Netflix’s The Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina is meant to be a dark and evil revival of the classic comic strip and family-friendly sitcom, but apparently the series is so dark and so evil that it has managed to make the real-life Satanic Temple mad. As reported by The Wrap, this all stems from a huge statue seen in the show’s Academy Of Unseen Arts (a magical school where aspiring witches learn to worship Satan) that the Satanic Temple says is a ripoff of its copyrighted design for a monument to Baphomet. Basically, the show’s evil statue is too similar to the group’s real-life evil statue.
Now, Satanic Temple co-founder Lucien Greaves is threatening to take “legal action” against Netflix for “appropriating” his group’s design, and he tells The Wrap that his lawyers have asked the streaming service to remove the statue from the show (he believes it’s a computer-generated thing that could easily just be erased). Speaking with SFGate, Greaves explained that he has to move forward with the copyright claim so they can “send some message” to any other people who may want to rip off the Baphomet statue “because that’s how copyright works.”