Bewitched

ABC | Release Date: September 17, 1964

7.5	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 4 Ratings

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TheTruth101Sep 21, 2019

I know this is informal but BEWITCHED IS A TERRIBLE SHOW AND IT IS ONE OF THE MOST AWFUL WITCH SHOWS AND WORST SHOWS EVER MADE. & I have many reasons for that:
1. Samantha is a HORRIBLE & UNLIKABLE witch. She never uses her powers forI know this is informal but BEWITCHED IS A TERRIBLE SHOW AND IT IS ONE OF THE MOST AWFUL WITCH SHOWS AND WORST SHOWS EVER MADE. & I have many reasons for that:
1. Samantha is a HORRIBLE & UNLIKABLE witch. She never uses her powers for anything meaningful but rather just to make things more convenient. Like on the episode where she is learning how to drive (as you can see it's already an incredibly interesting and mind boggling plot: learning to drive) when she was about to have a fender bender she made the car disappear and reappear once she got past it. And like the second where she's trying to cook her husband (Darin) breakfast but she makes a mess so she uses her powers to clean it up and just zap him breakfast. Instead of using her powers when things get too hard, she should learn how to deal with them like a mortal, as Darin has always said he hates witchcraft anyway. If the show's plot revolved around a witch trying to survive in the human world, then it would be much more interesting than the plot the show had presented, a witch and her family using their powers and driving her husband mad. And this leads me on to my second point.
2. Using Powers for Poor Reasons and "Punishing the Guilty"
The reasons witches uses their powers on this show are very cockamamie and stupid. Like how the mother used her powers to make herself a cup of coffee or make Samantha's daughter (Tabitha) an expert at piano. Or how Sam made furniture appear and changed Darrin's clothes. Instead of using their powers for selfish gain and ludicrous things that could be easily down without them, how about they use the powers to save lives or help real world issues like local pollution. Instead they're "punishing the guilty." "Punishing the Guilty" is a phrase from Charmed (an actual good witch show) meaning that witches can't punish anyone who has done something presumably guilty. Now the one time a witch from Charmed did it, it was against someone who KILLED. But the witch from Charmed's (Phoebe) future self did it. And present Phoebe saw that, went back to her own time and learned a lesson about how it's wrong to punish the guilty no matter how small, because good witches on that show's job is to protect and save innocents, not punish the guilty. So when she learned this lesson, she decided not to use her sister's powers to get back at a man who let his dog do its business on her lawn. See but this was never the case with Bewitched. Samantha was an awful, presumably, short tempered person who would punish the guilty, mainly females who were "guilty" because Sam is presumably sexist against her own gender, for the dumbest reasons. Like the first episode: Samamtha used her powers to humiliate a woman at her own party just because the woman told her a couple of backhanded compliments and indirect insults, which for the most part were true. What kind of example are setting? She acted like it was okay for witches to use their powers against humans. She could have expressed to the woman how her remarks were uncalled for but instead she takes the cowardly way out and hides behind her powers to "handle" the situation. Also, she used her powers on a female who told her a couple of insults but not in the rapey old apothecary from season eight who constantly harassed and sexually assaulted her. What a trashy sexist woman. And this reflected on to her ugly, pest of a daughter in the later seasons because in an episode in season eight, her daughter turned her bulpy into a frog. Like she could have told her teacher or talked to a trusted adult to stop the bullying, but no she cowardly hides behind her powers just like her mom does. It's funny because if Sam got into a sticky altercation without her powers, she'd just scream and runaway like worthless coward she is, like when Darin was chasing her with a pie in the Double Double Toil and Trouble episode. Just shows how she could never defend herself and survive without her powers because she's that useless. Instead of cowardly hiding behind her powers, she should have been learning how to handle adult altercations in a mature adult fashion. All this leads to my third point.
3. Inconsistencies and a Dumb Idea of Witchcraft
This shows has countless inconsistencies leading back all the way to the first episode. Sam says she's a weak and inexperienced witch but then later that season she believes that she is evenly matched in power with a witch who fairly experienced and strong. This is the episode where Endora (Samantha's mother) tries to break up Samantha and Darin's marriage by having a young witch use her powers to woo Darin and his work partner. In this episode Sam freezes a restaurant and turns Darin into a fish. If she's so inexperienced then how can shw do that? And also witchcraft in this show works by Samantha waving her hands or twitching her mouth and nose. They rarely say spells or use potions. The imagery is ugly and the plots are bad too. This show is just plain trash.… Expand

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