Former #Charmed Writer/Producer Krista Vernoff Reveals the Season 5 Plot That Led Her to Quit the Original Series https://t.co/rSvrhedwcw
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-Krista Vernoff joined Charmed in Season 3 as a writer and later story editor and co-producer of the show before leaving at the end of Season 5.
-Some notable episodes include Death Takes a Halliwell (where Prue deals with death), Hell Hath No Fury (where Piper deals with her grief surrounding Prues death), Oh My Goddess Pt.1 (where TCO turn into literal gods)
-She was initially excited to join the show because it was a girl power show but Brad Kern took the show for a turn in Season 5 when they decided to dedicate the season to fairy tales and it involved sexxing up the Charmed Ones, specifically Phoebe.
-The Season 5 premiere, A Witches Tail, involved Phoebe Halliwell turning into a mermaid. Once Krista saw Alyssa Milano come out with pasties on it started her questioning herself how much longer she could stick with the show.
-Charmed gained more male viewers due to Alyssa Milano having to sex it up and the network started asking "how are we getting the girls naked this week"
-Krista decided to leave the show at the end of Season 5 despite WB trying to entice her to stay by doubling her salary but she turned it down as she didnt agree with the shows direction.
-Holly, Alyssa, Rose have talked in the past how they grew tired of the skimpy outfits and costumes and refused to do storylines later in the shows run that involved them having to do costumes.
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