“Sabrina” Episodes 14/15
Love and.. well sex is in the air. As well as deadly familiars, and some fortune readings in chapter 14 “Lupercalia” and 15 “Doctor Cerberus’s House Of Horrors” of The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.
Sabrina Spellman
Learning a new tradition
As her days at the Academy of Unseen Arts continues. Sabrina learns about a new tradition called Lupercalia. Which after after all the witches get paired with Warlocks (which Sabrina of course gets paired with Nick).
They spend a night in the woods together under the moon, where their supposed to not do anything than the next day the witches chase the warlocks they want to have sex with.
Choices made, and ruined nights
After finally deciding to go along with it. And her and Nick start getting close under the moon. Their clothes slowly coming off when wolf howling starts. Sending all the students running.
Her, Nick and Ambrose go back to her aunts house.
Valentines Dance
Instead of resuming Lupercalia Nick and Sabrina decide to go to the Valentines dance at Baxter high.
After some slow dancing they sneak off to the library for privacy. And once again the howling starts. And out comes the werewolf. Who also happens to be Nicks familiar Amalia. Who chases them out of the library but Nick is able to banish her in time.
Going to the principals office
When their caught in the hall by principal Wardwell. She has them come to her office.
Where Nick explains that he got Amalia as a child. And after he lost his family she became his only family.
But once he started getting friends and girlfriends Amalia started to become violent against them. So he had no choice but to banish her.
And that she must’ve found her way back and is trying to get rid of Sabrina.
Tough decisions
After getting advice from Wardwell Nick decides he must kill Amalia. And goes off to do it himself.
Lupercalia part 2
As Sabrina goes and waits somewhere for Nick instead of doing the hunt. She is approached by Amalia.
It seems Nick lied.
When Nick finally gets there he tries to talk Amalia down but is unable to and she attacks him.
And to save Nick, Sabrina kills Amalia. And the rest of the night she spends consoling Nick.
A fortune told
In the next episode we see Sabrina go to Dr. Cerberus’s café with Nick. And gets her fortune told by a fortune teller who is there.
A warning Vision
The cards show Sabrina a vision of her going to school to find out Nick has told Prudence and her sisters about how they didn’t have sex.
And about a talent show going on at the school. He asks her to be his magician assistant as he’s going to do mortal magician tricks.
She declines as she is mad about him telling things to The Weird Sisters (Prudence, Dorcas and Agatha) and lying about killing Amalia.
Talent show
She does though attend the talent show, and after getting jealous (in my opinion) about him having Dorcas and Prudence come up to the stage for his first two tricks, she volunteers for his third.
Levitation
He begins levitating her but is unable to stop her from continuing to rise up.
And she notice’s it’s The Weird Sisters making that happen but can’t do anything to stop it and floats up into the atmosphere and dies.
Lesson Learned?
Don’t trust the Weird Sisters
Roz
Valentines Day
Asking For Sabrina’s permission
Before going to the school Valentine’s Day dance with Harvey she asks Sabrina if she minds. Which I think is a great show of her care for her friends. And gets the all go.
Valentines Dance
She has a great time with Harvey. And even tells him about her powers.
Going to his place
Going to Harvey’s place the two of them make out and afterwards she loses her sight.
Fortune told
Going into Doctor Cerberus’s place with her dad, who has to go to the Bank real fast.
While he’s gone she gets her fortune told.
Her vision
She has a vision of her dad using the church’s money to have her surgery done.
And after it works, to give back she visits the blind. On her first visit she finds out the girl she’s visiting had her eyes taken out with her eyes being put into her.
Lesson Learned?
Make the right choice. So she does and tells her dad she wants to wait on the surgery instead of taking money from the church.
Theo
Telling his dad
On the eve of the Valentines Day Dance, Theo’s dad unaware of his trans status asks if he wants to get a dress.
Theo tells him everything. Though he was of little words his dad accepted him. Which I think that the fact they showed a good outcome, that had realism to it. Instead of a negative one will give hope to many transgender people (including myself) of acceptance.
He even lets Theo get a buzz cut.
Valentines Day Dance
In a surprise moment. School bully Billy apologizes to Theo and actually tells him he likes his hair cut.
A Fortune Told
Theo as well goes to Doctor Cerberus’s place and gets his fortune read
A Vision
Theo has a vision of his great great grandmothers ghost telling him about a potion he can make at the Spellman house. And to just sneak in and do the potion
Making a potion
Theo does just that and sneaks into the Spellman’s green house and makes the potion
All seems great
The potion works, but at a cost. His limbs start turning to tree branches. Which at first is just his arm and he is told by Hilda she can either undo the potion or cut off his limb, he decides on keeping his male body and Hilda cuts it off.
Than it’s all his limbs that turns to stumps
Lesson Learned?
The tarot reader says don’t steal.
But I think the show was going more deep than that. And showing it’s not what’s on the outside that makes your gender it’s what’s on the inside. Which again as a transgender male who hasn’t transitioned means a lot.
Zelda
A proposal
On the eve of Lupercalia Father Blackwood asks Zelda to Marry Him. At first she says she needs to think on it but ultimately says yes.
A Fortune Told
Going to Doctor Cerberus’s to talk to Hilda about the wedding. The tarot reader talks her into a reading.
A Vision
Zelda sees herself getting ready for the wedding and decides not to have secrets between her and Faustus and goes to retrieve his baby that she hid from him so he wouldn’t kill her. And put in the care of Dezmelda.
Going to get her she finds out Dezmelda ate her and consumed her youth.
And at the wedding after party she finds Blackwood making out with Dezmelda.
Lesson Learned?
Some Secrets are meant to be kept.
Hilda
Valentines Day
She tries to get Doctor Cerberus’s attention but he keeps rebuking her.
when she tries a glamor on him he turns into a werewolf looking thing.
He has been avoiding her because he tried a summoning spell out of a book and got possessed by an incubus and every-time he gets turned on it comes out.
Hilda then proceeds and tells him she’s a witch.
No Fortune Reading
The fortune teller needs to leave before she is able to give Hilda her reading. But tells her that her and doctor Cerberus make a cute couple. And I agree.
Ambrose
A Vision
Ambrose has a vision of Father Blackwood telling him about the Judas society but to join he had to do one thing first.
And has him forge a knife and tells him to kill the Spellman woman. And when he does he annunciates him.
Lesson Learned?
No lesson learned but he does ask what that has to do with him and Luke, and she hands him the death card she was holding.
Going to see Blackwood
He finds out that Luke in fact part is a of the Judas Society and that he died on a mission and gave him Lucas’s place.
Mary Wardwell/Lilith
A Fiancé?
Lilith finds out on Valentine’s Day that Wardwell had a fiancé named Adam who had been away as a doctor without boarders. And he was back for good.
And she starts falling for him
The Fortune Teller
We find out she was the fortune teller all along.
Final thoughts
Some fans say that the doctor Cerberus’s house of horrors was a filler episode but I don’t agree.
I think it showed us a lot about each character. I think the filler was the Lupercalia episode. Except for Theo and Wardwells parts I think it was pretty insignificant.
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