The later seasons of Buffy weren’t exactly family-friendly viewing, but by the time the series was close to wrapping, young adults who wanted to experience a world of onscreen magic had a fresh new take, thanks to The Boy Who Lived.
The most iconic witch of late ’90s-early/’00s television, though, was on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, as Willow Rosenberg (Alyson Hannigan) began to discover her innate gifts in season 2, and eventually became dangerously obsessed and overwhelmed by magic. By the time the first Harry Potter book was published in 1997, witches were coming back into vogue on television, with the multi-camera sitcom Sabrina the Teenage Witch on ABC, and The WB’s Charmed, originally starring Holly Marie Combs, Alyssa Milano and Shannen Doherty, about to launch its lengthy run.
Somewhere in between are the goofy yet still malicious women in 1993’s Hocus Pocus.
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But they’ve certainly skewed darker, like the coven which gathers to impregnate Mia Farrow in Rosemary’s Baby, the merciless coven of witches in Dario Argento’s 1977 horror classic Suspiria, or the mysterious figures skulking in the background in Robert Eggers’ 2015 movie The Witch. Sometimes they’re charming helpers, like the nose-wriggling Samantha of the 1960s sitcom Bewitched, and its short-lived 1970s spinoff Tabitha. In various incarnations over the last century, stories featuring witches have featured wildly different tones. It’s a power that exists outside that structure, and is even stronger and more compelling.” ”I just think witches are eternal and fascinating,” he says. And for Motherland: Fort Salem creator Eliot Laurence, it’s specifically “female power” - which is part of the appeal. Whether they’re taking on roles as heroes, villains, or support and information characters, witches represent power. “The truth is that the witch is a descendant of ancient goddesses who embodied both birth and death, nurturing and destruction, so it is not surprising that she has both aspects,” Jong says. As women’s roles in society have changed, witches’ roles onscreen have changed as well, fluctuating between positive and negative, and running the gamut from daffy parents to rebellious teenagers. In those contexts, witches were often defined as a force of villainy, though as Erica Jong observed in 1981’s Witches, their role in many narratives is directly tied to any given era’s thinking on femininity. Like so many supernatural tropes, witches as a story element go back to folk tales about Baba Yaga and the stories of the Brothers Grimm. Frank Baum’s novels wasn’t the first filmed version of that story, for the record: the silent version The Wonderful Wizard of Oz dates back to 1910.) Witches have been a favorite onscreen story element since the beginning of screen entertainment, going back to the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good in The Wizard of Oz. “In look and tone, it does not imitate the classic 1939 film starring Judy Garland, but this darker take on the story remains so familiar that, although it’s gorgeous, there’s too little tension and suspense driving it,” she wrote.Motherland: Fort Salem Photo: David Bukach/Freeform A brief history of screen witches In Variety‘s review, critic Maureen Ryan said the unavoidable comparison to “Wizard of Oz” was the series’ problem from the start. Then, for the next season, the network retooled the series with David Schulner, giving yet another straight-to-series 10-episode order in spring 2015, though NBC did not put “Emerald City” on the schedule until early 2017. It first landed a straight-to-series order for the 2014-2015 season, but NBC opted to pass on the ambitious series, which at that time, was being developed by Matthew Arnold and Josh Friedman. The show had a long road to getting on the air. Vincent D’Onofrio starred as the wizard, and other cast members are Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Ana Ularu, Gerran Howell, Jordan Loughran, and Mido Hamada.
“Emerald City” was a darker take on the classic “Wizard of Oz,” following 20-year-old Dorothy Gale, played by Adria Arjona, and her K9 police dog from Kansas who, after a tornado, are transported to another world far away - a mystical land of competing kingdoms, lethal warriors, wicked witches, dark magic, and a bloody battle for supremacy.
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