'Chilling Adventures of Sabrina' Part 3 Finale: Sabrina shows up to save the day but might have made things worse
After the events of the seventh episode of Part 3 of 'Chilling Adventures of Sabrina', it seemed like everything was lost. There were countless dead including aunts Hilda and Zelda, Harvey, Prudence, and so forth, and Caliban had tricked Sabrina and won the quest to become King of Hell. Caliban trapped Sabrina, Lucifer, and Lillith in Hell.
Spoiler Alert follows for Part 3 Finale of 'Chilling Adventures of Sabrina'!
In the final episode, a Sabrina from the future shows up to exchange places with the Sabrina that is trapped, while telling her that Hell is in a time pocket and that she needs to go and save the world -- again -- by collecting the Unholy Regalia.
It turns out, Caliban was defeated by the Pagans when he tried to make Earth the tenth circle of Hell. However, that was not the end of it. The archangel Michael then invaded Hell and emptied it.
Of course, the past Sabrina does not know what to do. She takes the Unholy Regalia -- that are now being guarded by King Herod, Pontius Pilate, and Vlad the Impaler. When she goes back to Greendale, she sees that the Pagans have won and she comes across the skeletons of all her loved ones, after all, she was trapped for decades.
She goes back to the Spellman home, she sees that it is overgrown with weeds. When she is attacked by what we can only call the plant zombies, the Unholy Regalia's protection force comes and slays the zombies -- they now protect Sabrina as well.
When she goes to the carnival, she sees the Green Man and before she can go any further, Ambrose takes her to the Kinkle mines, where he has made a sanctuary. As Sabrina spots the magic egg (the one Faustus acquired in Scotland), she finally understands that she has to travel back in time. She also realizes that this is what the Unholy Regalia is meant for -- to be repurposed and be used in their fight against the Pagans.
Once Sabrina goes back, she is able to undo most of the horrors from the previous episode. She saves Aunt Zelda, Mambo Marie, Prudence, and her friends. Then Zelda wakes up and connects the "maiden, mother, and crone" to Hecate -- the true god of the witches.
Zelda harnesses Hecate's power to bring back Hilda as well. Together, they come up with a plan to defeat the Pagans, which includes glamorizing Pesta (the plague witch) as Ms. Wardwell -- who the Pagans try to sacrifice to bring back the Green Man (in place of Harvey who was sacrificed in the previous timeline).
The coven shows up -- and it's not just witches this time, the coven includes mortals too -- and runs the Pagans out of town while Prudence kills Carcosa, or rather, Pan.
Now that the Pagans have been defeated, Sabrina has one thing left to do -- to do what future Sabrina did for her. However, she decides to change the timeline before the time loop is even created and goes back in time to warn the Sabrina in her past that it is Caliban who is asking for the pieces of silver.
The two Sabrinas also come up with a plan. The now-past Sabrina still wants to be Queen of Hell, but the present Sabrina wants to be a normal teenager and the two agree to live their own lives in the separate dimensions.
Ambrose, being the clever witch that he is, learns of Sabrina's actual plan and warns her that Sabrina's actions could cause chaos. But this is not the only thing that could cause problems in the next part of the show.
In all the time-traveling, Sabrina forgets to deal with Faustus Blackwood in the past. Having regained the magic egg, he then calls upon the "Eldritch terrors" to "tear through the skin of reality". He does this to end the Spellmans while ending everything.
Much like in Part 3, it looks like Sabrina and the others will have plenty to deal with when the show returns for an already confirmed Part 4. Sabrina will have to deal with the so-called Eldtrich terrors, in addition to the ramifications of the existence of two Sabrinas at one point in time.
All episodes of Part 3 of 'Chilling Adventures of Sabrina' are now streaming on Netflix.