Yeah... exactly. The original show was super cute. It was more along the lines of Bewitched, but with a teenager as the lead, or perhaps like Harry Potter, but more comedic.
The new version is really dark. I usually do a movie night with my kids once a week, so we fired up Netflix the other day and I saw this. I was super excited, thinking I'd be sharing a bit of my youth with them. Nuh uh. In this version, the witches are satanic. There's lots of killing and blood. It's a far cry from the Sabrina I grew up with where the worst she got involved in was comic mischief. That's not to say this version is bad... it's not. I'm actually enjoying it so far. It feels a bit more like Supernatural. But, it is sooooo not the show I thought it would be.
Hehe. I remember that show. Me and you are similar age range, JA. I've not seen the latest one because we switched Netflix for Hulu. I'm thinking of switching back tho because Hulu sucks.