The Perfecti set the Charmed Ones on the trail of an artefact that could solve their allergy issue, but the side effects may be more costly than they are prepared for.

Was anyone really expecting the Perfecti to be the answer to the Charmed Ones’ problems? The mysterious duo seem altogether far too self-assured and deliberately enigmatic to be altogether trustworthy, and this episode’s proceedings bear that out.

Having identified the location of an artefact that will grant them release from their allergy to one another and all other magical creatures, the Perfecti do at least issue a cryptic warning that the side effects of using it are unknown. The girls of course choose to ignore this, with fairly predictable consequences, doubly so if you’re one of the people who watched Wonder Woman 84 and can recognise the basic wordplay at work in the episode’s title.

Yes, the girls get what they were after but the costs of this seem to spiral out of control as each of them starts getting other things they’d been after as well, at the expense of others. This seems to reach its apex when Josefina uses illicit means to obtain something she thinks may help her unlock her Witch powers, forcing the Charmed Ones to reconsider their life choices.

This is actually where the show does something a little different with the basic narrative idea it’s using here. I’ve enjoyed Josefina as a character, because the show has given her depth and shown interesting sides to the character not just based on her interactions with her cousins but also on her own merits.

Meanwhile, Abigael is getting really desperate to solve her Demon side problem. So desperate in fact, that she enlists the help of Jordan to take a rather drastic and definitely final step to rid herself of the problem once and for all. But life was never going to be that easy, and when things do go sideways, they do so in a way that suggests the Charmed Ones are going to have more than a few reasons to confront their new ‘allies’ sooner or later.

Honestly, it’s a better episode than it might have been, given that the whole ‘wish’ part is so predictable, but it does enough with the idea itself and also has enough new ideas of its own to get away with it. I hope we don’t start to see a pattern of them constantly losing and re-gaining the allergy is all – that could get old really quickly.

Verdict: A nice take on a fairly well-worn idea with some good character beats. 8/10

Greg D. Smith