Review: Chilling Adventures of Sabrina – Chapter Twenty-Two: Drag Me to Hell S3E2
Sabrina tries to get a little alone time with Nick, who’s still body sharing with Lucifer before she heads to cheer practice and in her rush she accidentally breaks the salt circle, just a little bit. Madam Satan shows up to remind Sabrina that she still has a job to do and sends her off to collect the soul of a man who gave his up to be a chess master and in the end, she can’t so she sends him to heaven instead which results in her being summoned to hell. Zelda is still getting the witches at the Academy to pray to Lilith and abandon sexist traditions but, she’s having a bit of trouble commanding respect inside of the classroom. If that’s not enough to get you interested, Sabrina has a new job dragging souls to hell and Prudence and Ambrose & Prudence has finally tracked down Faustus.
WHAT WORKED: For the starters, the soundtrack is a whole BOP! Between the It’s Tricky cheer routine and Harvey, Theo and Roz’s band doing a super good cover of Teenage Dirtbag, I think I”m going to need to cop this on vinyl and digital download.
This season they’re doing something new where they’re wading in the more serious end of the dark camp pool and it’s kind of amazing, I actually find this change in pace refreshing and prefer it to the previous seasons.
The low key, understated but, very there LGBTQ representation, shout out to the writers for making it so effortless and normalizing it as it should be.
WHAT DIDN’T: I am happy to report that I have nothing to report on this front.
BEST LINE(s): Not a line per se but, watching Sabrina and Roz do a whole cheer-leading routine and RAP the lyrics to Run DMC’s It’s Tricky gave me life!
BEST MOMENT: Theo on a possible date, nothing cliche or exploitative just two kids on a maybe date and I’m here for it. Especially because there is nothing more pure, heartwarming and beautiful than Theo with an ear to ear grin after all that he’s been through he deserves all the joy and good things.
EPISODE’S MVP: Roz and her I’ll ride but, why do we have to die moment. Roz had to give Sabrina a mini vibe check when she decided to go off half-cocked to travel by pinwheel to save a missing girl, she told her not to do it because she didn’t know what was waiting for her on the other side of the pinwheel and didn’t go with her. The reason that’s huge is, Theo, Roz and Harvey have been pretty ride or die so far, they even went with her into hell itself to rescue her boyfriend but, going to the lair of a serial killer who eats little kids hearts, that was a bridge to far and it turns out Roz was right. What makes Roz an MVP is that she called Sabrina on her impulsive nature, was willing to go with her if there was a plan (there was not), told her why her lack of planning was bad and, told her she wasn’t down with going with her. Roz spent a lot of the episode using her cunning and I like that she’s getting more screen time and this episode reminded us why we all need a friend like Roz.
Overall: 8.9
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