I'm still hopeful and I like the Ethel turn. I was afraid they were going to kill her off for a bit, but it seems she's still got some life in her for now at least.
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Riverdale |OT| Woah, Black Betty!
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Is Riverdale suppose to be in New York/NJ since veronica and her parents seem to go into New York as in New York City a lot. Also do rural suburbs really have such a white gang problem that teenagers organize and control it?
Also my god, with the police corruption and underground fight club. Also are they gonna kill the stranger things girl yet? Shes been the most annoying thing this season
Also my god, with the police corruption and underground fight club. Also are they gonna kill the stranger things girl yet? Shes been the most annoying thing this season
originally the musical episode of season 2 was suppose to be the sabrina backdoor pilot thing, but the netflix move happen and stuff
I don't think I've seen it summed up better than this sentence.
I love how there's a fucking juvenile detention fight club, and there are dozens of people watching it. It's just so crazytown absurd.
Yeah, I think it's essentially based in Riverdale, NY (which is a real place in suburban NY), though they never mention the state.
I realize that she was on Twin Peaks and so "Madchen Amick being weird" is like half the reason they hired her in the first place, but yeah. Her character is losing more and more believability as the show goes on.
And it is pretty funny that Archie went from "I have to do this it's the right thing to do" to "fuck it time to bust out" so quick, you're right.
I dont get this show's obsession with seperating Archie from the main plot for huge stretches
Like the first season he's fucking around with music and shit while Betty and Jughead are doing the exciting detective stuff
Second season he's hunting the hood by himself or messing around with gangsters for arbitrary reasons
Third season he's in prison seperated from everyone
Like he's supposed to be the main character but he's hardly ever that relevant
Like the first season he's fucking around with music and shit while Betty and Jughead are doing the exciting detective stuff
Second season he's hunting the hood by himself or messing around with gangsters for arbitrary reasons
Third season he's in prison seperated from everyone
Like he's supposed to be the main character but he's hardly ever that relevant
It's because he sucks. He's the worst character. They should have been bold enough to make Betty the undisputed lead.
its even weirder since Veronica dates that guy in real life, the dude who was shirtless and had drugs in the box. And you can clearly tell they are gonna break up archie and veronica since shes banging that 1 dude in real life. Just like how jughead and betty date in real life
Yeah, I've said the same since season one. Archie is boring and an idiot.
I love how every time Toni and Cheryl are seen together they get mentioned how they are couple yet we never see them kiss or do anything couple like.
The fact that a 16 year old owns a mocktail bar. God this show is dumb.
The fact that a 16 year old owns a mocktail bar. God this show is dumb.
The speakeasy shit is absolutely absurd. How the fuck did she afford the redecoration down there, much less come up with a business plan to sell fake alcoholic drinks to teenagers? Veronica is becoming a parody of herself, and her character was already supposed to be kind of a swerve on the Gossip Girl cliche.
Every time the prison warden is on screen I can't stop thinking about how much he looks like the doctor from The Muppets.
This show is so dumb, it always has been, but now it's lost its self aware charm. I just fucking can't.
Yet I can't stop watching.
Yet I can't stop watching.
I think it's more self aware than ever. They're practically winking at the camera in every scene.
Just fired up Netflix and realized I'm an episode behind. Explains the fight club and archie breaking out stuff you've all been talking about that I was confused by. Thought I glossed over some stuff
Into the breach I go
Into the breach I go
I knowwww, I'm always way more intrigued when literally any other character is on screen, even when other characters are talking about him i sorta zone out.
Ok, Archie's storyline got a little more interesting but still, I am all in on this Gargoyle King nonsense.
During the ending with Ethel talking I said to myself "this fucking Gargoyle King is going to be in the damn hospital full costume and all". Sure enough there he or she was and I'm sitting here like
Jughead and Betty exploring it is cool, but give me some Scooby-Doo type shit and bring in the rest of the crew. Let Josie and Kevin do more than be mostly in the background. Let Cheryl get her Monster Hunter on and hunt down a Gargoyle.
Couldn't care less about Hiram and Veronica's back and forth, getting too repetitive now.
Wait is this WrassleEra? Honestly got confused for a second since like 90% of time here is in the Wrassle thread. Also, I couldn't agree more. More people need to be on Gargoyle patrol. This show is consistently best when they spin up combinations of characters they don't usually pursue. Otherwise they fall back into their own traps and that's how we getting half a season of Jughead being THE WORST.
I feel like Archie has been consistently portrayed as the perfect representation of privilege and entitlement made flesh. He often offers the circular logic that something is right because he thinks and that something should happen because he wants it. Since the second season, he simultaneously shown disdain for the rule of law while claiming to be some sort of defender of justice. He's terrible but I think we're meant to think he's mostly terrible.
We describing the plot points of Riverdale with wrassle lingo now? This thread IS WrassleEra. I think the Ethel Muggs heel turn is a good move. Shannon Purser is good at it and still manages to ground the performance in a way that doesn't make the character entirely unsympathetic. Also is it too much to hope that The Gargoyle King can be defeated/chased off without being explained? It allows them to continue to do weird shit without explicitly eliminating supernatural possibilities or broadening the show's scope. I just want me some angry Jughead "I'll guess we'll never know..."
I'm okay with it as long as he keeps his shirt off for at least 33% of the time he's on screen.
Well at least this season they had a reason, KJ Apa was out filming the hate you give. They probably moved his shooting schedule around to accommodate him.
Funny how that seems taboo but Kevin seems to get busy constantly...
Do you know this, or just speculating?
Doesn't he just have a bit role in the film?
He did, but he was hired extremely late in production and the tail end of production/reshoot pickups for The Hate U give overlapped with riverdale season 3
Agreed. It is legitimately a tremendously stupid show, yet I watch for some reason. It's pretty much a case of it's so bad, it's good. This after school special D&D shit has me howling with laughter.
I absolutely lost my shit at archie trashing his room, then immediately picking up The Count of Monte Cristo and then there's a fucking rock hammer inside.
Caught up on the season. The exponential escalation of absurdity is almost impressive.
I am mostly hung up on this speakeasy thing though. Pops has an incredible amount of floor space in the basement. It is pretty extravagant when their target customer base are a bunch of high school students in this relatively small town. I mean a valet service??? Seemingly entirely staffed by high schoolers as well. That place better only open once a month tops or who is showing up. In like five episodes they will talk about how it is massively profitable and I will be further confused.
The g&g plot is more of the fun kind of dumb.
I am mostly hung up on this speakeasy thing though. Pops has an incredible amount of floor space in the basement. It is pretty extravagant when their target customer base are a bunch of high school students in this relatively small town. I mean a valet service??? Seemingly entirely staffed by high schoolers as well. That place better only open once a month tops or who is showing up. In like five episodes they will talk about how it is massively profitable and I will be further confused.
The g&g plot is more of the fun kind of dumb.
It's not better (which doesnt make S2 good by extension) but at least it's obvious that this is the intended direction they want to take the show in so that makes it easier to watch since you know what you're gonna get instead of expecting something else and being frustrated.
I'm so over this prison arc that I feel like I'm gonna just scrobble through those sections and run on the assumption that Archie manages to just scrape by on whatever he needs to do, or is asked to do by the Warden, as he always does. Shit is old. This Gargoyle King thing, though? I'm with it. Interesting that Ethel almost insisted to Jughead that there was only one copy of the rules, and FP and Alice went out of their way to burn it, only for the whole school to get a copy. She's definitely spread his gospel, that's for sure. Whole school gonna be out here with blue lips, and I'm grateful because I want to see what the parents of Riverdale are involved in that they had a whole meeting in the mayor's office.
I'm still struggling to understand the purpose of The Farm in the show, though.
I'm still struggling to understand the purpose of The Farm in the show, though.
That's honestly my feeling. I've been forcing myself to watch it and I just space out during the stupid,waiting for the rare moments of old Riverdale.
That level of talent was clearly put to work on Sabrina instead.
Finally catching up. The cult stuff and griffins & gargoyles is the only things that are holding my interest. Archie's prison fightclub isn't grabbing me and Veronica's club stuff isn't either. I think part of my problem is that after watching Sabrina, a lot of this feels toothless.
Well Archie tried to break the system by trying to get all the prisoners together for a football game. Showed them that they are more than gang members and outcasts. But of course the Warden spoiled that. So if you can't break the system, escape it. That's his only choice.
He could also just serve his time like he said he was going to do.
Archie has been getting progressively darker since S1 and making decisions that he wouldn't have made. He lied to his father, broke into places, beat people up, etc.
The ongoing Archie arrested plotline is absolutely ridiculous, and stupid, imo.
But the
So take that as you will
It was about to say "it was nice when he was the paragon of morality" but then I remembered that season 1 opened with the sub plot about him dating his music teacher and secretly banging her in the woods.
Which was just awful.
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This season is still much better than last.
How is her heel turn a weird twist? She was basically a complete creep from her first scene. It's weird it didn't happen sooner, she's terrible.
the ugly girl who gets killed off and doesn't fit in with the main cast of hotties? so far it seems true, stranger things, riverdale and the netflix movie
