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The Best Witch TV Shows (And the Worst)
It’s October, so the fires are burning and cauldrons are bubbling — but it doesn’t have to be autumn to embrace all things witchy. (Of course it helps, but every season is a good season for magic.)
We’ve gathered our favorite television series where the occult takes center stage: Think your Sabrina the Teenage Witch(es), your Charmed sisters, even your nose-twitching suburban housewives. Not every show here is specifically about witches, but they all contain major characters of the bruja persuasion. Think: the powerful wife of time-traveling Ichabod Crane in Sleepy Hollow, Red Priestess Melisandre in Game of Thrones, and Nightcomer leader Evelyn Poole on Penny Dreadful. And yeah, The Vampire Diaries was mainly about blood-sucking supernatural creatures, but witches played a major role on the series (and an even bigger one on spinoff The Originals).
This isn’t a ranking of the witches themselves — though you can rank your favorites here if you want! — but rather a ranking of the series on which they appear by their series-level Tomatometer score. For those shows without series scores, they’re listed them alphabetically Z-A ahead of the scored shows listed below.
Synopsis: Mildred Hubble, a normal girl from a world outside of magic, finds herself at Miss Cackle's Academy for witches....
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Synopsis: Sabrina Spellman is a teenager with magical powers who comes from a long line of witches. Until going away to...
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Synopsis: Students at a remote British boarding school face the supernatural....
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Synopsis: Catherine Bell reprises her role of Cassie Nightingale in this series based on "The Good Witch" franchise of made-for-TV movies....
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Synopsis: A vampire returns to his family mansion in Collinsport, Maine....
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Synopsis: A group of sisters discover they are witches. Luckily for the world, they're of the good variety. Banding together in...
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Synopsis: Elena Michaels is a loner in a world she never wanted to be part of. The only female werewolf in...
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Synopsis: Samantha falls in love with New York ad exec Darrin Stephens and marries him in the first episode of the...
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Synopsis: Based on the popular film "The Witches of Eastwick" and the novel of the same name by John Updike, "Eastwick"...
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Synopsis: When a tornado transports Dorothy Gale from Lucas, Kan., to the faraway land of Oz, her arrival sets in motion...
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Synopsis: After her mother dies in a fire, Cassie Blake (Britt Robertson) goes to live with her grandmother in Chance Harbor,...
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Synopsis: Based on Charlaine Harris' book series by the same name, "Midnight, Texas" follows the lives of the strange inhabitants of...
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Synopsis: The mysterious Beauchamp family lives in the secluded seaside town of East End. Free-spirited artist Joanna Beauchamp is the mother...
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Synopsis: Small-town Louisiana waitress Sookie Stackhouse already is viewed as an oddball by her friends and neighbors, since she can read...
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Synopsis: Mel and Maggie Vera suffer a shock when their mother dies suddenly, but before they have time to heal from...
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Synopsis: On her birthday, Clary Fray discovers a surprise concerning her life. The teenager is not who she thinks she is...
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Synopsis: When Ichabod Crane wakes up 250 years in the future, he must solve a mystery dating back to the founding...
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Synopsis: "Once Upon a Time" tells the story of a new world, one in which fairy-tale legends and modern life collide....
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Synopsis: Sarah Michelle Gellar takes on the role of Buffy Summers in this TV version of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," based...
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Synopsis: As the wife of an ailing but very wealthy town selectman, Mary Sibley holds the distinction of being the most...
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Synopsis: This action-packed fantasy-drama revisits the saga of King Arthur and his wizard, Merlin, by focusing on the two characters when...
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Synopsis: This adaptation of the "Sabrina the Teenage Witch" tale is a dark coming-of-age story that traffics in horror and the...
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Adjusted Score: 86504%
Critics Consensus: A noteworthy ensemble cast combined with creepy storytelling and campy, outrageous thrills make American Horror Story: Coven a potently structured fright-fest.
Synopsis: Klaus, the original vampire/werewolf hybrid, returns to New Orleans -- which his family helped build -- to investigate rumors of...
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Synopsis: This supernatural drama, based on the series of novels by L.J. Smith, details the lives of two brothers, Damon and...
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Synopsis: Leaving his true love, Buffy, behind in Sunnydale, the vampire Angel tries to get a fresh start in Los Angeles....
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Synopsis: Portland detective Nick Burkhardt, descended from a long line of warriors known as Grimms, defends his city from magical creatures...
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Synopsis: George R.R. Martin's best-selling book series "A Song of Ice and Fire" is brought to the screen as HBO sinks...
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Synopsis: Many people are familiar with classic literary characters like Dr. Frankenstein and Dorian Gray. "Penny Dreadful" brings those and other...
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Synopsis: Ash is baaaack! Bruce Campbell reprises his "Evil Dead" film role as heroic, chainsaw-handed monster fighter Ash Williams, now an...
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Synopsis: Morticia and Gomez Addams head a perplexingly macabre family whose members include a giant named Lurch, who acts as doorman,...
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Synopsis: "A Discovery of Witches" is a fantasy series based on the similarly-named novel of the "All Souls" trilogy, written by...
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