Charmed is a hypnotically awful tv show that opens with a montage of occult symbols over the riff from the Love Spit Love cover of the Smiths' How soon is now?.
Whilst watching you know it's absolute garbage but it's still impossible to look away from the screen. It utilises the proven premise: good-looking women in danger.
The main characters' special powers are
telekinesis (Prue), freezing (Piper) and premonition (Phoebe).
(Phoebe also developed the power to see the past in one episode
but, as is common in this genre, this power was forgotten by the time
of the next show.)
The main enemies of the beautiful Halliwell sisters are demons and
warlocks and attempts to seize their powers are common. They are
sometimes aided by a handyman who can morph into an orb of light. The
sisters gain their chief inspiration from The Book of Shadows and rely on (too much, in my view) the power of three.
To attempt a literary criticism, the sisters' special powers clearly represent female sexuality and the attempts to take them are a metaphor for rape. The viewer is a complicit voyeur in this. This can make for uncomfortable viewing.
But maybe I am reading too much into this...