She'll also have to leave her school and friends behind, and attend the Academy of the Unseen Arts – a school for witches that's kind of like Hogwarts, but with a lot more murder and devil-worship. When she turns 16, she's expected to go through with her Dark Baptism – a ceremony in which she signs her name in Satan's book and pledges herself to the Dark Lord and his cause for eternity. She's half mortal, half witch, and while she lives in a spooky funeral home with her witch aunts ( Lucy Davis and Miranda Otto), and warlock cousin ( Chance Perdomo), she also attends a normal high school, has normal human friends, and even a boyfriend, the likable but kind of clueless Harvey Kinkle ( Ross Lynch).īut Sabrina is going to have to make a choice. In Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, soon-to-be-16-year-old Sabrina Spellman ( Kiernan Shipka) is torn between two worlds. More often than not, the show comes off seeming like the Kidz Bop version of The Witch. And those two things don't mesh very well.
But it also wants to be a fun, somewhat campy experience.
Sabrina wants to be unapologetically dark, and that's great. There's nothing wrong with keeping the audience up to speed on this material, but there has to be a better way to keep us informed than just simply letting a character spell things out in unsubtle detail. Nearly every episode has a character going off into a long monologue explaining the origins and meanings of a particular witchy element. In its attempt to bring audiences into this creepy new world, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina suffers from an abundance of exposition.
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