This season quickly wraps up the previous one's cliffhanger involving Sabrina falling all to pieces (literally) after various love interests say they have to move away. And when I say quick, I mean it; the drama of the Sixth Season's finale gets resolved before the premiere's opening credits even roll. After that though, the season kicks into high gear as Sabrina (Melissa Joan Hart) starts to look for a position as a reporter in all of the high profile newspapers around. Her lack of experience leaves her at a local magazine that focuses on music, something Sabrina doesn't consider as "real journalism."
Meanwhile, Sabrina's home life is in its usual turmoil. With both Aunt Zelda and Hilda out of the house (and show), and her college buddies, Roxie (Soleil Moon Frye) and Morgan (Elisa Donovan) taking the two vacant rooms, Sabrina has to be extra careful about her magic and the various magical properties of the house itself. Even though her aunts are out of the picture, Sabrina still has one person to confide in as Harvey (Nate Richert) becomes the only person in her life that knows her magical secret.
This season really feels like two different ones though. The first half is all about Sabrina's budding writing career and the usual antics that involve her magic and mortals. But about halfway through, Sabrina falls for a new guy, Aaron (Dylan Neal), and in the uproar of the new love, she not only quits Scorch Magazine, but we begin to see that Harvey isn't actually over Sabrina, despite breaking up with her at the end of Season Four. All these events come crashing together in the series finale when Sabrina prepares to walk down the isle with Aaron, but begins to have cold feet (again literally) and doubts about who her true love really is. The drastic change of the season really makes me wonder if they didn't find out about the show's cancellation until mid-season, and felt they had to wrap it up quickly, especially since they introduced Aaron, planned a wedding and reached the final episode in a mere 10 shows.
The only added feature included in Sabrina the Teenage Witch: The Final Season is the made-for-TV movie, "Sabrina Goes to Rome." This film, which originally aired mid-Season Three, has Sabrina going to the Eternal City to hunt down a 400 year-old mystery involving one of her Father's other sisters. It seems during the height of the Renaissance, her Aunt Sophia had fallen in love with a mortal, and his betrayal of her secret caused her to disappear. No one knows where she went, and the only clue is a gold locket she always wore. Oddly enough, despite the 400 year-old mystery, she has only two weeks to resolve the problem, and that means a trip to Rome.
If you've hung around this long in the series, you might as well pick up the show's final 22 episodes to see how it all ends and who she eventually chooses as her soul mate. While this season has a different feel to it than all the others (not quite as many pun-based backfiring spells), it still works overall. By the end of the series though, it was obvious that it had run its course and was ready to be put to bed.
