Television review  ‘Eastwick’ elements have their potential
Rebecca Romijn plays a sexy, widowed artist in “Eastwick’’ and
Paul Gross the mysterious man who ruffles the little town.
Rebecca Romijn plays a sexy, widowed artist in “Eastwick’’ and
Paul Gross the mysterious man who ruffles the little town.
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Is it an accident that “Eastwick,’’ ABC’s new drama, starts off
looking and sounding like a supernatural version of “Desperate
Housewives’’? We get scenes of domestic bliss, a picturesque
town green, and a wry voice-over suggesting that danger lurks
beneath the surface.  It’s delivered by somebody living, at
least: the head of the historical society in a small New England
town with witchcraft in its Colonial past. For TV purposes,
witchcraft is defined as real hocus-p