![]() The Witches’ Council’s draconian rules were just the start. Sabrina’s mortal mother, for example, cannot lay eyes on her daughter without turning into a ball of wax, a possibility horrifyingly actually rendered in season six episode The Whole Ball Of Wax. ![]() The Witches Council appears to be a highly repressive and prejudiced (racist? speciesist? Mugglist?) regime, controlling every aspect of witches’ lives whether they live in the magical Other Realm or in the mortal world. Looking back, there was some content in the Sabrina sitcom that, if not quite dark or mature, was certainly weird and somewhat horrifying. However, the tone and content of the show was nowhere near the maturity level of those series. For its last three years, the show transferred to the WB channel, which at the time was focusing heavily on witty teen dramas including Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Dawson’s Creek. It was aimed at a broad family audience, including both adults and children. Sabrina The Teenage Witch aired on channel ABC for its first four years, in a primetime slot as part of a line-up called TGIF (‘Thank God It’s Friday’). This is as different a show as we could imagine from its fondly remembered 1990s predecessor. This tone is reflected in the spooky teasers, and a quick, but potentially spoilery, glance at the Wikipedia page for the comic indicates just how dark it could get (there’s a lot more Satan involved than we remember from the sitcom, and a storyline or two that might be more expected on Game Of Thrones). A companion series to similarly Archie Comics-inspired Riverdale, this show will be ‘darker’ and ‘more macabre’ according to showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. ![]() It’s based on a new horror comic strip that has been running under the same title since 2014, and has relocated Sabrina from the fictional town of Westbridge, Massachusetts to ‘Greendale’ ( Community fans – begin speculation on how much of Community this could explain!). Netflix’s new show, The Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina, will be a completely different series with a very different tone to the light-hearted animations, 1960s comic strips, TV movies, and the sitcom.
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