“Sabrina, the Teenage Witch” has returned to the small screen again; this time in a reboot on Netflix – “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.” As evidenced by the trailer and the prominently featured pentagram in the logo, the light-hearted innocence of the original Melissa Joan Hart sitcom has been jettisoned in favor of an unapologetically dark, Satanic, tone.
In the 2018 version, gone are the laugh tracks and cheerful one-liners of the original, where witchcraft and magic were more of a punchline to a joke rather than an actual force for Sabrina to reckon with. Here, the “teenage witch” is a newly-minted 16-year-old on the cusp of signing her soul over to a coven of Satan-worshippers, which her two aunts – Zelda and Hilda – are all too eager to facilitate.
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