Spiritual Diversity Leads To Actual Diversity on Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

Season 3 // Netflix Y’all. The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina just dropped Season Three on Netflix this past Friday and it does get better every season. Credit must be given, as the show somehow balances its very low-stakes teen drama with the very high stakes of its supernatural plot arcs pretty well. If I might be so bold, Netflix is giving us an edgy hybrid of the CW’s Riverdale and Supernatural and I am here for it. I am giving the show props for highlighting some of the more obscure spiritual practices in a way that is respectful to practitioners of those faiths while remaining super digestible by younger viewers. Speaking of ‘supernatural’, whoever the dramaturgs were on this show…Went. In. There was a deliberate focus on ethnic spirituality in Chilling Adventures and with it a welcomed influx of intentional diversity and representation. Now, let me be clear: there is a focus on diverse sources for spirituality. Not ACCURACY in said diverse representation. Things are all over the place with the Satanism and Witchcraft mashup, so yeah, there’s that to “balance it out”. CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA Hocus Pocus Season One offered up the streamlined version of the trademark macabre retro-future aesthetic that Riverdale brought to TV. It was cool, a little dark and definitely edgy for the genre. They portrayed witchcraft as a dignified, full-on religious practice, albeit as a subservient sect of Satanism. The hot button topic that year was bullying and it was used a…