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Introduction

Confessions of a Charmed Addict
Why I Keep Going Back to Halliwell Manor
by Jennifer Crusie

Several years ago, I posted to a pop culture internet loop, “I am totally hooked on the cheese that is Charmed.” That was a lie; while Charmed does have its Velveeta moments, the things that make me watch the series aren’t cheesy at all. For every unbearably twee episode about leprechauns and unicorns, there are stories that deal honestly with sisterhood, love, longing and loss. Seven seasons have passed, and Charmed is still worth watching for the things that got me the first time I tuned in, the things that charmed me, if you will.

The aspect that grabbed me first was all that power. The magic itself is fun in a nose-twitching kind of way, and it’s very nice that the sisters are Helping Others, but what I really love is the way they fry everybody who tries to hurt them. Prue when she was angry was poetic justice in motion, and once Piper learned to blow......

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