Dose television effect Wiccan Culture

Entertainment that contains Wiccan and Neo-Paganism arrives in popular culture in clusters. Society has left one of these clusters and we are about to enter another moment when Wicca will be introduced to society. With teen show we will see magic hear about the book of shadow and see it as two side of good verse evil. These show will not explore the deeper root of Wicca or talk about the religion, but show magic as this supernatural force that will destroy evil.

1991 is a notable year for Wicca and the media when Oliver Stone’s The Doors came out and is the first time where Wicca is present in motion picture and shown respectfully and accurately. This is the most importer part, previously we have seen Wiccan in motion picture but not shown accurately. 

Shows inclined towards the lurid, few Wiccans where flattered or pleased with The X-Files’ depiction of Wicca; where some practitioners remember considerable indignation and controversy over the “Sanguinarium” episode among the Pagan, however the, “Chinga” episode reveals an admirable understanding of the breadth of the Pagan/Neo-Pagan world.

1996 there is a “cluster” of shows that represent Wicca in modern culture and entertainment, not only episode “Sanguinarium,” but also we start to see Wicca in staring  in movie, The Craft.  Which was sensationalistic but not really accurate.

In the later 1990s, there are popular television series that are aimed at girls: Charmed and Buffy the Vampire-Slayer. Although it was more of a show about Witchcraft than Wicca, and Witchcraft in Charmed could resemble Wicca today; Buffy was the first television show that feature a “Wiccan” character. However, the characters on Buffy tended to spend their time fighting vampires, and the “Wicca” on the show often resembled traditional Supernatural Witchcraft (with Supernatural Powers), Wiccans often discount the “Wicca-ness” of Buffy.  Nonetheless, for a lot of Mundanes, Buffy remains their best understanding of Wicca to this date.

In January 2009 to present, there are more shows that contain “Wicca episodes” of varying quality. The most successful occurred on Nov 29, 2009, when the venerable, cherished, and long-running series The Simpsons aired “Rednecks and Broomsticks,” in which Lisa discovered Wicca. Though it was a cartoon, Wicca is shown in a sympathetic and realistic light.