She lives with them in Massachusetts while preparing to receive her witch's license. Sabrina Spellman, a perfectly normal 16-year-old, is informed by her aunts, Hilda and Zelda, that they are witches.
There’s a real sense of impending dread in this episode that is palpable. Due to this, she is handling Sabrina with kid gloves, still utterly controlling her, but in the kindliest, dare I say human matter yet? Now, Wardwell is closer than ever than achieving her goal (the extent of which will become clear in the next episode). Wardwell is no easy task, and Gomez is given the most scenery chewing to do of all the regulars throughout these first ten episodes. Playing an overly arch character like the forever-scheming Ms. Special attention must be payed to Michelle Gomez’s work in this installment. He handles it much better here than in her nightmare, but his response is hardly what ‘Brina was hoping for. We saw back in episode five that coming out as a witch to him was Sabrina’s greatest fear. Her confrontation with Zelda is fairly devastating, but that’s only the appetizer for the main course of emotional despondency that his her revelation with Harvey.
That it still has time to deliver some big laughs (like Zelda’s ridiculous leading of the Academy of Unseen Arts choir in a rendition of “Do Re Mi”) is truly impressive writing work.Īll of our leads get some big emotional moments to play here, with Kiernan Shipka going from cockiness to utter despair in the course of this episode. This is an exhilarating hour of television that throws one life-changing event after another at our characters. Elsewhere, Susie is still chatting with her dead Aunt Dorothea who casually asks “are they still witches, the Spellmans?”īy the end of the episode, all of the mortals either know or suspect the truth about Sabrina… Roz had another vision, one that showed Sabrina as a withered witch. A tearful Sabrina returns to Zelda, who embraces the youth in her welcoming arms.įurther reading: Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Ending Explained
With Tommy now truly dead, the ‘life for a life’ ouroboros swallows its own head and Agatha returns to normal. (Thereby saving Sabrina, Prudence and Dorcas from doing the dirty work). Capping off a perfect day, he then has to put a bullet in his sibling’s head. He tells Sabrina that uh yeah, he needs some time. But she is unable to bring his soul back to the world of the living.ĭistraught, she has no other option than to lay it all on the line with Harvey - who takes the news that his girlfriend is a witch who has been secretly casting spells on him and, oh yeah, also unsolicitedly brought his brother back from the dead about as good as anyone could. They conduct a very Poltergeist voyage to limbo where, after a confusing run-in with her mother that will likely be dealt with in season two, Sabrina does in fact find Tommy. Sabrina storms out, back into the overeager arms of Ms. He is a body with no soul and would have been better off left dead in the mines. Fun.įurther reading: Complete Guide to Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Horror and Archie Easter Eggsīack at the Kinkles, Tommy - operating on pure instinct - goes after his dad with a murderous vengeance. Then the bodies of the other workers killed in the mine accident arrive for Ambrose to prepare for burial, and it seems that good old Tommy has been snacking on them. The next day, the situation goes from bad to worse, as Aunt Hilda discovers the truth about what her niece has been up to. Nick just popped by to tell Sabrina that Agatha is not recovering well from her murder and rebirth at all. Still falsely believing that her plan worked, an ever-cocky Sabrina returns home and the other shoe drops via an astral-projected visit from Nick Scratch. But a doctor says he is just in shock and should be right as rain in a couple of days. While Tommy’s body is up and moving, he isn’t eating or talking.