Just as things are getting heated, Sabrina Morningstar and animatronic Salem burst through the magic mirror. Just as I’m writing, “Wait, why can’t he spend the night,” they go inside together. Nick’s gift is his half of a matching (and presumably magic) set: lockets with their pictures inside. We get a lovely full-circle moment as Nick walks Brina home and gives her a birthday gift on her front steps, just like Harvey did in the pilot. Sabrina’s 17th birthday is coming up she swears she doesn’t want a big to-do, which in my TV-watching experience means someone is going to throw her a massive surprise party. But it’s cute enough! And apparently no longer awkward for Harvey even though his ex is right there. In my day, a make-out party was just everybody settling for that PG-13 fun because you had no other options. I feel like this undercuts the suspense from the jump, though maybe it was the only way to give a major player an important role in the finale? Please discuss this and all other key decisions among yourselves in the comments!Īs Halloween approaches, the Baxter teens are having a classic make-out party, which is so cute even though none of them ever has to deal with parental supervision, so they can all just go home and have sex whenever they want. Our framing device here is Wardwell preaching the Eldritch Gospel - a narrative choice that tells us that, if no one else, Wardwell and by extension some faction of the mortal world survived the Terrors and lived to tell about it. But just as often, I felt like our show was doing that thing of getting all hyped up on a new plot only to abandon much of the plot that preceded it, leaving lots of critical questions unanswered, important character arcs unattended to, and other such storytelling negligence. Key characters got big moments to shine and wear cool outfits and cast spells and all that shiny stuff. At times, I felt like this episode was doing a great job of pulling together some of the threads of this season (if not the entire series). It has all come down to this: our series finale. Photo: Courtesy of Netflix/Courtesy of Netflix
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