Trivia / Charmed (2018)

• Actor-Shared Background: Melonie Diaz is a social justice activist in real life like her character.
• Approval of God: In contrast to the other actresses, Shannen Doherty (who played Prue in the original show) was the only one to give her approval of the reboot.
• Dear Negative Reader: Sarah Jeffery accused Holly Marie Combs and Rose McGowan of racism based off a fan linking them in an Instagram live clip where they said the reboot "sucked".
• Disowned Adaptation: Several cast and crew members of the original series are outright vicious towards the show and the concept of a reboot:
  • Holly Marie Combs was the most prominent in her disdain for it. In 2020, she and Rose McGowan clarified that neither of them had watched it - and their disdain was for the fact that it was an In Name Only reboot involving none of the original cast.
  • Alyssa Milano likewise says that she wishes it had a different title, feeling it comes across as a lazy cash grab based off name recognition. The only silver lining in her mind was "at least a whole new generation gets to experience it".
  • Curtis Kheel, writer for the original Charmed, ripped into the show's final scene in which, after travelling through the multiverse, this show's Charmed Ones find themselves in front of the Halliwell Manor and end the series by entering it, by saying that the OG Charmed Ones then vanquished them on sight.
  • Brian Krause, who played Leo in the original series, threw shade on the show for asking him to audition for it not knowing who he was.
• Fake Nationality: Sarah Jeffery and Madeleine Mantock aren't actually Latina (Jeffrey is of African-American and Indigenous Canadian descent; Mantock is of Afro-Caribbean and European descent), while their characters have a Latina mother. Given the reveal that they're full sisters and it's Melanie, who is played by a Latina actress (Melonie Diaz is of Puerto Rican descent), who is the half-sister, this might have been intentional.
• Queer Character, Queer Actor: Main character Mikaela in the final season was bisexual and played by queer actress Lucy Barrett. Season three also had introduced two trans supporting characters, trans woman Josefina and trans man Kevin. Both were played by trans actors, Mareya Salazar and J.J. Hawkins respectively, with the same genders. Additionally, lesbian Jade (another supporting character) was also played by queer actress Aleyse Shannon in the show's early seasons.
• Saved from Development Hell: In 2013, the Charmed reboot was being developed by CBS, but then eventually it was passed on and The CW picked it up.
• Underage Casting: Melonie Diaz, who portrays middle sister Mel, is the eldest cast member of the three sisters.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Originally Maggie was meant to be called Madison and the sisters' last name was Pruitt.
  • The writers' original idea was for a prequel set during the 1970s, matching up second-wave feminism with the witchcraft motif. During the 2016 election and events following, they realized that a lot of the issues they were writing about were contemporary, so they decided to make it modern.
  • Phoebe Halliwell was supposed to show up at the end of Season 1, in order to introduce a Charmed Multiverse, but The CW said no to the idea, though there would be a Mythology Gag to the original series in the Grand Finale.
• Written-In Infirmity: Mal's Mystical Pregnancy in season three was due to Melonie Diaz expecting.

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