I remember running home from school and
immediately plonking myself down in front of the television. I would
sigh to myself at having managed to finish yet another day in prison
and what would greet me? Sabrina the Teenage Witch. Yes, ladies and
germs it’s the 90’s and a simpler time. A time when we could all
enjoy a light-hearted quip from a teenager and a surreptitious witch
just trying to make her way in the world, dammit!
Although, the screenplay wasn’t the
most sophisticated writing I have ever encountered, there was
something to be said about never-ending entertainment. Of course,
lasting entertainment was something the show could never faulted on.
Sabrina lasted seven seasons and not too mention the movies it
spawned – Sabrina The Teenage Witch, Sabrina Goes To Rome, and
Sabrina, Down Under. She certainly got around, I mean she is a witch
after all.
Despite a few cheaps jokes here and
there, I’m sure many people have just as good memories as I do of
this classic.
The show debuted in 1996 and we where
first introduced to the character Sabrina played Mellissa Joan Hart,
her aunts Hilda and Zelda played by Caroline Rhea and Beth Rhoderick
and her talking cat Salem. Is it just me or does it seem like a
quintessential American TV family has to have a talking animal to be
successful?
Sabrina was an average American
teenager just to trying to get through high school and encountering
witch-based mishaps along the way. I must admit that, had I not been
introduced to this show as a child, I might not have such fond
memories of it as it doesn’t seem like a show written for someone
in their 20’s.
All the same, Sabrina is a show with
charm (and spells – that’s right, bad puns in true Sabrina style)
and I believe it will be remembered that way.
Review by Jemma Nott
