Agony of a Witch She sits alone in the darkness of her room, the dim candlelight casting eerie shadows on the walls. Her long, tangled hair frames her pale face, revealing the torment she carries within. She is a witch, cursed to live a life plagued by loneliness and misfortune. From an early age, she was different from the rest - possessing a gift that both fascinated and frightened those around her. With a mere flick of her wrist, she could summon the elements, bend them to her will. But this power came at a great cost.

Wicca Envy/Plot

Prue and Phoebe come home from a shopping spree just as Piper and Leo are heading upstairs. Piper freezes the room so they can talk in private. Phoebe notices that Piper is wearing a front-clasp bra (an indication that she and Leo are about to have sex). Piper looks at all the clothes Prue bought and wonders if she's simply drowning her sorrows over losing Andy, but Phoebe pulls out a naughty-looking piece of lingerie that suggests Prue is over that loss. Piper shoos them away; she never knows how long her freezes hold. Piper runs back to Leo just as he unfreezes, and they run upstairs.

As Prue is undressing in her room, a ghostly Rex Buckland appears behind her. He tells her to pull a tiara out of her briefcase, and that she believes it's her date book. Kit sees Rex and hisses at him, but Prue doesn't know why. Back at Buckland, Rex tells Hannah that their plan to frame Prue is well underway and that this is the second time he's used his new power of astral projection to help it along; he used it earlier to trick Prue into taking the tiara from the vault. Hannah still doesn't understand how it works, so Rex uses it to get her to take off her dress.

The next morning, Piper gets up late and is on her way to work when Prue and Phoebe make her spill the beans about the night with Leo. Piper says it's been a while since she had sex, so she ended up freezing Leo several times, much to Prue and Phoebe's amusement.

Prue and Phoebe bump into Jaime, a security guard at Buckland. He tells them of the missing tiara. Rex offers to take Phoebe to see The Verve. Darryl and Andy ask to see the security tapes.

Andy questions Prue about the theft of the tiara. She remembers nothing of stealing a tiara. Darryl is suspicious, in no small part because the security tape from the vault is missing.

Andy and Darryl appear at the manor with a search warrant. They search a bedroom and Piper spots the tiara as Andy opens a drawer. She freezes the room and moves the tiara to under a pillow. Rex projects in and tells Andy to look under the pillow. Darryl looks under the pillow and Piper freezes the room again. Piper moves the tiara into a dresser, but Rex suggests to Andy that he check there. Piper freezes the room again and Phoebe moves the tiara to the attic, without saying where she took it. Rex is thwarted at last and the two cops finally give up and leave. Rex returns to his body, and tells Hannah they'll have to up the ante.

The sisters can't figure out how the tiara got in the manor, though Phoebe suspects a warlock. Leo arrives, ostensibly to fix the bathroom sink. Instead, he heads to the attic and uses telekinesis; this is the first hint that he is not just a handyman. Piper walks in and Leo tells her that he might have to leave.

Phoebe goes to Rex's apartment and his astral form insists that she will see it as "spectacular".

He offers her wine and tells her that "Zeitgeist Magazine" wants to interview her. He offers her sushi and walks out. He projects, and gives her a premonition of Prue at Buckland, being pursued by a warlock. She walks out in a panic. Rex calls 911. Manipulating his voice to sound like Jaime's, he claims he is at Buckland and someone is trying to kill him.

Prue is working late at Buckland. She sneaks into Hannah's office and uses her computer; she looks for Hannah's name on the database, and there's no record of it. She looks for Rex's name as well; there's no record of it either. Rex projects and tells her that a warlock is after her. He projects again and tells her that an innocent is in danger and that she is to grab an artifact. Hannah cracks Jaime over the head with the artifact, killing him, and leaves the missing security tape on his body. Andy and Darryl find Prue over the dead security guard, with the murder weapon in her hand. The security tape shows Prue taking the tiara. The police arrest Prue for murder. Piper and Phoebe go to Rex's apartment to seek his help, but find it empty except for Phoebe's lipstick. They realize that Rex is a warlock. Back at the manor, they try to figure out how to free Prue. They conclude that if Rex is a warlock, Hannah almost certainly is one as well.

Phoebe hides the tiara in an armoire, not knowing that Rex is projecting into the room. They go to the jail and Piper freezes the guards. Piper unlocks Prue's cell; the two flee and join Phoebe outside. Rex, however, is waiting outside with a Polaroid camera and takes a picture. He says he has known all along they were witches, but saw he wasn't powerful enough to attack them directly so he opted for blackmail; he demands their powers in return for the picture, and also promises to clear Prue of the tiara theft as well. He hands them a lantern that will catch their powers when they cast the relinquishment spell.

The sisters discuss Rex's demand, not knowing that Rex and Leo overhear them, and decide to give up their powers in hopes that they can somehow reverse it. The sisters cast the Relinquishment Spell, each one in turn, and their powers go into the lantern. The Book of Shadows is now entirely blank. Andy doesn't want to believe Prue is guilty of murder; the evidence tying her to the guard's death is piling up too neatly.

Rex comes to and tells Hannah that the sisters are on their way. Hannah shapeshifts into a panther.

Andy searches for the names Rex Buckland and Hannah Webster and discovers that the real ones were murdered on the same day. The real Hannah was African American; the woman using her name is white. The real Rex was balding, short and stocky, unlike the follically-enhanced, strapping man using his name. He tells Darryl that he thinks the faux Rex and Hannah are framing Prue.

The sisters go back to Buckland. They hand over the lantern to Rex. Hannah, in her panther form, rushes out from the office. Unknown to the sisters, Leo walks into the attic and finds the Book of Shadows blank. He raises his hands over it and restores the spells to its pages, and with it the sisters' powers. As Hannah leaps, Piper throws out her hands in fright. Suddenly, both Hannah and Rex freeze. The sisters realize that their powers are restored and Prue moves Rex to where the sisters were. Hannah knocks Rex to the ground, mauls him and returns to human form. The two go up in flames. Hannah protests that Rex had failed, not her as they disappear into the fire, leaving only ash behind.

The sisters return Prue to jail, where Andy and Darryl set her free. They tell her that they found the tiara in Rex's office, and also have evidence Rex and Hannah were skimming off auction proceeds. The sisters find the Book of Shadows restored. Leo comes in for his toolbox and says goodbye, saying that he's fixed everything he was supposed to fix. The sisters tear out the relinquishment spell and burn the page. Leo walks out the front door and is seen orbing as he leaves.

TV Show Review – Charmed 1×10 “Wicca Envy”

In episode ten of season one, Prue is framed for robbery and murder, it’s up to the sisters to figure out not only who’s framing Prue, but also what they want from the Charmed Ones.

[Oh, I should mention that if you haven’t seen Charmed, for whatever reason, then you shouldn’t read these articles because there will be so many spoilers for the episode I’m talking about and future plotlines. You’ve been warned.]

Thoughts While Watching the Episode

• Oh my god, the episode opening with Piper freezing Leo, then tripping, and sliding across the floor towards Phoebe and Prue kills me.
  
• It’s interesting that we’re first introduced to astral projection with Rex because when Prue gets this ability later in season 2, I feel like it would make the viewers wonder how she would get this ability since the first time we see a version of it is with someone evil. It also makes me wonder why Rex’s astral projection works different from Prue’s. Is it because he’s evil and she’s good?
• Piper:“I kind of kept freezing him.”
  
• So Andy and Darryl have a warrant to search the place, but yet only search Prue’s room and no where else in the house?
  
• Okay, this scene with Leo in the attic moving stuff with just a wave of his hand is so silly to me. I get they were trying to make Leo look evil, but I don’t think Leo even uses these abilities anywhere else in the series. So, it doesn’t make sense to me why they’d even introduce these abilities when he’s not gonna use them again.
• So, if there was nothing in that apartment then what was Phoebe sitting on & what was she drinking?
• Now, that I’m looking at the set for Rex’s apartment, it kind of looks like Cole’s from season 4. Hmm……
• Prue:“Go to hell.”
  Rex:“Yeah, I’d love to, darling. I miss it terribly.”
  WTF Rex?
• Why wouldn’t Andy or Darryl do a background check on Rex and Hannah before now? I mean a tiara was stolen from Bucklands. Wouldn’t they thoroughly investigate everyone?
• I always wondered why they got rid of Hannah and Rex so soon. I mean, you’d think they’d use them as villains longer.
• Ah!! The first time we see orbing!!
  

Final Thoughts

I’m sorry, but this probably is my second least favorite episode in the first season. My least will be talked about a little later when we get to it. I just don’t find this episode at all interesting or compelling. Sure, I’ll give Rex and Hannah credit for having a good idea of how to get the Charmed Ones to give up their powers, but that doesn’t mean it was well thought out. They left so much to chance and I know Rex is able to compel people when he’s in his astral form, but still a lot of their plan relies on chance and luck.
Then at the end they’re vanquished, I mean what a waste. They didn’t fully show them be evil until a couple episodes before this, with the last episode being the most obvious of how evil they are. Then once you finally show them plotting against the sisters you kill them at the end? How does that seem like a good idea? I think this is one of the things that Charmed suffered from. They would create these villains to be the main foe for the sisters, but then kill them early or halfway through the season. I just don’t understand what the writers were thinking when they decided to do this because after this episode there is no “Big Bad” until the finale. It’s just a monster of the week and that’s just not that interesting overall.
The only good thing about this episode is that it furthers Piper’s relationship with Leo and creates the mystery surrounding what Leo really is.
Overall, this episode could have been good, but it just feels like a waste of future storylines and also begins a negative trend this show likes to do.

Hope you guys enjoyed my review of “Wicca Envy” and I hope you check out the next review when it’s posted.

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Re-watching the early episodes, it's pretty great to see a story arc involving villains that aren't just reduced to the whole "crush, kill, destroy" method of dispatching the Charmed Ones. The show's villains eventually became so shrill, flat and one-note that seeing Rex and Hannah forming this elaborate plan is actually pretty refreshing. Wicca Envy is occasionally both melodramatic and ridiculous, but it's probably the strongest episode of the series so far, and a benchmark for what the show would eventually become.

Rex's astral projection is a lot of fun. From the comedy created by the freezing-the-cops-and-moving-the-tiara scene to the eerieness of Phoebe discovering that Rex's gorgeous penthouse is in reality an empty dump, it's a great plot device. Rex and Hannah weren't individually great villains, (Hannah too much like a catty secretary to convince, Rex clearly from the Hugh Grant School of Complete Non-Intensity), but they added some necessary weight to the series. It was clearly an attempt at a Buffy -esque "big bad active in the background of every episode" arc, and for the most part it worked.

The Piper/Leo chemistry and the revelations about his magical 'abilities' works, but it's soured by my later boredom of the couple, after the seven subsequent seasons of "blah-ness" they made everybody endure. But, attempting to put myself in the shoes of somebody watching this for the first time, they do have a lot of chemistry, and it's sad to see the unlucky Piper once again getting into a relationship with certain 'complications'. Warlock, ghost. Leo. Aww. B

Credits
Guest stars Neil Roberts (Rex Buckland); Leigh-Allyn Baker (Hannah Webster); Brian Krause (Leo Wyatt); Al Rodrigo (Jaime)
Teleplay Brad Kern, Sheryl J. Anderson Story Brad Kern Director Mel Damski

But this power came at a great cost. People feared her, labeled her as wicked and evil, casting her aside like a discarded piece of rubbish. Her isolation became her constant companion, never allowing her to experience the warmth of human connection.

The nights grew longer, her solitude deeper as she delved further into her studies of the dark arts. She craved acceptance, yet the world refused to embrace her. The pain she felt pierced her soul, her heart bleeding with every rejection. Bound by her own magic, she was trapped in a never-ending cycle of suffering. Her powers brought her no joy, only agony. She could see into the future, watch as her loved ones met their untimely demise, unable to warn or save them. The weight of these visions crushed her, leaving her haunted by the ghosts of what could have been. The townsfolk whispered rumors, pointed fingers, and burned effigies in her name. No matter how hard she tried to prove her innocence, her pleas fell upon deaf ears. She was forever condemned to bear the burden of being a witch - a label synonymous with evil. But beneath the surface of her dark exterior, a flicker of hope remained. Despite all the pain inflicted upon her, she refused to let the darkness consume her. She clung onto the belief that maybe, just maybe, there was a sliver of light left in this bleak world. In the depths of her despair, she discovered a glimmer of solace through her connection with nature. The moon became her closest confidante, her guide through the labyrinthine maze of life. She found companionship in the creatures of the night - the owls who hooted in the trees, the bats who soared through the air, and the black cats who tiptoed by her side. Embracing her true self, she began to wield her powers not as a means of destruction, but as a force for good. She healed the sick, mended broken hearts, and protected the innocent from harm. Although she still faced rejection, her actions began to chip away at the deeply ingrained prejudice against her kind. And so, the witch continued to endure the agony of her existence, but with newfound purpose. She became a symbol of resilience, a testament to the strength that lies within those who are deemed different. And as the candle flame flickered and illuminated her face, her eyes flickered with a glimmer of hope - for the agony of a witch can also be the catalyst for her redemption..

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