User Reviews

The theme of using magic to eliminate rivals and villains is a fixture in the Bewitched series. But few episodes set up the villain to be as deserving as Sheila Somers, the beautiful ex-fiance of Darren. Snob in the Grass is a reboot of the B-Plot of the Pilot episode in which Darren's former fiance plots to embarrass Samantha in a party setting. Sheila's plan is right out of the standard playbook for Snobs: Control the topics of conversation to subjects that make Samantha look uninformed. Look more fashionable, Look more beautiful, and throw some sneaky shade. The acting job by Nancy Kovack as Sheila is positively, perfectly, condescending, confident, self centered, and chock full of backhanded jabs. She flirts shamelessly with Darren and pulled out the stops in the beauty department from her figure displaying fitted capris and sleeveless knit top to her Cleopatra eye make up and perfect raven haired flip. As the Sheila's plan unfolds, it's clear Samantha has been set up to fail. Even the heartless Larry Tate has trouble stomaching the awkwardness and gives Samantha a sympathetic look. What's a gal to do? And herein lies the attraction of the whole magic genre in the first place. Sheila's real power is the rule of consequences. Samantha is not going to take direct action because there would be consequences to her husband and her reputation. But with a twitch of the nose you can make anything look like an accident, completely untraceable back to her. Hmmm is that wig Sheila's wearing? I wonder how cool and condescending she be if it "accidentally" came off? "I won't" "I won't" "Maybe I will..." A Bee, A Butler, A great Dane, and Garden hose later Sheila's had a disastrous night, and Samantha the last woman standing. When you get to the end of this episode you are gritting your teeth and demanding justice. And this episode delivers in a big comically satisfying way. It's an artifice-exposed classic.