just ran into the guy who plays Kevin at a stoplight here again
seems to happen about annually, I wonder if he actually lives here year round
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between everybody having superpowers now and cheryl being possessed by the spirit of her witch ancestor i feel like this show is now so functionally close to my teen memories of watching late season Angel that iâm forever waiting for a time travelling vampire hunter to take baby anthony into a time portal so he can emerge a week later as archieâs adult nemesis, whose goal is to imprison him in a coffin underneath the sea
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I love how this was presented as a momentous event, like, real Cheryl is GONE, except in practice the character acts about 5% different
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I also enjoyed this cry for help
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the cheryl mirror scene last ep sort of disappointed me since i was really tickled with the possibility of just having pulled that reveal in the goofiest way possible, have the grandma explain to a confused 12 year old that âcherylâ was essentially a Remnant Psyche and then just swap her out with a slightly different variant without anybody else even noticing and just continue on as usual
also i have no idea what kind of faustian pact the actors signed but like twice now iâve been like âalright, the time skip is obviously the setup for all the characters to be recastâ and âalright, jughead recreating the universe like a grant morrison character is SURELY the setup for the characters to be recastâ but it never happens. i hope everyoneâs just abruptly recast without preamble like s1 reggie and that all the actors involved get to go and start new lives⌠the first town they reach where nobody knows what a âvarchieâ is theyâll settle down
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iirc they were signed for 7 seasons but they didnât think for a minute it would actually go that long
and this show increasingly mirrors the way living in vancouver has felt over most of its runtime, that itâs this half-digested americana fever dream that wouldnât actually seem credible anyplace else but is mostly interested in finding new and more alarming ways of being derivative â in a way it actually embodies the aspects of living here that I like but I can see them wanting to get the hell out and never come back
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honestly with all the overheated stuff written last century about Disneyland or Las Vegas as the secret heart of the american imaginary itâs much funnier to think that it ended up being Vancouver instead. would have also been good if theyâd decided to shoot all the âalternate universeâ episodes in Seattle, for maximum unease.
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Satanic Archie NFTs
resident evil code veronicaâs egg
i havenât even watched the latest episode yet, still dazzled by the drawn-out library book subquest of this one and lines like âonce a Piggy always a Piggyâ. also some sad and totally unsurprising news:
The CW⌠itâs not too late for a spinoff where Doctor Curdle Junior has to travel the country concealing bodies on behalf of various nearby inquisitive teens. look into your heart. you owe it to the fans
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who taught the word âgroomingâ to the riverdale writerâs room and how do we get them to stop??
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Iâm on it
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much to think about this season finale, incl how exactly âveronica starts an absinthe companyâ and âreggie learns to throw his voice, in order to distract jughead, who is wearing a blindfoldâ made it as subplots in the season finale. the union stuff is also very funny coming from a show which is quite possibly written via Fiverr and itâd be nice to think it signalled some kind of tipping point in terms of how much good faith people are willing to extend to works of media claiming to grapple with this subject. the perpetually offscreen baby anthony being revealed as the secret key to the whole season and the showâs ongoing willingness to turn kevin into some kind of theater-kid-themed wrestling heel were both delightful.
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afaik there are still 4 or 5 left this season, I think theyâre going to close out the percival subplot, the broadcast schedule is just off for a couple of weeks because they probably needed to iron out the last of the covid postproduction delays
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pretty impressed that they got union solidarity picket line songs, bisexual betty cooper, and an american psycho musical all in the same episode
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reeling from the reveal that both bret weston wallis and bret easton ellis exist in the riverdale universe
the part where the Girls Nite group abruptly sing a song about fashion to nobody in particular while rotating around a little room was definitely made a lot more delightful by the same episode having three or four other musical numbers that were meant to be diegetic in context. decisions!!
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i watched the most recent episode like 30 seconds ago but canât remember anything except the sensation of three people trying to recite different wikipedia articles at once and the scene where betty is healed thru the power of reiki.
i did like alternate universe jughead and ethel in the bunker reenacting old andy capp cartoons while the others slunk away. on the other hand if thereâs one thing that makes me even more nervous than the riverdale writers room finding out about the concept of âgroomingâ itâs that theyve fallen down a tradcath influencer hole and are gonne start doing the same thing but for âgraceâ
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seems like madchen amick finally managed to escape the show
I love that they have this weird fixation on killing characters offscreen now, like after they did it with Archieâs dad out of necessity they decided to make it into a bit
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honestly that does feel like some weird transitional point for the writing on the show, like i wonder if on some subconscious level they were relieved not to have that grounding degree of likeable regular guy energy anymore. able to drag the big box of âscripts i wouldnât want to force luke perry to sayâ out of the garage
i feel like theyâre gonna keep those three around to torment til the end of the season at least but itâs funny that whenever kevinâs dad is onscreen now i lose track of whatâs happening just trying to remember what his character even is by now. at least madchen amick got âsecretly an fbi moleâ etc to muddy the waters a bit.
on the other hand if he really went to the guillotine bitter about the failure of his sonâs aspirational broadway career that would also be good
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