Sabrina is hell-bent on finding a way to spend some alone time with Nick but, it doesn’t seem to be in the cards because she’s been summoned to Hell where she is challenged by Caliban for her throne and the must set out on a quest to find at least two out of three of the Unholy Regalia. At the Academy, Ambrose has been roped into working at the Library and Prudence is now Zelda’s second in command and while checking in on how things are going Zelda discovers that Hilda is a pretty well-known romance novelist. Ambrose and Sabrina take a road trip to Riverdale to hunt for Herod’s Crown and back in Greendale everyone is way too excited about the carnival that is coming to town which seems like good news so, what could possibly go wrong.

WHAT WORKED: The writing was once again on point in the way it handled Harvey’s insecurities about his virginity beautifully simultaneous brought light to the stigma around male “strength” via sexual prowess and alpha male aggression/strength and, laid waste to it by giving a name to his fears. I also like the way they handled the uncertainty of Theo wanting to ask the new guy out and talking about it with Harvey because it was all about the act of asking and not about Theo’s gender or sexual orientation. Sabrina has been really good at not being exploitative in their portrayal of LGBTQ characters and I’m still here for it.

WHAT MADE ME SAD: Sabrina and Ambrose retrieve Herod’s crown and for some reason don’t

BEST MOMENT: The reveal at the end that the carnival is full of all kinds of creatures and they want to bring back the old ones that Lucifer seems really worried about with the blood sacrifice and the magic seed of cryptic origin.

EPISODE’S MVP: Ambrose. Not only does he deduce the provenance of the Crown that Sabrina needs to keep her throne in Hell but, he re-calibrates The Flying Dutchman’s compass to track evil so they can find the crown, which they do in a tree in Riverdale. If that weren’t enough to secure his MVP spot, he also kills King Herod when he tracks Nick and Sabrina to the Tunnel of Love by blowing him up like a hot dog gone rogue in the microwave.

Overall: 8.2