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

i greatly prefer reading this thread to watching the show

<3

appreciate yr spotify lists champ

Betty is an impossible cross between katee sackhoff and p arquette

― or at night (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, June 13, 2017 3:55 PM (six months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol otm.

been watching this with my wife, we're about 7 eps in. i think we like it but kinda undecided so far.

the cutting off the tattoo scene seemed a bit much! like i know jugg is supposed to have bit of edge now he's a serpent but slicing off a layer of flesh off a woman's arm with a knife is kind of fucked

agree

GUYS

GUYS

this is the best news

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/kiernan-shipka-star-as-sabrina-netflix-riverdale-spinoff-1072044

i was hoping they’d do this but never in my wildest dreams did i expect such dope casting :D

That’s...wild

^_^

Gregg Araki is directing an upcoming episode.

I might need to start watching this.

you should! it’s nutso & ott & fun

Me: "These stills from the next episode of Riverdale look super-ultra-gay. What in the world is going on here?"
Riverdale: "Directed by Gregg Araki."
Me: "Oh holy shit." pic.twitter.com/K8pLorX0KG

— Andrew Wheeler (@Wheeler) January 6, 2018

Not sure why Archie is wrestling. He can barely handle playing football and his other interests. Don't start another sport Arch.

as i said on twitter, if Archie doesnt wrestle Reggie I will throw my tv out the window. i’m counting on u Gregg Araki

hi

thought they’d stop mentioning that tragically named character now that he’s gone, but his spirit lives on

last ep was good, but not as good as the one before.

i knew that FBI dude was fakey mcfakerton

why didn't you tell us!

i thought he was for realzies

also i really hope something terrible happens to Chick the Human Goblin Boy rillllll soon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBojt6fDVvw

seems so obvious now but i really thought his acting was unintentionally just that bad xps

he didn’t even show a badge!! i smelled a rat right away

Sorry guys, I tried.

It's great looking and I appreciate the appeal to the gay male gaze (Archie is literally introduced via a gay character staring at him through a window), but this is otherwise quite dreadful. The dialogue is the worst; in a just world, Kevin Williamson and Diablo Cody will one day be called to answer for their crimes against screenwriting.

>:(

I know Veg, but we'll always have Chris Makepeace.

tru

I think the reason I love Riverdale IS that it’s so caricatured, the corny dialogue & ridiculous situations make it v enjoyable for me. But I also really like Gotham, which is even dumber & more ott

I stalled out a couple of episodes into the second season - there's a lot of good there but it's just too arch.

I'll say this: if I kept watching, I'd be interested in seeing if the show ends up doing anything with the Hitchcockian touch of the resemblance between Archie and the murder victim.

Really, it just came down to my figuring out that watching all 13 episodes of the first season would take up a bit over 6.5 hours of my life, which perhaps doesn't sound like much, but I tend to measure these things in terms of what else I could be watching in that time, and I have a whole stack of promising DVDs checked out of the library at the moment (not to mention countless hours of unwatched movies in my PVR) and the numbers just didn't work out in the show's favour.

I mean, it’s essentially a wacky soap opera. Love it.

I stalled out a couple of episodes into the second season - there's a lot of good there but it's just too arch.

― louise ck (milo z), Sunday, 15 April 2018 22:35 (forty-six minutes ago) Permalink

Heh

It’s a fun, goofy show with pretty people in it. I like it

i never paid much attention to Skeet Ulrich except thinking he was hot, but I am v much enjoying him as FP. And obv, crushing on him in a major way.

I am stalling out in season 2 also. Trying to make it through (it's a long season!)

The Carrie episode is coming up. Too big to fail right there.

so EXCITED

I hate myself for having massive crushes on both Cole Sprouse AND Skeet Ulrich.

Stopped at episode two of season two, but started again a couple of days ago and now I'm back to being hooked lol. It's a good show to watch while folding laundry or just for the sake of having something on while you're doing something else.

In a show filled with dumb characters, Archie is literally too dumb to live though - like yes, telling your mobster boss you've been keeping a (very thin) journal of all the shady things you've seen is an extremely good idea.

Yeah both Archie & Jug are in the hottest dumb-off I’ve ever seen. it’s appointment tv!

so apparently this week's episode is a musical episode. i am probably going to chew my arm off while watching this

you’ll love it

i was lolling the entire way through but i'm not a musical guy

kind of impressive how my biggest takeaway from it was still "archie is so dumb"

honestly you guys have the weirdest expectations for this show

just enjoy it while munching on some snacks

our takeaway in the Veg household was that this was v lolsy and kinda awkward but also it's Riverdale so yay
it wasn't so much a musical as 'sing dialogue and pretend it's a song'.
Also Kevin should sing more! he's got a nice voice. We were loling at Cheryl's weird high-then-deep style.

my money is still on Hal being the black hood
I have no evidence to support it except a gut feeling but I am standing by it :D

xp oh i am and i love it but y'know, really wanna shake the kid and tell him to think for a second

yeah it wasn't really "once more with feeling" but using it for [redacted] was a nice enough self-aware acknowledgment of the problems with plot dictating character. i'm not even gonna try to guess who is what now

also as I said to Mr Veg, Archie is very handsome and love him dearly but there's only one true Tommy

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/stephenking/images/1/1f/TommyWilliam.JPG/revision/latest?cb=20131026115912

it wasn't so much a musical as 'sing dialogue and pretend it's a song'.

I’m not familiar with it, but weren’t they the actual songs from Carrie: The Musical?

tbf a lot of musicals are just about singing dialogue

God this was painful.

Was kind of glad that archie finally turned towards his father and away from sinister gangster Lodges this episode,wasn't expecting that to happen right then tbh

xpost yeah I didn't realize that at the time, But either their performance of it was REALLY woeful or this is not a musical I'm gonna rush out and see any time soon or a little from column a, a little from column b

I’m not a big fan of musicals but making one based on Carrie is a pretty good idea and every high school should stage it, imo