The Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina Season 1 Review

The Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina Season 1 Review

The Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina is my new guilty pleasure

I watched The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina over the course of two days, and for all it's cringey moments, and cheesy parts, I found myself helplessly watching this show nonstop because I got invested in the characters.

The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina follows Sabrina Spellman, a gal that's half mortal and half witch. On her 16th birthday just is supposed to sign her name away to the dark lord, and join the church of night, becoming a true witch and join the ranks of the coven just like the rest of her family. There's one, well more than one, problem, if she goes through with this, and that would be, Sabrina would have to abandon her mortal life and basically give up her free will to serve her new dark master. Yet when the time comes for her to decide, she runs away from the path of night, and attempts to find a middle ground in all of this mess. Will she eventually end up with the dark lord and sign his book? Or will she stay with her friends and keep going to her regular school and see her boyfriend? Watch and find out!

The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina for it's faults is actually a good show. The acting is done well, the cast for the most part has done a decent job, the cinematography is actually pretty interesting, and for the most part, many of the characters will grow on you throughout the shows first season. Granted there are some really disgusting parts in the show, but hey there are worse things that have been made to scare people.

So the acting in the film is actually somewhat fantastic  in certain regards. It's a bit clunky at first, and the actors are trying to find chemistry with each other and you can really feel that especially in the first episode. Sabrina is played by Kiernan Shipka, and her name might not sound to familiar, but you probably heard of a little show she used to be in called Mad Men.

Her Spellman family is portrayed by, Lucy Davis as Hilda, Miranda Otto as Zelda, and Chance Perdomo as Ambrose. The way Sabrina interacts with her family is good, and they have sort of a natural chemistry amongst themselves.
Then amongst her friends are portrayed by, Ross Lynch as Harvey, Jaz Sinclair as Rosalind, and Lanchlan Watson as Susie. Out of the three, Sabrina has the best chemistry with her boyfriend Harvey. Don't get me wrong, her friends are her friends, but it's just that their relationship with each other seems a little stiff at times, and I think it's more a problem of the script than the actors themselves. There are a bunch of other characters in the show but I'm not going to go into naming them as of yet.

Now to the horror of the show, because if you didn't realize this, but this show was released just days before halloween. The actual scares in The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina are kinda good at times, not all the time, but when it's effective, it's pretty good. I heard that this show uses a ton of practical effects and I would believe that, and it does effect some of the scenes in interesting and particular ways. Now to some of the actual scares. When this show wants to pull off some scares, it knows what it's doing, but sometimes it can fall a little flat. There are a couple of scenes in

the show that stand out to me. For example there are a couple of jocks that are picking on her friend Susie, so Sabrina enlists the help form a couple other witches to help teach those boys a lesson. And this is minor spoiler warning, as this happens within the first two episodes before she is supposed to pick sides. The other witches will be recurring characters as a side note. So Sabrina and the other witches, whom are sisters seduce the boys into following them out into the towns mines and they pull a prank on them to make them

think they are making out with the girls, but they aren't, more so like each other. So Sabrina takes a picture and that breaks the spell and the jocks realize what they are doing, and Sabrina uses that as blackmail against them not to pick on her friend. Yet the sister witches want to take things a little further with their scares and decide to horrify the boys a little more, until the run out of the mine in terror.
Are there problems with the show? Yes, yes there are, but can you look past them? I think so. They interject some modern politics a little in the beginning, and take that as you will. Also some of the scenes that play out are cheesy. I mean this show is made for teens mostly, but there is still enjoyment to be had if you're outside of the demographic.
In the end, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina is a fun show that I will be looking forward to seeing

the next season. I do recommend seeing this show to anyone who would hold any such interest in a witch drama/comedy/horror show. It's not perfect and they are still working out some of the kinks, but don't let that stop you from having a good time this halloween season. So sit back, relax and pull out the popcorn, because you are in for somewhat of a surprising fun ride, and I'm going to end this by saying that The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina is my new guilty pleasure.



final score: 4/5