pheebs regresses to her past life, and finds herself a 1920s flapper. There are shades of Agatha Christie ...

The 3 sisters are cousins who live in the same house and run a speakeasy. Phoebe is evil with a warlock lover called Anton, and together they plot to kill Piper and Pru. Will Anton pop up in the present? Will true love be punished?

Phoebe's only hope is a young girl who witnessed the whole thing. The girl is now a woman in her eighties, and seems senile ...

Charmed [Season 2, Episode 15] Give Me A Sign

Bane [Antonio Sabato Jr] returns. This is a follow-up to the previous ep he was in, Charmed [Season 2, Episode 9] Ms Hellfire.

Bane escapes and kidnaps Pru. He needs her to protect him from a demon, Litvak [Steve Railsback - X-Files, The Visitor ].

Pru starts to trust him. Does she have Stockholm Syndrome?

Charmed [Season 2, Episode 16] Murphy's Luck

Pru has to help a woman who has terribble luck. However, a Darklighter [Arnold Vosloo - The Mummy ] is secretly cursing her with bad luck.

Pru's intervention makes her the Darklighter's target.

Piper has to split with Dan so she can be with Leo instead.

Charmed [Season 2, Episode 17] How to make a Quilt Out Of Americans
Shown 12th May 2001 [Saturday]

The sisters' Aunt Gail tries to steal their powers and give them to a demon played by Cameron Bancroft [ Codename Eternity ].

Phoebe discovers she will need to use reading glasses.

Charmed [Season 2, Episode 18] Chick Flick
Shown 20 Apr 00

Charmed [Season 2, Episode 19] Ex Libris
Shown 27 Apr 00

Charmed [Season 2, Episode 20] Astral Monkey
Shown 4 May 00

Charmed [Season 2, Episode 21] Apocalypse Not
Shown 11 May 00

Charmed [Season 2, Episode 22] Be Careful What You Witch For
Shown 18 May 00