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Tv Series Review: The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

So this is my second review on this blog and probably no one cares. But hey, you gotta start somewhere!

Anyways, this new series that follows the teenage witch Sabrina Spellman is an adaptation of a dark comic bookseries that exist in the same universe as Riverdale. It is currently developed by Netflix and is already set towards a second season.

The series follows Sabrina, as she on her 16th birthday has to sign her name in the book of the beast and pledge her life, name and powers towards satan himself. Being a half-witch, and growing up in the mortal community doesn’t make this decision easy. That in itself got me really exsited towards watching it and extreamly hyped up to the launch of it. 

You can tell that as it is the 28th, only two days after the release. I sure powered through the whole thing in two sessions. But I am done with season 1 and will rewatch it until the next season is released or until I get bored of it. 

With everything lining up to be a pretty solid show, here is the great and the gripe of The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. 

First off, what I think was great: I love the fact that this show is indeed dark and makes it a fact that these witches doesn’t mess around with their powers and love for satan. The story is also REALLY interesting and without realising it I had already watched all 10 episodes of the season, which made me furious that it only had 10 episodes. Like, come on, 10 episodes for something as amazing as this? A bit odd. But with the recent Riverdale seasons getting mixed feelings and reviews all over I get that they wanted to take a soft approach towards this seemingly darker version of the Archie Comics universe. 

The characters, man those characters. I really liked all of them. Except for one which I will talk about in the gripe section. But part from that, I really feel like we got introduced to the main characters in such a way that you instantly connected with somebody. There was a lot of good representation of PoC and lgbtq people. But it wasn’t their skincolor, gender nor their sexual orientation that defined them, it was their actions, beliefs and standing in the social matters and the drama that occurred during the episodes. Which made them human, not just a character who is the embodiment of the label they are supposed to have duct taped to their forehead nor like something the show needed to shove down our throats to get views. 

My alien 👾 rating is:

.•☆°•. 7 out of 10 •°☆.°•

Warning! Spoilers ahead, if you haven’t watched the show, I highly recommend you do and come back to read the gripe.

Here is the gripe: 

Number 1 - The goat. I get it, the devil is the scary giant goatman. But the statue in the school and that terrible costume whenever he appeared on screen was just so boring to look at and hard to grasp as evil. Wouldn’t it been so much more fun if the devil was actually like Lucifer from the show Lucifer. Sure he doesn’t scream terror (if you don’t count the devil face, which was done so much better than this) but neither does that goatman. For season 2, I just want a handsome man with an accent and a black suit to rule the wicked world. 

Number 2 - I wanted more horror and scary stuff. Evil witches that practises dark magic? Check. Any other sort of scary motif that could make this show more than a teenage romance story? Nah. Some times, the fakeness of the costumes and the bad written lines that were about dark magic just didn’t cut it at all.

Number 3 - I didn’t really like Sabrina. Which didn’t come as a shock to me, but still dissapointed me. She is such a brat. She put herself on such a high pedistal of greatness that she had no regard what so ever over who fell under the buss when she was on her warpath to ‘upperhand the dark lord’ and to get Harvey’s brother back. 

LOL we saw how that went didn’t we. 

It is one thing to not put your name in that book, she chose her mortal life over her magical one and it’s all dandy. But when she then gets everyone screwed over because of her actions is just so messed up. Zelda the badass (and delusional) and Hilda the lovley only wanted what was best for her, and sure everyone in the show had their flaws. But when Sabrina just didn’t give a sh*t about their continued warnings during each episode, I felt just so done with her. I was rolling my eyes every time she opened her mouth. 

The actress that played Sabrina didn’t deliver her lines that well either, and sometimes she just had the same monotone carefree voice during every single scene. Didn’t matter what she was saying, enchanting, screaming at or threatening. She just had no bark or bite behind her words. 

Don’t get me wrong, I really liked the show and can’t wait for next season. But it is not because of her, it is because of all of the other characters that seemed to have a head of their shoulders. Ambrose, Hilda, Susie and Roz are easily my favourites.