Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

Wed, 05 Jun 2019 16:20:01 GMT

I've watched about a third of the way through the first series, so my thoughts are a bit premature.

Grim remakes

I quite like the trend of grim remakes. I think there's two main things I like. One is the same thing as fanfiction, of putting the same characters into a new setting often brings out new stuff out of the same premises, which is really interesting. The other is, making it "grim" or "adult", often means engaging with the premises more deeply: plumbing for implications the original shied away from; taking characters emotions seriously when the original had them more as a joke; etc.

And like fanfiction, it still benefits from all the character building in the original, people watching it often already have sympathy for the characters, and know how they'd react, so the new version doesn't have to re-establish all that.

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Chilling Adventures of Sabrina