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There’s a narrow balancing act for an episode like this to manage, where the closer the show gets to breaking the fourth wall, the funnier the whole concept is, but there’s a danger of lowering the stakes too much in pursuit of the joke. But as
Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina dips ever deeper into the well of jokes about its former incarnation as a ’90s multicamera sitcom, there’s a tipping point where it flips back to its existing mission: defeating the eldritch terrors. Sabrina Morningstar has a pretty daunting task ahead of her when she lands in sitcom land: She has to figure out how to defeat an eldritch terror, but she’s not the Sabrina that’s been battling them. She doesn’t even know which terrors are left. But she’s still Sabrina at heart, which means that she never gives into despair. If anything, she’s a slightly more confident version of Sabrina than Spellman, who’s struggled a lot with who she is this season along with fighting the end o