Janine Baranski

I keep watching this show hoping that it will become good. I loved the original Charmed and was hoping for something similar with better special effects. Instead it feels like a poorly written virtue signaling soap box that doesn’t even make sense half the time. Spoiler alert for the episode Witch Way Out in season three that prompted this review. I can’t stand that Mel is constantly so proud of herself for doing horrible things to other people that she thinks is justified because it’s for the ‘right reasons’. She just got her boss suspended because she setup an audit of Mel’s class without giving Mel a warning. Was this probably petty on her boss’ part. Most likely. Could Mel have just submitted a request to get the book she wanted added to the syllabus for next year and used the outdated book this year but told the students which parts were outdated? Definitely. So my question is, why is the show acting like the Dean committed some sort of hate crime that Mel vanquished? Procedures like approving books on a syllabus are in place to make sure that harmful or wrong materials don’t get taught to students but Mel has zero understanding of that for some reason. It’s annoying because she could be an intelligent, strong female character but instead she’s angry and aggressive. Then the episode ends with Macy (who is those things), aggressively following Mel’s lead!