Dark Sabrina

Netflix picked up Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. If you know the original with Melissa Joan Hart, this isn’t it. It was effortlessly charming because of her—a teenager with actual magic powers, and it never felt desperate or over-explained, just funny and perfect.

The new one’s dark. Everything ominous and threatening, aiming for actual horror based on the comics, full of that Riverdale energy where the town’s menacing and everything’s perpetually on the edge of disaster. Kiernan Shipka plays Sabrina.

I didn’t need another version. The original solved its own problem. This treats the premise as actual horror instead of comedy, which is valid, it’s just not what the original did. It’s another remake because studios stopped having ideas years ago.

The original still airs in reruns sometimes. That’s what I’ll watch when I want Sabrina.