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Riverdale is the worst show on television and you should all be watching.

Well I learned things today.

I don't know what the hell it was but it was something.

Misclick of the day would do again.
 
I used to wish they would bring Doug back. Now, I'm so glad they haven't. let me have one thing from my childhood that is sacrosanct.

Okay two things. Lizzy Macguire also.
 
I wonder who approved this, because there's something very wrong with an Archie adaptation being this...90s comic book-y.
 
This show. This fucking show. In which Archie forgets to turn off his swag and everyone is gar for him. Except he only likes women twice his age. And his terrible hair dye.
 
This show has some strange views on pedophilia. Also apparently Jughead is homeless.

Side note. Are we suppose to like Betty? Because she's very very hard to like.
 
I just hope the show keeps cranking that scandal handle. The show has everything, right down to a dad who looks like Bruce Springsteen.

When they do S2 I just hope they can keep sounding that Inception horn and going deeper. Sadly I remember a lot of shows that drop that ball; it's easier to throw a thousand shocking secrets up into the air than catch them all in a satisfying way.
 
You know... they could totally DO a Afterlife with Archie story arc exactly like the comic. Deaths everywhere, craziness, Jughead eating Ms Grundy and Weatherby, all that.

Then have Sabrina pull a magic time-travel fix. :p
 
Goddamn, ep3 was both horribly preachy and completely fucked up. Sure, they stopped just short of Cartmanning a guy, but good lord who thought this would be a good adaptation of Archie. I HAVEN'T EVEN SEEN A SINGLE BURGER!
 
The best part about ep3 for me is how many people who talk about it online avoid talking about the giant, flaming sign that spells out M.E.S.S.A.G.E. in it and simply refer to the broad plot or final events. I mean the show also has a small town sheriff totally supportive of his sons homosexuality: it's full of this stuff.

For me, this is why the OMG SCANDAL part works so well. A complex and thrilling plot that DOESNT involve sexual violence towards women? From AMERICA?!

The show deserves all the props, even if by ep4 they seem to be speeding up narratively. I wish they'd do a Unicorn and just decide they'll have an extra episode.... an extra double-length episode...
 
This show is trash and I should feel bad for liking it, but I don't.

Like, I don't know what the fuck is happening, but whatever it is it's amazing.
 
Sublink said:
The best part about ep3 for me is how many people who talk about it online avoid talking about the giant, flaming sign that spells out M.E.S.S.A.G.E. in it and simply refer to the broad plot or final events. I mean the show also has a small town sheriff totally supportive of his sons homosexuality: it's full of this stuff.

For me, this is why the OMG SCANDAL part works so well. A complex and thrilling plot that DOESNT involve sexual violence towards women? From AMERICA?!

The show deserves all the props, even if by ep4 they seem to be speeding up narratively. I wish they'd do a Unicorn and just decide they'll have an extra episode.... an extra double-length episode...
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I, uh, what. It was quite possibly the most incompetent piece of message fiction since the infamous SVU episode with "I can't tell what's real or a game anymore!"

And the gay son is outright offensively terrible as a character. He both has zero personality outside of being "the gay best friend" which is in and of itself a shitty stereotype and is a complete shit to a guy who is trying to find his way through the complete morass that is bisexuality.
 
Ford Prefect said:
WHAT
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This has clearly fucked Archie up, too. You really can't watch the show and say "yeah, Archie's life is better because he has had regular sex with someone twice his age."
open_sketchbook said:
In the third episode of this show, Betty and Veronica drug and torture somebody.
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Hell yes.

ZerbanDaGreat said:
Are you sure this show isn't actually a shared vivid fever-dream?
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I figured out these things are real about the time I binged Hemlock Grove.
Teen Spirit said:
The fact someone looked at Archie fucking comics and decided "Yeah let's make this a CW drama focused on two Lannister twins and murder mystery".
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We were living in a golden age of TV, and then it mutated.
Teen Spirit said:
Side note. Are we suppose to like Betty? Because she's very very hard to like.
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Well I love her. She's completely nuts.
 
Watched the first ep.

Dear Mod, Betty is like a clone of Smallville's Chloe - unrequited love for the MC she can't quite spit out, trying to be friends with (rival) for his affection, insecurities about a family member with mental illness... hell, even the smile is practically identical (the facial similarities in expressions are remarkable).

Seriously, I practically had a Smallville flashback.

Veronica is best girl, tho.
 
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Teen Spirit said:
Is anyone though?
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I recognize elements in pretty much all the kids. Nearly all of the parents are off, but they didn't have as much characterization from which to deviate, so they don't bother me that much. Kevin, though? He's closer to a lazy tweak of Glee's Kurt than what he's like in the comics.
 
That's not how a school reacts to a student death. At all.

Like, it's hilariously off in how callous they are about it. Hey dead kids friend, here's his jersey. You'll replace him.

And as a reminder they are supposed to be sophomores in high school.
 
Welp, one more for the list, if people are saying it's this amazingly awful.
 
The acting from the folks cast as the various parents, betty, veronica and Jughead is all fantastic, and the friendships between B and V, and Archie and Jughead are pitch perfect.

The plot is nonsense bullshit, but i'll put up with that for relationship feels like these.

Dear Mod, this really is Smallville 2.0

Cept they punted Lana Ms G when they should have.
 
I am now convinced more than ever before that we live in the darkest of all timelines.
 
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