
We also learn that Blackwood used to be Sabrina’s dad’s mentor, until Sabrina’s dad, a cool, handsome genius, surpassed him. I do not buy that, personally I just get the feeling that signing your name in blood in something called The Book of the Beast is a little more permanent than all that.

What clinches the deal for Sabrina is that Father Blackwood tells her there are, to use a scientific term, backsies: She can go through her Dark Baptism, attend the magic school to ask them her questions and get some answers, strengthen the witch community with her probing mind, and if she doesn’t like it, she can just leave. I have a feeling this inquiry was about as thorough as one of those internal investigations they did at NBC to determine that none of the network heads did anything wrong and never even heard the faintest whimper about Matt Lauer’s under-desk door-locking button. “An inquiry was held,” Father Blackwood assures her. But she keeps her cool and even has the chutzpah to ask why she has to dump Harvey if her parents were allowed to stay together - turns out her dad got “a special dispensation from Satan himself,” which, whoa - and, as long as we’re on the subject, were her parents murdered? Sabrina is, as a rational person would be, terrified.

Photo: Diyah Pera/Netflix/Diyah Pera/Netflixįather Blackwood, with a Brylcreem sheen in his hair and an evil glint in his eye, assures Sabrina that the Dark Lord is a super-reasonable guy, definitely not “the embodiment of evil,” and that witches don’t even believe in hell, and anyway, she won’t die for like a million years, so she has nothing to worry about!
