have been high for years
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 9 April 2017 23:24 (seven years ago) link
Oh my
― calstars, Sunday, 9 April 2017 23:25 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYGuQlQseHU
― Bobson Dugnutt (ulysses), Monday, 10 April 2017 03:14 (seven years ago) link
This might be the most insane television show I've ever seen. Every teen movie and television show plot and cliche amped to 11 crammed into 42 minutes.
― El Tuomasbot (milo z), Saturday, 27 May 2017 04:30 (six years ago) link
Didn't expect the Jughead-Scout Master 'Brick' vibe
― El Tuomasbot (milo z), Saturday, 27 May 2017 04:32 (six years ago) link
i loved every minute of this show
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 27 May 2017 04:49 (six years ago) link
am hoping someone great is cast as veronica's dad, since Molly Ringwald was Archie's mom
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 27 May 2017 04:51 (six years ago) link
Skeet Ulrich lol wtf
― El Tuomasbot (milo z), Saturday, 27 May 2017 05:31 (six years ago) link
on netflix now
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Saturday, 27 May 2017 07:34 (six years ago) link
I'm 100% in on this after 4 episodes
― El Tuomasbot (milo z), Saturday, 27 May 2017 07:39 (six years ago) link
it's so great
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 27 May 2017 17:13 (six years ago) link
watched half of episode one and thought i should wait and watch it with cyrus. i think we could dig it together. we have similar tastes.
― scott seward, Saturday, 27 May 2017 17:19 (six years ago) link
we are slowly watching every episode of friends together. we watched the right stuff last night. that movie is long. but good.
i do love the look of this show.
― scott seward, Saturday, 27 May 2017 17:20 (six years ago) link
everyone is so beautiful! it's funny how Betty is the designated Covergirl product placement person *she says, carefully putting on her Covergirl Coral Pink Lipstick*
Madchen Amick is so good, I really love her as Betty's ott mom
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 28 May 2017 00:41 (six years ago) link
The horribleness of every adult except for Luke Perry is very uncomfortable to watch.
― El Tuomasbot (milo z), Monday, 29 May 2017 01:59 (six years ago) link
and Veronica's mom, I guess
The hashtag jokes aren't going to age well.
― El Tuomasbot (milo z), Monday, 29 May 2017 02:28 (six years ago) link
it's funny that Cyrus and i have been watching every episode of Friends together and then we watch Riverdale and Jughead is...
http://cimg.tvgcdn.net/i/2017/03/15/94729fd6-e150-479e-9e1a-b5e3112ddccb/cole-sprouse-friends-rachel.png
― scott seward, Tuesday, 30 May 2017 14:05 (six years ago) link
although cyrus was already a fan via the suite life of zack & cody.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 30 May 2017 14:06 (six years ago) link
o shit riverdale is in the friends universe?
― heck i've even been an 'oyster pirate' (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 30 May 2017 14:06 (six years ago) link
and big daddy, of course. (cyrus had never seen the waterboy! we had to watch that yesterday on memorial day...)
― scott seward, Tuesday, 30 May 2017 14:07 (six years ago) link
I thought this was a great show, all told. It looked very much like a series of set pieces stitched together at times, especially around the scenes starring Cheryl/The Blossom House, but I suspect that was to try and play the Gothic grandeur of those up by making them look staged.
The downside was maybe that it had too much going on, or rather too many plots that didn't sit too well together or were forced. I didn't feel like the football team rapebros plot went anywhere, other than promote Ethel to cast regular and give a maguffin for the fight at the party, and was there really any need for the 'Blossoms stole the Maple Syrup' plot?
I guess I'd just prefer it to be a dumb 'Archie can't decide between two girls' teen soap if I'm honest, but that's just me.
― Mud... Jam... Failure... (aldo), Tuesday, 30 May 2017 14:25 (six years ago) link
A dance-off, this show is the best.
― El Tuomasbot (milo z), Wednesday, 31 May 2017 03:51 (six years ago) link
SEE
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 31 May 2017 03:58 (six years ago) link
jughead = frankenstein from big daddy has seriously blown my mind
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 31 May 2017 04:05 (six years ago) link
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, May 30, 2017 9:05 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
my mind is also blown.
i watched all of this show. it reminded me of like smallville or something and was p ridiculous but i enjoyed it
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 31 May 2017 16:19 (six years ago) link
I had to drop out of this midway through, I had a hard time w/ Cheryl and/or the actress who plays her. Way too Ryan Murphy for my taste.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 31 May 2017 17:28 (six years ago) link
there is definitely a Glee vibe at times. but i'm okay with that. epic cheerleading tryout burn by veronica was suitably epic. stuff like that. i'm a big fan of bring it on though.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 31 May 2017 17:29 (six years ago) link
this show is good. i am on episode 11. i really like archie/veronica as 'agent of destruction.' and dark betty! there should be more dark-betty. for a while, i thought her sister was going to be, like, a split personality. also, the actor who plays archie is fascinatingly weird, and weird-looking. so is cheryl.
― remy bean, Tuesday, 13 June 2017 21:17 (six years ago) link
archie seems to have a sibilance in his speaking that makes me think he has relatively new veneers in his teeth
reminds of when billie piper got her teeth done in Doctor Who
*this has been the Veg dental update*
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 21:37 (six years ago) link
He is from NZ, right? My wife caught him slippin on one word at a certain point.
Betty is an impossible cross between katee sackhoff and p arquette
― or at night (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 13 June 2017 22:55 (six years ago) link
perfect description
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 14 June 2017 01:07 (six years ago) link
I heard someone describe Veronica as "Mean Hermione" and this feels otm to me
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 14 June 2017 01:10 (six years ago) link
Haha yes
― or at night (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 14 June 2017 01:14 (six years ago) link
i started listening to a recap podcast which is as good excuse as any to rewatch :D
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 14 June 2017 01:16 (six years ago) link
I should not have started watching this for the first time after seeing new Twin Peaks
Miss Grundy give two rides?!?
― mh, Saturday, 17 June 2017 00:10 (six years ago) link
lol
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 17 June 2017 02:32 (six years ago) link
looooooooooooooool
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Saturday, 17 June 2017 04:35 (six years ago) link
i watched the first ep tnite. idk does it get better? i may just be burnt out the literate teen drama genre.
― Mordy, Saturday, 17 June 2017 04:39 (six years ago) link
mordy you need riverdale in yr life i promise
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 17 June 2017 04:45 (six years ago) link
tbh I only made it midway through :/
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Saturday, 17 June 2017 04:46 (six years ago) link
>:(
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 17 June 2017 04:59 (six years ago) link
I got further into the season than I'd expected and might end up finishing the season.
I haven't read any long takes on the concept, but it really feels less like a gritty reimagining -- although it definitely leans into the gritty moments -- and an exploration of what Archic Comics would be like if the adults showed up and stayed instead of making brief appearances. Nearly every problem that's not a normal teen drama plot is fallout from some choice a parent made, historical family drama, or the imposition of adult concerns (failing businesses, real estate deals, in appropriate relations with a student (!)) on the kids.
They manage to still put these classic teen things in. Should Archie play football or follow his dream to make music? Will Josie's band get back together, or will Veronica be the new backup singer? You know that Archie's going to decline to be captain and somehow the compromise will work, and there's no way the band doesn't get back together, but it's good to watch it play out.
Making a first season's theme be "Who killed Jason Blossom?" is a pretty ridiculous Twin Peaks homage but it works. The Blossoms as this malevolent force in the town is this weird echo of how they were introduced into this very staid, throwback comic at a very late stage in its existence.
― mh, Saturday, 17 June 2017 14:35 (six years ago) link
I thought Cheryl Blossom was an early character who got written out?
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 17 June 2017 16:25 (six years ago) link
in the comics i mean
I guess she made a brief appearance in the early 80s but was deemed too scandalous, and was only a regular character in the mid 90s onward?I mean, anything introduced to Archie in the 80s is still a relatively recent addition when you realize Archie predates the second world war
― mh, Saturday, 17 June 2017 16:40 (six years ago) link
So i just watched the first episode of this and first thought was oh it's like a 90210 for millenials, and then i realized that's luke perry from 90210, which I watched briefly in the 90s
Then uh I started getting this weird feeling that those things weren't the only things I recognized
1 this place reminds me of my school2 no shit this was filmed in Vancouver
Lol no wonder everything looks so familiar
― i n f i n i t y (∞), Sunday, 18 June 2017 18:01 (six years ago) link
I think I'm down to a few minutes to determine whether a new tv show was filmed in Vancouver after having watched a bunch of SyFy and CW stuff.
There are at least a dozen actors who show up in every show filmed in the area because... Vancouver.
― mh, Sunday, 18 June 2017 18:13 (six years ago) link
Yeah but i mean it's weird to see places you hung out in or walked around hundreds of times on screen in a popular show (not counting the hundreds of crappy low budget shows/movies that use Vancouver as a backdrop)
I don't watch a lot of american shows and not a lot of new Hollywood movies but the last one I remember is that superhero one and i didn't actually watch it but the trailer featured the viaduct so prominently it was also weird
I don't know any of the riverdale actors and I've never seen them in any other shows or movies either
― i n f i n i t y (∞), Sunday, 18 June 2017 18:32 (six years ago) link
yeah I think most of the kids are newcomers, I only recognize the Kevin dude from a L&O episode. the parents are uh all pretty recognizable!!
― mh, Sunday, 18 June 2017 18:48 (six years ago) link