Current Events > Anyone keeping up with Riverdale? *Season 4 Spoilers*

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My friend finally got me into Riverdale last season, with the murderous DnD and the Gargoyle King and the "fizzle rocks" street drug. So I was pretty hype for season 4. It hasn't been everything I ever hoped it would be, that subplot with Archie's uncle was weak as dog piss and Cheryl Blossom annoys the fuck out of me, but they gave Jughead a cool death and the last few episodes have been pretty solid.

I don't like how they spent this entire season leading up to Jughead's death, only to reveal he didn't die 2 episodes later. But I noticed on the splash screen that his date of death is listed as March 18th 2020 - which is two weeks from now, or two episodes away. They might actually kill Jughead off yet, so that's interesting.

The thing about Riverdale is that now I want to learn the history behind the comic and stuff. It's an interesting and long-lived franchise.

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The show is extremely stupid and bad but I could see how it might have slipped into so bad it's good territory at this point

Malfunction posted...

The show is extremely stupid and bad but I could see how it might have slipped into so bad it's good territory at this point

Oh yeah, don't get me wrong. This show gets really fucking bad at times. But you have to respect a series that bases an entire season on the Christian panic, Chick Tract version of DnD. It's bizarre and frequently stupid, but it's engaging in the same way that people think soap operas are.

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No-one else a fan of trash TV?

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yea, considering he's basically the main character/narrator of the series, I thought that the Jughead thing was obvious from the getgo, but I guess that it was kinda surprising that so many of the characters knew about it

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I just hate cheryl and what toni has become. They're both so unlikable.

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I think Toni is meant to be a grounding force for Cheryl, but this season she's just gotten dragged further and further into the crazy side of things. Yep, Cheryl is keeping her dead, mummified brother in the basement - I'll let her seat him at the table if it makes her feel better. Cheryl's crazy relatives are trying to run her out of the family business? Let's fucking murder one of them and feed him to the other two.

Her inconsequential effect on Cheryl this season was summed up perfectly in the last episode. When asked if she regretted how she treated Jughead during his life, Cheryl answered "...I'm sorry I said he looked like a hobo that one time :)". Toni looks at her with a tired "are you fucking serious" look on her face. But Cheryl just looks on with a grin on her face, happy as Larry. No grounding effect, just a tired "ffs Cheryl" look on her face while Cheryl does Cheryl things.

Cheryl is as bad as ever, and it's almost like Toni exists as an audience surrogate half of the time and a bland enabler the other half.

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It's a pure guilty pleasure. Literally everyone on that show is beautiful. I haven't watched the latest ep and I'm not buying the jughead death

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I need to get back into it, I haven't seen the last several episodes (hoping they still have the ones I haven't seen on the CW app...).

That show has so many damn plot holes and inconsistencies in it though.

Also I want to marry Madelaine Petsch.

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Hexenherz posted...

I need to get back into it, I haven't seen the last several episodes (hoping they still have the ones I haven't seen on the CW app...).

That show has so many damn plot holes and inconsistencies in it though.

Also I want to marry Madelaine Petsch.

She's so hot on the show, oh my god.

yeah, the show basically operates on an episode by episode basis. I'm not a big fan of the overarching plot arc that season 4 has been doing because it's expecting you to stay hooked on every episode, but most of the episodes are just... episodic, tangentially related to the arc.

If the show didn't feel the need to jam the Jughead death thing down my throat every single episode, I would be enjoying it more on an episode by episode basis. I'm still enjoying it well enough, but it makes the Cheryl stuff and the gay tickling internet porn plotline so much less bearable when the show turns around and dangles Jughead's impending doom in front of me, begging it to take it seriously.

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