riverdale is Doing Mccarthyism and, unsurprisingly, it rocks
hiram lodge returning is the most We're So Back i have ever been about anything in my life
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in reply to @aidan's post:
Fucking hell what happened?
I looked away when the show was about Jingle Jangle and the Highs And Lows of High School Football, and now we're here?!
yeah archie enlisted in the army and got deployed to do black ops/trench warfare in uzebkistan
I mean, I have no reason to not believe that is exactly what happens, given gestures the above
as is true of all hyperbolic descriptions of riverdale plots, this one is only partially false
looks at the other reply about sorcerers and pyrokinetic powers
uhuh.
It's such a weird season, and not because of the reasons that they think are making it weird. But instead, they do really good work (ignoring that their two male leads never seem particularly good at acting, and the writers keep scrambling to make their characters interesting enough to justify their screen time) for, like, three quarters of the episode. But then they'll randomly cut away from talk about actual violence against people to "hey, have we ever told you about those valiant heroes at EC Comics?" as if that has the same emotional valence as Emmett Till or the Lavender Scare.
It's definitely better than last year's version of "nothing in the universe more important than comic books exists," though...
i love telling people that season 6 of riverdale ends with cheryl blossom using her pyrokinetic powers to prevent a sorcerer from from destroying riverdale with a comet and season 7 of riverdale begins with multiple main characters solemnly discussing the political and cultural ramifications of the Emmett Till trial
Right? And what's entertaining is that there's no indication, anywhere in the show, that the writers think that this is really intense writing or really, really funny. Camp? Satire? Tone-deafness? No clue, going back at least as far as the weird plots at the murder-themed charter school.