It’s the M.O.
IfSabrinais going out, it definitely gives us one helluva last hoorah.
Episode 1, “The Eldritch Dark”
Sabrina is bored as hell.
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Something many of us can probably relate to these days.
And when Sabrina’s bored, things take a decidedly wild about-face.
Sabrina’s mortal friends have all moved on with their lives, leaving her feeling alone.
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But it still hurts!
Alternate timeline, you say.
That presents an interesting idea.
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While there have been hints and clues connectingSabrinaandRiverdale, just how specifically both shows are connected was a question.
So, Sabrina gets Salem to turn into Bloody Mary and terrorize the boy’s bathroom at Baxter High.
Fortunately for Sabrina, there’s something more pressing to keep her occupied.
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Something the show just glosses over.
No big deal, apparently.
The arrival of the Terrors signals the end of the world.
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Now, the Absolute Darkness has found its way to Greendale.
It has taken hold of the mines and used the forms of ghostly miners as its conduits.
Each of the Spellmans saw a miner at one point.
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One of them managed to infiltrate the Academy and tried to warp Zelda’s mind by projecting despairing thoughts.
When the Spellman mortuary gets a call about three dead vagrants, they put the pieces together.
Only a light projected from within the darkness itself can dispel it.
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What about Morningstar light?
Every day in Hell is now a dance party with her fiance, Caliban.
(Remember this for later.)
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Meanwhile, they sneak into the mines to trap the darkness in what is just a giant lightbulb.
Darkness, meet the light.
Yet, it’s not as easy as that seems.
Once you’re inside the Darkness, it’s easy to become overwhelmed by dark thoughts.
Hell queen Sabrina goes in first and meets this fate.
Then the other Sabrina goes in and the same thing happens.
But it’s all good, and the ooze of the Darkness is now wallowing in the bulb.
Cut to both Sabrinas dancing together to the sound of Billy Idol’s “Dancing With Myself.”
Too on the nose, but it’s the final season so who cares?
After the Absolute Darkness comes the Uninvited, who takes the form of a homeless man pushing a cart.
When life first came into being, mankind huddled around fire for warmth but shunned the Uninvited.
The entity wandered the cosmos until he was welcomed among the other Terrors.
Sorry to the single mom who was having dinner with her daughter.
Of course, the Uninvited arrives just as Aunt Hilda is about to marry Dr. Cee.
Plus, there’s an incubus on the loose.
So, to be safe, they are turning away anyone without an invitation at the ceremony.
Sabrina has been preoccupied with other things so she’s a bit off her game.
Lilith doesn’t want the marriage either as grandchildren could threaten her own child’s claim to the throne.
He does it, but he’s clay, so it doesn’t matter really.
So there’s Sabrina, alone again.
By the time Hilda’s nuptials come about, she’s in her feelings.
After Zelda reveals his true form, the Terror threatens to kill everyone in the room.
He does end up killing Dorian Gray, and then Sabrina steps in.
She invites him instead to the wedding in Hell as her plus one.
They host a double wedding: Sabrina and Caliban, and Sabrina and the Uninvited.
The next one to arrive is the Weird, which takes the form a weird-looking squid.
This is the hive mind guy, who’s looking to put everyone under his telepathic thrall.
The Weird wants to use her magic to take over all of Greendale.
Wardwell offers an idea about how to do that: a trojan horse.
The coven, meanwhile, is using Harvey’s drawings to stay vigilante about pinpointing potential Terror activity.
More specifically, a seer.
Roz’s ancestors called themselves cunning women to avoid being burned at the stake.
Elsewhere, Sabrina is busy making her dream man.
His first attempt to get it out (i.e.
cutting her open) fails.
With little water, the carcass of the Weird spills out of her mouth voluntarily.
Lo and behold, it’s still alive.
It’s essence just fused with Sabrina’s consciousness.
Ambrose intervenes and puts everyone to sleep.
Now comes the harder part of separating their minds.
Ambrose freezes the Terror, trapping it in a block of ice.
Another Terror down, five more to go.
Elsewhere, in Hell, Caliban reveals himself to be the backstabbing leach he always was.
He’s secretly working with the Plague Kings to steal the throne.
The baby sprouts within her belly and threatens to kill her if she doesn’t give birth.
She teleports to the Academy, asking the coven’s help.
Roz foresees this plan and instead the coven rechannels that pain of childbirth on the kings.
One actually dies from it, and the other escapes back to Hell to report back to Caliban.
Zelda offers Lilith and Adam sanctuary at the Academy, promising to shield them even from Lucifer.
A supernatural trinket salesman arrives at Blackwood’s church to sell magical wares.
One of his trinkets is the Imp of the Perverse.
So, Blackwood steals it from him and throws him out.
She sees a vision of Blackwood taking the imp but wants to kill him herself.
It’s a very House of M situation, for the X-Men crowd.
The Academy is now an art school.
Witches and witchcraft are outlawed.
The town now has a very medieval, witch hunt vibe.
Prudence is now a lieutenant of Blackwood’s army, and Harvey and Billy are head cadets.
Initially, it appears Sabrina and Roz are the only ones who’ve been able to retain their memories.
They theorize it’s because they both had direct physical contact with Eldritch Terrors.
Not helping their cause, though, is that Sabrina is public enemy No.
Then, the man himself arrives with his entourage.
His spies have told him there’s a witch among the students.
He has no recollection of ever having a cousin, or none that he’s saying.
Roz leaves with little hope for the man he has become.
Sabrina, meanwhile, finds Aunt Zelda in her office at the Academy.
She reveals herself with magic and tries using a spell to restore her aunt’s memories.
Because of this, Nick is later arrested when Blackwood finds degenerate items.
When the coast is clear, Sabrina gets through the Zelda.
Zelda instructs Sabrina to go to Dr. Cee’s bookstore and ask for a specific book.
Doing so will reveal some people who might be able to help her.
But when he drives past the town’s welcome sign, his memories return.
Sitting close by is the trinket salesman.
He tells him Blackwood stole the imp from him and perverted reality.
It goes by another name, the stone of reality.
Fortunately, speedster Robin is listening close by and runs up to help.
At Dr. Cee’s, Sabrina and Roz find Hilda.
Wardwell and Carl are among them.
Something happened to her when Blackwood perverted reality that restored her mind from madness.
Like Sabrina and Roz, she too has her memories.
He did say though it was obvious which gives Hilda an idea.
Maybe they eat the stone, just like Kronos did.
She makes a soup out of the stone, which turns out to be highly effective.
“Stone soup for everyone!”
(That’s a direct quote and another reason why we’ll missSabrina.)
to fix reality itself, Agatha says they must destroy the imp.
And they should do so quickly because the next day, Blackwood will be executing accused witches.
Sabrina goes to the Academy to awaken Zelda and the coven.
Meanwhile, Harvey and Billy show up at Dr. Cee’s to look for illegal activity.
The next day, all the accused are lined up to die.
Sabrina can’t take it anymore and intervenes.
They believe the real statue to be in a safe at Dorian’s.
Robin speeds over to retrieve it, but that too proves to be a fake.
Sabrina places her hands on the animal and makes a wish.
Because he bears the mark of Cain, he cannot die.
So, instead, she cuts off his head and brings it back to the Academy.
Let’s have a go at make sense of it.
Nick used magic to become a transfer student at Baxter High and proclaims his love again for Sabrina.
Lilith refuses to leave the same room at the Academy so you can protect baby Adam from future attacks.
And Theo has a run-in with one of Robin’s hobgoblin friends, Moth.
Robin wants Theo to come with him to the fae realm, but he won’t.
Metatron has to intervene.
There’s no telling if this means they’ll lose all their memories or retain some.
After consulting with themselves, the Sabrinas agree to merge but request time to celebrate their last moments.
Metatron grants them six hours.
The Sabrina of Earth wants to spend her last moments getting it on with Nick.
Meanwhile, Lucifer and Caliban realize Lilith is at the Academy.
Hilda hid Adam away somewhere safe as Lilith tells Lucifer Caliban tried to have her killed.
Ambrose finally fixed the telescope and looked up the stars to see another Eldritch Terror approaching.
How Ambrose saw it with a telescope if they are other realms and not planets is beyond comprehension.
If the merging fails, Metatron plans to kill one or both Sabrinas.
So, naturally, everyone uses their magic to kill Metatron.
Wonder what the False God thinks of that.
Now, there’s a new plan.
They literally do Rock, Paper, Scissors, and Hell’s Sabrina is picked.
For instance, her aunts are now played by originalSabrina the Teenage Witchstars Beth Broderick and Caroline Rheo.
And there’s a laugh track, reminiscent of the ’90s sitcom.
It’s unclear if she did in fact kill him.
She’s practically a demon.
On the other hand, Hilda did hide the baby from Lucifer before.
Maybe she did it again.
Episode 6, “The Returned”
The next terror is a bit more recognizable.
It’s Lazarus, the Resurrected Man from the Bible.
As his name and the title of the episode suggests, it’s time for the dead to rise.
The first is Vinegar Tom, Zelda’s beloved beagle familiar.
But Mambo Marie warns that the dead are not always themselves and they should not be discomforted.
All the while, the dead are causing problems for the living.
(All three are played byRiverdaleactors who portrayed the main trio from Stonewall Prep.)
But when Harvey finds his dad’s old guitar, he attracts Satanic Panic.
Kinkle left the band, but the others sacrificed Peggy Lou, the homecoming queen.
In retaliation, Peggy Lou’s dad killed them in a fire.
Now, the members of Satanic Panic have returned.
They kidnap Mr. Kinkle and threaten to drag him to Hell should they win the competition.
Just more ways Sabrina tends to exacerbate everything this season.
Instead, Sabrina assembles Nick, Prudence, and Ambrose for another plan.
They also summon the spirit of Peggy Lou, so she may take her revenge on Satanic Panic.
Even with the Dark Mothers winning the competition, there’s still the game between Mambo Marie and Lazarus.
She’s about to lose and allow Lazarus to keep the dead on earth when Lilith intervenes.
From here on out, it’s a bit of a disjointed rush towards the finale of the series.
She does have a parting gift for Zelda: she allows Vinegar Tom to remain alive.
There’s a laugh track and everything.
Blackwood is the director and Wardwell is the script supervisor.
Sabrina isn’t up to speed on these threats as much as Sabrina Spellman.
The Zelda and Hilda actors explain that they live and work on these stages.
Canned tuna is the main food of choice.
Sabrina explores the sets and finds a lot of doors that lead to nowhere or just more stages.
It’s… endless.
That’s because this is the work of The Endless, the latest Eldritch Terror.
On top of that, the mirror she walked through is missing.
There’s even a talking cat that looks like the kind of puppet used on the original Sabrina sitcom.
His name is also Salem and he’s the real star of the show.
Sabrina flubs her lines out of surprise that he can talk and gets her first strike.
She continues going about her day and has a one-on-one with Salem.
Adding to the weirdness, is what happens when Harvey asks to run lines with her.
He gets the scripts early from Wardwell, who has all the scripts for all the episodes.
The scene they are practicing is lifted directly from Sabrina’s life in her own reality.
She finds the Green Room and in it is this world’s version of Ambrose.
He says Salem is The Endless, who has trapped everybody here in a never-ending stage production.
He’s building something called The Void (uh oh!)
which will be introduced in the script for tomorrow’s episode.
The main Zelda and Hilda actors seem suspicious.
Adding to her fears is the calendar in her room.
The next day, she seeks out the head writer to make tweaks to the script.
That, too, happens to be Salem.
He admits to being The Endless, but Sabrina convinces him to work with her.
While this allows them to avoid Zelda and Hilda, the other cast members were killed.
Holding Salem, Sabrina finds the mirrors and crashes through it before the Void completely consumes the parallel cosmos.
Perhaps it’s appropriate, given how our heroine wound up in the Mountains of Madness.
A lot of s— went down at warp speed ‘causing all manner of chaos to ensue.
Wardwell becomes the framing gadget for the series finale.
Everything starts off normal enough for the young witch.
For some reason that is never explained, she dies.
Did The Void do this, even though she escaped the alternate reality before it was consumed?
Her face is all cut up.
Did she die from shards of glass from the mirror?
Oh, and also The Endless apparently is also dead or at least incapacitated.
Sabrina is a bit of an emotional cutter.
He wants the Imp back and warns it would’ve been a bad idea to wish on the statue.
Sabrina asks if he has anything that might help her, and he brings out Pandora’s Box.
Though, it also comes with the risk that Sabrina herself could be pulled inside.
They try forcibly teleporting Sabrina back but The Void has a hold on her physical body.
So, they try a new tactic.
Sabrina has captured nearly all of The Void in the box when she’s interrupted by the spell.
Forget the world-ending being that might be still hiding somewhere!
He says he must prepare for the coming of The Void.
The morning of Sabrina’s birthday arrives and something strange is happening.
Random things seem to vanish spontaneously.
First it’s Sabrina’s pancakes, which Hilda blames on Zelda’s familiar.
Then it’s the candy when Sabrina tries to greet trick-or-treaters at her doorstep.
Again, for some reason that doesn’t make much sense, nobody questions any of this.
Prudence and the aunts think it’s Sabrina playing a trick, but now she’s shaken.
On top of that, Lucifer has assembled his horde outside the Spellman home.
He demands Sabrina give up her body willingly or they will take it by force.
Caliban sees Ambrose raising his wand and takes that as a betrayal.
Then the possessed Mr. Kinkle, much to Harvey’s horror.
With no one left, Lucifer returns to Hell, fearing Sabrina has developed godly powersagain!
She then banishes him from Hell to wander the mortal realm, just as he once condemned her.
This only makes her more overwhelmed and she starts vanishing other objects in the room.
So, Sabrina now is The Void.
Maybe even some day he will help her relinquish the powers entirely.
But Sabrina makes stupid choices and agrees to let him help her.
The coven and the Fright Club, meanwhile, are coming up with their own plan.
Like, what the f—?!
Sure, let’s put a creature that tends to mind control everyone around it on Nick’s mouth.
Prudence, Roz, Agatha, and Ambrose approach.
Salem, poking his head out of Agatha’s bag, helped track Sabrina’s whereabouts.
Blackwood leads them inside his cave, and they find Sabrina struggling to keep herself up with walking sticks.
She has taken a vow of silence to make it contain The Void inside of her.
She mustn’t move too much or risk devouring reality.
She already knows this and seems content to let it happen.
She sends a telepathic message to Ambrose before he and Agatha escape.
Something she picked up from studying the Eldritch Terrors with Blackwood.
He grabs the box and opens it but it’s a fake.
Instead, gunpowder goes off and he’s permanently blinded.
Though Sabrina is safe, she says they still have to sacrifice her.
Blackwood was building a containment field to extract The Void, so they can use that to their advantage.
But a portal to travel inside The Void will only be open for as long as the bloodletting lasts.
Memories of Sabrina celebrating her past birthdays with her family flash before her.
It seems the process is taking too long.
Possibly Hecate, some manifestation of Death, or some ferry-woman of souls.
Whoever she is, Zelda realizes it’s a sign that Sabrina is dying.
Yes, Sabrina Spellman has died.
A statue of Sabrina is erected inside the Academy alongside the monument to Hecate.
Hilda plans to move back into the manor with Dr. Cee to be close with Zelda during this time.
Prudence is taking a more vengeful approach.
In the final moments, we find Sabrina’s soul reading a book in The Sweet Hereafter.
She sits in a white room adorned with paintings when Nick enters.
This isn’t an illusion or some perk of living in Heaven.
He says he was swimming in the Sea of Sorrows when a “wicked undertow” drowned him.
But now they can be together.
