Lidia Molina Whyte, Author at The Mary Sue

Lidia Molina Whyte

Lidia is a half Spanish, half Scottish writer and editor based in London. She loves all things witchy, YA and cartoons. Mostly fluffy, but can and will hex you.

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She-Ra and the Princesses of Power Offers Some of TV’s Most Complex Female Relationships

As much as it hurts to watch Glimmer and Adora grow further and further apart, it’s a brilliant move, one that reinforces the show’s knack for nailing the complexities of potentially toxic relationships, particularly toxic female friendships.

Kiernan Shipka as Sabrina winks at the camera in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.

Netflix’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Is Missing the Magic Spark

For all of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina’s triumphs—an unapologetically feminist female protagonist, a willingness to tackle issues that feel painfully relevant, an on-point retro Satanist aesthetic—the show also often misses the mark, and underpinning all of its missteps is the lack of a clearly established magic system.