Series · ABC · 1964
Pass it on
Bewitched
46Watch it awake.
The marriage is real. The magic is the shortcut the show cannot quite give up.
The review
A man marries a woman who can rearrange the world with a gesture, and she agrees not to. The agreement is the marriage. Her mother thinks the agreement is absurd, and most episodes prove the mother tactically right and morally beside the point: the gesture is faster, and the faster thing is not what she promised. Darrin is sometimes a thin character. The vow is not thin.
It was near the top of the ratings in the middle of the decade, a country's joke about power in a suburban kitchen. I would let a child watch one and then say the sentence the laugh skips: the magic is the cheat, and the cheat is funny because we want it. Do not let the twitch become the way a house thinks problems end. One evening is plenty to see the pattern.
Journal
Keep Bewitched in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 46. Yours can differ.
The glance
Piety and Courage and Republic are the thin ones.
Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
58 instead of 46
Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur is still a comedy show, and it scores 58 instead of 46. What you gain is republic: A neighborhood with a name and a history.
The eight
- 5Industry
He has an advertising job, and the job is treated as a life, not only as a setup.
- 7Household
They chose each other, and the mother-in-law is the pressure, not the premise of contempt.
- 3Piety
The powers are a joke about restraint. Almost nobody asks what the restraint is for.
- 4Courage
She risks the marriage every time she decides the mortal way is too slow.
- 3Republic
The suburb is a public only as a place to hide the secret from.
- 5Temperance
The lesson is not to take the shortcut, and the episode usually takes it anyway.
- 5Truth
The secret is the contract of the marriage, and the show is honest that it chafes.
- 5Stewardship
A child inherits a funny house and a habit of solving trouble by a twitch.
Where to watch
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Live Historic · Bewitched · 46IMDb tt0057733
