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

Skeet Ulrich lol wtf

on netflix now

I'm 100% in on this after 4 episodes

it's so great

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.

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.

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

The horribleness of every adult except for Luke Perry is very uncomfortable to watch.

and Veronica's mom, I guess

The hashtag jokes aren't going to age well.

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

although cyrus was already a fan via the suite life of zack & cody.

o shit riverdale is in the friends universe?

and big daddy, of course. (cyrus had never seen the waterboy! we had to watch that yesterday on memorial day...)

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.

A dance-off, this show is the best.

SEE

jughead = frankenstein from big daddy has seriously blown my mind

jughead = frankenstein from big daddy has seriously blown my mind

― 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

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.

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.

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.

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*

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

perfect description

I heard someone describe Veronica as "Mean Hermione" and this feels otm to me

Haha yes

i started listening to a recap podcast which is as good excuse as any to rewatch :D

I should not have started watching this for the first time after seeing new Twin Peaks

Miss Grundy give two rides?!?

lol

looooooooooooooool

i watched the first ep tnite. idk does it get better? i may just be burnt out the literate teen drama genre.

mordy you need riverdale in yr life i promise

tbh I only made it midway through :/

>:(

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.

I thought Cheryl Blossom was an early character who got written out?

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

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 school
2 no shit this was filmed in Vancouver

Lol no wonder everything looks so familiar

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.

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

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!!

I take that back, about half of them are

Obv I'm a tv addict but it's weird to think about watching Riverdale without the cultural references from the casting, Archie's Dad = Dylan from 90210, Betty's Mom = Shelly from Twin Peaks, Jughead's Dad = Billy from Scream, Betty's Dad = Jack from Charmed etc etc

I've only really seen 90210 out of those (handful of episodes)

I watched a couple episodes of charmed when it was on tv and all I remember is that it bored me to death

Wasn't shannon doherty in that one? Or was that that other vampire one? Buffy or whatever?

it really bothers me that archie isn't into betty like isn't the whole pt of the comix that he likes both???

it's pretty obv by the end of the season archie likes betty, it's just weird because they're next door neighbors and as little kids they had the whole destined to be together shtick. they even mention betty saying something about getting married in first grade!

like maybe archie wants to reach out in life and find himself instead of marrying his next door best friend. but it's also why his other relationships are mostly blips, with one notable exception (two if you get into the bad "archie in the future gets married" crap in the 90s or whatever)

really love how the show treated this jughead + betty plot

agree

i personally love how Archie is kind of the least important part of the show, and that Betty & Veronica drive so much of the plot