The New York Times heeft een heel artikel over de nieuwe ‘Charmed’ gepubliceerd.<\/p>\n
Three sisters living in a spooky Victorian house, discovering their supernatural powers, battling to protect the human world from demons: Much about CW\u2019s reboot of \u201cCharmed\u201d will seem familiar to anyone who watched the original.<\/p>\n
And much will seem familiar to anyone watching the news now. \u201cThis is not a witch hunt,\u201d goes the first line in the premiere episode, as the sisters\u2019 mother, a women\u2019s studies professor, seeks to bring a misogynist colleague to justice. Some of the show\u2019s demons masquerade, by daylight, as sexual predators. And according to \u201cCharmed,\u201d the first sign of the apocalypse is the election of President Trump \u2014 or, as the show none too subtly puts it, \u201cWhen the weakest of men reaches ill-gotten glory.\u201d<\/p>\n
The reboot wasn\u2019t always so clearly synchronized with the current charged moment in our culture. \u201cIn the development process, we imagined the show as a prequel set during the rise of the women\u2019s movement [in the 1970s],\u201d Jennie Snyder Urman, creator of the new \u201cCharmed,\u201d who also has \u201cJane the Virgin\u201d on the network said. \u201cThen the election happened. There was the shock of the morning after, and the anger at being shocked. It felt like we should be examining this present moment instead.\u201d<\/p>\n
The original \u201cCharmed, which debuted in 1998 on the WB network and lasted for eight seasons, starred Shannen Doherty, Alyssa Milano, Holly Marie Combs and, later, Rose McGowan. It possessed a female-empowerment blueprint, with the heroines banding together to battle villains. But whether that \u201cCharmed\u201d was actually aligned with feminism remains a subject of some fan debate. (Detractors point to the actresses\u2019 wardrobes, which got more revealing as the series progressed.) But when news of the show\u2019s reboot broke, publicity descriptions declaring the update a \u201cfeminist\u201d take rankled the original talent.<\/p>\n
\u201cGuess we forgot to do that the first go around,\u201d Ms. Combs tweeted. Ms. Doherty and Ms. Milano \u2014 who, along with Ms. McGowan, has become a vocal player in the #MeToo movement \u2014 expressed displeasure as well.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe marketing that said \u2018this is feminist,\u2019 implying theirs wasn\u2019t, that was a mistake,\u201d Ms. Urman said. \u201cOf course theirs was.\u201d<\/p>\n
Of the fans who echoed the original stars\u2019 negative feedback, she added: \u201cI knew this show had a passionate, protective fan base. You\u2019re only rebooting something because it has a passionate, protective fan base.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ms. Urman\u2019s \u201cCharmed\u201d courts a fan base that\u2019s as ardent about issues as it is about fantasy. Her witches confront gender dynamics as often as they do goblin enemies. Sometimes, they deal with the two simultaneously.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen it comes to consent, I can change my mind at any time!\u201d Maggie (Sarah Jeffery) shouts at a boy she\u2019s kissing, who\u2019s just turned into a demon.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like we always have something to say on this show,\u201d Ms. Jeffery (\u201cShades of Blue\u201d) said. \u201cIt\u2019s cathartic.\u201d<\/p>\n
For Melonie Diaz, the first actress cast in the show, only a project that made a statement would do. \u201cI\u2019m never going to get over the 2016 election,\u201d Ms. Diaz (\u201cFruitvale Station,\u201d \u201cBe Kind Rewind\u201d) said. \u201cI\u2019m angry on a visceral level. The way I feel is, \u2018How can we not be talking about this? The world is a dumpster fire!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Ms. Diaz\u2019s Mel is the sort of tightly coiled character common on TV dramas \u2014 think Walter White on \u201cBreaking Bad\u201d or Ari Gold on \u201cEntourage\u201d \u2014 but one who is rarely a woman. In one scene, Mel crashes her mortified younger sister\u2019s sorority function and stalks the room, threatening to \u201cengage these young men in conversations on rape culture.\u201d In another scene, she punches a male student for disparaging her mother, giving him a nosebleed. \u201cObviously, the character \u2018Mel\u2019 and Melonie are very different people,\u201d Ms. Urman said. \u201cBut they share that anger at the state of the world, that desire to create change. That\u2019s what we all bonded over early on.\u201d<\/p>\n
Those resistance vibes have even filtered down to the marketing department. Ms. Urman said she felt \u201cinstantly electrified\u201d when she saw network promotional art for \u201cCharmed\u201d that featured, above the faces of her three leads, the tagline \u201cStronger Together\u201d \u2014 a throwback to Hillary Clinton\u2019s presidential campaign slogan.<\/p>\n
If she\u2019s worried about alienating more conservative viewers with such references, Ms. Urman is not letting on.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been at this network for over five years with \u2018Jane,\u2019 and they\u2019ve always been supportive,\u201d she said. \u201cThey understand and respect the tone of the show.\u201d In an email, CW\u2019s executive vice president for development, Gaye Hirsch, backed up Ms. Urman. \u201cA nod to current politics helps the show feel grounded in the real world,\u201d she wrote. \u201cWe want to be relevant rather than preachy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ms. Urman, too, stressed this distinction. \u201cWe aren\u2019t hammering themes in every moment,\u201d she said. \u201cWe\u2019ll have different kinds of women \u2014 we don\u2019t all have the same points of view. We\u2019ll have evil men, but also great men and conflicted men. It\u2019s a balanced portrayal.\u201d The show\u2019s male lead, Harry (played by Rupert Evans), is a whitelighter \u2014 a sort of witch guardian angel \u2014 who introduces the three sisters to their powers.<\/p>\n
Something else that\u2019s notable about Harry: He is often the only white person in the room. Another of-the-moment element of \u201cCharmed\u201d is that its heroines are all Latina, something Madeleine Mantock (\u201cThe Tomorrow People\u201d), who plays long-lost sister Macy, said she still can\u2019t quite believe. \u201cI\u2019m used to [auditioning] for things and hearing, in the end, \u2018They didn\u2019t want to go diverse,\u2019\u201d Ms. Mantock said. \u201cThat happened to me three times in the last year. Now I get to be the hero, and I get to do it with two other women who are sensitive to what\u2019s going on in the world.\u201d She paused. \u201cIt\u2019s a blessing and a curse to live a political existence,\u201d she said. \u201cBut I can\u2019t imagine being switched off.\u201d<\/p>\n
That, for the women behind \u201cCharmed,\u201d is the real connection between them and their characters: an inability to turn away from their power, onscreen and off. \u201cWhatever your opinion of a witch is, we\u2019re broadening it,\u201d Ms. Diaz said. \u201cIf somebody calls me a witch, I\u2019m like, \u2018thank you.\u2019 Witches change the world.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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