History YMMV / ChillingAdventuresOfSabrina

* MagnificentBitch: Myth/{{Lilith}}, aka [[MotherOfAThousandYoung Madam Satan]], was the first witch who has faithfully served [[{{Satan}} Lucifer Morningstar]] for ages. Killing Sabrina Spellman's teacher and taking her identity, Lilith flawlessly manipulates Sabrina to darkness, subverting her good intentions and eventually getting Sabrina to sign her name in Lucifer's book. Turning on Lucifer to assist the heroes when he kills her human lover, Lilith manages to see him confined while she takes [[HellHasNewManagement over rulership of Hell]]. Even when Lucifer manages to escape, Lilith negotiates her own survival and stays close to bide her time, eventually able to permanently steal Lucifer's powers and banish him to Earth as a mortal.

%%* EvilIsSexy: Madame Satan.

* EvilIsSexy:
** Madam Satan is cunning, manipulative, and wants to corrupt Sabrina for the Dark Lord, but she is still one of the most sexy characters on the show.
** The Weird Sisters can be cruel [[AlphaBitch Alpha Bitches]], but they are also all incredibly beautiful and tend to wear very short dresses.
** Satan himself, [[MrFanservice when he finally shows up in his angelic form]].

** Ms. Wardwell's look for the majority of the series is an EvilMakeover of Lilith pretending to be her; the real Ms Wardwell is dowdier, with hair in a bun, glasses, and no makeup. Naturally, Lilith's EvilIsSexy look went over much better with fans.

* Zelda claims that Dogs aren’t smart enough to be Familiars and in [[Series/ChillingAdventuresofSabrina the Netflix series]], Zelda’s Familiar is a Dog, that she is very fond of.

* EsotericHappyEnding: Season 4 ends with [[spoiler:Sabrina Morningstar inexplicably dying and later Sabrina Spellman sacrificing her own life in order to stop the Eldritch Terrors for good]]. Typical BittersweetEnding for this kind of a show, right? Well, then it turns out that [[spoiler:Nick drowns himself to be with her for eternity]], and the show has the UnfortunateImplications to treat [[spoiler:romanticizing suicide in the teen romance genre]] like it's a ''happy'' ending and also ''deeply romantic''. Um, yay?

** The puppet used for Salem later in the series is ''really'' cheap-looking. Even the puppets from the 90's sitcom was expressive and could move a few parts of their bodies, whereas this one just barely moves its mouth.

* EvilIsSexy: Madame Satan.

** ''{{Webcomic/Homestuck}}'''s Rose Lalonde resembles a darker version of Sabrina. And this comic is a darker, horror-themed version of Sabrina that looks like Rose.

** The basketball coach's objections to Theo joining the team are portrayed as transphobic prejudice, but he does raise the valid point that Theo is extremely short, skinny and has demonstrated no special ability for the sport. The fact that Sabrina has to use magic to cheat Theo's way onto the team only drives the point home further.

** After being possessed by Lucifer, Nick essentially deals with PTSD in a thinly-veiled metaphor for sexual abuse (crying "I can still feel him inside me"). Rather than touching on this potentially interesting direction - and examining how males are affected by sexual assault too - he's written as the DesignatedVillain who can't be faithful to Sabrina when he uses sex to deal with his trauma.
* TooBleakStoppedCaring: Despite seemingly friendly at first, it's made clear that pretty much ''every single character'' is in some way horrible or evil. Even the title character Sabrina, while not having done anything bad per se, sees absolutely nothing wrong with the evils that go around her constantly.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Sabrina can come off as to some. Between [[SoapBoxSadie constantly forcing her morality]] on others in a very [[SmugSnake arrogant manner]] (sometimes even [[SmugSuper via force]]) and anyone against her being a [[HateSink hate sink]] or [[StrawmanPolitical strawman]], and constantly [[ItsAllAboutMe doing what she wants despite being warned over and over again]] of the consequences, she can come as [[SpoiledBrat snotty]] at best or a [[TheBully bully at worst.]] Hell, when her plan to bring [[spoiler: Tommy BackFromTheDead]] blows up in her face, she's more concerned with Harvey not forgiving her than any potential trauma he might be suffering from [[spoiler: having to kill his own brother]].

** The puppet used for Salem later in the series is ''really'' cheap-looking. Even the puppets from the 90's sitcom was expressive and more emotive, whereas this one just barely moves its mouth.

* DracoInLeatherPants: Lilith is TheHeavy of the first season, working for Satan to corrupt the hero Sabrina, and is willing to kill multiple innocent people to do so. However, due to her charisma and Creator/MichelleGomez's good looks, a lot of fangirls are willing to excuse her evil deeds and portray her as a straight-up hero. While she does eventually break away from Satan, Lilith never actually becomes a good person and continues to be a WildCard who won't hesitate to kill anyone who gets in her way. However, multiple fanfics great her as if she is an honorable member of the Spellman family.

* Nicholas Scratch shares a name with [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/ScarletWitch Agatha Harkness]]'s son from Marvel Comics, a villain himself.

* UnfortunateImplications:
** [[https://io9.gizmodo.com/6-things-we-liked-about-the-first-season-of-chilling-ad-1829974451 Several reviewers]] have pointed out the general ickiness of Sabrina and the Weird Sisters enchanting Susie's bullies into making out with each other, photographing the results and threatening to blackmail them, essentially using gay panic for comedy.
** Some viewers see the dynamic between Sabrina and Prudence as having [[https://www.newsweek.com/chilling-adventures-sabrina-racist-twitter-1193441 unfortunate racial implications]], with Sabrina and the ghosts' revenge against the Weird Sisters in the fourth episode being particularly controversial (as it bears a resemblance to lynching, which is ''not good'', given that Prudence is black).
** The series finale was ''immediately'' attacked for [[spoiler: Nick's apparent suicide so he and Sabrina could be TogetherInDeath. [[https://mashable.com/article/chilling-adventures-of-sabrina-ending/ This article]] points out that the show essentially glorifies teen suicide as a beautiful, romantic gesture, comparing it to a similar controversy over ''Series/ThirteenReasonsWhy'' and its own extremely problematic presentation of teens killing themselves. While ''technically'' speaking it's never stated if Nick killed himself on purpose or simply had an error in judgment, the evidence is heavily suggestive of the first option, prompting critics and fans alike to attack the show's final moments without mercy.]]

* AuthorsSavingThrow: For those that find Sabrina UnintentionallyUnsympathetic, the second half of Season 1 has many characters calling her out on her behavior. Ros and Harvey essentially blame her for everything that went wrong in their lives, and she's even [[spoiler: expelled from the Academy for a couple of episodes]]. Upon discovering [[spoiler: Lilith's true identity, she has a HeelRealization where she realizes most of her 'heroics' were manipulations by a villain, and she's BroughtDownToNormal as a result of her rash decisions]].

* AuthorsSavingThrow: For those that find Sabrina UnintentionallyUnsympathetic, the second half of Season 1 has many characters calling her out on her behaviour. Ros and Harvey essentially blame her for everything that went wrong in their lives, and she's even [[spoiler: expelled from the Academy for a couple of episodes]]. Upon discovering [[spoiler: Lilith's true identity, she has a HeelRealization where she realises most of her 'heroics' were manipulations by a villain, and she's BroughtDownToNormal as a result of her rash decisions]].

* BaseBreakingCharacter: Sabrina herself became an incredibly polarizing character once Part 2 rolled around. Half the base finds her a wonderfully flawed and interesting character whose impulsiveness and [[ProtagonistCenteredMorality selfishness]] is balanced out by her desire to do good, and she still faces realistic consequences. The other half finds her overly preachy, annoying and hypocritical - and that her naivety and thinking she can have everything both ways just makes her insufferable. And due to the show's insistence on treating Sabrina as being in the right [[DesignatedHero eve when she isn't]], it leaves very little room for CharacterDevelopment and she's prone to [[AesopAmnesia making the same mistakes over and over]]. And this isn't helped by comparison to her persona on the 90s sitcom, where she was a good friend at heart whose impulsiveness was more understandable due to being new to witchcraft, and she faced plenty of consequences for her actions.

** Lilith is an antagonist initially but is presented as a WildCard compared to Father Blackwood and Lucifer. Except she actually murders Ms Wardwell in cold blood within the first few minutes of the series, seduces an underage boy and then killed him, ate an innocent pizza boy, had an innocent man possessed by a demon and then murdered him herself. And that's in addition to her repeated {{Gaslighting}} of Sabrina. The only reason she's not treated as worse than the others is because the writers said so. Even as late as Part 4, [[spoiler: her murder of her own baby before feeding it to Lucifer]] is quickly swept under the rug.

** Ms Wardwell's look for the majority of the series is an EvilMakeover of Lilith pretending to be her; the real Ms Wardwell is dowdier, with hair in a bun, glasses, and no makeup. Naturally, Lilith's EvilIsSexy look went over much better with fans.

* InformedWrongness: Sabrina [[spoiler: killing Agatha]] as an EquivalentExchange to [[spoiler: resurrect Tommy]] is presented as her going too far. Except Agatha is a murderer, and she used magic to kill a mortal, making that a fitting comeuppance for her behaviour. [[spoiler: She ends up a complete KarmaHoudini because of this trope]].

* SeasonalRot: It's generally agreed that Parts 3 and 4 are weaker than the first two Parts. Part 4 in particular gets flack for the underwhelming Eldritch Terrors who are easily defeated, [[CosmicDeadline rushed pacing]] with some storylines like [[spoiler:Roz being a witch]] being brushed aside and the controversal ending.
* SugarWiki/SheReallyCanAct: Michelle Gomez playing both Lilith and Ms Wardwell in Season 3 shows off just how good she is; giving each persona her own mannerisms, and is convincing enough that some viewers admitted to forgetting it was the same actress.