Eastwick 1.01 "Pilot" Recap

This week, ABC bestowed upon us the bewitching drama Eastwick and its spell easily won me over. But you don’t want to know what I thought. You want a recap. So let’s get to it.

During a town fair that celebrated the history of Eastwick, we met our three heroines: Roxie Torcoleti, a sexy, free spirit who owns her own shop, is dating a young guy named Chad, and has a daughter named Mia; Kat Gordon, a nurse with five children and an extremely lazy, chauvinistic husband named Raymond; and Joanna Frankel, a reporter for the local paper who wants to be taken seriously by not only her job, but by the paper’s photographer, Will. While all of this is happening, Bun, the head of the Eastwick Historical Society, gives us a Mary Alice-esque off screen monologue about the history of the town’s legend dealing with witches and the townswomen.

After each woman received a mysterious token (each in a hilarious way), the women are separately drawn to the town’s water fountain, which featured three women/goddesses holding up a platform. They each made a wish based on their hangups. As their coins clicked in mid air, their powers are awakened, but they don’t know it yet. Meanwhile, Bun is mysteriously attacked by red ants, and is rushed to the hospital.

After hearing that Bun is in a coma, the three women decide all of a sudden to hang out and drink, despite not really caring for each other before. As they bond, they discuss what their wishes. Kat wants a big change and for someone to take care of her for once, Roxie wants someone sexy, rich and who understands her eccentric behavior, and Joanna wants to have “it” for once. While these wishes are being made, a wealthy, mysterious figure makes his way to Eastwick, hearing the three women’s desires along the way.

The next day, Roxie has a dream about a strange man entering her shop and her falling off her ladder. Later that day the dream plays out in reality. After she collected herself, the strange man gives Roxie an invitation with her name on it.  Meanwhile, Joanna embarrasses herself in front of Will again and is berated by her best friend Penny for not showing up the previous night for a get together. Their slimy boss, Clyde, breaks the news of the Lennox mansion being bought, which is strange to the townspeople since the place was supposed to be a town heirloom. On top of that, the same guy bought the paper and is now Joanna’s new boss.

Roxie’s invite brings her to the Lennox mansion where she meets our mysterious stranger: Darryl van Horn, who is seductive and cocky enough to make Christian Troy jealous in envy. Darryl wants a life-sized statue of himself and wants Roxie to build it; willing to pay Roxie’s asking price, which was $50,000. Roxie voices her disgust at the ego that is in front of her, but Darryl declares that she asked for someone like him, which would have sent alarms ringing in my head, but not Roxie. She attempts to play down her increasing attraction to Darryl, but when he disrobed in front of her, I think Roxie’s resolve disrobed as well. But she didn’t sleep with him. For now.