"Charmed" Primrose Empath (2000)

User Rating:

6.8/10   

Director:

Mel Damski

Writers:

Constance M. Burge (creator) and
Daniel Cerone (writer)

TV Series:

"Charmed" (1998)

Original Air Date:

9 November 2000 (Season 3, Episode 6)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Romance

Plot:

Phoebe and Piper are on a mission to save Prue after a spell for an innocent horribly backfires and Prue is given the unwanted gift of feeling all the pain in the world. The cacophony of human emotion will most certainly crush her.

Plot Keywords:

Wiccan | Demon | Witchcraft | Power Of Three | Hocus Pocus

Cast

Shannen Doherty	...	Prue Halliwell
Holly Marie Combs	...	Piper Halliwell
Alyssa Milano	...	Phoebe Halliwell
Brian Krause	...	Leo Wyatt
Julian McMahon	...	Cole Turner
Harry Groener	...	Father Thomas
Randy Thompson	...	Deputy
Morgan Weisser	...	Vinceres
Ty Upshaw	...	Foreman
Brittany Ishibashi	...	Receptionist #1
Colin McClean	...	Dentist
Sharon Madden	...	Secretary
Larry Weissman	...	Patient #1
Michael Fetters	...	Patient #2
Marcy Goldman	...	Woman

Runtime:

42 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Certification:

Mexico:B | USA:TV-PG

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Paramount Pictures

Trivia:

Prue (Shannen Doherty) gains superpowers to fight the demon Vinceres (Morgan Weisser). The fight scene in the manor is very similar of the scene in The Matrix (1999) when Neo (Keanu Reeves) fights Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving) in the railway station.

Quotes:

Phoebe: So, how bout those 9ers?
Cole: The what?
Phoebe: The 9ers, the 49ers, the football team.
[pause]
Phoebe: You don't follow football?
[laughs]
Phoebe: He isn't human.
Cole: [Cole chokes on the water he's drinking]
Phoebe: You okay?
Cole: Check!

Soundtrack:

Shameless

Feeling the Emotions of the World

Prue is led by Belthazor to a building that will be demolished, and she contacts the shut-in Vince, an empathic man that feels the emotions of the whole world. Prue casts a spell to release the power from Vincent and she actually absorbs his empathy ability. Later the Halliwell sisters and Leo disclose that Vince is actually the evil demon Vinceres that was trapped with the empathic power by Father Thomas to protect the world.

"Primrose Empathy" is a good episode of "Charmed", with a well resolved supernatural story. The romance between Phoebe and Cole is promising, and it seems that the demon Belthazor is having some sort of love feeling for Phoebe. My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): "A Empatia de Vince" ("The Empathy of Vince")