Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina has always been a show that struggled to be
about something while still churning through vast acres of plot. And while this season occasionally spent time with Sabrina struggling to figure out who she was after a bad breakup, the finale goes out in a wild blaze of plot, as her various loved ones battle to save her and stop the Void.
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They’re ultimately successful at stopping the Void, but Sabrina herself isn’t saved, thus ending the show on a surprisingly down note for a series that was often explicitly about darkness but rarely completely despairing. It’s a blur of events, considering the episode begins with Sabrina making out with her boyfriend among friends while watching a scary movie. In short order, Sabrina Morningstar reappears through a mirror with just enough life left in her to warn Sabrina Spellman about the Void before she perishes. This event then kicks off a series of speeding train events that keep dropping characters by the wayside with little in the way of a farewell. The trinket man returns to get the Imp of the Perverse, trading it for Pandora’s Box, at which point Sabrina comes up with a reckless plan on her own to stop the Void. Her family, unsurprisingly, tries to yank her back into reality, whereupon they store her spirit in Morningstar’s body, even though it would seem that whatever killed her would have damaged that body. Lilith overhears that Morningstar is dead and rushes off to tell Lucifer, who tries to storm the Spellman house with Caliban and some possessed miners, all of whom end up getting sucked into the Void. And then Lilith stabs Lucifer, drinks his celestial blood, and kicks him out of Hell. That’s it for Lucifer, once the show’s greatest villain, and it’s also more or less the last of Lilith, who pops up to attend Sabrina’s funeral but otherwise isn’t an actor in anything that happens. What happened to her baby? Was she actually upset about it? Was this all just a long game to take over Hell, or is the idea that she’s just enough of an opportunist to forget everything else and seize her moment now that it’s here?