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- Netflix
- Oct 26, 2018
- Netflix
- Oct 26, 2018
- Netflix
- Oct 26, 2018
- Netflix
- Oct 26, 2018
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 28 Critic Reviews
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79% Positive
22 Reviews
22 Reviews
21% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 28 Critic Reviews
74
79% Positive
22 Reviews
22 Reviews
21% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
There are a lot of surprising things about Sabrina, the fall’s first truly binge-worthy new show. It’s a delight and an obsession, and the scariest thing about it is just how good it is.
The ominous setting plays into the high stakes facing Sabrina and her friends, while the efficient scripts and lavish production design build an immersive, exciting space to explore them. To say it’s the best “Sabrina” yet is a bit reductive, but it’s certainly a new series worth screaming about.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 339 User Ratings
6.0
59% Positive
199 Ratings
199 Ratings
10% Mixed
35 Ratings
35 Ratings
31% Negative
105 Ratings
105 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 339 User Ratings
6.0
59% Positive
199 Ratings
199 Ratings
10% Mixed
35 Ratings
35 Ratings
31% Negative
105 Ratings
105 Ratings
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina is my favorite new supernatural show, my 2nd favorite new show of 2018, one of my top 5 favorite Netflix original shows, and one of my favorite shows of all time. The visual effects and makeup are fantastic. The writing and story are amazing. The casts performances are stupendous especially Kiernan Shipka, Ross Lynch, Chance Perdomo, Lucy Davis, Michelle Gomez, Miranda Otto, and Jaz Sinclair. This show is cool, creepy, and magical. A+.
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SEASON 1
Without a doubt this is not the bubblegum pop version of the comic books but an over the top dark and sinister version. While not without flaws, Season 1 overall was unique and offered a fresh take on Sabrina. The pluses definitely outweigh the minuses making this a must see for any comic book fan. Young star Kiernan Shipka is excellent in the title role and the supporting cast is equally good. Can’t wait for season 2!
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SEASON 1
Shipka has the gravitas to make this Sabrina the toughest yet, a violent femme who comes on like Joan of Arc crashing into a mastermix of Harry Potter and The Craft. ... This Netflix I-love-you-but-I’ve-chosen-darkness YA scream is more than just a great high-school horror trip. It proudly carries on 50 years of teenage witch tradition.
The star is Kiernan Shipka, Sally from “Mad Men,” and she brings an appealingly sincere touch as she mixes phrases such as “dark baptism” into her teen lexicon. Her aunts, played by Miranda Otto and Lucy Davis, are kooky excellence. The show, “Riverdale”-adjacent, also has a great retro look with vestiges of foggy, pulpy horror.
This is a show that’s willing to both revel in the witch fantasy and to think about its limitations in a way I’ve never quite seen a TV show do before, to examine about what kind of women are allowed to be powerful, and what kinds of boundaries are put upon them in consequence. And it has an incredible amount of fun while it does so.
While the gothic backdrop and juicy performances give "Sabrina" zest, the show feels lacking in the qualities that would distinguish it from "Charmed," or "Legacies," whose ensemble cast includes not just teenage witches but vampires, werewolves and hybrids.
It’s trying to be the moody, teen-tastic interpretation of it. As Sabrina keeps using dark magic in situations she probably should not, Shipka’s bright professionalism wards off any real tension.
This show is absolutely fantastic and is my favorite new scripted show of 2018. (Side note: I didn't like how The Haunting of Hill House ended.) As a horror fanatic, I find it much more interesting than Riverdale, though I like Riverdale too. The show is delightfully ghoulish, and all the performances are superb. It's a shame that this show didn't receive any Golden Globe nominations. Hopefully the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences will be kinder. The low score from Metacritic users for this show reinforces my belief that I should trust critics, not Metacritic users. The majority of Metacritic users will probably indicate that my review is not helpful, but I don't care. At the end of the day, the fact that many Metacritic users dislike this show is irrelevant, since the show has already been renewed for at least three more seasons. Riverdale hasn't been renewed for a fourth season yet, and this show deserves to last for as many seasons or more than Riverdale.
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SEASON 1
The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina the Far-Left Witch has great stories, great styles, quality set design, and horribly forced morals that come off as heavy-handed beyond repair. Someone should have sat this writer down and told them the value of subtly instead of just blaring the 'white male bad' horn a thousand times overtly consistently throughout the first and second seasons. This show would get an 8/10 from me if they had not relied on political/moral pandering with no room for thought, argumentation, or basic subtlety. You can be political in a show, you can be overt with politics, but if you say 'this right this wrong' with that being the entire argument with no opposing side, it will be as forced as it is childish and justly piss off viewers. This show is pandering incarnate because the director could not understand the value of nuance, subtle messaging, fair arguments, and basic empathy for their own viewers. Thus, this show gets a solid 6/10 because, had this issue not existed, I would love this show's entertainment value dealing with occult subjects normally too taboo to touch. This show is too cowardly to convey the other side's arguments but 'brave' enough to force its own down your throat at every turn, and deserves all the hate it gets for that.
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SEASON 1
As the season progressed, the show was lost on the storyline. What was all that Blurring around the corners for?? The twists are good but as many stated doesn't stay true to the original story.
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SEASON 1
Well, at first, I was quite intrigued with the story but as soon as we got to the **** girl being bullied and how the horrible white man principal wouldn't do anything about it, I knew I was either going to be on and off with this show or just drop it entirely.
My goodness, you'd think the writers had all gone raving mad! There are so many forced agenda plugs throughout just the first few episodes. I'd like to confirm that there are more but I stopped watching halfway into the third episode once the two **** dudes started snogging each others faces off. I mean come on. Do we really need all of this? It's all your typical left wing stuff too. Oh no! Women are oppressed. The patriarchy! The patriarchy! FASCISM!!! White men are evil! Intersectionality! There's even a scene where four secondary school blokes are tricked into making out with each other by four racially diverse girls so, yeah. The "let's put men in their place" plug has made an appearance and then there's a bit after that where three of said girls say to the fourth that they stole the "boyhood" of the boys and they can't have erections until the fourth girl says so. It's just sickening to watch.
This makes me sad because I did like the show a bit when the agenda hadn't fully come out but, there is just more left wing propaganda than actual story here. I can't pay attention to the story if more than half of the show is radical politics.
TL;DR: Imagine a video game where, before every story mission, you had to participate in 10 political protests, each with their own issue, before you could go on to the next story mission. That is this show.
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