It’s hard to believe that the show is burning through most of what it should have over the first 15 episodes in the space of a few weeks. Since The Courtship... Chris’s true identity has become full Halliwell knowledge, Leo was finally taken off Piper (for real this time), Leo has come back after a 6 month absence, and now we’re getting into emotional territory that explores future boy’s distaste for his father.
I get that all of that is mostly a consequence of Holly’s real life pregnancy, and the writers having to speed up their plans to accommodate her rapidly expanding belly, but it’s kind of disorientating to see the show blow through such a huge chunk of time so quickly. It’s all so rushed and messy, but at least things actually make sense now.
The episode’s main event, a shoddily CGI’d spider demon, was actually the most fun we’ve had with a stand-alone story in a while. Jodi Lynn O’Keefe embraces the campiness of the situation, but still proves a surprisingly definitive bad guy. Sure, this whole idea may just have come out of a need to shove Holly out of the way for a while, and what better way than wrapping her up for 30 minutes of screen-time, but the show had fun with it, and the girls banded together to save the day in the end; that’s always nice to see.
Like last week, the show is definitely milking the whole future son thing as much as it can. It’s hard to take most of it seriously, and I’m already over their rivalry, but the fact that Leo finally knows who Chris is means that the whole thing can be tackled from a completely different angle. Chris is stuck with the father he never knew; a guy who was always there for his family, not this distant and detached man that Chris knew. Now he has to break down that wall he’s built against him, and accept him.
Spin City is when Phoebe reaches the peak of her stupidity; sperm hunting. That’s right she’s now resorted to speed reading to find a man to knock her up. There’s battling against your biological clock, and there’s being a total weirdo/slut/moron. Someone slap this lady, already.
And then we have the leprechauns. Puke. They’ve actually been absent for a while, and it’s an absence that should have been extended another 2 years if they give us this embarrassment of riches. I did get a kick out of that wicked witch vanquish, though.
Even so, Spin City has a the gift of being a late season 6 episode, so it’s not half as muddled in confusing plot contrivances and continuity errors as so many others have.
6/10
Not the best episode to be sure but two of the funniest vanquishes! The ogre stepping on the spider and the witch disappearing and her hat falling! Both made me laugh!
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