The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

[promethia_tenk]

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS. Queen.



I had a feeling I was going to love this and it's all!??! So??!!? Great!?!?!?!

Give me all the stories about wrenching back self determination and autonomy in the face of both coercive and abusive religious power structures and male privilege and fill them with witches and powerful middle aged women and Michelle Gomez and a really fantastic soundtrack, please and thank you.

I don't even like things about teenagers, as a rule.

Also it's stinking gorgeous and when there was a scene of two guys talking 2 hours and fifteen minutes in it felt weird and out of place.

(I'm only a few episodes in, but. Everything is beautiful.)

Comments

[elisi]

I'll be honest, the opening set up worked so well for me that I was a bit let down when it settled into its status quo and started feeling more like a regular television show. But I've been trolling the internet for reactions and most people seemed to think the opposite, so
Different strokes and all that. I'll let you know how I get on. :)

It's still more serialized than episodic and the whole thing is continually charming and dark and surprising and the season as a whole was really satisfying: I feel like they took on just the right amount of material. It is extremely trope-y, hence the Buffy-ish feeling, but that doesn't bother me in the slightest. It does it with aplomb.
Cool. And yeah, it feels very confident. :)

ETA: is there anything quite as terrifying as Michelle Gomez playing a mousy, unassuming person? Color me unnerved.
It was very strange, and we were wondering WHY was she behaving like a normal person and WHY WERE THEY KILLING HER??? And then... aaaah, now it makes sense. (Her death was hilarious! A+)

[promethia_tenk]

Different strokes and all that. I'll let you know how I get on. :)
I saw someone put it that the first two episodes are the 'tv movie pilot' and that's exactly right.

It was very strange, and we were wondering WHY was she behaving like a normal person and WHY WERE THEY KILLING HER??? And then... aaaah, now it makes sense. (Her death was hilarious! A+)
I had the exact same journey. MG does physical comedy so well, though.

[elisi]

I saw someone put it that the first two episodes are the 'tv movie pilot' and that's exactly right.
*nods* Well I am finally past that and the actual story can begin! :D

[promethia_tenk]

I just . . . everything is mirrors and duality and interlocking trios and dream/vision stuff and their names are all delightfully on the nose and they quote from everything and apparently the sets and cinematography are full of allusions to horror stories that I don't recognize.

Also there is an episode that is just straight-up a Buffy episode. As one reviewer put it 'I hope Joss Whedon isn't feeling litigious.'

[elisi]

There are too many things to watch...

[promethia_tenk]

I love my sister:

[elisi]

That's fabulous! (Ambrose is still my favourite.)

[promethia_tenk]

You and all of Tumblr. (I think Ambrose is an amazing character, but you know that morally ambiguous middle aged women trump all.)

ETA: made an icon, all is well with the world.

[elisi]

♥

[promethia_tenk]

I'm still just wallowing in the sheer women-centeredness of this show. Like I said in the original post, in episode three there's a scene of two men talking to each other and it feels wrong. It's scenes and scenes and scenes of women and their relationships and it's one of those things that you didn't realize how badly you needed it until you got it.

[elisi]

I don't know if I mentioned it, but we watched Star Wars: A New Hope at some point (like, during the summer or something) and the wall-to-wall White Men was... not easy. EVERYONE is male. And white. Apart from Luke's aunt, Princess Leia and a few seconds of Mon Mothma. Bad guys, resistance, EVERYONE IS MALE AND WHITE. Except for the aliens, obvs.

100% prefer the new films where the resistance is diverse and the bad guys are all white.