Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina (2018-2020)

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018–2020)

⚰️ From Laugh-Track to Blood Pact ⚰️

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🎬 Let’s start by showing y’all the trailers, shall we?

Season 1:

Season 2:

Season 3:

Season 4:

Well theres your first issue, how the hell do u cram 4 seasons into 2 years?

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🧙 Non-Spoiler Plot Overview

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina takes the classic Archie Comics/Sitcom character Sabrina Spellman and drags her broom straight into Hell—literally. Instead of the lighthearted, campy ’90s show with Melissa Joan Hart and a sarcastic talking cat, this Netflix remake aims for dark, gothic horror. It’s heavy on Satanic lore, ritual sacrifices, gore, and grotesque imagery. Sabrina is split between two worlds: the mortal teenage life she wants to keep, and the witch legacy she can’t escape.

It’s edgy, atmospheric, and sometimes brilliant… but also mean-spirited, inconsistent, and often collapses under its own ambition. Think Hot Topic’s idea of witchcraft turned into a prestige drama.

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👥 Character Rundown

Sabrina Spellman (Kiernan Shipka): Half-witch, half-mortal. Smart, rebellious, but often entitled to the point of being downright frustrating. Kiernan plays her well, but Sabrina’s “I deserve both worlds” attitude drives most of the chaos.

Zelda Spellman (Miranda Otto): Cold, narcissistic, manipulative. Zelda has moments of brilliance but also murders her own sister in fits of rage. She’s less “strict aunt” and more “abusive dictator.”

Hilda Spellman (Lucy Davis): The kinder aunt, nurturing, funny, and often the victim of Zelda’s cruelty. Hilda balances out the tone with genuine warmth.

Ambrose Spellman (Chance Perdomo): Sabrina’s pansexual warlock cousin. Charismatic, witty, often stuck cleaning up Sabrina’s messes. One of the best characters in the series.

Harvey Kinkle (Ross Lynch): Sabrina’s mortal boyfriend. Sweet but bland, constantly dragged into danger he didn’t ask for.

Roz Walker (Jaz Sinclair): Sabrina’s mortal best friend. Gains the “Cunning,” a kind of clairvoyance. Her arc gets increasingly messy as the show goes on.

Theo Putnam (Lachlan Watson): Another friend of Sabrina’s, who transitions during the show. Theo’s arc is handled decently but often sidelined.

Madam Satan / Lilith (Michelle Gomez): The standout performance. Manipulative, seductive, complex, and tragic. She goes from villain to sympathetic anti-hero.

Father Blackwood (Richard Coyle): High Priest of the Church of Night. Power-hungry, abusive, and dripping with menace.

Lucifer Morningstar (various actors, then Luke Cook): Initially presented as the literal goat-headed Satan. Eventually reduced to a petty, humanized villain in Season 4, which was a huge downgrade.

Supporting cast: Prudence, Nick Scratch, Caliban, and others all weave in and out, but most end up overshadowed by Sabrina herself.

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⏳ Pacing / Season Flow

Season 1: Strong start. Creepy atmosphere, solid characters, Sabrina’s tug-of-war between worlds works.

Season 2: Starts losing the thread. Sabrina becomes more entitled, plots get more ridiculous.

Season 3: The “Hell” season. Ambitious, fun in concept, but overstuffed and campy.

Season 4: Collapses under its own weight. Too many eldritch terrors, two Sabrinas, and a finale that betrays everything that came before.

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✅ Pros

Genuinely creepy atmosphere, especially in Seasons 1 & 2.

Great performances (Michelle Gomez steals every scene).

Bold use of Satanic lore—goes further than you’d expect on Netflix.

Practical effects and gore occasionally work really well.

Ambrose, Lilith, and even Zelda (when she’s not abusive) add depth.

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❌ Cons

Mean-spirited tone: kills characters brutally, often without payoff.

Sabrina’s entitlement gets exhausting.

Zelda crosses the line into abusive and unlikable.

Satan’s eventual downgrade into a human form is insulting.

Salem not talking removes a lot of the franchise’s charm.

Season 4 in particular is a trainwreck of convoluted arcs, bad CGI, and insulting payoffs.

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💭 Final Thoughts

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina is a double-edged broomstick. On one hand, I respect its ambition—it dared to turn a sitcom witch into a horror queen. On the other, it fumbled tone, writing, and characters so badly that it collapsed in its final stretch.

It’s grotesque, sometimes genuinely scary, sometimes accidentally funny, and often just plain frustrating. Sabrina herself works as both a protagonist and a problem: Kiernan is great, but the character is insufferable.

And yes—after watching this and Wednesday, the similarities are glaring. Dark-haired goth teen, struggles with fitting in, awkward love interests, macabre aesthetics… it feels like Netflix copied their own homework.

Overall? I enjoyed parts of it. Didn’t love it. Season 4 was bad.

Season 1: 8/10

Season 2: 6.5/10

Season 3: 7/10

Season 4: 4/10

Overall: 6.5/10

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⚠️ Spoiler Warning ⚠️

From here on, full spoilers for all four seasons.

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🩸 Season 1 – Spoilers

Sabrina struggles to balance mortal life with her witch heritage. She refuses to sign the Book of the Beast, putting her at odds with Father Blackwood and the Church of Night.

Key twists:

Zelda murders Hilda in cold blood during an argument, then casually resurrects her. Establishes Zelda as toxic.

Madam Satan (Lilith) manipulates Sabrina from the shadows, revealing she’s been grooming her for Lucifer.

Ambrose is revealed to be under house arrest for attempting to blow up the Vatican.

Sabrina finally signs the Book of the Beast to save her friends, cementing her fate.

Faults: Sometimes leans too much into shock value gore. Sabrina’s decision-making is frustrating. The lack of Salem’s voice already starts to hurt the charm.

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🩸 Season 2 – Spoilers

Sabrina embraces her witch side, breaking further away from her mortal life. She grows closer to Nick Scratch, drifting from Harvey.

Key twists:

Sabrina learns she’s Lucifer’s daughter. Yep, she’s the literal offspring of Satan.

Lilith betrays Lucifer and crowns herself Queen of Hell.

Zelda ascends to High Priestess of the Church of Night.

Ambrose gets caught in Blackwood’s manipulations.

Harvey, Roz, and Theo start forming their own Scooby gang.

Faults: Sabrina’s entitlement grows unbearable—she constantly ignores advice and makes everything worse. Plotlines drag (especially the love triangle). The show’s mean streak gets harsher without balance.

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🩸 Season 3 – Spoilers

Sabrina must save Nick from Hell and contend with Caliban, a prince of Hell who challenges her claim to the throne.

Key twists:

Sabrina splits herself in two: one rules Hell (Sabrina Morningstar), the other stays in Greendale (Sabrina Spellman). Entitlement at its peak—she literally makes two versions of herself so she can “have it all.”

Madam Satan gives birth to Lucifer’s child, only for it to be stolen.

The Eldritch Terrors start seeping into Greendale.

Harvey, Roz, and Theo get dragged into increasingly absurd plots.

Faults: Overstuffed with plotlines. The “two Sabrinas” idea sets up major problems for Season 4. Caliban is underdeveloped. Too many monsters-of-the-week distract from the core story.

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🩸 Season 4 – Spoilers

This is where it all collapses.

Key twists:

Sabrina Morningstar (Hell version) dies in an eldritch dimension. Sabrina Spellman absorbs the Void itself to stop the apocalypse but dies as a result.

Nick drowns himself to “be with Sabrina.” Tone-deaf and insulting.

Zelda doubles down on abusiveness. She kills Hilda again in fits of rage, then resurrects her. Their relationship becomes absurdly toxic.

Lilith murders her own newborn child (Lucifer’s baby) to escape his wrath. A grotesque, mean-spirited scene that adds nothing but shock value.

Lucifer Morningstar is downgraded into a human man in a suit. The literal Satan is reduced to a petty ex.

Salem never talks—again removing all levity.

The final episode ends with Sabrina dead and Nick dead, stuck in the “sweet hereafter” together. Fans universally hated it.

Faults: Everything. Eldritch Terrors were a cool idea, but wasted. Sabrina’s death was unnecessary. Nick’s suicide was handled horrifically. The tone became joyless and sadistic. Season 4 feels like Netflix running out of ideas and sprinting to the finish.

Sorry I need to go more into detail.

🩸 Season 4 Rant: Where It All Fell Apart

Oh boy, here we go. Season 4 isn’t just bad — it’s catastrophically bad. It feels like the writers ran out of steam and decided to throw every eldritch horror idea at the wall while completely forgetting what made the show fun (or at least watchable) in the first place. Let’s break down everything wrong:

The Eldritch Terrors were wasted. On paper, cosmic Lovecraftian horrors invading Greendale sounds amazing. In execution? Each “terror” was just a one-episode gimmick that wrapped up too quickly. None of them felt threatening. By the time we hit the “Void,” it just felt like a video game side quest instead of the end of all things.

Two Sabrinas. Season 3’s decision to split Sabrina into “normal teen Sabrina” and “Sabrina Morningstar, Queen of Hell” was already ridiculous entitlement. But Season 4 makes it worse by having one of them die pointlessly in another dimension, while the other fumbles around with cosmic powers she doesn’t understand. Instead of exploring the consequences of such a huge decision, the show treats it like a lazy plot device.

Sabrina’s death. Let’s talk about this insult of an ending. Sabrina sacrifices herself to contain the Void and dies. Okay, fine — tragic heroine death, I can respect that if it’s earned. But it isn’t. It feels rushed, unearned, and cynical. Then Nick kills himself to “be with her in the afterlife”? Excuse me? That’s not romantic. That’s tone-deaf and gross. Suicide-as-romance is one of the worst endings they could’ve chosen.

Nick’s arc destroyed. Nick Scratch started as a decent, layered character. By the end, he’s reduced to Sabrina’s sad little shadow, drowning himself for her like a mopey side note. All his potential gets flushed in one scene.

Lucifer’s downgrade. Remember when Satan was terrifying? Goat-headed, booming, larger-than-life? Yeah, forget that. In Season 4, they turn him into a smug guy in a suit. The literal Prince of Darkness is reduced to some petty, ex-boyfriend energy. It’s insulting.

Lilith’s baby subplot. One of the most grotesque and mean-spirited scenes in the entire show: Lilith, desperate to escape Lucifer’s wrath, murders her own newborn child. The show plays it like a shocking, “dark” twist, but it’s just cruel and unnecessary. It doesn’t develop her character — it only strips away the sympathy she’d earned over three seasons.

Zelda & Hilda’s toxic cycle. Zelda keeps killing Hilda in fits of rage, then casually resurrecting her. What could’ve been a one-time gag becomes a pattern that makes Zelda feel less like a strict aunt and more like an abusive monster. The show never really acknowledges how messed up this dynamic is.

Salem the cat still doesn’t talk. Look, I get it — this show wanted to be gritty and serious. But by Season 4, the lack of a talking Salem just feels like they erased the last trace of charm. He’s barely even a presence anymore, which is absurd when you remember how iconic he was in the original.

The ending is pure betrayal. After all the trauma, gore, betrayals, and sacrifices, the final note of this series is: Sabrina is dead, Nick is dead, and they’re holding hands in the afterlife. That’s it. No sense of triumph, no earned closure, just sadness for the sake of sadness. It’s a wet fart of an ending that left most fans (myself included) wondering: “Why the hell did I even sit through four seasons of this?”

Season 4 didn’t just fumble — it dug its own grave, climbed in, and asked us to applaud.