'Chilling Adventures of Sabrina' Cast on the Devilish Ending, Season 2

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In the season finale of "Chilling Adventures of Sabrina," Kiernan Shipka's titular character fully embraced her witch half and signed her soul away to the devil, further complicating her already unusual relationship with death. "Without spoiling anything in Season 2, there's a lot of mourning of her mortality," said Shipka.

It's a bittersweet look ahead for the character, who was reimagined by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa from Archie Comics' "Sabrina the Teenage Witch." The new incarnation had been touched by death from the start; Sabrina Spellman never knew her parents because they died in an accident when she was an infant. Also, she resides in a house that doubles as a mortuary operated by her witch aunts and cousin.

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"There's a very mortal poise that Roberto brings to the death elements of the show and comes to it from a very human perspective," Shipka said. "It is interesting playing a character that does not really grow up with those kinds of experiences. But at the same time, Sabrina is mourning the loss of her parents from the beginning. That's a constant in her mind and her everyday life. There's a loss there that is ever present. "

As the offspring of a mortal and witch, Sabrina was always destined to forge her own path. Although she was first defied by the dead Lord's book when the show began, her resolve crumbled when she died in Greendale, including her friends. As a result, her potent witch's powers have been amplified and her lifespan extended.

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Of course, the downside is that Sabrina must obey Satan's will, should he choose to call on her. She also sacrificed something else that the other witches and warlocks had not the mortal half of herself. She does not feel the urgency that short-lived people do, but she'll also be waiting for the Academy of Unseen Arts, leaving her deadly boyfriend Harvey (Ross Lynch) and friends behind.

Sabrina did not come to her fateful decision alone. She was spurred on by her teacher Mrs. Wardwell (Michelle Gomez), who reveals her true identity to one mortal hapless in the finale: "I'm the mother of demons, the dawn of doom, Satan's concubine. I'm Lilith, dear boy, first wife to Adam, saved from despair by a fallen angel. Satan in his honor. "While grooming Sabrina to choose darkness would eventually earn Madam Satan a crown and throne by the Dark Lord's side, her actions also have a disruptive, feminist bent. "Women are taught to fear power. Own it, "she tells Sabrina.

Gomez said, "There's a bring back the patriarchy 'resonance there. And so Madam Satan stands for that female empowerment and to really encourage and push Sabrina to be the most powerful version of herself. What does that mean to the modern woman today with the choices we have? "

Could agreeing to serve the devil be a stealth way of taking the patriarchy from within? Madam Satan certainly does not lack ambition, and Sabrina's Aunt Zelda (Miranda Otto) also makes a critical, game-changing decision in the final. Of Sabrina's two aunts, Zelda had always been a member of the Church of Night and had a good relationship – an affair, actually – with the High Priest, Father Blackwood (Richard Coyle). However, when she serves as a midwife to Blackwood Lady, who dies in childbirth, she claims only one twin, has her survived.

She lied. A girl had been born first, but Zelda stole her away "to protect the babe … She's a girl born before her brother, and the High Priest, I fear what he would have done to her."

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Otto said, "I think she has her own private questions about certain things and the way things go. I see her as a bit of a politician. She's in it for the long haul, she's playing the long game and she's fiercely protective of Sabrina. She does not really know what to do, but she's not in the coven, so she's in a very dangerous position.

"So to her, the only position to be within the Church and to what you can within. As much as Zelda berates Sabrina and is tough on her, I think she really admires her strength and tenacity and rebelliousness. There's a part of her that sees Sabrina one day heading up the Church in some way. "

Season 2, which is already shooting in Vancouver, sounds like it's ripe for revolution. Shipka dropped one hint on Sabrina's plight: "I was in a rehearsal the other day for a scene that's in the second season. I'm going down, I'm like, 'This is a shot from Rosemary's Baby.' Oh my god, so it continues.

Additional reporting by Jamie Rhigetti.

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