Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

Going into the Netflix series, I wasn't sure what to expect. I've read differing views on it. I had a friend at work ask if I had seen it yet. I had not. She brought up how startling it was to see Sabrina and her aunts with their open worship of Lord Satan, Sabrina's upcoming dark sabbath, sacrifices, witchcraft, use of spellcasting to cause curses and illusion of spiders to cause trauma, and surprising graphic violence. This is not Melissa Joan Hart shooting sitcom pap with a quipping cat followed by a laugh track. This is a scarecrow used to pursue Sabrina in a macabre pumpkin patch, Sabrina coming to the aid of her molested friend whose shirt was pulled up by alpha jocks to see "if she had breasts", a teacher stabbed in the neck with scissors by a witch she meets on her way from a screening of Night of the Living Dead (1968) before she's "replaced" by said witch to get closer to Sabrina, and spiders en masse perpetrating the principal because he's a misogynistic asshole. And the cinematic presentation of the first episode is particularly impressive. Series now are proving film has competition, serious and legitimate. This Sabrina show looks so good, it passes the cinematic eye test. And it has that aesthetic of Gothic I'm just signaled to it attractive waves.