Feminists have long celebrated witches as symbols of untamed, angry, joyous and immortal female energy. Now the remake of the 90s teen drama is using the symbol to dramatic effect
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina – Netflix’s reboot of the 90s cackle-com Sabrina the Teenage Witch – brings together a few contemporary cultural trends. One is nostalgia – it is born of the same universe, Archie Comics, as last year’s teen drama Riverdale. Another is plucky young people being pitted against the supernatural à la Stranger Things. And then there is the feminist power of witches.
On the cusp of her “dark baptism” coming-of-age ceremony, 15-year-old Sabrina Spellman (Kiernan Shipka, best known as Sally Draper in Mad Men) is half witch, half mortal. Torn between the two worlds, she uses her powers for feminist good. When her non-binary best friend is bullied by football players about whether “she is a boy or a girl”, Sabrina reports it to the (straight, it is assumed) white, male principal. He refuses to act – telling Sabrina: “You’re suggesting a witch hunt” – so she hexes him with spiders.
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