Are you ready to cheer alongside Sabrina? Or perhaps cheer her on as she embraces being Queen and must drag souls to Hell as her first task because she becomes a little badass!
The previous episode saw Sabrina venture to Hell with her friends to retrieve Nick, but she had to take on becoming Queen of Hell. Although she appointed Lilith as regent, she still has Caliban, Prince of Hell, challenging her for the crown. Zelda reopened the Academy with herself as Directrix and they prayed to Lilith instead of the Dark Lord, while Roz, Harvey, and Theo formed their own band, Fright Club. As for Prudence and Ambrose, they’re searching for Blackwood and the twins and met Mambo Marie who gave them a spell to find where Blackwood really is.
A Queen In Training
Sabrina (Kiernan Shipka) visits Nick (Gavin Leatherwood), however, Lucifer (Luke Cook) is in charge at the moment and it seems as though Nick comes through, but Lucifer is only toying with her. Lucifer eventually allows Nick to take control and he is scared. When Sabrina exits, she accidentally disrupts the salt circle that surrounds Lucifer-Nick. Sabrina then browses the library when Cassius (Alex Diakun) appears, so she asks about soul transference and he says he will find some books for her.
Sabrina and Roz are now on the cheer squad and performing Run DMC’s ‘It’s Tricky’ and Lizzie (Jasmine Vega), another cheerleader, commends them on their work. Ms. Wardwell (Michelle Gomez) was watching on; however, it seems Lilith is back to discuss some business with Sabrina. As regent, Lilith is there to train Sabrina and her first lesson is to drag two souls to Hell.
Sabrina meets Robert Robertson (Beau Daniels) who is playing a game of chess and he gave his soul to be the greatest chessmaster. Now deceased, she takes his hand and sees a black car, but another awaits and she tells him to get in the white car instead. She’s quickly transported to Hell and everyone is angered, but Lilith promises she’ll bring Jimmy Platt to Hell.
Meanwhile, Theo (Lachlan Watson) literally runs into a new student by the name of Robin (Jonathan Whitesell—yes he did play Kurtz on Riverdale in Season 3, but this isn’t a crossover), who asks for help to find his locker and then asks Theo to the pep rally.
Trouble At The Academy
Hilda (Lucy Davis) brings food to Zelda (Miranda Otto) and it seems Hilda has been roped into helping with the Academy. Zelda speaks to the students as Directrix and then pray to Lilith, which Lucifer-Nick overhears and shifts to his own body before spewing beetles out so the witches can be reminded who their god is.
While teaching, Zelda hears laughing and dismisses her class with anger. Later on, Elspeth (Em Haine) and Melvin (Tyler Cotton) are down in the dungeons kissing when one of Lucifer’s beetles’ lands on Elspeth. Meanwhile, Zelda is in her office venting to Hilda when Melvin barges in saying Elspeth tried to kill him.
During another lesson, Agatha (Adeline Rudolph) is laughing and calling Zelda a bitch, so Zelda slaps her. Hilda and Zelda then realise after a sign that the Devil is afoot when Melvin enters as Agatha found a beetle in her hair and Zelda also had one in hers. She sends the students off to see if they can find the Dark Lord in the Academy.
Time For The Ice Cream Man To Scream
Fright Club are singing Wheatus’s ‘Teenage Dirtbag’ and interrupted by Sabrina once again. She explains dragging souls to Hell and hopes to put Lucifer in Jimmy’s deceased body so she can free Nick.
Sabrina approaches the ice-cream truck and Jimmy (Matty Finochio) says he has his extension fee ready: seven more years by giving them an innocent soul. Jimmy says she must accept his payment otherwise the young girl will die regardless as only he knows where she is. Sabrina goes to talk to Lucifer, and he explains how Jimmy was in a car accident, but Jimmy was the one who decided to pick children. Lucifer says she must get his soul or she’ll have trouble in Hell.
Sabrina and her friends find a flyer of a missing girl named Lucy (Evelyn Burke) and they hope to use Roz’s (Jaz Sinclair) cunning to find her. They visit Lucy’s mother (Kayla Deorksen) in hopes they can retrieve something so Roz will have a vision, which they do and she sees Lucy in a freezer.
Sabrina casts a spell to reach out to Lucy so they can get more details from her, but Lucy is falling asleep, so Sabrina tries teleporting blind by using Lucy’s voice as a beacon. She finds Lucy, but Jimmy has drawn sigils all around the room and Sabrina can’t escape or use her magic. Luckily, Lilith finds Sabrina and says she needs to sort out Jimmy, so she’ll see Lucy home safe.
At the pep rally, Harvey wants to take Jimmy down, but first it’s time for a cheer and they perform ‘It’s Tricky’ again. A young boy asks for an ice cream, however, it’s a glamour and Sabrina sends Jimmy straight to hell. The Kings are still against Sabrina ruling and she claims that Hell needs a makeover.
Capturing Blackwood
Ambrose (Chance Perdomo) and Prudence (Tati Gabrielle) are at Loch Ness in Scotland and spy a long-haired and bearded Blackwood (Richard Coyle) doing some kind of summoning ritual. A creature emerges from the water and gives its egg to Blackwood, who then calls out to his two teenage sacrifices. Prudence rushes towards him and Blackwood promptly kills the creature. Ambrose threatens the egg and Blackwood explains he spent 15 years in a temporal church to purify himself to wield different magic. He speaks of the old ones as well, along with the eldritch terrors.
Ambrose wants to take Blackwood and the egg back to Greendale, but the sacrifices ask them not to kill their father…it’s Judas (Darius Willis) and Judith (Whitney Peak)!
Back in Greendale, Sabrina returns home and Zelda and Hilda confront her about Lucifer-Nick, along with Cassius and the soul-transference books. Prudence and Ambrose then return with Blackwood and the twins, right when Zelda was asking who would be strong enough to be a flesh Acheron for Lucifer.
Sabrina drops Blackwood off at the dungeon to complete the soul-transference and Ambrose and Prudence put the twins in a living doll spell, so they are somewhat trapped in a dollhouse, while the egg floats in a fish tank.
At the end of the episode, Sabrina wakes Nick with a kiss, while Roz and Harvey are kissing in the back of his truck when Harvey hears something and notices a carnival in the distance.
Overall Thoughts?
While I was all for the performance of Masquerade last season, I am very hesitant about there being three scenes with singing in this episode and I feel as though many fans of Chilling Adventures will not look upon this favourably. With Riverdale, musical moments leave fans divided, especially when it comes to entire musical episodes. I don’t mind it in Riverdale, but I feel as though it detracts from this series and I don’t think the second rendition of It’s Tricky was really needed.
With all of that said, it was great to see Sabrina embracing her duties as Queen, but still struggling to fully go evil. It’ll be interesting to see what happens with this plotline of the egg and to find out exactly what the creature is. Also, I’m shipping Theo and Robin hard already.
