RIVERDALE, the brooding reimagining of the Archie comics brought to you by the CW

Obligatory: they seem to have made a real show out of this years-old Youtube joke trailer.

https://youtu.be/djRAiiFlCy8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djRAiiFlCy8&t=4s

One more try

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djRAiiFlCy8

c.f. the actual trailer for the show:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNs-d_rxW0Q

i enjoyed Scherstuhl's review

http://www.laweekly.com/film/the-cws-meta-noir-reboot-cant-save-archie-andrews-from-his-vacuous-origins-7834242

a friend's the editor

The CW got viewers and sold ads and made money off of Smallville. They're sending the bucket back to the well, fishing around for a little more cash.

can't be worse than most actual archie comics have been for the past 20-30 years

why is this threaf still in bold type ffs

Drivin me nuts too

http://imgur.com/a86c09a0-920b-4331-a087-0eea02e9f270

i haven't watched it but i don't get what's weird about it, "CW teen drama" seems like probably the most fitting modern-day application for archie

Smallville didn't turn a dopey COMIC comic into a soap, tho

also no boys as lovely as Wooden Tom Welling on this, i'd bet

I basically agree with the standard uk line on archie which is "wtf is archie" but lmao at the lazy twin peaks "nods" in this particular year

http://horror.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Riverdale-790x505.jpg

i wonder if Jughead is gonna get arrested for murder this season

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Unavoidable Archie/Veronica/Betty threeway.

somehow i never pictured riverdale as the foggiest town in america but turns out i was wrong

even the classrooms are foggy ffs

the high-concept here is so good even tho the show is so bad

dunno what they're gonna do now that they rolled out 'sugar, sugar' in the second episode

from the trailer i kinda really want to see this that's a terrible mistake right?

it's a moderately diverting teen-goth-whodunnit with the added hilarity of it being based on a famously wholesome comic-book

why wouldn't you want to give it a shot?

lol at "jughead" trending on twitter

Never going to watch what I could just go to tumblr for but, hey, icymi:

https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/16472898_10154170658267093_5248306971697128067_n.jpg?oh=46b6b015dbe7b2a23a9ee9e87993f487&oe=58FDD55B

best part of that is you can't see archie's weird fuckin' eyebrows

oooh those abs so scandalous

archie is the most jacked high-schooler in history tbh

Have you seen high schoolers these days?

http://images2.houstonpress.com/imager/u/original/6717679/carrottop.jpg

not since the court order, no

Archie is pretty, yes, but I couldn't stand more than two minutes of this.

Scherstuhl review i linked called Archie porn-star Conan O'Brien

Cheryl is unbearable (even moreso than intended), she feels ported in from Glee.

digging the twist at the end of each ep -- feels like it takes a page from scandal, how to get away with murder, etc

this stupid show is probably my favorite thing on tv right now.

Miss Grundy

https://comiclists.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/archie-miss-grundy.jpg

MISS GRUNDY??!!! rawrrrrr

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ce9hcY_UUAAjWng.jpg

this show rules

I love this show so goddamn much, hope this thread stays bolded 4eva

"she said I was too fat to make the cheerleading squad last year"

"actually, she said you were a little too season five Betty Draper"

this show would be 10000% better if the murder victim was archie

it's the Jacob's Ladder ending!

I couldnt watch more than about 15 minutes of this, it felt like a TV version of Twilight or something very teen-girly.

All the clumsy pop culture meta jokes were especially on the nose.

I mean it is literally a show for teen girls

i searched 'rivette' on amazon and it corrected to riverdale

amazon otm

would love to see rivette do riverdale

While riverdancing

this show kinda has a season one of 'revenge' vibe and is therefore great. cheryl blossom is awesome. cheryl blossom's entrance at jason's memorial was the best tv moment since seven stormed up that hill and snapped troy's arm in 'stranger things'.

The fuck is this shit

Is this One Tree Hill

I'm in a hotel and finally seeing this

Why the fuck is Archie a superhero

Why is Betty's family all Manchurian Candidated up

your disgust is palpable

I'm fascinated and semi drunk!

it's kinda like the Lana del Rey of tv shows

that is a good comparison i think if 50's archie=sarah mclachlan or something

if they don’t end Cheryl Blossom’s stuuuuuupid halloween house/haunted doll/dead brother in the basement storyline soon i am going to kill myself

Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that this show's 2019 season is nominated in the 2019 ILX TV poll:

ILX's Best Television of 2019 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends January 31

If you like this show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (4 minimum, 25 maximum, organized by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail by end of day today. It'll take five minutes; get to it!

Uh...what?

‘RIVERDALE’ Season 5 will now be set 7 years into the future where Archie goes to war, Betty joins the FBI, Jughead becomes a writer and Veronica gets married. pic.twitter.com/IOzmRQ0fLH

— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) February 4, 2021

"war" thats a mf football field pic.twitter.com/ivL1n5A4Yy

— avnee ☾ (@danswafflemaker) February 4, 2021

Steelers-Browns games really escalate in 2028

Dream sequence episode I would assume, but who the f knowcares

I will never understand this 21st Century 'what if Archie was absolutely nothing like Archie' approach to Archie.

What if the Family Circle characters were all drug addicts with PTSD?!

Or what if you just made up your own characters, what if that

lol you should familiarize yourself with a play called "Dog Sees God" if you haven't already. it, uhh, might trigger a similar response

What if the Family Circle characters were all drug addicts with PTSD?!

"Who spilled all this heroin?"

"Um...not me, bro."

thank you for your contribution to this thread, Old Lunch Josh in Chicago

Okay.

I would watch a dark, gritty Dawson's Creek reboot

Dawson’s Creek 2025

i peaced out on this ridiculous show before the end of season 2 but "why a ridiculous "gritty" imaging of 'archie'?" is just an odd question to me. why not? i think the show is dumb and bad, but who cares? archie is dumb and bad!

otoh they definitely should have made jughead an ace king

there needs to be a Riverdale/Community crossover. everybody from Community comes back shell-shocked

"fuck, we just played paintball when WE got upset"

"why a ridiculous "gritty" imaging of 'archie'?" is just an odd question to me. why not? i think the show is dumb and bad, but who cares? archie is dumb and bad!

Hence the question 'why even Archie at all in the first place' (and yes I know the comics already went down this road but the question applies there, as well)

why a tv show? there are so many tv shows already?

why post to a thread in the first place? there are already so many posts in existence. You can just think things without posting them.

Gritty Shirt Tales! They eat each other!

a) Who's gagging for a Shirt Tales reboot, b) of the twelve people who are, how badly do they want something that is nothing like Shirt Tales, c) why not make your own Killer Animals Wearing Shirts thing for all the people who would enjoy that and who aren't going to be drawn to the prospect of a Shirt Tales reboot because what even is Shirt Tales

In summation: stay weird, Hollywood

xpost You sure can!

what if they reimagined Scooby Doo as a bunch of anthropomorphic tools that solve mysteries

they could call it Screwby Doo

Y'all miss Andy Rooney, too, right?

Why do people eat oranges? No food should be named after its color! And why are cars so fast?

Why do birds etc

It never ends:

Trying to explain everything that’s happened on Riverdale this season is an impossible task, but to sum it up: Hiram Lodge tried to blow up Archie with a bomb, which instead somehow gave the main cast a variety of superpowers and allowed a dark sorcerer named Percival Pickens to arrive in town from another dimension. Also, Cheryl Blossom became a witch (unrelated). Archie and the gang managed to murder Percival before he was able to take over the town—both time travel and Satan were involved—but not before he was able to redirect Bailey’s Comet (not a typo) to head directly at Riverdale. This is a lot, and I’ve barely scratched the surface of what’s happened in season six, and I won’t even get into how the lance that pierced the side of Jesus while he was on the cross ended up in a Riverdale pawn shop.

Via a board vet

This is just the funniest thing I have seen on this site in a long time: https://t.co/GoVW9GuVrF

— Nicolarzzzz (@nicolarz) August 1, 2022

I'm never going to try to catch up with this but I do enjoy reading summaries of everything that happened after the second season. It's kind of like reading the wiki summaries of Dune books after the first two.

A perfect comparison.

i really enjoyed riverdale s1, but season 2 was too long and uneven-seeming so i kinda just abandoned the show until my friend convinced me to watch season 7 because it's heavily bisexual (it is, for a cw show), so then i came up with the unbelievably stupid idea of watching the seasons in reverse. i'm in 5 right now. this show fucking sucks. i love it

there are so many musical numbers and the cast are passable karaoke singers attempting stuff like "shallow" and "it's all coming back to me now" and sooo much musical theater and i have to look away from the screen in embarrassment whenever it happens

still: cheryl blossom is the greatest character in the history of television

she really is

i can’t remember how many seasons i watched til i dipped out, i think after luke perry died i didn’t enjoy it as much idk

i have not watched it since early s3 and don't intend to restart but whenever i come across clips, it always seems like the most bonkers shit ever (and the finale sounds straight up hilarious)

and yes, cheryl rules

about 10 years ago i was in a band and the lead singer was basically cheryl blossom ... the voice too.