Hilda (Lucy Davis, whom you last saw playing Chris Pine’s secretary in Wonder Woman) is the nervous, nurturing one whose idea of getting Sabrina ready involves making her some magical Goop smoothie thing for body-purification reasons. (Is the Dark Lord the original incel? Discuss.) He sends a witch to body-snatch Sabrina’s favorite, previously mousy teacher, Miss Wardwell, to ensure that Sabrina’s sweet 16 goes according to his plan.Īlso onboard with the Dark Baptism are Sabrina’s aunts. You know what the Dark Lord is really not into, it turns out? Women having choices, especially when that choice is not to serve him. Dark Lord, whom she has only heard horror stories about, and we find her, in an extremely Britney turn of events, at a crossroads. However, Sabrina is rightly alarmed at the prospect of leaving the lowercase-d devil she knows for the Literal Devil, a.k.a. But the mortal world is also a dangerous, oppressive patriarchy, and I can’t zap the radio on with my index finger and do a Lydia-from- Beetlejuice dance sequence whenever I feel like it.
One thing that’s especially juicy here is how the magic world is made out to be this dangerous, oppressive patriarchy, in which women relinquish free will in order to have powers. What does it mean to be who you are when who you are is more than one thing? Is it worth it to have superpowers and age veeerryyyy sloooowwllllyyy, much like the forever-teens on regular television shows, if it means you have to go to diabolical Hogwarts, abandon your friends just as you were empowering them through intersectional feminist after-school activities, and break up with your cute boyfriend who literally just told you he loved you? She loves headbands, her feisty, woke girlfriends Suzie and Ros, and her dopey-cute boyfriend, Harvey Kinkle.Īlso, she is an orphaned half-witch who, on her 16th birthday, has to relinquish all of her connections to the mortal world (though I think/hope she gets to keep those headbands) as part of her “Dark Baptism,” which is basically: What if your bat mitzvah, but terrifying? Whether or not Sabrina will undergo this rite, and what will happen to her if she does or doesn’t, is the big question of our delicious, spooky series, which exists in the same thematic universe as Riverdale but is heavier on the horror, lighter on the campiness. She happily chomps on popcorn during the goriest parts of horror flicks.
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