Charmed: Cat House (2003)
Season 5, Episode 18
Witches in time
23 September 2016
Warning: Spoilers
Paige is curious about her sisters lives before she met them and gets a chance to see it when Leo & Piper go to see a marriage councilor casting to spell to relieve old memories. Cat house finally covers where kit went to along with what she is and that's a familiar granted the gift to become a human for doing her duty in guiding the charmed ones. While I like the concept behind the episode, the flashbacks feel like a bad attempt at a clip show without showing any new clips or giving the audience to see Prue. I'm glad Paige got to see some of the highlights from past seasons like Piper's wedding or when Leo proposed, but nothing is learned and gained from them other then to set off the main story of a warlock who kills Kitt. I don't see how killing one familiar has bad consequences as her house was chalked full of other familiars and thus makes the whole shenanigan seem in vain.

Anther issue is before this Leo & Piper had the perfect marriage with only problems arising here to serve the plot instead of real drama and is resolved by the end without really digging into why it sprang up to begin with. It really seems to play for laughs as they use other words to cover up magical incidents making it seem it was meant to be silly and yet the finale scene of the model bride and groom gone missing implicates they wanted us to take it seriously. If more thought had been put into it to show their problem or skip the marriage counseling story altogether it would be a perfect episode instead of clunky melodrama.
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