The show Charmed is always on French TV. You know, an Aaron Spelling creation that used to star Shannon Dogherty before she was too bitchy to work with. Skinny chicks fighting evil in halter tops. In English, they use “vanquish” as a noun to refer to saving innocent people, or killing bad guys with a ball of fire thing that is way less cool than Buffy vampires that disintegrate instantaneously. Frankly, I don’t really know what they say in French for “a vanquish,” because most of the time they just pout and plot against an evil wizard or something named Cole who is in love with Phoebe.
General rule: shows about witches are lame. Sabrina couldn’t even make a talking cat interesting.
Whenever I get home and turn on the TV, there they are, the annoying glamour witches who run a nightclub in San Francisco in their spare time, drive a BMW SUV and own (yes, own) a Victorian in SF, obtained no doubt by magic. But every show includes a shot of the Golden Gate Bridge and sometimes the skyline (which should have the Christmas lights up now) to imply a realism that obviously is not present in all areas of the show, like the witchcraft part. Every once in a while I’ll actually watch these silly night club witches just to see the Transamerica pyramid.
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