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Netflix Brings its A-Game for The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

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Netflix’s new Chilling Adventures of Sabrina series is easily the best new show to come out this fall next to the latest season of Daredevil. While it doesn’t necessarily break new ground it manages to turn its heroine into a role model for young girls and a definitive badass.

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Let’s be honest, there’s been a bit of a gap since Buffy went off the air all those years ago.  There have been plenty of copycats, from BBC’s Class to almost every CW show that has aired since, but only Sabrina seems to really nail the vibe. That’s saying quite a lot given the shoes it is trying to fill.

Putting the show on Netflix rather than the CW was definitely a good move. It allows the show to tell a tighter story across 12 episodes rather than dragging it out across 23 or more. That means the producers can put their efforts into bringing in an A-list cast (which they have) and creating a totally unique world (doubly so).

By the end of the pilot episode the viewer knows exactly what kind of world Sabrina lives in and, more or less, how it works. This isn’t your grandmother’s Sabrina. Hell, it isn’t even your parent’s Sabrina. The modern Sabrina could kick the Sabrina from the 90s ass and she’s way younger.

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Much of that has to do with the instant paradigm shift in storytelling. This Sabrina has grown up knowing she’s a half-witch, it’s not an earth shattering surprise when her 16th birthday rolls around. The more alien part of her life isn’t the supernatural, it’s the mortal part. She knows what she’s supposed to become but doesn’t know if she wants it. Contrast that to the 90s Sabrina where everything revolved around being invited to a cool party or asking out a boy. The stakes are much higher this time around.

Much emphasis is placed on her Dark Baptism which, all things considered, is handled really well. Despite the fact that she’s a part of a coven and deals directly with Satan everyone’s stance is that while they might worship Satan it’s not that much different from any other religion. Her Dark Baptism is directly compared to a Bat Mitzvah or a quinceanera making it immediately relatable.

The show itself isn’t afraid to be gutsy and it shows right from the start. Kiernan Shipka plays Sabrina totally straight, despite all the craziness surrounding her. Even her aunts (Lucy Davis and Miranda Otto) which tend to be portrayed as zany in the past have many layers to them and arrive as three-dimensional characters, not just comic relief.

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If anyone suffers though it’s Sabrina’s boyfriend Harvey (Ross Lynch), he’s not given much to work with in the show. To be fair, he’s not the focus, but the audience never really gets to know him, which is a shame since he’s someone Sabrina considers close. Sabrina pulls a mind wipe on him in the first episode which, while understandable, seems to really lessen the character. It makes him expendable and way too malleable of a character to get invested in with the series.

It should be noted that despite the title and its comic book origins, this Sabrina is actually scary. There are plenty of monsters and demons and villains that it might unnerve younger viewers. For those that want to introduce their children to the world of Sabrina I would start with the comic books and work your way up to this version.

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Having already been renewed for a second season it will be fascinating to see where the show goes. It’s a brand new world out there for the teenage witch and anything could happen.

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Paramount+ Reveals Official Main Title Sequence for the Upcoming Series TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES

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During the TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES panel earlier today at San Diego Comic Con, Paramount+ revealed the official main title sequence for the series. The sequence is composed by EMMY® nominee, Matt Mahaffey, known for his work on Sanjay and Craig, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie and much more. 

From the studios of the Mutant Mayhem film, the all-new Paramount+ original series TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES explores the adventures of everyone’s favorite pizza-loving heroes as they emerge from the sewers onto the streets of NYC. Leo, Raph, Donnie and Mikey are faced with new threats and team up with old allies to survive both teenage life and villains lurking in the shadows of the Big Apple. The series is produced by Nickelodeon Animation and Point Grey Pictures.

TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES is executive produced by Chris Yost (The Mandalorian, Thor: Ragnarok) and Alan Wan (Blue Eye Samurai, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles [2012 Series]). Production is overseen for Nickelodeon by Claudia Spinelli, Senior Vice President, TV Series Animation, Nickelodeon, and Nikki Price, Director of Development and Executive in Charge of Production.

In addition to the upcoming new series, stream all things Turtles on Paramount+.

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DISNEY+ CASTS DANIEL DIEMER AS FAN-FAVORITE ‘TYSON’IN SEASON TWO OF “PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS”

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 in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con, Rick Riordan and Disney+ revealed that Daniel Diemer (“Under the Bridge”) will star as fan-favorite cyclops “Tyson” in the epic adventure series “Percy Jackson and the Olympians.” Diemer joins Walker Scobell (Percy Jackson), Leah Sava Jeffries (Annabeth Chase) and Aryan Simhadri (Grover Underwood) as a series regular. The Disney+ Original series from Disney Branded Television and 20th Television will start filming its second season next week in Vancouver.

Season two of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is based on the second installment of Disney Hyperion’s best-selling book series titled “The Sea of Monsters” by award-winning author Rick Riordan. In the new season, Percy Jackson returns to Camp Half-Blood one year later to find his world turned upside down. His friendship with Annabeth is changing, he learns he has a cyclops for a brother, Grover has gone missing, and camp is under siege from the forces of Kronos. Percy’s journey to set things right will take him off the map and into the deadly Sea of Monsters, where a secret fate awaits the son of Poseidon.

Diemer stars as Tyson – a young Cyclops who grew up all alone on the streets, and finds it difficult to survive in the human world.  Shy and awkward, with a heart almost as big as he is, Tyson soon discovers that Poseidon is his father, which means Percy Jackson is his half-brother… and that Tyson may have finally found a home. 

Diemer recently starred in the Hulu limited series “Under the Bridge” based off the critically acclaimed book of the same name and a tragic true story of a missing teen girl in Vancouver in 1997. He will next star in the indie “Thug” opposite Liam Neeson and Ron Perlman for director Hans Petter Moland. Daniel was recently seen as the lead in the indie “Supercell” opposite Alec Baldwin and Skeet Ulrich and the lead in the film “Little Brother” opposite Phil Ettinger and JK Simmons. Daniel can also be seen in the Netflix series “The Midnight Club” and recently starred as the male lead in the breakout hit Netflix feature “The Half Of It” from producer Anthony Bregman and director Alice Wu. He is a graduate of Victoria Academy of Dramatic Arts in Vancouver.

Created by Rick Riordan and Jonathan E. Steinberg, season two of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is executive produced by Steinberg and Dan Shotz alongside Rick Riordan, Rebecca Riordan, Craig Silverstein, The Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Bert Salke, The Gotham Group’s Jeremy Bell and D.J. Goldberg, James Bobin, Jim Rowe, Albert Kim, Jason Ensler and Sarah Watson.

The first season of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is available on Disney+

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