Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

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Season 1
  • Network: Netflix
  • Series Premiere Date: Oct 26, 2018
Season #: 4, 3, 2, 1
User Score
6.0

Mixed or average reviews- based on 339 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 199 out of 339
  2. Mixed: 36 out of 339
  3. Negative: 104 out of 339

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  1. Valeli
    Oct 28, 2018
    6
    A SJW show, yes. That said, it doesn't upset me so much here as it does in many other films that stuff has been forced into.

    Sabrina is a perfectly reasonable setting to use for these themes (vs clunkily forcing them into, i don't know, star wars). This one is meant to be about a woman, in highschool, being raised in a non-traditional family. You might not agree with the arguments or    A SJW show, yes. That said, it doesn't upset me so much here as it does in many other films that stuff has been forced into.

    Sabrina is a perfectly reasonable setting to use for these themes (vs clunkily forcing them into, i don't know, star wars). This one is meant to be about a woman, in highschool, being raised in a non-traditional family. You might not agree with the arguments or whatever, and sometimes the writing does go annoyingly overboard with the men-are-evil shtick, but thematically it works.

    If the themes themselves massively trigger you, avoid this (also maybe ask yourself why themes like not arbitrarily ripping on people triggers you? Reevaluate your life a bit?).

    If it's just forcing of those themes into completely inappropriate shows that upsets you though (as is generally the case with me), I think you can probably still find this series enjoyable. The directing and picture quality is very good - it's definitely nice and atmospheric. Some of the scenes are a bit teen/preteen stuff, but that's what the old show was too so.... I can't say I'm shocked. The biggest drawback to me though is that Salem doesn't crack jokes anymore! I know they were trying to make it edgier or whatever, but seriously..... that cat /was/ the show.

    I'd give it a solid 6 or 7. It's not a masterpiece, but it's definitely fun enough to fill my Halloween-adjacent evening downtime.    … Expand
  2. MetaBoBB
    Apr 16, 2019
    9
    Lol to all these negative reviews though. This show is good with good acting and a bit off darkness.
    Part 2 is even better!
  3. EpycWyn
    Jul 10, 2019
    6
    The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina the Far-Left Witch has great stories, great styles, quality set design, and horribly forced morals that come off as heavy-handed beyond repair. Someone should have sat this writer down and told them the value of subtly instead of just blaring the 'white male bad' horn a thousand times overtly consistently throughout the first and second seasons. This showThe Chilling Adventures of Sabrina the Far-Left Witch has great stories, great styles, quality set design, and horribly forced morals that come off as heavy-handed beyond repair. Someone should have sat this writer down and told them the value of subtly instead of just blaring the 'white male bad' horn a thousand times overtly consistently throughout the first and second seasons. This show would get an 8/10 from me if they had not relied on political/moral pandering with no room for thought, argumentation, or basic subtlety. You can be political in a show, you can be overt with politics, but if you say 'this right this wrong' with that being the entire argument with no opposing side, it will be as forced as it is childish and justly piss off viewers. This show is pandering incarnate because the director could not understand the value of nuance, subtle messaging, fair arguments, and basic empathy for their own viewers. Thus, this show gets a solid 6/10 because, had this issue not existed, I would love this show's entertainment value dealing with occult subjects normally too taboo to touch. This show is too cowardly to convey the other side's arguments but 'brave' enough to force its own down your throat at every turn, and deserves all the hate it gets for that.… Expand
  4. kevinbird
    Apr 29, 2019
    9
    Nos muestra una sabrina fresca que compacta con todo el clima en general, muy adictiva y sobre todo muy bien presentada
  5. thelettere
    Mar 12, 2020
    4
    The actress playing Sabrina (Kiernan Shipka) has the unusual quality of being both likable and unconvincing/uninteresting.

    The material doesn't help.
  6. TTTTB
    Apr 30, 2019
    2
    Bad acting. Obvious agenda. Uninteresting characters. Could barely make it through the first 3 episodes, had to force myself to finish the season. Just avoid this atrocity.
  7. Lucas_t
    Dec 27, 2019
    7
    With a poor season 1, but that can please.
    A cliché and teen story, with Sabrina trying to decide whether to turn into a witch or live a normal life with her friends. The script is the worst point of the series, but the good direction and comic reliefs that really work can make you have fun and even enjoy the series.
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Metascore
74

Generally favorable reviews - based on 28 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 22 out of 28
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 28
  3. Negative: 0 out of 28
  1. The New Yorker
    Reviewed by: Troy Patterson
    Oct 31, 2018
    80
    Sabrina is also possessed by the spirit of Kevin Williamson’s script for Wes Craven’s “Scream”: there’s a giddy cleverness in how it shouts out its own tropes and knowing riffs, in the service of minting a Faustian coming-of-age tale in which the retro atmosphere mingles with progressive gender politics.
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  2. The Atlantic
    Reviewed by: Sophie Gilbert
    Oct 29, 2018
    80
    Chilling Adventures ends up being a surprisingly complex interrogation of power, aware both of the necessity of women claiming it and of the consequences that usually follow when that power is used for revenge.
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  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Margaret Lyons
    Oct 26, 2018
    60
    The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina is frequently chilling, but it’s rarely much of an adventure.
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