We’ve come to the end of our journey and to catch you up on the key bits of what happened leading up to this point.

(This review is spoiler heavy but, I won’t give away the full ending)

WHAT YOU MISSED:

Agatha went crazy thanks to Pan and killed Dorcas causing Prudence to kill her to save herself but, it didn’t matter because Blackwood snuck up behind her and killed her.

Priestess Marie stood guard over Zelda while she saw her actual dead and realizes that now isn’t the time and her brother Edward showed Zelda how to regain the covens strength but, it didn’t matter because Faustus was waiting for her when she came to and stabbed her in the chest.

Ambrose is hunting Blackwood with all the rage of a man who has lost almost everything.

The carnival pagans have captured their virgin sacrifice and are about to bring Greendale and the world to heel.

Caliban has the coins and tricked Sabrina, trapped her in the walls of a volcano in hell and stole the throne of hell.

Theo lost her first love because once the carnival pagans caught them, they killed him for his betrayal and are forcing Theo and Roz to watch as the tree drains Harvey and brings the green god to life.

WHAT HAPPENS NOW: The episode opens with Ambrose explaining what has happened since Sabrina was encased in the volcano. The Pagans won, beat back Caliban on his crusade to make earth the tenth circle. And, we find Sabrina in a time loop where she needs to get the Unholy Regalia but, hell has been abandoned and Caliban was destroyed by the archangel Michael. Sabrina has regained her full power after swapping places with her future self and is able to rule an empty, except for Judas, Pilate and Herod who she quickly brings to heel and that’s just the beginning!

WHAT WORKED: Sabrina’s very real pain, expertly acted and believably written, while she picks herself up after seeing what has become of Greendale and tries to figure out how to save all that she loves. The story in this episode is emotional, intense and rings true with sincerity beaming from every scene, word, and actor. There is minimal camp and more dark drama and it sets the stage for a fitting end to this season.

I also liked that Harvey got to wait until HE was ready to lose his virginity and they didn’t make a big deal out of it, body autonomy and consent is for everyone.

BEST MOMENTS: Watching the pagans bullshit fall apart when they swapped their virgin sacrifice for the witch who makes green things barren, Pesta, the witch of pestilence and killed the plant god.

Roz saved Harvey from a gorgon!

Hilda got mad! You wouldn’t like Hilda when she’s mad, I mean I loved her mad but, Circe wasn’t ready for it.

Prudence killed a whole damn god with the sword she’s been wanting to use this whole season.

Hilda gets the love of her life back and Zelda finds love with Priestess Marie and I’m here for all of the love!

Sabrina goes home AND stays in hell as queen because there’s future Sabrina and present Sabrina, who says a girl can’t have it all.

EPISODE’S MVP: Every witch on the screen that we met, were on some rise of fall together, sisters are doing it for themselves, badass magic and they kicked all the ass and I loved every moment of it. With a special mention to Zelda who woke up from the netherworld and WOKE UP, she slayed the patriarchy, got her sister back from the dead, helped put the town to sleep, figured out how to save the coven, stopped seeing other women as competition and became the unbothered and unfuckwitable role model we have been waiting for her to be for three seasons.

FINAL THOUGHTS: This episode, hands down was the best episode of the series, not the season but, of all the seasons and episodes Sabrina has had. The callbacks to previous episodes in this season and all the seasons was a well-crafted piece of cinematic magic. Everything that happened in these past three seasons has led up to this and it was worth it to see the show grow from campy fun time guilty pleasure to mature dark drama thriller and it was wonderful to watch Sabrina go on this magical do-over to find her path. The ride or die friends are family fight together love that binds them all was beautiful and watching Zelda pull all the magic in the world and taking her power back to fight the pagans and bring her sister back from the death itself. This episode is everything you have ever wanted in an episode of a supernatural show and I am all the way here for it.

Overall: 9.2

In the first five minutes of The Judas Kiss Sabrina finds Zelda’s dying body in the foyer and Ambrose calls for reinforcements in the form of Prudence who brings her newfound voodoo queen Marie along to help and banshee wails in the front yard. Madame Satan has separated Blackwood from Lucifer in exchange for him getting her pregnant with a male heir and Blackwood getting the mark of Cain. Lucifer sets out to fix the mess Sabrina made in hell while the Carnival Pagans ready themselves for their green god to return and Blackwood decides to join them in exchange for revenge against the witches.

WHAT WORKED: Theo and Robin’s organic relationship is sweet and refreshing, he accepts him as he is and Theo deserves it, even if Robin is a hobgoblin. Having Sabrina keep true to the character and choosing to go toe to toe with Vlad the Impaler instead of betraying her bestie Roz was touching.

UNHOLY CRAP: While Theo and Robin do the deed so that he can’t be sacrificed as he is no longer a virgin, Harvey’s safety might be in jeopardy when Roz sees Sabrina as they try to get down, causing Harvey to come clean.

Lucifer shows up in hell and starts cracking necks, literally, until he finds out of the quest for the unholy regalia has begun and he is going to need to put his powers into helping her if he wants to keep his throne.

Robin was not kidding when he said that hobgoblins were fast and when he showed up to save Theo and his friends, I almost cried and when Roz knew how to get ahold of Sabrina because she’s her best friend was next level beautiful sisterhood.

BEST LINE:

“Consent. It’s real!” – Sabrina to Vlad the Impaler as he chokes on her half celestial blood when he tries to drain her blood in his tomb. Yes, sis! YES!

BEST MOMENT:

Tie!

The Spellman Family reunited in the netherworld, Edward included and getting a taste of what their dynamic was like, helping Zelda come to terms with who she is and find out the truth of who Edward was.

Sabrina using the Ravenettes cheer squad to cast a spell to reenergize the coven by having then performed to “Oh, Mickey” while the coven chants in the background which gives the coven just enough juice to transport the coven to hell and the cheerleaders back to Baxter High just as Blackwood bursts through the doors.

EPISODE’S MVP: Ambrose is devoted, kind, intelligent and a force to be reckoned with. He always works in the shadows, never taking the glory but, happy to fight for who he loves and guide them on their quests. His selflessness is the stuff that heroes are made of and with all the actual hell breaking loose in The Judas Kiss this makes him this episode MVP.

Overall: 8.2