Sabrina, the Teenage Witch

(Completed) She manages to find something to complain about on every episode.

Does Sabrina the Teenage Witch hold up to modern standards? Probably not. Is it a product of it's time with the unnecessary celebrity cameos, shoehorned bits and childish silliness? Absolutely. Does that lessen the nostalgia of a simpler time for me? Not in the slightest. The show was funny, and when I revisit the odd episode, it still is. Bakay nails it as the voice of Salem. The first 3 seasons are better than the last 3. It's entertainment that isn't preachy, just jun.

Salem the cat!!

Every generation gets a pop culture reboot of the acceptable astroturfed rebellion of women in the form of a suburban witch show. This was the 90s answer to Bewitched: we see some improvement, tho oddly regressive in contrast to I Dream of Jeanie (a literal slave to her beloved wish-maker?). Sabrina doesn’t cowtow to the one she loves, the cowtows to the whole of social pressures of orthodoxy. She doesn’t ever really question anything. Not to mention the chowderhead plot holes.

Remembering my childhood... Still nice to watch, when you consider it a product of its time.

15 eps

Benign.

A largely unfunny and generic 90s sitcom. God knows how we watched it for so long.

When I was younger I was really into crappy sitcoms like this during the early 2000's. Hell, I even named one of my cats Salem when I was a kid. But in retrospective, this show was absolutely terrible - the jokes were phoned in and unfunny and the leads had about as much charisma as a piece of wood. The only memorable thing about the show is the weird puppet used for Salem and his sarcastic (albeit, unfunny) performance by Nick Bakay.

Another Hart vehicle interesting only to children who like magic in the sort of way that allows them to tolerate being bored.