Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Season 4 ends as it started; mundanely

 

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After watching all four seasons of the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (patiently waiting for following seasons, mind you), we at Asian Does Horror, are convinced that apart from season one, the rest of the series was overall... ordinary.

Season four starts right after the end of season three with an episode-by-episode introduction of the Eldritch Terrors.

Pretty much everyone returns to season four including our title actress, Kiernan Shipka, along with her notable co-stars Chance Perdomo, Miranda Otto, Lucy Davis, Richard Coyle, Tati Gabrielle, Gavin Leatherwood, Ross Lynch, Jaz Sinclair, Lachlan Watson, Michelle Gomez, Alessandro Giuliani, Luke Cook, Sam Corlett, Jonathan Whitesell, Adeline Rudolph and a cameo from Abigail Cowen.

After the confusing, time traveling, two Sabrinas debacle of season three, this season explores Father Blackwood's birth of the Eldritch Terrors. 

In this season, Father Blackwood takes on a Saturday morning cartoon-esque villain akin to Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz from Phineas & Ferb or Rita Repulsa from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers or any other villain constantly bamboozled at the end of every episode and vowing revenge in the next one. 

"Magic wand, make my monster GROW!" (Image courtesy of collider.com)

There are eight Eldritch Terrors that make an appearance through season four; The Dark, The Uninvited, The Weird, The Perverse, The Cosmic, The Returned, The Endless and The Void. Each of them represented in a different form with a different "modus operandi". 

Honestly, the entire season felt very sub-par. It wasn't enough to hold attention and they even had filler episodes to tie up loose ends like the two Sabrinas and its impact on the universe.

Also, in terms of the Eldritch Terrors, they explained these cosmic beings were horror incarnate, but how they were defeated were just plain simple and boring. You'd think that cosmic beings with infinite knowledge and wisdom would be able to defend against script-writing loop holes in their weaknesses.

Paired with the laziness of writing the personal lives of the Fright Club and Roz's sudden reveal that she was a witch and a powerful seer, thus making her part of the Weird Sisters was just too convenient. 

"Kage bunshin no jutsu!" (Image courtesy of collider.com)

Colour us pedantic, but the ending of season 4 was pretty stupid. In order to wrap up the entire series, they killed off Sabrina. I'm sure that if the series was green lit for another season, the writers would've pulled off something unspectacular again which would've bled into the new season and birthed another mess of problems, but the finale of season 4 was just too simple. 

Looking back on the endings of seasons one to three, it was a constant trend with the writers. Introduce a major plot in the middle, rush through to the ending and never fully conclude the plot entirely, only to have it rear its ugly head in the following season. Season four was no different. They never really finalised or concluded the Eldritch Terrors. It was kind of left... hanging. Despite Pandora's Box being a means to an end, it never really gave us an end. 

Much like the two Sabrinas, we're split with our views on the series (Image courtesy of pajiba.com)

We continued to expect something better from the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina season in, season out and time and time again it continues to disappoint. 

However, there are some plus points to the series although very few, including introducing the Eldritch Terrors and... well, that's about it. But we can finally rejoice now that it's over. 

All in all, we give the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina season 4 👻👻 ghost emojis out of five. 




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