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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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Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, and reveals some general plot points for season 4.]
Like its title character, Netflix’s
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina has always been pulled in too many directions. Half-mortal/half-witch Sabrina Spellman (Kiernan Shipka) started the series by dividing her time between getting a normal teenage education at Baxter High, focusing on social-justice causes, studying magic at the Academy of the Unseen Arts, trying to fight the patriarchy running the Satanic Church of Night, and protecting the town of Greendale from supernatural threats. Her life and the show’s plot got even more complicated in season 2, when Sabrina was revealed to be the daughter of Lucifer Morningstar (Luke Cook), leading to her using magic in the season 3 finale to simultaneously both rule with her father in hell and stay in Greendale.