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Brentwood (2018)
Hilarious
This just made me laugh out loud! Please make this show!
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018)
Satanism is bad again!
The show plunges you into a split world of magic/unmagic and just when you think it's all happy Harry Potter land, you find out your fun "powers" and everlasting youth come from Satan, your aunts enjoy human flesh and your Catholic baptism has power to protect you. It's slick, unexpected, and hilarious. It is darker than other magical shows. Satanism is dark! I'm only a few episodes in, but so far there is no "light" magic. Sabrina's family are expected to sign over their souls. I'm a little surprised to hear Christians have a problem with that aspect of the story - isn't the devil supposed to be an enemy?
But the story isn't preachy, doom and gloom! A lot of family dynamics are happening in its clever writing. I especially appreciated the nightmare episode - what could have been just a filler was used to explore the aunt's relationship with each other: love, inter-dependence, guilt, rage - everything women shove under the rug spilling out just to swept up again with full knowledge that little is really going to change in their sisterhood.
I've seen a lot of complaints about the show's "politics" - have you ever spoken to a teenage girl? They CARE about things! And these characters care! From Sabrina's friends drive to have some affect on their world to the scary "sisters" girl gang social climbing efforts to serve the Dark Lord,all the women are passionate. I have foggy memories of reading my parent's old copies of "Archie" comics and Sabrina always used her powers to get back at bullies and unfair teachers so in that sense the writers are staying true to the origins!
Kiernan Shipka, is a knock-out! I thought she was a passable kid actress in Mad Men and I'm so pleased she's developing her own career! I enjoyed a few episodes of Riverdale, but it was all a bit too many storylines and what felt like adult voyeurism into teenage life. I'm hoping for fewer underwear scenes and more drama, but we'll see out it wraps up!