![]() ![]() ![]() Even as the franchise moved away from even implying horniness occurs or jump scares, I watched with an eye towards Cassie Nightingale and her family living much closer spiritually religious friends or occult and magick heads, than Christmas-and-Easter-Christians and the social-aspect types from other faiths. I have never been able to shake the Bell/Bell happenstance, and have always watched the franchise through the lens of practice and acknowledgment. It is a story of a woman who is both foreign and in her hometown, who is adjusting and even acclimating, while refusing to surrender what makes her unique and what she comes from. Over the course of the original movies, Cassie Nightingale marries, taking on step-children, and having a baby, as she annoys bigots, helps abused children, makes treats, and solves many a problem, from the woman who could use an aphrodisiac to being town mayor. Our titular Good Witch, played by Catherine Bell. The first movie debuted the year the scholar Catherine Bell, author of Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice and other books, passed on, and I fully missed that it was starring Catherine Bell the actor and parsed a summary as if it was based on Bell the theorist’s work. I saw the first movie, I believe on a rerun, specifically because no one in the room could agree on a program or tone so we chose one that none of us were particularly keen on. Focused on Cassandra “Cassie” Nightingale as she moves into her ancestral home, called Grey House, in Middleton, generic small white-people town America, the show played light with Cassie’s in-story nature as maybe a witch and with the actor, Catherine Bell, being the one nonwhite routine presence in a very white series and very white town. By Travis Hedge Coke on NovemPatricia Highsmashĭebuting on the Hallmark Channel in January of 2008 with The Good Witch, the Good Witch franchise has lasted as a series of series of movies, and then a seven season television program punctuated, for all by the last season, by interrelated movies. ![]()
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