“But what about the comfort she giv-”
No. Lying to you for money is a scam, even when it’s a pleasant lie. May this woman never sleep again for what shes done to these families

Shit I blocked that show out.

I don’t think Hazel watched more than a couple of episodes. The show definitely isn’t targeted at children (while Sabrina remains a virgin through the entire season, there are several racy scenes, including a pansexual witch orgy) scattered across the series. Also, while the show does say that Satan demands that his…

I watched the series because I loved the comic. But watching it now I don’t think it IS a very different Sabrina from the Melissa Joan Hart show. It’s darker. But the character of Sabrina in this is very very similar to the MJH’s Sabrina more so than the comic. Harvey is non-threatening, sweet, and supportive just…

“Sabrina seems built for a much younger audience—maybe even children.”

Happens regularly in PNG too:

I definitely agree with that, but I’m willing to cut them some slack for a couple of reasons:

1. Everybody in Sabrina’s life has complicated motivations except for her school friends. Harvey’s comparative simplicity probably feels like a lifeline to her.

I find it kind of interesting that while the show on one hand serves as a rejection of the patriarchy in both worlds, it leans into an almost regressive relationship with Harvey. This bland 16 year old boy plays a large part in her semi-rejecting the witch world (she mentions over and over her friends and more…

“She realizes that becoming a full witch also means surrendering your autonomy (and not to mention literal virginity) over to Satan himself.”

I concur that systematic torture and slaughter is in fact more politically charged. I agree that this was an insane sentence. “The Witchcraft Suppression Act, as amended in 1970 and 1999, remains in force in South Africa’s new democracy.” because there are still people being killed for being witches, and the murderers…

From what I can remember, there’s a figure of a man, several soldiers are watching him through night vision goggles. They eventually drive out to him but as they get closer to him, he starts to fade. As soon as they turn around, he comes back. It continues like that throughout the night.

You clearly didn’t read the article. The title is “Witchcraft Isn’t as Feminist as Pop Culture Makes It Out To Be” but a longer version would be “In the new show, Sabrina rejects Witchcraft because it Isn’t as Feminist as Pop Culture Makes It Out To Be”.

K.S. is 18 now, and she looks young so it works out really well. Honestly she worked out surprisingly well for Mad Men, considering she was actually YOUNGER than Sally Draper

I read the headline and my interest was definitely piqued because pop culture has definitely approached witchcraft as a feminist space. That makes sense, pop culture frequently depicts witchcraft as a way for women to claim power in a world that works to deny them power.

Glad I’m not the only one who thought so. The overuse of italics really took me out of the narrative flow. 

Honestly, I thought that one was the least scary - it was so caught up in flowery language that it obscured anything scary in the story.

This series is not based at all on the previous TV series, it is based on The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, which is a reimagining / more in-depth take on the the original Sabrina comic that would appear in Archie comics. The previous TV series was based on that comic, but two things based on one original source…

At the risk of being banned, I will take issue with your claim that today is “a space in which witches have never been more politically charged”—um, what about when even the accusation of witchcraft was used to silence, ostracize, imprison, and kill women?

Clearly the greatest supernatural power here is Kiernan Shipka’s ability to remain 16 for so long! She was 16 at the end of Mad Men (filmed 5 years ago), she was 16 in Feud:Bette and Joan (filmed 2 years ago), and SHE’S STILL 16!

It’s strange how a myth that was used to justify torturing women to death has become such a pop culture phenomenon without any criticism for what it is.  How can a story that posits that witchcraft is real and really does involve fucking the devil (thus justifying all that witch burning) be feminist at all?