Variety has a review of tonight’s debut of “Eastwick” on ABC.

The comparisons are obvious — “Desperate Witches?” “Hexing Housewives?” — but ABC’s episodic adaptation of John Updike’s novel-turned-1987 movie “The Witches of Eastwick” does conjure up some interesting possibilities. Three women in the hamlet of Eastwick — “the gifted ones,” as the opening voiceover intones — beginning exhibiting strange abilities, just as a wealthy, magnetic and enigmatic figure named Darryl Van Horne descends on the town. Drawing mostly from the movie, series creator Maggie Friedman and pilot director extraordinaire David Nutter have thrown in enough elements to warrant a second look into the show’s bubbling cauldron.

The central trio consists of Kat (Jaime Ray Newman), an unhappily married mother of five; Roxie (Rebecca Romijn), a single mother labeled a “cradle-robbing slut” for her tryst with a younger man; and Joanna (Lindsay Price), an awkward, lovelorn reporter for the local gazette, though Price’s physical attributes are almost comically hidden — porn-style — under glasses and pinned-up hair.

The full review can be found HERE.