Before its official premiere, Netflix has released 10 new official photos from the highly anticipated new drama, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. Straight from the darker side of Archie Comics, join Kiernan Shipka as she becomes the live-action version of Sabrina the Teenage Witch.
Sabrina wrestles to reconcile her dual nature — half-witch, half-mortal — while standing against the evil forces that threaten her, her family and the daylight world humans inhabit.
Here are 10 reasons why we love these new photos from Chilling Adventures of Sabrina:
On Instagram, the account for Chilling Adventures of Sabrina writes, “Be still my wicked heart. Harvey Kinkle (Ross Lynch) is a dreamboat. The Prince Charming of this dark fairy tale.”
Netflix states on Instagram, “Now that we’ve met Sabrina, it’s time to meet some bad witches: The Weird Sisters aka my new obsession.”
8) The Aunts!
HILDA SPELLMAN (Lucy Davis) is one of Sabrina’s two witch aunts. More nurturing than Zelda, Hilda’s motherly nature and warm sense of humor belie a wicked, ghoulish streak. She is as adept at brewing spite jars against her family’s enemies as she is at concocting love potions for the students at Baxter High.
You can also see Sabrina’s aunts, the stern Zelda (Miranda Otto) and the nurturing Hilda (Lucy Davis)
7) Unrequited Love!
NICHOLAS SCRATCH (Gavin Leatherwood) is a young, handsome warlock at the Academy of Unseen Arts who befriends new student Sabrina Spellman. An acolyte of Sabrina’s father’s teachings, Nicholas is drawn to Sabrina, as well, and there are immediate sparks between them.
Nicholas Scratch (played by Gavin Leatherwood) is a young, handsome warlock who befriends Sabrina at the Academy of Unseen Art.
6) The BFFs!
ROSALIND WALKER (Jaz Sinclair), & SUSIE PUTNAM (Lachlan Watson) Rosalind, the brash, empowered and outspoken daughter of Greendale’s minister and Sabrina’s best friend at Baxter High. Susie Putnam is one of Sabrina’s friends at Baxter High and a founding member of the school’s newly formed WICCA club. Brave and optimistic despite being bullied at school, Susie lives on a farm at the outskirts of town and deals with a terrifying supernatural threat at home.
Sabrina’s best friends, Susie Putnam (played by Lachlan Watson) and Rosalind Walker (Jaz Sinclair)
5) The Cousin!
AMBROSE SPELLMAN (Chance Perdomo) is Sabrina’s warlock cousin from England. Placed under house-arrest by the Witches Council, Ambrose is forbidden from leaving the funeral home where he lives with the Spellman woman. Witty, puckish, and pan-sexual, he is one of Sabrina’s partners in crime, always up for mischief.
Ambrose Spellman (Chance Perdomo)
4) The Dean!
FATHER BLACKWOOD (Richard Coyle) is High Priest of the Church of Night and Dean of the Academy of the Unseen Arts. Ruthless and ambitious, Blackwood hides a terrifying dark agenda that will put him in direct conflict with Sabrina and other members of the coven.
Father Blackwood (Richard Coyle) is the dean of the Academy of Unseen Arts.
3) The Dark Tone!
ZELDA SPELLMAN (Miranda Otto) is Sabrina’s sterner witch aunt. Proud and devout, Zelda believes there is no greater honor than serving the Dark Lord as a member of the Church of Night. She is the family’s disciplinarian, fiercely protective of Sabrina, and very much Cain to Hilda’s Abel.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Otto describes the themes of the horror drama, “The show melds a whole lot of different tones because there’s a sweet, lighter tone of the high school and the romance between Sabrina and Harvey, and then you’ve got the darker tone of the Spellman house and everything that goes on in there.”
2) She’s A Badass!
SABRINA SPELLMAN (Kiernan Shipka) An empowered young woman, half-human, half-witch, Sabrina is just beginning her dark education as a sorceress, even as she tries to maintain a normal life as a sophomore at Baxter High. Intelligent, compassionate and brave to the point of recklessness, Sabrina is all that stands between us and the forces of darkness that threaten our world. Pictured with Lachlan Watson (As Susie Putnam), Jaz Sinclair (As Rosalind Walker) and Ross Lynch (As Harvey Kinkle)
Shipka describes her character in an interview with EW, “She’s this young, really badass, outspoken girl who is still individuating herself and figuring out love, as well as honing in on her power and struggling between these two completely separate worlds.”
