Thursday, December 18, 2003

Here's another sign it's time to get a job- I'm getting really into "Charmed." Yeah, I know, it's a pretty craptacular show but with "Buffy" over and in the sixth or seventh run of repeats on F/X, where else am I going to go for my supernatural butt-kicking hot chicks? Even if one of those hot chicks happen to be post-Brenda Shannon Doherty (Holly Marie Combs on the other hand….).

One of the charming things about "Charmed" is that supposedly it takes place in San Francisco. This they let everyone know this by constantly showing the same two or three fly-over shots of the city at the beginning and end of every episode. While they do occasionally name check a location in the city- like Golden Gate Park or the Haight- "Charmed" has the same problems that most shows that supposedly take place in San Francisco has. Namely, for a show that's supposed to take place in the City by the Bay, there's no fog. In fact, every character runs around in midriff baring baby t's and the occasional trendy, WB sanctioned jackets as if the weather here is always sunny and warm and just exactly like Los Angeles. I mean, if you're going to pretend to be in San Francisco, can you at least go through the motions of pretending that it's usually occasionally cold, windy, and foggy as hell? Or are we supposed to believe that every exciting thing that happens in San Francisco happens on those ten or twenty days when the weather is actually nice?

Won't even get into the lack of homeless people, freaks, or anything remotely looking like San Francisco.

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