Horns of a Dilemma Eastwick “Red Ants and Black Widows” ABC, Wednesday, 10 PM Written by Nancy Won Directed by Tom Verica There was a time when smart women could be found at the head of popular TV series: Murder She Wrote,Maude, Cagney & Lacey. What power they had came from their brains; they consistently outwitted male criminals and earned the respect of their male cohorts. Where did all those women go? What we have today is a TV landscape full of women who are either the butt of their own jokes, or whose “powers” derive from the mystical, the mysterious, the…
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Eastwick: “Bonfire and Betrayal”
Bonfires and Vanities Eastwick “Bonfire and Betrayal” ABC, Wednesday, 10 PM Written by Maggie Friedman & Rina Mimoun Directed by Dan Lerner I would like to retire to Eastwick. They sure have a lot of parties there. We opened with a street party in the pilot, continued to an open-air hanging a couple weeks later, and last week had full blown orgies (politely conducted by inebriated WASPs) in the streets. Now we get an episode centered around a “celebration” of the burning of over a hundred witches, back in the day. Roxie keeps flashing on a funeral, and even Bun picks…