https://twitter.com/EW/status/910561775766163457

Called: The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

"Reimagines the origin and adventures of Sabrina the Teenage Witch as a dark coming-of-age story that traffics in horror, the occult, and — of course — witchcraft. Tonally in the vein of Rosemary’s Baby and The Exorcist, this adaptation finds Sabrina wrestling to reconcile her dual nature — half-witch, half-mortal — while standing against the evil forces that threaten her, her family and the daylight world humans inhabit."

The original series was meant to be a fun, light comedy. This version sounds horrible.

The original series was meant to be a fun, light comedy. This version sounds horrible.

I saw a few episodes of Riverdale, they made a Beverly Hills 90210 clone, and gave characters names from the Archie comics. None of the characters were even remotely like the originals.
So if that is any indication of what Sabrina will be like. Pass.

I saw a few episodes of Riverdale, they made a Beverly Hills 90210 clone, and gave characters names from the Archie comics. None of the characters were even remotely like the originals.
So if that is any indication of what Sabrina will be like. Pass.

Riverdale is one of my current favorites

Shame on them. This show sounds disgusting enough, the good name of Sabrina's show should not be dragged into it. :rolleyes:

Some people don't realize that Sabrina was part of the Archie series.

Melissa Joan Hart's sitcom has nothing to do w/ the new Riverdale version, and there were other adaptations of Sabrina as well.

It may have been part of Archie but I would bet that Melissa's version is the most well known. The article says this show is in the vein of Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist, it should have been based on those two then and leave Sabrina alone.

It may have been part of Archie but I would bet that Melissa's version is the most well known. The article says this show is in the vein of Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist, it should have been based on those two then and leave Sabrina alone.
:yeahthat

Either way, it'll probably flop.

Riverdale is one of my current favorites

I'm sorry.

Though they did do a comic book series that was in the horror genre based on the Archie comics: Afterlife With Archie, and her own solo horror comic series. So it's not like the new TV show is anything new.
I did enjoy Afterlife With Archie. I'm just not a fan of how the series Riverdale is done.

I'm sorry.

Hey!

(But for real, it's good).

I'm sorry.:lol: :D

This has made me just want to rewatch the Melissa Joan Hart version. The only version as far as I'm concerned.

I am not into the "dark reboot of Sabrina the Teenage Witch" that doesn't even feature Salem the Cat

Riverdale is one of my current favorites
Mine too!

Making magic again! Sabrina The Teenage Witch reboot will bring back her original love interest Harvey Kinkle - as first look suggests a rekindled romance (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-4963584/Sabrina-Teenage-Witch-reboot-bring-Harvey.html)

Making magic again! Sabrina The Teenage Witch reboot will bring back her original love interest Harvey Kinkle - as first look suggests a rekindled romance (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-4963584/Sabrina-Teenage-Witch-reboot-bring-Harvey.html)
This is NOT a "reboot". It's a reimagining.

Melissa Joan Hart on Darker "Sabrina"
by Mary Sollosi
Oct. 28, 2017


The cast of "Sabrina the Teenage Witch" reunited at L.A. Comic Con on Saturday and had plenty to say about the state of their characters in 2017.

Melissa Joan Hart, Nick Bakay, Caroline Rhea, Beth Broderick, Nate Richert, Alimi Ballard, David Lascher, Soleil Moon Frye, and Elisa Donovan all appeared on a panel moderated by EW’s Marc Snetiker, and the conversation turned to The CW’s upcoming "Riverdale" spin-off.




“We’re not involved… The rights reverted back to Archie Comics, and they’re doing The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, which is a darker sort of twist,” said Hart, who played the eponymous magical adolescent for the duration of the seven-season series.

“I think our show was about magic and family, and I think the new one — it sounds like, I have no idea — but the new one is going to be more about witchcraft, dark stuff. I think it sounds more Buffy the Vampire Slayer than it does Sabrina, so I think it will appeal to a different kind of audience and be a totally different show.”

http://ew.com/tv/2017/10/28/melissa-joan-hart-sabrina-the-teenage-witch-la-comic-con/

"Sabrina the Teenage Witch" Series Picked Up by Netflix with 2-Season Order
by Nellie Andreeva
December 1, 2017


Sabrina is on the move. "The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina" series, originally put in development at The CW in September as a potential companion to "Riverdale", has landed a 20-episode, two-season, straight-to-series order at Netflix.

The now-untitled project, based on the Archie Comics graphic novel The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, comes from the same team as "Riverdale": Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. TV, with Aguirre-Sacasa, who penned the "Riverdale" pilot, and Lee Toland Krieger, who directed it, reprising their roles on the "Sabrina" pilot episode.





While most other popular Archie Comics characters are in Riverdale, Sabrina the Teenage Witch had been conspicuously missing from the CW’s Archie-themed drama series, so it made sense when the network announced in September that it was developing a separate series about the young witch.

Word is, likely based on the success of "Riverdale" on Netflix, the streaming platform gave producing studio Warner Bros. TV a two-season pickup offer it could not refuse. The CW, which also has another female witch drama in the works, a "Charmed" reboot with "Jane the Virgin" creator Jennie Snyder Urman, had only committed to development.

Additionally, by going with Netflix, WBTV is retaining full ownership of the "Sabrina" series. ("Riverdale" is a co-production with CBS TV Studios per the CW business model.)





The series’ move is somewhat reminiscent to "The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt", originally picked up by NBC for a midseason run before Netflix stepped in with a two-season order.

Netflix’s interest in "Sabrina" is not surprising. "Riverdale" has been a success story for both The CW and the streaming service, which has domestic SVOD rights to the dark, soapy drama and carries it internationally in many territories.

Young viewers discovering and catching up on the first season over the summer by binging on Netflix is credited with "Riverdale‘s" strong ratings sophomore season performance on The CW this fall.





Still, the relocation of the potential companion series will not allow The CW to build an Archie universe the way it has with the DC series, with characters frequently crossing over.

(The network has another offshoot in the works, the "Supernatural" spin-off "Wayward Sisters", which will be introduced as a planted spin-off episode of the mothership series later this season.)





A dark drama in the horror genre, the new "Sabrina" series is worlds away from the bubbly 1996 "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch" comedy series starring Melissa Joan Hart.

The new project re-imagines the origin and adventures of Sabrina the Teenage Witch as a dark coming-of-age story that traffics in horror, the occult and, of course, witchcraft. Tonally in the vein of Rosemary’s Baby and The Exorcist, this adaptation finds Sabrina wrestling to reconcile her dual nature — half-witch, half-mortal — while standing against the evil forces that threaten her, her family and the daylight world humans inhabit.

http://deadline.com/2017/12/sabrina-the-teenage-witch-series-picked-up-netflix-2-season-order-1202218168/

"Sabrina the Teenage Witch" Series Picked Up by Netflix with 2-Season Order
by Nellie Andreeva
December 1, 2017


Sabrina is on the move. "The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina" series, originally put in development at The CW in September as a potential companion to "Riverdale", has landed a 20-episode, two-season, straight-to-series order at Netflix.

The now-untitled project, based on the Archie Comics graphic novel The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, comes from the same team as "Riverdale": Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. TV, with Aguirre-Sacasa, who penned the "Riverdale" pilot, and Lee Toland Krieger, who directed it, reprising their roles on the "Sabrina" pilot episode.





While most other popular Archie Comics characters are in Riverdale, Sabrina the Teenage Witch had been conspicuously missing from the CW’s Archie-themed drama series, so it made sense when the network announced in September that it was developing a separate series about the young witch.

Word is, likely based on the success of "Riverdale" on Netflix, the streaming platform gave producing studio Warner Bros. TV a two-season pickup offer it could not refuse. The CW, which also has another female witch drama in the works, a "Charmed" reboot with "Jane the Virgin" creator Jennie Snyder Urman, had only committed to development.

Additionally, by going with Netflix, WBTV is retaining full ownership of the "Sabrina" series. ("Riverdale" is a co-production with CBS TV Studios per the CW business model.)





The series’ move is somewhat reminiscent to "The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt", originally picked up by NBC for a midseason run before Netflix stepped in with a two-season order.

Netflix’s interest in "Sabrina" is not surprising. "Riverdale" has been a success story for both The CW and the streaming service, which has domestic SVOD rights to the dark, soapy drama and carries it internationally in many territories.

Young viewers discovering and catching up on the first season over the summer by binging on Netflix is credited with "Riverdale‘s" strong ratings sophomore season performance on The CW this fall.





Still, the relocation of the potential companion series will not allow The CW to build an Archie universe the way it has with the DC series, with characters frequently crossing over.

(The network has another offshoot in the works, the "Supernatural" spin-off "Wayward Sisters", which will be introduced as a planted spin-off episode of the mothership series later this season.)





A dark drama in the horror genre, the new "Sabrina" series is worlds away from the bubbly 1996 "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch" comedy series starring Melissa Joan Hart.

The new project re-imagines the origin and adventures of Sabrina the Teenage Witch as a dark coming-of-age story that traffics in horror, the occult and, of course, witchcraft. Tonally in the vein of Rosemary’s Baby and The Exorcist, this adaptation finds Sabrina wrestling to reconcile her dual nature — half-witch, half-mortal — while standing against the evil forces that threaten her, her family and the daylight world humans inhabit.

http://deadline.com/2017/12/sabrina-the-teenage-witch-series-picked-up-netflix-2-season-order-1202218168/

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/why-sabrina-bailed-riverdale-launch-netflix-1064356

On Netflix, Warner Brothers will be able to maintain 100% ownership of the Riverdale offshoot. If the new Sabrina ended up on The CW, WB would have to share ownership and profits with CBS.

CW boss explains why the new Sabrina series ended up on Netflix (http://ew.com/tv/2018/01/07/sabrina-riverdale-cw-netflix)
The untitled adaptation based on The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina was supposed to serve as a companion to Riverdale, penned by Riverdale boss Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. But CW president Mark Pedowitz says: “There was opportunity that Warners had that Netflix made them a two-season offer. We understood that, and I wish Roberto and everybody really well as far as that goes. We have great development in Charmed and a number of other shows, so we’ll muddle through it.”

Sabrina audition tapes, leaked? (http://omegaunderground.com/2017/12/12/exclusive-leaked-audition-tapes-debut-aunt-hilda-netflixs-sabrina-reboot/)
Two clips of actresses reportedly auditioning for Netflix’s Riverdale spinoff based on the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina comic book have hit the internet. The two actresses were auditioning to play Aunt Hilda, a role played by Caroline Rhea on the Sabrina the Teenage Witch sitcom.

Will it be like the Melissa Joan Hart version or completely differant?

Check out the character breakdowns for Netflix’s Sabrina series (http://www.denofgeek.com/us/tv/sabrina-the-teenage-witch/267682/chilling-adventures-of-sabrina-tv-series-character-breakdowns)
The TV series based on The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina graphic novel isn’t looking for a person of any specific ethnicity to play the title role.

Check out the character breakdowns for Netflix’s Sabrina series (http://www.denofgeek.com/us/tv/sabrina-the-teenage-witch/267682/chilling-adventures-of-sabrina-tv-series-character-breakdowns)
The TV series based on The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina graphic novel isn’t looking for a person of any specific ethnicity to play the title role.
I checked it out and it looks cool.

Mad Men’s Kiernan Shipka cast as the new Sabrina the Teenage Witch on Netflix (http://tvline.com/2018/01/05/kiernan-shipka-sabrina-the-teenage-witch-netflix-reboot/)

The 18-year-old actress will take on the role of Sabrina Spellman in the untitled series based on The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina comic books from Riverdale creator Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. Netflix describes the new, darker Sabrina as “an empowered young woman, half-human, half-witch, (who) is just beginning her dark education as a sorceress, even as she tries to maintain a normal life as a sophomore at Baxter High. Intelligent, compassionate and brave to the point of recklessness, Sabrina is all that stands between us and the forces of darkness that threaten our world.”

Melissa Joan Hart Reacts to Netflix's "Sabrina"
by Natalie Abrams
Feb. 7, 2018


Sabrina Spellman will soon come to life again on Netflix’s dark adaptation of The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina comics — but how does her original portrayer feel about that?

“Indifferent, really,” says Melissa Joan Hart, who initially brought the magical heroine to life on the ABC sitcom "Sabrina the Teenage Witch".




Netflix’s upcoming adaptation is said to be a much darker take on the character, who will now be portrayed by "Mad Men‘s" Kiernan Shipka.

“People kept asking for it, and they were already doing Riverdale, so I guess it made sense,” Hart continues. “I think they’re doing it in a smart way — change it up, don’t make it the same. If you’re going to do the same show, it probably would fall on its face, but I think what they’re doing is probably the smartest way to reboot something.”




Hart, who will next direct a February episode of ABC’s "The Goldbergs", says she’s not opposed to appearing on, or even helming an episode of, the Netflix series, which recently scored a two-season pickup.

“Never say never, but it would depend on the character they wrote,” Hart says. “I just don’t know where I would fit in. I would definitely take a look at the material if they sent it along.”




On television's current trend of reboots/revivals, Hart said:

“Back in the day, it used to be that you took something that was successful and you did a twist on it. Nowadays, everybody is just doing the same old stuff again. I think it’s a trend that will end, but then again, I said that with reality television, too, so who knows.”

http://ew.com/tv/2018/02/07/melissa-joan-hart-sabrina-netflix-remake/

^Good for MJH for taking the high road and not dissing the show just because (as far as I'm concerned) she IS Sabrina.

I'm not interested in this version but I'm sure others probably will be.

Melissa Joan Hart is “indifferent” to Netflix’s Sabrina remake, but she thinks “they’re doing it in a smart way” (http://ew.com/tv/2018/02/07/melissa-joan-hart-sabrina-netflix-remake/)
“People kept asking for it, and they were already doing Riverdale, so I guess it made sense,” says the former Sabrina the Teenage Witch star. “I think they’re doing it in a smart way — change it up, don’t make it the same. If you’re going to do the same show, it probably would fall on its face, but I think what they’re doing is probably the smartest way to reboot something.”

^That post was unnecessary. It's the exact same thing as post #26.

The first photo from Netflix's Sabrina series is of Salem the cat (http://tvline.com/2018/02/09/sabrina-reboot-first-look-salem-netflix-spoilers/)
“Ladies and gentlemen, meet #Greendale’s latest resident. All hail, Salem!” tweeted Riverdale showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. Aguirre-Sacasa is also leading the new and still-untitled Sabrina series, based on The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina comic book series.

I mean I like the comic series it's going off of. With that said though I still can't get behind a live action series of it. It's just as bad if they were do the post apocalyptic Scooby Doo as a live action series.

Miranda Otto to play Aunt Zelda on the Netflix's Sabrina series (http://tvline.com/2018/02/20/sabrina-the-teenage-witch-netflix-reboot-cast-aunt-zelda-miranda-otto/)
The Homeland and 24: Legacy alum will play the "proud and devout" Zelda Spellman in the TV series based on The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina comic books. "She is the family’s disciplinarian, fiercely protective of Sabrina and very much Cain to Hilda’s Abel," reads a description of her character.

Yes. bring back Zelda from the candle!

Netflix's Sabrina series casts Richard Coyle as the main villain (http://tvline.com/2018/02/22/sabrina-reboot-netflix-richard-coyle-cast-father-blackwood/)
The Coupling and Covert Affairs alum will play the "ruthless and ambitious" Father Blackwood, the "High Priest of the Church of Night and Dean of the Academy of the Unseen Arts."

Netflix's Sabrina series enlists Perfect Strangers alum Bronson Pinchot (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/netflixs-riverdale-companion-sabrina-enlists-bronson-pinchot-1093229)
The "Balki" actor will recur as the "villainous, puritanical principal" of Baxter High on the untitled series based on the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina comic book. Pinchot shares something in common with the previous incarnation of Sabrina. Both Perfect Strangers and Sabrina the Teenage Witch were ABC "TGIF" fixtures.

Netflix's Sabrina series oficially gets a title: Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (http://tvline.com/2018/05/02/sabrina-netflix-series-title-chilling-adventures-of-sabrina/)
Showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa announced on Twitter that the show based on The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina comic book series will retain its title on Netflix. He also revealed the first official image (https://twitter.com/WriterRAS/status/991701871340478464) of Mad Men's Kiernan Shipka in the title role.

Check out the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina's poster (https://tvline.com/2018/07/10/chilling-adventures-of-sabrina-poster-first-look-netflix/)
Salem the cat is front and center in the first key art for the Netflix series based on the comic book of the same name.

Check out pics of Kiernan Shipka on Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (https://mashable.com/2018/08/13/sabrina-first-look-photos/)
One photo has Sabrina Spellman looking like Little Red Riding Hood, while another shows her in the midst of a dark baptism.

[Exclusive] Melissa Joan Hart on Netflix’s 'Sabrina' Reboot: “I’m Glad They’re Not Duplicating It”
by Zachary Leeman
Sept. 4, 2018


The first actress to pop into most people’s minds when they think of the character of Sabrina, the Teenage Witch is of course Melissa Joan Hart. The actress starred as Sabrina for 163 episodes in "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch", which ran from 1996 to 2003.

She also voiced the character in an animated series that ran for 65 episodes from 1999 to 2000 as well as appearing in several "Sabrina" feature films.




The character is now getting the reboot treatment in a much darker iteration set to hit Netflix on October 26 of this year. Kiernan Shipka (Mad Men) is the new teenage witch in the series, which already has a two season order from the streaming service.

Hart says the makers of the new series — titled "The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina" — have not reached out to her for a potential role or even for her blessing.

“No, they haven’t,” she responds by phone when asked about the producers making contact. “I have no feelings about it really... Everybody’s remaking everything,” she says.




Though she has no connection to the new series, Hart says she is glad that the show is taking a different approach to the character, rather than trying to redo the lighter tone of her popular series.

“I’m glad they’re not just duplicating it,” she told us.

https://bloody-disgusting.com/interviews/3519381/exclusive-melissa-joan-hart-netflixs-sabrina-reboot-im-glad-theyre-not-duplicating/

Kiernan Shipka: Netflix's Sabrina is a "woke witch" (https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/chilling-adventures-of-sabrina-woke-witc-premiere-1202987527/)

“This is totally the Sabrina for 2018, in so many ways. She’s a woke witch,” Shipka tells Variety of her Chilling Adventures of Sabrina character. “Her entire grappling with signing her name away in the Book of the Beast and questioning a lot of the more patriarchal elements of what she was raised to believe and to go into. I think that in and of itself is very feminist and she’s a strong independent woman and she stands up for herself and she does what she thinks is right.” ALSO: Shipka wants a Riverdale-Sabrina crossover (https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/krystieyandoli/riverdale-chilling-adventures-of-sabrina-crossover).

[Exclusive] Melissa Joan Hart on Netflix’s 'Sabrina' Reboot: “I’m Glad They’re Not Duplicating It”
by Zachary Leeman
Sept. 4, 2018


The first actress to pop into most people’s minds when they think of the character of Sabrina, the Teenage Witch is of course Melissa Joan Hart. The actress starred as Sabrina for 163 episodes in "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch", which ran from 1996 to 2003.

She also voiced the character in an animated series that ran for 65 episodes from 1999 to 2000 as well as appearing in several "Sabrina" feature films.




The character is now getting the reboot treatment in a much darker iteration set to hit Netflix on October 26 of this year. Kiernan Shipka (Mad Men) is the new teenage witch in the series, which already has a two season order from the streaming service.

Hart says the makers of the new series — titled "The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina" — have not reached out to her for a potential role or even for her blessing.

“No, they haven’t,” she responds by phone when asked about the producers making contact. “I have no feelings about it really... Everybody’s remaking everything,” she says.




Though she has no connection to the new series, Hart says she is glad that the show is taking a different approach to the character, rather than trying to redo the lighter tone of her popular series.

“I’m glad they’re not just duplicating it,” she told us.

https://bloody-disgusting.com/interviews/3519381/exclusive-melissa-joan-hart-netflixs-sabrina-reboot-im-glad-theyre-not-duplicating/

Sabrina the Teenage Witch cast reunites to send "best witches" to Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (https://tvline.com/2018/10/25/sabrina-the-teenage-witch-cast-reunion-video-chilling-adventures-reboot-netflix/)

Original "TGIF" Sabrina stars Melissa Joan Hart, Caroline Rhea, Beth Broderick and Nate Richert made a special video for the Netflix cast. “I just wanted to send my ‘best witches’ to Kiernan Shipka — aka the new Sabrina Spellman,” said Hart. “By the way, from one Sabrina to the other, if you’re ever given a choice between a broom and a vacuum, choose the vacuum.”

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina is a mess, but it's a gorgeous thrill ride when it works (https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/10/25/18015686/netflix-chilling-adventures-of-sabrina-review)

The Netflix series starring Kiernan Shipka in the title role "struggles to figure out exactly what its tone is, and how to balance its darkness and its campiness," says Constance Grady. She adds: "Even Sabrina herself is left to fall a little flat. Shipka has a radiantly likeble screen presence, but throughout the first season she has little to do besides be determinedly plucky and also sometimes sad. While the show seems interested in Sabrina as an intellectual construct who can act out an allegorical dilemma between power and freedom, it doesn’t seem to be fully invested in her as a character, and never bothers to give her the psychological complexities it grants to her aunts, to her cousin Ambrose (a smoothly charming Chance Perdomo), or even to mean girl Prudence...Still, for as messy and as inconsistent as Sabrina can be, the moments that work are more fun and more stylish than anything else on television. And when it takes the time to really delve into the complexities of the witch power fantasy, to think about what it means when the fantasy gives women power from a male source, and that source has its own agenda, when it begins to play out its ideas about power and autonomy and obligation and gender — well, then, just like the title promises, it’s downright chilling."

ALSO:

Sabrina offers a smart and charming girlhood approach that goes beyond tired teen narratives (https://themuse.jezebel.com/in-chilling-adventures-of-sabrina-witchcraft-isnt-as-f-1829981542)
Sabrina is a bit all over the place — caught somewhere between a bona fide piece of horror, a tongue-in-cheek send-up of the same, and a sincere coming-of-age story (https://www.theringer.com/tv/2018/10/26/18025802/chilling-adventures-of-sabrina-netflix-riverdale)
Sabrina suffers from typical Netflix bloat: Its first five episodes could be titled The Bureaucratic Complications of Sabrina the Young Adult Half-Satanist (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/chilling-adventures-sabrina-review-1153054)
Sabrina throws a lot at the walls to see what sticks -- it contains a few shows fighting for dominance in the ambitious 10-episode season (https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/chilling-adventures-of-sabrina-netflix-review-kiernan-shipka-1202982857/)
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina is literally too dark: You can't see what's going on in some scenes (https://www.thedailybeast.com/chilling-adventures-of-sabrina-needs-to-lighten-up-literally)
Sabrina feels lacking in the qualities that would distinguish it from The CW's Charmed and Legacies (https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/24/entertainment/chilling-adventures-of-sabrina-review/index.html)
Kiernan Shipka's forceful performance keeps the show intact -- she is the greatest strength on a show trying to figure itself out (https://www.wired.com/story/chilling-adventures-of-sabrina-netflix-review/)
Sabrina works best when it's more witch, less human: That's why the back half of Season 1 is a devilish delight (https://observer.com/2018/10/netflix-the-chilling-adventures-of-sabrina-review/)
It doesn't start to click until Episode 6, but then it demands to be binge-watched as storylines begin paying off (https://tv.avclub.com/though-it-takes-its-time-chilling-adventures-of-sabrin-1829759381)
The best, most archly funny thing about Sabrina is how dark the witchcraft is (https://slate.com/culture/2018/10/chilling-adventures-sabrina-review-charmed.html)
Sabrina has a Sabrina problem (https://ew.com/tv/2018/10/23/netflixs-chilling-adventures-of-sabrina-ew-review/): "Called upon to simultaneously perform wide-eyed innocence, Chosen One superheroism, and activist rage, Shipka compromises with blankness"
How the creepy opening credits were made (http://www.vulture.com/2018/10/chilling-adventures-of-sabrina-netflix-opening-credits.html)
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa compares creating Riverdale vs. Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (https://variety.com/2018/tv/features/riverdale-chilling-adventures-of-sabrina-roberto-aguirre-sacasa-interview-paradox-innocence-witchcraft-bughead-1202962129/)
Chilling Adventures seriously considered doing an homage to Sabrina the Teenage Witch (https://www.eonline.com/news/981134/chilling-adventures-of-sabrina-almost-featured-a-big-tribute-to-sabrina-the-teenage-witch)

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina's storylines feel like someone googled "feminist buzzwords," then sprinkled their search results into the scripts (https://mashable.com/article/chilling-adventures-of-sabrina-intersectional-feminism)

"Using feminism as aesthetic rather than meaning, its declarative wokeness amounts to little more than nauseating soapbox Moments of Intersectional Feminism that are like a bad after-school special that only makes you want to do more drugs," says Jess Joho. "Worse still, the show fails to see how its own plot highlights almost every issue with white feminism. Now, to be clear: We are not condemning CAOS for its above average attention to diverse representation. The attempt is commendable. But it also goes to show what a sorry state we're in that many are heralding the series as a feminist manifesto — even while not agreeing on exactly what it's even saying about feminism. Like most pop culture representations of witches, it focuses squarely on white women victims. In the process, it totally erases the countless other victims who were slaves and other people of color with foreign religions that were demonized as witchcraft by white, colonizing Christians."

ALSO:

Sabrina's race problem: The show unintentionally evokes the racist legacy of lynching (https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-chilling-adventures-of-sabrinas-characters-of-color-1830083708)
Sabrina's homophobia: The show puts being perceived as gay as a curse (https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2018/10/30/chilling-adventures-sabrina-features-ice-cold-homophobia)
Georgia artist claims Sabrina ripped off his painting (https://www.dailydot.com/upstream/netflix-sabrina-plagiarize-painting/)
Why Salem the Cat doesn't talk (https://www.indiewire.com/2018/10/chilling-adventures-of-sabrina-salem-cat-talk-netflix-1202016387/)

I’m still not on board with this series. It looks stupid.

I’ll just stick with the MJH version.

I’m still not on board with this series. It looks stupid.

I’ll just stick with the MJH version.

Me too.

Sabrina, the Teenage Witch creator is thrilled that Chilling Adventures of Sabrina kept the "Spellman" last name (https://twitter.com/NellSco/status/1062021280126328832)

"It always makes me smile to see Sabrina’s last name," tweeted Nell Scovell, creator of the ABC "TGIF" Sabrina. "It came from Irving Spellman, a funny friend of my father’s who died in the 80s. When I was creating the ABC show, I needed a surname and 'Spellman' seemed ideal for a witch. Now it’s canon. RIP Irving."