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Warning: This post contains spoilers from the final season of “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.”
For one last magic trick, the powers that be at Netflix have conjured an episode of “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina the Teenage Witch.”
The fourth and final season of “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina,” premiering Thursday, features a nostalgic crossover event: The penultimate episode of the teen fantasy series guest stars Beth Broderick and Caroline Rhea, who played aunts Zelda and Hilda, respectively, in the ’90s sitcom “Sabrina the Teenage Witch,” starring Melissa Joan Hart.
It’s the first time showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s dark adaptation of the Archie Comics saga has directly acknowledged the existence of its lighter, 20th century sister series and the result is an absolute scream in more ways than one.
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Netflix s adaptation of the Archie Comics title
Sabrina the Teenage Witch has a limitation built right into its title: it focuses on a teenager. This past summer, Netflix revealed that it wouldn t be renewing the series for a fifth season, understandably resulting in fans expressing their disappointment regarding its cancellation. Despite this presumption, the final episodes of
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina brings the adventures of Sabrina Spellman to an organic conclusion, capping off the character a canonical year after audiences met her, delighting viewers with a sendoff that prevents the series from an impending staleness. This ending for the series might not be the one fans were hoping for, as the back half of this arc faces some narrative stumbles, but it pulled out all the stops to deliver the series its biggest threats, all while embracing the concept s signature cha