the Charmed reboot is important to me for so many reasons but here’s just a few i’ve been fixating on recently:
- Maggie feeling pressure in a family of intellectuals, and even though they dismiss her idea to take a break from school to figure things out, they ultimately end up valuing that she simply has strength in a different (emotional) intelligence
- Macy being a virgin at 28, not because she didn’t have the opportunity or she wasn’t desirable or to make her the butt of a nerd joke, but because she simply had other things in her life to focus on, AND the fact that as a woman of color, her sexuality was under even more vicious scrutiny
- MACY SHUTTING DOWN MAGGIE TOUCHING HER HAIR bc “hey we TALKED about this,” then beautifully transitioning into an important addressing of fetishization
- really just all of Mel and Harry’s interactions, from her shutting down his subconscious-blinders-on white male assumptions, to his tempering her more impulsive actions with dadlike finesse
look this show is very important not only as a reimagining of a classic, but as a major network representation of nonwhite feminism that has been long overdue











