Charmed (TV Series) The Fourth Sister (1998) User Reviews

The Evil Sorceress Kali

[claudio_carvalho · 8/10 · 14 January 2007]

The Halliwell sisters are missing their cat Kit that disappeared. Actually it was stolen by the troubled and lonely teenager girl Aviva, who has conjured without knowing the evil sorceress Kali to become a powerful witch. Kali advises Aviva to use Kit to get close to Phoebe, with the intention of stealing the powers of the Halliwell sisters. While the silly Phoebe welcomes Aviva, the smart Prue investigates the girl with her aunt and discloses that she was lured by the evil spirit of the mirror. She joins her sisters trying to find a means to destroy Kali.

"The Fourth Sister" develops three parallel stories: the lead one, very interesting, with the evil Kali luring and possessing Aviva; the second one, also nice, with the troubles in the relationship of Andy and Prue caused by her secret; and the last one, very silly, about the dispute of the unpleasant and inconvenient Phoebe, trying to "steal" the handsome Leo from Piper. My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): "A Quarta Irmã" ("The Fourth Sister")

This is Not the Sister you are looking for...

[seneuser · 6/10 · 7 October 2023]

There is a really interesting idea here with a mirror-bound demon beguiling a teenage girl into forcing her way into the Halliwell coven. And I think it could have made an excellent episode if it wasn't for the fact that the girl - Aviva - is so obnoxious that I am pulling for her to get fireballed the entire show.

How can she be a good witch when she got her powers from a demon?

This is the first fire-starter we've seen, and we get a glimpse of how dangerous a power that can be. The power is mostly directed at Prue, who somehow Aviva believes she can kill without the other sisters immediately killing her. Not a good plan.

The Prue vs. Phoebe back-and-forth is actually tiring in this one. Prue does not have the right to tell Phoebe who she can hang out with, nor should she just be marching into Phoebe's room without an invitation. On the other hand, Phoebe seems unfazed by Aviva's obvious bad intentions towards her sister. Not a good showing by either of them.

At least this is the episode when Piper managed to ask Leo to a movie. Too bad the brat showed up to spoil it. Why didn't Prue and Piper just tell Phoebe to deal with Aviva and go on their merry way?

The power of four

[Realrockerhalloween · 8 September 2016]

The fourth sister is very impressive in how they connect three separate stories together into one with Aviva finding Kit, bringing her to the sisters in order to infiltrate their home and the men who are close to finding out their secret yet are still in the dark. Danielle Harris stars as the fourth sister, not Paige, who is a lonely teenager after her mom spends time in jail and unknowingly conjurers up a demon promising her a family in exchange for taking out one Charmed one. She was a fresh face and one of my favorite guest stars to appear.

Later in the series it turns out mirrors are a doorway through which demons enter and here we get to actually see how it works making for an excellent creative scary demon to be unleashed. It even features two great moments in the while show where Leo and Andy share a scene together when the popcorn begins to heat up and the sisters checking out Leo which will be revisited in season five. Kit is present, even though we don't find out until cat house, was warning the sisters of pending soon and saved their lives on many occasions.

The fourth sisters opens up possibilities on how strong would the power of four grow, would it weaken the collective bond or work well as the sisters proved on multiple occasions? I know in the comics the premise is revisited again and proved to be to powerful becoming a danger itself until it burns out leaving them helpless.

The fourth sister is a great episode to revisit over and over. The very idea has so many ideas that influence future episodes.

The One With The Fourth Sister, That's Not Paige...

[taylorkingston · 10/10 · 7 March 2015]

I really enjoy this episode. And the title is kind of a spoiler if you haven't seen Season 4, 5, 6, 7 or 8, in which Paige is really the fourth Halliwell sister. But she's technically a Matthews, not a Halliwell. If you want to be really precise.

In this episode, a young witch, Aviva is being seduced and manipulated by a mirror-bound demon, named Kali. She is controlled into kidnapping the Halliwell's cat, Kit, so that she can return her and convince the sisters that she is one of them. Phoebe is the only one who believes in her pure motives, whilst Piper doesn't really know, and Prue doesn't trust her at all. And she has a good reason not to. Kali convinces Aviva to kill Prue, so that she can take her place. It's quite sad though. Because all Aviva wants is a family who loves and understands her. In the end, Kali takes over Aviva's body, tries to kill the sisters, the sisters freeze Aviva, which only freezes Kali, because good witches don't freeze, and then Prue moves Kali into a mirror and they shatter it, vanquishing her. Then Aviva apologies and they're all friends. And it seems like they left it open for Aviva to come back one day, but she never did.

Fun fact: The woman who plays Aviva's aunt, also plays Phoebe's boss at The Bay Mirror, Elise Rothmans, in Season 4 and upwards.

Fun fact: This is one of the stories that Paige got to witness in her trip through Piper's find, in Season 5.

Fun fact: The address on the missing cat flyer, has a different address then the one we all know and love, 1329 Prescott Street.

Overall, I give this episode a 9 out of 10.