Chilling Adventures of Sabrina's storylines feel like someone googled "feminist buzzwords," then sprinkled their search results into the scripts

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"Using feminism as aesthetic rather than meaning, its declarative wokeness amounts to little more than nauseating soapbox Moments of Intersectional Feminism that are like a bad after-school special that only makes you want to do more drugs," says Jess Joho. "Worse still, the show fails to see how its own plot highlights almost every issue with white feminism. Now, to be clear: We are not condemning CAOS for its above average attention to diverse representation. The attempt is commendable. But it also goes to show what a sorry state we're in that many are heralding the series as a feminist manifesto — even while not agreeing on exactly what it's even saying about feminism. Like most pop culture representations of witches, it focuses squarely on white women victims. In the process, it totally erases the countless other victims who were slaves and other people of color with foreign religions that were demonized as witchcraft by white, colonizing Christians."

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