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Let me just say right up front that I am very disappointed that there is no humorous talking cat in
The
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. There is a black cat named Salem who serves as Sabrina’s familiar but he doesn’t talk. This new Netflix version of Sabrina is not the
Sabrina the Teenage Witch of TGIF days past. It is not fun and light-hearted. It’s dark and cynical with a very heavy dose of fighting the male patriarchy through very anti-Christian means at the heart of the storyline.
Released October 26, just in time for Halloween, the first season is 10 one-hour episodes centered around the struggle of teenager Sabrina Spellman (Kiernan Shipka), a half-witch who must decide on her sixteenth birthday (Halloween) if she will become a full witch or remain in the mortal world. An orphan, her paternal aunts Zelda (Miranda Otto) and Hilda (Lucy Davis) took her in as a baby. Sabrina’s father was the High Priest of the Church of the Night at the time of his death.