Onward to the magical portion of the proceedings: Wardwell’s game all along has been to get Sabrina to sign her name in the Book of the Beast. Tough break, mortals! In Sabrina’s defense, all your story lines were kind of boring. But the sad, dazed look on all three faces (Roz, Suz, and Harvey) at the end of the episode, as they sit on that couch at Baxter High and try to convince themselves that Sabrina is still their Sabrina and won’t ditch them for her ultra-cool magical life… oooof. How did it take them this long to put this together? I appreciate that they’re all so accepting of Sabrina when she reveals her true identity to them. To this I say: Her last name is, literally, Spellman. Ros and Suzie sloooowly figure out that Sabrina is a witch. (Minus points for not realizing that if she does too good a job of grooming Sabrina, the teen half-witch could totally usurp her and sit at Satan’s right hand.)Īs long as we’re in the business of giving out points, I now need to dock about a thousand from Sabrina’s friends. Love the aunties as I do - I was especially moved by Aunt Zelda’s post-break-up advice, telling Sabrina that the way to face Harvey is to just do it, “as bravely and humbly as you can” - even I must say: Point Wardwell. Knowing Sabrina only a short while, she’s able to out-manipulate the two witches who’ve raised her and known her all her life. This finale is primarily the result of her careful, strategic planning, and I have to say: I am impressed. She is very excited about her status as the “future queen of hell.” She also peels off her face (!!!) and devours Principal Hawthorne (RIP, but whatever, he was a slimeball) and I am HERE FOR IT. Lilith, Adam’s first wife, who calls herself Madam Satan. Witch Wardwell, we learn at the finale’s end, is actually Satan’s concubine a.k.a. Are you ready for Sabrina to fulfill the Dark Lord’s prophecy? Is her path to this place going to hold up to super-close inspection? Were so many delectable stories dangled in front of us early in the season - the truth of how Sabrina’s parents died, the serious magic classes Sabrina was supposed to take at the Academy, that witch hunter who is presumably still roaming the woods of Greendale - that never really went anywhere? Should we make like Sabrina and give in to the pull of the Church of the Night and plunge into the season finale recap?
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