★★★★

No, this isn’t a review of the 2018 pop-drama The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, but rather the classic American sit-com of the 1990’s to early 2000’s, Sabrina The Teenage Witch.

I fear this show has been lost among the onslaught of new content coming in seemingly every day on the mass of streaming platforms. Don’t get me wrong, I am grateful and thrilled by the sheer volume of film and television coming out in 2023, however I do think that sometimes Hollywood priorities volume and availability over quality. Not to the fault of the creators, but to the detriment of the talent involved in the creation of television and film, especially with the lack of equality in residuals pay and streaming studios taking shows off their platforms without notice never to be seen again…

But back to Sabrina the Teenage Witch. There’s something special, something entirely more magical in watching 90’s sitcoms in the 2020’s. I myself yearn for a simpler life, with less smart appliances, AI-infused into every technology, and everything electric or battery powered. Sometimes I prefer more analog means. While there are many, many things there were severely lacking in 1996, and many things that have vastly improved since then, there’s a comfort in sitting back and watching the 1990’s fashion, corded landlines, brick computers, and talk of Y2K.

Sabrina may be just a classic 90’s sitcom with fuzzy graphics and an animatronic cat, but it provides a type of comfort and certainty that cannot be achieved in modern sitcoms filled with iPhones and talk of dating apps.