User Reviews

A good start to season 2 sees Sabrina take on Nick to become too boy but she is getting harassed by demons so they work together to summon them to one of the challenges.

Sabrina wants to be magic student president, a position "traditionally" held by boys. Susie wants to try out for the basketball team, but is discouraged.

So, both of these plots have the same core - sexist institutions. The most obvious criticism about the way the show approaches them is that even though the theme is glaringly obvious, the dialogues for some reason emphasise, time and again, that "oh, it's because I'm/she's a girl". Yes, we get it. Everyone does. There's also something to be said about the depiction of institutionalised sexism in the given context - I get that the show uses satanism and witchcraft mostly as a distorted and satirical mirror of our society, but to be fair I'd dare say that both the satanist and the pagan/wiccan paradigm are more open-minded that this. Or at least I imagine they are.

But the main issue is that in trying to pass a message against gender discrimination, the episode doesn't stop to think if it does it the wrong way. Every viewer can agree that Sabrina should have a right to run for that position. The fact that she cheats and for the umpteenth time unjustly accuses the high priest of conspiring against her does not help (sure, he is a bad guy in many ways, but also usually not guilty of the various things Sabrina accuses him of). Similarly, Susie should be allowed to try out for the team. I naively assumed the point would be that even though she fails, the fact she was allowed to do so would be a win - but no. Sabrina appears and cheats on her behalf by magically guiding her shots? Com' on. Even a person with no regard of the consequences of her actions, like Sabrina, should realise this is in no way a solution but rather making the problem worse. Hopefully, this will be proven in later episodes, as Sabrina never seems to learn anything. And in the end, this is becoming an issue - the main character should not risk becoming annoying.

The story about Susie identifying as a male (Theo from now on) should I think have been introduced at another episode. As it is, with the theme in this one being gender discrimination, and having been handled so poorly, it looks like they just shoved any PC issue they could in one episode. Which does not do Theo justice, since unlike the rest of the episode, this is a development that followed naturally from previous ones.

What just happened to this show ? It was a good show in season 1 but now its all about girl /lgbt power ? I mean, its okay to have a little story for them in the show but not the whole show ! A girl who is 4 feets and cant play basketball and the writers want her to play just because she is a girl ? If it a was a boy who is 4 feets no one will support him because he cant !! Why should a girl can ? Lets be realistic guys.

Im all for gender equality but you wrote that the Susie character was unable to play basketball, she hasnt practiced or has ANY natural talent but feels shes entitled to be on the basketball team and is offended when others point out the obvious, if she were talented or even at the very least spent any effort practicing the audience could have empathized with her reasoning but she did neither. Then she tries out and only succeeds because of magic, how is that a positive portrayal of an LGBTQ character?

That is compounded by the fact that Sabrina has to cheat on the first task in order to win. The message of the show should not be that you beat the bullies by cheating. If the message of the show was female empowerment it clearly did the opposite.

The show is progressive and that is fine, but I care more about compelling content. As funny as some of the demons may be, overall the episode was a tad underwhelming for me. Just not enough interesting scenes or dialogue.

You could've touched the topic of sexism in much better ways than by having a cheating Sabrina and a talentless basketball player. Who the hell thought that teenagers want to hold a position called "Top Boy". Everytime the characters mentioned that it made me laugh so much that I started to cry. And that's why I gave them 2 stars instead of 1: they made me laugh... Here are some ideas that sound sexist but at least would've worked better than Top Boy xD : Top Wizard (why not witch?) Junior Master (why not Mistress?) Grand Lad... Etc... Oh and love the way they ended up giving the TOP BOY position to a kid that didn't go to that school hahaha I mean what lazy writing...

Look I adore strong powerful women, I'm all for true equality. I think it's been well earned but this... mess. Cheating to win? A no talent using magic to play sports? This sets the movement back decades! Show them winning on equal terms with cunning and skill! Don't show women having to cheat to match men!!! First ep so far that really made me upset with the writers. I'm not a millennial nor am I easily offended. I'm a US Military vet, decorated, and disabled from an injury sustained saving a life. I have THICK skin. But this got under it. Come on writers. Do better!

The story being told in this episode was awful.

-insert female character -have character want to join the schools basketball team for no reason -school has no female basketball team, but if she can do well on the men's team she's in -have her be terrible -have witch help her cheat to be good enough to make a team > some how this is supposed to be a message of equality when it shows nothing but inequality saying women are not as good as men but bad writing with bad production means the show is awful -have female come out as trans, making this message of women are less than men turn into a message of trans being less than equal to cis males

Honestly, if you're not going to think through your writing why the heck should the fans keep watching...

The show in general was tough to watch. Mediocre writing, basic dialogue, almost no real character development, characters seem forced... but this episode, I gave up.