Right off the bat, we are thrust into the duality of her life. The series begins as Sabrina is approaching her 16 th birthday, which is a big deal for most young girls, but even moreso as a witch and a girl like Sabrina who is half witch/half human. I don’t have much familiarity with any past incarnations of the character, so I carried zero expectations into viewing the show aside from seeing chatter on social media that the show was good. The show takes the architecture of a teen drama – high school pressures, teen romance, rebelling against adults – and constructs a powerful narrative of support to give viewers a dark, beautiful house of horrors. First thought to be a companion show to Riverdale, then picked up by Netflix on a 2-season order, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina landed on Netflix just around Halloween. With the popularity and reception CW’s Riverdale received, it was only natural for a television show featuring Sabrina to happen. Those comics “reboots” inspired the popular CW show Riverdale feature Archie, Betty, Veronica, Jughead and many others. The archetype of a teenage witch has been popular just as long and a few years back, many of the characters from the Archie universe were updated with a tinge of darkness, including Sabrina whose updated series, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina launched in 2014 by veteran and respected comics scribe Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. The character of Sabrina the Teenage Witch has been part of popular culture for quite a few years a popular TV show in the 90s, an animated series in the 70s and a comic book character as part of the Archie Comics universe going back to the 60s.
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