Eastwick Pilot is enchanting

This is the first series premiere this season that moved itself immediately from the "Let's check this out" section to the "I'm watching this" section. From the very beginning I was interested and excited, and I knew I'd be watching it all season before we got 7 minutes in.

Three women, Roxanne (Rebecca Romijn), Joanna (Lindsay Price), and Kat (Jamie Ray Newman) live in Eastwick, and have nothing in common with each other. In fact, they have never particularly liked one another, though, it being a small town and all, they were certainly familiar with each other.

Roxanne is an eccentric folk artist, mother of one, who is dating an attractive but otherwise uninteresting younger man (she is a widow). Her art is kind of hideous, and its not making the money she and her daughter need to repair their house. She also the kind of kooky mom who celebrates her daughter's first hickey and is surprised that Mia isn't out having the kind of fun she had when she was that age (16 I'd say).

Joanna is kind of uptight, but mostly it's that she's shy and not sure how else to behave. She's a writer for the paper, and wants, deserves a promotion, but hasn't the guts to ask for it. She's also in love with the paper's photographer by day, volunteer firefighter by night, Will. Whenever she sees him, however, all she do is embarrass herself by talking about vibrators or yeast infections.

Kat is a mother. With 5 kids and a useless husband who has done nothing but sit in a hammock drinking beer since he got fired, she has to take care of everyone, both doing all the chores at home and working long hours as a nurse.

Since I could easily relate to all three, I am certain that all women out there will be able to find something in common with these lovely, likable characters.

And then there is the fact that Paul Gross is in it. Yes, delightful Canadian actor that you may know from Due South and we know from Slings and Arrows. He arrives in the town in a cloud a mystery, with scandal clinging to his coat tails and man is he hot. I mean, sure he can play the nice Canadian, but give him a role like this, oozing charisma and charm. Mmmm delicious.

Plus, this is a show about witches. Roxie, Joanna, and Kat are just discovering that they have powers - true dreams, persuasion (which only works on men), and control over nature herself.

I'm still not exactly sure where the plot is going, if Darryl (Gross) is a good guy or a bad guy, or what I'm supposed to expect will happen next, but I love it.