Charmed season 2 episode 2 review: Dead in Seattle
This week’s Charmed finds the sisters splitting up with Harry and Macy on a road trip to save a witch and Maggie and Macy on the “B Team” at SafeSpace.
Last week’s episode of Charmed saw the introduction of a very important character: Sexy Harry, complete with leather jacket and hipster scarf. We pick up with him again as Macy stands in her lingerie and Sexy Harry murmurs, “Macy…” He tells her he wants them to be together, that it’s her destiny, but she must tell her where she is.
Unable to sleep, she finds Harry, who is up working on the case. Maggie, also awake, sees that Kappa is holding a vigil for her, believing that the sisters died in a house fire.
Because none of them sleep apparently, Maggie tells Mel the morbid news, who immediately dunks her phone into an old pitcher of beer (ew) and insists they stay “dead” to be hidden from the assassin as long as possible, reminding Maggie they have no powers or Book of Shadows.
Following clues on Instagram, the Charmed Ones and Harry find that the two victims from the bed and breakfast in Vermont also had a witch niece who has gone missing with the large demon they battled. Using the very mortal powers of reverse image searching, “obvi,” Maggie leads them to a club in Portland called The Seventh Circle.
Apparently operating under normal business hours, SafeSpace is closed. Unable to orb inside, because his powers are wonky from the poison he sucked out of Mel, Harry and Macy drive to find the missing witch while Maggie and Mel stay behind, deciding it’s safer for them at Elder HQ.
“Honestly, I don’t know how people lived before cell phones — even though I did,” Harry says, folding up a map as he and Macy embark on a road trip! A very uncomfortable Macy forces Harry to ask if he’s done something wrong because she’s making the car ride so awkward.
And, honestly, who hasn’t been in this scenario with their crush? (OK, minus the literal witch hunt.) It’s great to see the show lean harder into the action and adventure this season, but the great character moments — particularly the ramped up Harry and Macy tension — are what I live for.
Not shockingly, Mel is not happy to be left behind, insisting she is “not on the B team,” while Maggie is more focused on missing the life they’ve left behind in Hilltowne. As she’s looking for their obituary (a bit morbid or a bit narcissistic?), she finds that Mel and Macy’s dad has also died.
Over at The Seventh Circle, all the “demonic bloodlines” are converging. Wanting to blend in, Macy finds a bottle of Maggie’s glamour powder, so she and Harry can be in disguise. Season two is delivering on the all-black looks for our heroes, complete with a long ponytail for Macy.
Macy tells Harry to try not to look so good, so he ruffles his hair and gives her a “Sexy Harry” look, and she melts right there in front of him. Harry, ever perceptive, catches it, demanding she tell him what is going on.
“I had a dream — about you,” she says. “He’s very seductive.” We are only on episode two, people!
Turnabout is fair play, so Harry tells Macy the truth about the demon, stating that he was hoping it hadn’t been true, but that he must be a very powerful shape-shifting demon.
In the SafeSpace kitchen for some reason, Mel creates cloaking serum and turns an apple invisible, finding a way for Maggie to attend the funeral safely — but she’s already gone.
In Minneapolis, Harry appears to comfort Maggie…except that Harry is with Macy in Portland, which means this must be Sexy Harry. Thankfully, Maggie quickly realizes that this isn’t our Harry, and just as he pulls out a knife to attack her, tries to hit him with the shovel by her dad’s grave.
The demon tells her he assumes the emergency portal from the attic must have stripped them of their powers to keep them off his radar, but he’s still on the hunt. And so is Mel.
As he lifts Maggie in the air in a chokehold, invisible Mel hits him with the shovel and takes Maggie back through the portal. Outside The Seventh Circle club, the bouncers are a doing a test for demon blood upon entry. Realizing Harry won’t pass, Macy decides to go in alone.
Back at Elder HQ, a second light in Oregon shows up on the map: Macy. Maggie and Mel decide to split the rest of the cloaking serum and go to Portland. Finding Harry outside the club, they pin him down, demanding to know where Macy is, but he quickly proves it’s him by reciting their mom’s coquito recipe.
Inside, a demon named Godric takes the stage in front a covered body on a stake — the missing witch. Godric states that the heir to Zagan, a demon overlord, has risen, and rather than continue to kill each other, it’s time for all of the demon blood lines to come together.
There’s lots of other boring demon talk but it all boils down to burning they witch. Just as they’re about to, Macy announces that she’s the overlord. Godric asks her to prove it and, right on cue, an invisible Mel and Maggie burst through the door, knocking demons and tables over.
Still trying to orb, Harry finally makes it inside only to be knocked down in the melee (a cute comedy moment). Macy unties the witch and they all manage to escape just as the cloaking serum runs out and the demons realize they’re witches.
Back at home, Maggie lets go of her dad, and her old life, knowing that the music box she thought was from him was actually from Mel. While they are temporarily benched, she tells Mel she plans to get a job at SafeSpace so they never have to worry about being locked out of Elder HQ again.
With Parker away, Maggie has to find a new love interest, I guess, a SafeSpace boxing instructor (who doesn’t have a name?). In last week’s episode, he was weirdly reticent about giving her a first aid kit for Macy. Returning the first aid kit, she asks, “Why have you been so nice to me?”
And really, has he been? He mostly just seems patronizing and weird. I don’t think these two have any chemistry, but it seems like the writers think Maggie has to have a love interest.
Meanwhile, Harry and Macy take stock of the losses and wins so far and Harry admits that for the first time in his life, he’s truly scared. He wants to devise a system with Macy so she’ll know it’s him, a code or a gesture, but she tells him all she needs is a look, eye to eye, and she’ll know.
“I hope you’re right,” he says. And as Macy and Harry grow closer, you can already see where the very dramatic end of the season is heading.
As we close, Godric tells a hidden figure — the demon overlord (Sexy Harry?) — “You were right. The Charmed Ones are alive.” Talk about ending the episode with a bang.
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