Now THAT’S more like it. After his terrible introduction in the first season, Victor (now with the new name Bennett-we’ll just ignore that one) is brought back again. This episode felt a lot more natural, with much more understandable family drama.
Synopsis: Prue and Phoebe find an ice-cream van and save children, whom they believe to be innocents, and set them free. After the turn out to be demonic, they must turn to their father in order to help stop them.
Victor’s return here, backed up with a story about his rescue of Prue, gives him a lot more credibility than the Victor we met in ‘Thank You For Not Morphing’. His chemistry with all three of the girls is actually quite fatherly, where as Tony Denison seemed to have some strange vibe with Shannen Doherty. Their reconciliation at the end was lovely, and I always felt like it made his presence over the duration of the show a lot more believable.
Child actors either work or they don’t. Thank fully here they work. Just about, anyway. Evil children are always downright creepy, so I loved that Charmed actually managed to capitalise on that. The ice-cream man is an example of how a completely original story can actually work out extremely well. As stupid as it sounded it was actually one of the better demonic plots of the series.
Phoebe’s struggle to hide her secret from the sisters is so sad to watch, especially given how close they are. They share everything so to hide something this big from them must be hard.
9/10
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