A new Whitelighter is coming to The CW’s Charmed
By Anna Govert
A new Whitelighter is coming to The CW’s Charmed, and it’s not our almost-Whitelighter Jordan. The new Whitelighter will be played by Diggstown alum Natasha Henstridge and will be a recurring character during the fourth season of the show.
Henstridge’s role on Charmed will bring her back to The CW after appearing on The Secret Circle in 2012 as a series regular.
According to Variety, Henstridge will play Diana. She’s described as “confident, strong, and wry-witted,” and will seek out the Charmed One’s Whitelighter Harry Greenwood to help her “escape from a bizarre, magical predicament in which she finds herself.”
Another Whitelighter appearing on the show is an interesting development, especially since all other Whitelighters were believed to be dead following the massacre of the Elders towards the end of the first season.
The Whitelighters were magically connected to the Elders, and when they were all slaughtered, the Whitelighters started dying as well, until the Charmed Ones believed Harry to be the only one remaining. Harry was only able to survive due to his lack of bonds to the Elders, which was severed when they stripped Harry of his powers during season 1 episode 17, titled “Surrender.”
In that episode, Harry’s Whitelighter powers were stripped due to his previous relationship with Charity Callahan, the former Elder and the woman responsible for Marisol Vera’s death. Fiona Callahan reinstated his powers within the same episode, leaving him a Whitelighter without a connection to the Elders.
If other Whitelighters are remaining, what does that mean for the show? Could season 1 fan-favorite Jada Shields return if she didn’t suffer the same fate as previously assumed? Was Diana also disempowered by the Elders? If not, how did she survive?
With so many questions, we’ll just have to wait for her debut on the show, which has yet to be confirmed. Though with a recurring status set for Diana, we most likely will meet her very soon and then see quite a bit of her throughout the rest of the show’s shortened fourth season.
The return of another Whitelighter marks another instance where Charmed is moving away from the all-consuming politics of the Demon world and returning to the more open magical world of the first season, which they’ve done in the first two episodes of season 4 so far.
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Charmed airs Fridays at 8/7c only on The CW, streaming the next day on The CW App.