It might be churlish to complain about Covid shutdowns meaning shows don't get to end their storylines, but I'll do it anyway. Presenting this as a "season finale" just underlines how hollow, meaningless and pointless most episodes of modern shows are. There's no story, there's no resolution, there's just a bunch of characters running about from place to place, occasionally learning something of consequence but more often than not just killing time until Episode 22. It's ridiculous that instead of following up on the Charmed One's discovery about Julian, we get about 20 minutes of Macy and Maggie trapped in a marble. It's ridiculous that we get 35 minutes of build-up to them freeing the Darklighter, only for him to promptly get knocked out without barely saying a word. It's ridiculous that after a season of will they/won't they between Harry and Macy, the show is already looking for an excuse to break them up. And it's ridiculous that the massive anti-magic conspiracy we've been tracking all season has been reduced to Macy's boyfriend and his aunt.
Positives? We finally find out the point of Ruby, and Julian is shaping up to be a decent grey area antagonist, whose bad experience of magic has shaped his perspective and is causing him to do arguably the wrong thing for arguably the right reasons. Oh, and Mel gets called out on her political incorrectness. But really, 19 episodes and it still feels like we haven't had anything approaching a story with a beginning, middle and end.
Positives? We finally find out the point of Ruby, and Julian is shaping up to be a decent grey area antagonist, whose bad experience of magic has shaped his perspective and is causing him to do arguably the wrong thing for arguably the right reasons. Oh, and Mel gets called out on her political incorrectness. But really, 19 episodes and it still feels like we haven't had anything approaching a story with a beginning, middle and end.