ok real talk is riverdale worth watching
you know what? i honestly have no idea
i thoroughly enjoy it because i’ve been reading Archie comics since i learned how to read and to have this integral part of my childhood and adolescence come to life in front of me in the form of attractive millennial garbage children is akin to ascending to a higher plane of existence
LATINX VERONICA LODGE MOM HOLY FUCK
all black josie and the pussycats who call archie out on his white privilege ON THE DAILY
veronica wears capes all the time like that’s something highschool students in small towns do and i’m living for it
archie is shirtless in every episode and in the third episode betty and veronica were very seductive and yet more covered than archie usually is? which is cool in terms of objectification of women (kinda) but anyway there are some Very attractive characters and when they’re half naked they’re usually men
jughead jones is a grungy little snark basket
hermione lodge calling her daughter ‘m’hjia’ added 50 years to my life
veronica and betty to the casual not-heteronormative observer fall deeper in love every single episode
it is an incontrovertible fact that both veronica and chuck were looking at betty in the exact same overwhelmingly aroused way in the third episode
whoever did the costume design for this show knew what the fuck they were doing
‘what was it like, suicide squad?’ and ‘can you spell it’ objectively the best insults i’ve ever heard in grudge match flirting ever in my life
maybe it’s just me but every time the characters do or say something not wholesome my whole being is Shook. this started with archie andrews, the all-american golden boy, saying ‘wank bank’ like!! oh shit!! that’s not child friendly!! as someone who read archie comics religiously this show feels like staying up to watch an inappropriate tv show at age 10 and being blown away by things adults are allowed to say. betty tried to drown someone. archie’s fucking a teacher. i’m literally overflowing with illicit joy
i can’t tell if it’s badly written which means it probably is and i’m just blinded by my beloved characters coming to life
miss grundy in particular can go the fuck to jail already but also like 50% of the adults in this town are sentient garbage fires
their treatment of chuck clayton was at best the unnecessary character assassination of a creative, kind, character who could have been given more depth & at worst some racist bullshit
they’re probably going to ignore jughead’s asexuality like COWARDS
biphobia? kinda? i think?
queerbaiting on the DAILY because lbh that’s what the cw does best in this world and i’m nowhere near ready to trust them with the beautiful pure wlw friends-to-lovers opportunity they have in their grimy little hands
they… literally slutshame…. in an episode that condemns slutshaming…
twincest? the potential of twincest??? i don’t even fucking know what’s going on there
kevin keller’s v much played as the token gay guy
idk like is it the best show of our generation? no. is it objectively a good show?? i honestly don’t know. but it’s much more diverse than it needed to be/could’ve gotten away with being, it’s got an underlying murder plot that i realise i haven’t mentioned up till now, and it suits all your trashy teen drama needs
also, to top it all off, it’s on netflix so you don’t even have to go out of your way to watch it really
