Chilling Adventures of Sabrina...Thoughts?

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This Netflix series is from the creator of Riverdale and takes the 90’s sitcom and makes it dark as hell(using the phrase both colloquially and because of the extreme amounts of satanic imagery).

I watched 2 and a half episodes after everyone but the stubborn baby was asleep. I don’t think I’ll be watching more, but here are some of my thoughts/observations:
  • This show is poison for anyone with a certain type of religious ocd I was proned to as a child. Aunt Zelda uses a lot of phrases we would use like Praise God or God-given rights…only she doesn’t say God because they worship Satan. I turned it off and went to sleep and could almost feel childhood me struggling with the phrases intrusively echoing and me wondering if it meant anything.
  • I wonder in the general population how many people feel unsettled by the subject versus numb to it or intrigued by it.
  • I wonder if the real dangerous show was the old one that made everything about witchcraft so lighthearted and fun, but I don’t care enough to go back and sample it.
  • As someone who liked the sitcom, the casting is really well done atleast in the looks of the characters. Jury is still out on the acting, but I don’t plan to stick around long enough to find out.
  • Thematically the show could go full circle and she rejects satan for all I know, but again I don’t plan on sticking around long enough to find out.
What do you think?
 
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There is a lot of symbolism in not only the film industry but also the music industry as well.

Example:


But we do not condemn so much as we pray about the issue at hand. Please locate patron saints of the industry and give them your feelings. Ask for their intercession in the industry.

Saint Genesius:

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St. Genesius - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online

Creation and Redemption are part of a grand masterpiece of love initiated by God, the Divine Artist. He created the world out of love, in love and for love. All who dwell upon it can become a manifestation of His Beauty - by responding to His invitations of grace. There is an integral connection ...
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Saint Cecilia:

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St. Cecilia - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online

In the fourth century a Greek religious romance on the Loves of Cecilia and Valerian was written in glorification of virginal life with the purpose of taking the place of then-popular sensual romances. Consequently, until better evidence is produced, we must conclude that St. Cecilia was not...
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I don’t know why anybody is surprised by this.
Archie comix has long since abandoned its kid friendly squeaky clean roots.
 
DisorientingSneeze said:
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I think it’s an agenda to promote Satanism. To desensitize people to it, especially the youth, so that it becomes mainstream and accepted. “Oh look, it’s the cute little girl from Mad Men” will suck them, then they will become interested in certain plot lines and keep watching.

Netflix continues to become more dark. We enjoyed it in the beginning for it’s commercial free cartoons for our children. Then we as parents became interested in certain shows, Longmire was a favorite of mine. But when that cartoon “Big Mouth” debuted, that crossed a moral line and we cancelled our subscription. We could no longer justify our convenience being worth our money being used to produce “Netflix original series” that were moral filth.

That was a couple years ago and I see it is continuing to decline. It’s sad that that company has chosen such an unnecessarily dark path.
 
I disagree. I can buy that certain elements of the media are manipulated by the Enemy to push certain agendas… but it’s subtle. I don’t believe there is a cabal of media executives who consciously worship the Devil and deliberately seek to promote the real Occult through entertainment. If there was such an explicit agenda, they would be far more subtle. I watched the first two episodes of this show… while I will not continue watching, as it was simply too dark, it’s clearly meant to be horror plain and simple.
 
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I can buy that certain elements of the media are manipulated by the Enemy to push certain agendas… but it’s subtle
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I generally agree.

And for general thread context: I’m not a wild Harry Potter alarmist or anything. I liked the old sitcom and liked Riverdale so I thought I’d try this out. It just felt too dark to keep watching. Certain kinds of dark I love, other kinds…are this.
 
dang this song is catchy 🤣

regarding the OP: There’s a trend in recent years to cast darker tones over television shows. It’s what teens consume (this is coming from a teen, who is, you know, familiar with other teens). It’s a generational difference brought about by increased cynicism to the world. There’s not a hidden satanic agenda being plotted by the producers, much to the chagrin of the conspiracy theorists on here.
 
I know, I like the song too 😀

It’s too bad there’s 6 candles everywhere and a crucifix spinning upside down etc :confused:
 
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There’s a trend in recent years to cast darker tones over television shows.
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That really might be all it is. To the writers of some of these shows, the devil is fictional and just another interesting myth for them to play with. It’s probably all very fascinating if you don’t believe in any of it.
 
Unfortunately we can’t protect everyone from the effects of portraying dark themes in various media, there will always be some who are adversely affected.

Comedy can be used, like most things, for good or ill. When it’s used for ill I liken it to using sugar to disguise poison. Comedy tends to lower our defences and allow through ideas that otherwise might be rejected swiftly. It can be a very powerful tool.

It’s a difficult balancing trick to compromise between being puritanical or a party pooper to being faithful to our religion. Not an easy gig, as they say.
 
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I like it so far , but I like American Horror Story as well.

Doesn’t mean anything more than I like horror movies and shows . I know what I believe and know what evil is I don’t condone it.
 
I watched a couple of episodes with my daughter. In one scene they are discussing needing to perform an exorcism on the uncle. Sabrina tells them they have to contact a Catholic priest since only they can do that. One of the other ladies responds with a nasty jibe about”that false church” and how they can learn to do exorcism themselves. Won’t be watching it again.
 
I have seen the trailer for the show and I am immediately turned off. I liked watching the 90s sitcom because it was lighthearted and mostly harmless; Sabrina had to choose between two worlds, human and witch. Now she’s literally forced to choose between good and evil. The witches in this show are literally in a pact with the devil who must “abandon the world of light”. I will not be going near it.
 
On the one hand, I’m intrigued by it in the same way I’m intrigued by a lot of Wicca-inspired media.

On the other hand, I’m also turned off because the marketing makes it look like an edgy teen drama…but with witches! Sorry, but my hatred of edgy teen dramas far exceeds my love of witchcraft.

I guess I’ll rewatch the Harry Potter series for the [embarrassed] time.
 
😦

I was hoping that it would be a good show, Kiernan Shipka is a good actress. She played Sally Draper on Mad Men.
 
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I don’t touch any Netflix “original series”. They’re all garbage.
 
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I don’t know why anybody is surprised by this.
Archie comix has long since abandoned its kid friendly squeaky clean roots.
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I think the OP means that the show is a remake of “Sabrina, the Teenage Witch”, not “Riverdale.”

I hadn’t heard of the show until yesterday when a friend told me she’s writing a blog post about the problems with it. I don’t have Netflix.
 
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