May 6
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It’s been a little under eight weeks since Riverdale halted production after a crew member tested positive for…
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Apr 29
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This week’s episode begins more auspiciously than any that’s come before, a hyperbolic claim I nonetheless feel…
Apr 15
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As pandemic stay-at-home orders have forced all of humanity to get real comfortable with a stationary lifestyle real…
Mar 11
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When thinking of the pathology that animates fandom, I often flash back to a scene from the episode of Bob’s Burgers …
Mar 4
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Maybe we should feel betrayed. Last week, Riverdale went to great lengths to convince us that Jughead was morally,…
Feb 27
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When committing one’s self to watching a soap opera, a viewer must breed a certain skepticism where…
Feb 12
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There’s bound to be a lot of axe-grinding when a TV show sets a strand of its season in a writer’s workshop, but the…
Feb 5
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First things first: is the tickle-porn stuff merely the best subplot in the storied history of bananas Riverdale subp…
Jan 29
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What do kids know? In Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia, that phrase lends a general-knowledge game show pitting…
Jan 23
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The gap is closing. “Varsity Blues” concludes with a flash-forward, as have most of the episodes in this fourth…
Dec 11
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We measure TV finales, even those marking the midseason break, by closure and the lack thereof. That can be somewhat…
Dec 4
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Once upon a time in the late ’00s, HBO provided a home for an unusual small-screen experiment called In Treatment.…
Nov 20
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It may seem like hardcore Christians have exclusive license to the holiday persecution complex, with their annual…
Nov 13
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The fourth season of David Simon’s seminal HBO drama The Wire placed the public school system of Baltimore under a…
Nov 6
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We don’t really know who Betty Cooper is, but to be fair, neither do the people writing Riverdale. Consistent…
Oct 30
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Though the lyrics to “Werewolf Bar Mitzvah” would suggest ‘spooky’ and ‘scary’ as roughly equivalent concepts,…
Oct 23
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There was a point, while watching this week’s screener, when I felt compelled to double-check and make sure I hadn’t…
Oct 16
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And we’re back, ladies and gentlemen.
Oct 9
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The timing of Luke Perry’s sudden passing earlier this year left Riverdale in an awkward holding pattern. Even in…
May 15 2019
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Aaron Sorkin has this little habit of titling the first-season finale episodes on his various TV series “What Kind…