Crimes and Witch Demeanours is an episode that has some great ideas behind it, but like so many other episodes in the past, it’s the execution that really drags it down. With very little time dedicated to the aspects we want to see, the show forgoes interesting stuff for dull retreads, and literal montages of early episodes, some that had zero to do with the problem at hand. It’s one of the best examples of not how stupid this show had become, but how soulless it is; it’s just plain boring sometimes.
Sure, Cat House is an episode that is an unashamed flashback episode, but the way the whole thing was produced made it seem a lot more entertaining. Each past scene had present day Phoebe and Paige reliving them, literally as they went on. Here we’re stuck with a boring court scene, as the girls sit back and actually watch them play out on screen; it’s lazy. And can someone please tell me what most of those scenes had to do with Darryl?
But then you think of how neglected Darryl has been. Obviously you can’t over look how washed out a character he is, he brings very little to the show anymore save for a few charmless laughs and favours for the girls, but what made his situation here so powerful was that, for the first time, the show actually addresses how selfish and unappreciative the sisters have been of him, and everything he’s given up for him. Now, as a direct result of their actions, he faces certain death; way to bimbos. Darryl retaining his memories of this experience really do make it the life changing experience he needs to force him into turning on the girls, and succumbing to Inspector Sheridan’s grating interrogations.
Last week Phoebe reached serious lows as a character, using her powers to further her own selfish agendas. Normally the show doesn’t bother to address such blatant stupidity, but Phoebe’s powers being stripped as punishment was actually an altogether satisfying move on the writers’ part, even if it was all in the interests of saving budget costs; those deflected fireballs and levitating kicks cost $$$$$!
We’re still stuck with how dull and poorly actualized this whole thing was, though. Sure, Barbas being back in the picture makes things more interesting, but if 15 minutes of run-time was cut, you wouldn’t really miss anything; it’s an episode made up entirely of time-killing San Francisco fly-overs, ha.
4/10
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