Eastwick: Pilot (S01E01)

By Sara Welsh on September 24th, 2009

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Three women, all living in the same town of Eastwick, find three coins.  All three make wishes at this beautiful fountain and from then on, their lives are forever entwined.

Roxie is a widowed artist, living alone with her daughter, Mia. She has a crazy affair with a much younger man and the town goes nuts over it. She wishes for a dark, dangerous, sexy man to come to town and buy up all of her art.

Kat is a nurse, a mother and married to a her high school sweetheart. He got her pregnant at 18 and yes, he did stay, but Kat is miserable. They have five kids together and she longs for someone to take care of her for once.

Joanna is a reporter and in love with Will, a photographer. She is shy, awkward, and clumsy with words when she talks to him. She longs to be able to talk to him normally, but in the meantime spends the majority of her time with Penny (Sara Rue), her best friend.

Right after the three women make their wishes, a storyteller has a minor stroke at the Eastwick fair. They unite and form a friendship, despite the people in their lives not desiring them to.

Darryl Van Horn (Paul Gross) moves to town. He’s dark, mysterious, and completely full of himself. He calls Roxie to the mansion he just bought and offers her $50,000 to sculpt him. She rebukes him but he says “You called me here.” He’s the man from her wish, but she still walks out. Weird things start happening as Roxie starts having dreams, psychic dreams, that always seem to come true. Kat has a talk with her husband and when she says “does the earth have to move” to get her husband out of his hammock, the earth starts to quake. Joanna learns how to hypnotize men with her eyes.

So much happened in an hour it’s so hard to contain it in this one blog post.  All of the actors were fantastic, the little twists and turns were unexpected and exciting, and I absolutely loved it.   Eastwick was… well… magical.  ;)