The season of the witch: how Sabrina and co are casting their spell over TV

Diverse, digitally savvy and definitely feminist, our screens are full of witches who embody a new imagining of the original ‘nasty woman’

The season of the witch is truly upon us. A remake of Dario Argento’s giallo classic Suspiria has just been released, while this autumn, TV will conjure up not just one but three shows featuring a witch as protagonist: Sky’s A Discovery of Witches, Netflix’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina featuring Mad Men’s Kiernan Shipka, and a reboot of Charmed in the US.

But there is something different about TV’s new coven. In Sabrina, Shipka doesn’t spend much time crouched over a cauldron or on a broom; she is the embodiment of a new type of witch: young, woke, liberated and likely to cast spells that are socially conscious rather than caustic.

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