Welcome one and all to Multiversity’s very own ‘Witching Hour,’ in which we take a look at Netflix’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. This season, join me every Tuesday for your weekly recap. Here we are, and things couldn’t be worse for the Fright Club. The house of Morningstar is all but decimated. Can Sabrina escape her imprisonment and save all of humanity?
1. Time Shenanigans
The episode begins with some narration from Ambrose. He tells us how the world fell. Sabrina failed in her mission, Caliban takes control of Hell, raises and army and goes to Earth. The Pagans beat Caliban back and then the Archangel Michael destroys the army of Hell killing Caliban. (It’s a lot, I know)
Years have passed, decades. But Sabrina is awoken by…well Sabrina. They switch places and Sabrina makes herself promise that when she saves the world, it’ll be her time to be imprisoned. She likens it all to Back to the Future and tells herself to just go with it.
Sabrina returns to Earth to find everything gone and all her loved ones long dead, except for Ambrose. He was able to survive the Apocalypse and even says he went mad for about a decade or two. Together the last remaining Spellmans devise a plan to use Father Blackwood’s time-egg to go back to just before everything went to hell.
2. The Power of Hecate
After deposing Lucifer last season the Church of Night had no one to pray to. They tried Lilith and it really didn’t pan out for them too well. Zelda awakens disturbed that Hilda never came back out of the Cain pit. In what is probably Miranda Otto’s finest performance as Sabrina’s traditionalist aunt, the witch leads Sabrina and the rest of the coven in a prayer to Hecate, the goddess of magic and restores her sister to life. And while that is taken care of the pagans still have to be dealt with, and time needs to be fixed, cause you know, paradoxes.
3. Purge of the Pagans
Turns out the Pagans still need to sacrifice a virgin to the Green Man and plan to lure Greendale to the carnival and feast upon enchanted caramel apples which will turn the townspeople into plant people.
However, thanks to some trickery and future (past?) Sabrina, the witches use Pesta, the witch of decay to destroy the Greenman. After the Greenman decays, the rest of the coven confront the Pagans driving them from Greendale. Harvey also kills the Gorgon lady, comparing himself to Perseus… yikes Harvey. Thankfully Roz is able to save his ass and the two share a kiss.
Hilda gets some sweet revenge. Circe called Hilda a weaver, and weave she did. Using a rag doll, Hilda crushes her. Finally Prudence gets to strike the killing blow to Pan. With that, the pagans, a once formidable threat are gone from this story.
4. A Tale of Two Sabrinas
In what certainly won’t come back to haunt her, Sabrina confronts herself just before the timeloop is set to even begin. The Sabrina we’ve been following doesn’t want the throne, she wants to spend her days with her family. The Sabrina in the midst of the Judas Challenge, however wants the throne, hungers for it. She entombs Caliban in stone, takes the regalia back to her father and assumes the throne of Hell as Queen.
5. The Beginning of the End
As Lilith prepares Sabrina(b) for the throne we are given a last look at the residents of Greendale. It’s quite the sequence. We are shown Theo and Robin pondering their future. Roz and Harvey declare their love for each other. Zelda invites Mambo Marie into the newly formed Order Of Hecate. Dr. Cerberus is alive! Nick and Prudence are both outsiders now and seem to have found each other. All of this spliced between Sabrina(b) making herself ready as queen. Sabrina as queen looks like Queen Elizabeth I.
Sabrina (a) returns to her family and declares that she wants to be a teenager again. Guys. Sabrina is always getting into shit. She’ll never escape Hell, no matter how hard she tries. Paradoxes are abound. It will most definitely come back to bite her in the behind. Sabrina is so arrogant that she never thinks of the consequences. She thinks they’ll never cross paths with Lucifer, Lilith or Sabrina (b) again? I think she’s grossly mistaken.
Oh and what is possibly the best cliffhanger shows Blackwood’s egg harnessing the power of his Eldritch terrors. Something I’ve been clamoring for since it was teased in the second season. As Ambrose says “Everything has consequences.” I think messing with time constitutes for such consequences.
So now that the egg is hatched, what was in it? Blackwood says it’s the beginning of the end. And I’m here for it. Til next time witches.
