Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

Netflix | Release Date: October 26, 2018

6.5	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 118 Ratings

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AhmedJMMar 8, 2020

1st Season starts off well, not a masterpiece but enjoyable enough to make you want to watch the next episode. The second season is when the writing went to **** and nothing made sense, and everything felt stupid and you can't care anymore.

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CorvusDoveJan 23, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina is another instance of a show that was beloved in childhood for its camp and silliness getting a reboot as a modern, dark, artistically-expressive epic. In shows like these, the protagonist is a Mary Sue that both generates and resolves most of the conflicts through personal development, and the formula works well. Overall, this is accomplished well, but as I watched the fourth (and presumably final) season, I realized something was going very wrong, and it kicked the quality of the show down a few pegs for me. The first season ("part") really delivers. We get a degree of silliness while still getting us on board with themes that would make your religious great-grandparent freak out. Season 2 gets a little more convoluted but still works well, and the characters have strong personal motivations that set up for several seasons of conflict and development. Season 3 takes us more into writing where sci-fi fans might easily follow the plot, but some of the characters portrayed as silly middle-ground characters take a sharp antagonistic slant and the primary antagonist from other arcs is back yet again (much in the styling of old sitcoms) and you find yourself being like, "oh, with this guy again...". Season 4...well...
Season 4 feels like the writers got notice there wouldn't be a season 5 and did all they could to wrap up *every* character's arc, dedicating each episode to one or two people getting their conclusion. This telegraphs that the series is ending with the season with that one writing mistake that always calls it out; "Swiper No Swiping" moments. A character might end their relationship just to turn around and get back together an episode later as if they'd developed as a character when in reality not even a full in-world day has passed. A character that was obviously meant to be a Chekov's gun of some sort basically gets thrown into a blender because it's in the way. Having been dead turns into a magical pill to cure both being evil and turns you into medicine to fix mental illness. A character literally has an "oh, by the way, I've been a god the whole time, peace out" moment with absolutely no lead-up or foreshadowing. The "Eldritch Horrors" are introduced as Lovecraftian in nature (to the point the famous author is mentioned by name twice), but are a campy mess that seem more like they are in the writers' way to wrap up character stories by the end (at one point, 'The Great Hereafter' and 'The Void' are identical except for huge, stylized text labels on the wall). The shark-jumping moment is actually when a character goes into what could have been a throwaway gag walk-off involving some of the cast of the original TV show (conspicuously missing a Melissa Joan Hart cameo) in one episode gets turned into another full episode itself just to write off one of the Eldritch Horrors and a character from Season 3. When you rush to conclude all the arcs in a story, it makes it clear that someone announced cancellation or your writers figured out a gambit to write a ton of story to extend a show run didn't work. You also end up focusing so much on those conclusions that you lose your themes; any feminist themes took a hard punch from the awkward way Sabrina's romantic arcs wrap, and one episode was basically a heavy-handed criticism of alt-right conservatism just to get it out there (it even quotes The Crucible directly, to the point I said it aloud before the character said it). Overall, I enjoyed the show's ability to make every episode feel like a movie, but the ending was a convoluted train-wreck to the point that I wasn't even certain that the final episode was truly the last episode until I saw I'd hit the end of the season on the Netflix interface. It's a good watch, but it drops balls at the end like a clumsy person trying to reload a ski-ball machine while holding all of the balls in one arm.… Expand

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kyle20ellisApr 14, 2020

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arostislavnaDec 5, 2021

There are some dumb globalist/leftist/wokeist/Marxist-revisionist/Leninist politics sprinkled throughout.

Sadly, the creators think that being a witch means you have to be of dark magick, a democrat, and a satanist, which is completely asinine.

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DarkRambMay 5, 2019

I watched first 5 or 6 episodes in a row, and I was very hyped for the rest of the series, but season 2 basically screwed that up. Still pretty nice to watch if there's nothing else to do.

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K9-BCJan 10, 2023

Se puede ser más insulso, producciones genericas de mie..., tengo 16 años, voy a destruir el mundo, pero primero acabar con el patriarcado, con el diablo, y con todos los demonios opresores y despues hacer tareas del cole, para graduarme ySe puede ser más insulso, producciones genericas de mie..., tengo 16 años, voy a destruir el mundo, pero primero acabar con el patriarcado, con el diablo, y con todos los demonios opresores y despues hacer tareas del cole, para graduarme y poder ir a la universidad con mi novio/a de turno.
Es en serio, que va a ser lo siguiente un recien nacido con un chupete magico que acabe con todos los males, mientras decide su genero... Una Mary sue, Social justice warrior... Maria Teresa de Calcuta le quedo en pañales… Expand

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