Sabrina: a name that for those who lived between the 90s and the early XNUMXs certainly evokes the word "witch", with a meaning that is anything but negative. Whether you have lived with the TV series of the past or seen some episodes of the animated series, the little witch will certainly have been a nice companion of adventures, with strong colors and genuine laughter. But everything changed when, three seasons ago, Netflix introduced us The Terrifying Adventures of Sabrina, certainly giving a darker and more insidious connotation to our heroine, forced into a world full of demons and spells that are anything but simple. In the previous two seasons we have explored different aspects of our witch and her companions who, over time, have turned out to be friends, enemies or allies of convenience: in this third series of adventures we find a distinctly different Defrost, more woman, more stubborn and as one would expect, a true Queen of Hell.
Leave all hope you who enter
Sabrina and her companions find themselves in this beginning of the season exactly where we left them: Lilith has in fact usurped the throne of Satan in hell, after the Lord of the Night was locked up in the body of Nicholas Scratch; Harvey, Rosalind, Susie / Theo and Sabrina must cross the gates of hell to claim the throne that belongs to our protagonist, and to do so they will have to turn to those who have already been to hell and returned writing the way, the Supreme Poet Dante Alighieri. Using Dante's writings and other esoteric texts, we will see the gang cross the threshold of the underworld and thus find themselves in a world far worse than what one could have imagined; meantime, Prudence and Ambrose are frantically searching for the former black pope, Blackwood, which after the fall of the church seems to have disappeared. Aunt Zelda and Aunt Hilda are struggling with the survivors of the Church of the Night: the two witches have in fact welcomed the orphaned boys into their home and take care of them while keeping a secret that they do not know whether it is right or not to reveal.
Queen and regent
Kiernan Shipka in the role of Sabrina is fantastic: the actress manages to embody the duality of this character who in Hell proves to be an inflexible queen and ready to put anyone who tries to hinder her in her place while at school she is the classic teenager, struggling with situations of heart and with the cheerleader club. Michelle Gomez in the role of Lilith is really interesting: the actress must in fact play both the regent of the throne in Hell, and the school teacher, which makes her a real transformer. Although the plot may seem trivial at the beginning of the series, we can tell you that as the episodes progress, things will change: the relationships between our heroes will be deepened - see for example the one between Harvey and Rosalind - while others will lose sight of a little, but to replace them there will be new enemies and subterfuges: one thing is certain, in The Terrifying Adventures of Sabrina, the unexpected is always around the corner and not necessarily everything you see or hear is true. As for the sets, this time the budget seemed higher, to the point that in the construction of Hell we wondered if we were really sinking too; magic and demons are in the order of framing, something less present and often smoky in previous editions.
