Staying in Tonight? 5 Spooktacular Reasons why The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina is the Perfect Halloween Binge

If you are looking for something spooky, fun, and with the right amount of teenage angst, here are five reasons why you should binge Netflix’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.

1. It’s Spooky Scary without the Nightmares

While this show is full of nightmarish scenes, scenarios, and plot twists, you’ll get the hebbie jeebies and the occasional chill down your spine, but you won’t lose sleep over them. Okay, you might lose sleep over how hot Satan actually is, and the fact that the Spellman front garden graveyard brings back the dead, but there are no jump scares like a normal “scary” movie or show (I’m looking at you AHS!)

2. The Chilling Aesthetic

“In the town of Greendale, where it always feels like Halloween” are the first words the chilling Kiernan Shipka say (S.1, Ep.1). Halloween isn’t just a holiday for some, it’s a lifestyle. Halloween is quickly becoming an “aesthetic.” Seriously, go look on Pinterest and Instagram!

So what is the aesthetic of the “new Sabrina?” I like to think of it as a modern, romantic gothic novel, set in a place where you don’t quite know what year it is and that Greendale lives in a Twilight Zone of perpetual October.

3. Fashion, a.k.a Last-Minute Costume Ideas

The show’s amazing costuming also seems lost in time! Sabrina Spellman and her human friends look like they just stepped out of a dELiA*s catalog, with her 90’s revival and ode to the 60’s with the miniskirts and turtlenecks.

Her aunts, as unique as they are, have their own particular fashion. While Hilda may seem like the crazy cat lady, if you look closely, you’ll see her vintage plaids and prints, even if they are hidden under her cozy, oversized sweaters. Zelda and Ms. Wardwell/Madam Satan/Lilith, have the whole dark dominatrix look going for them. I mean, they are both trying to make dark, powerful men their bitches.

It goes back up to point #2- aesthetics!