Riverdale - Season 4

It’s been a little under eight weeks since Riverdale halted production after a crew member tested positive for…

This week’s episode begins more auspiciously than any that’s come before, a hyperbolic claim I nonetheless feel…

As pandemic stay-at-home orders have forced all of humanity to get real comfortable with a stationary lifestyle real…

When thinking of the pathology that animates fandom, I often flash back to a scene from the episode of Bob’s Burgers …

Maybe we should feel betrayed. Last week, Riverdale went to great lengths to convince us that Jughead was morally,…

When committing one’s self to watching a soap opera, a viewer must breed a certain skepticism where…

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…

First things first: is the tickle-porn stuff merely the best subplot in the storied history of bananas Riverdale subp…

What do kids know? In Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia, that phrase lends a general-knowledge game show pitting…

The gap is closing. “Varsity Blues” concludes with a flash-forward, as have most of the episodes in this fourth…

We measure TV finales, even those marking the midseason break, by closure and the lack thereof. That can be somewhat…

Once upon a time in the late ’00s, HBO provided a home for an unusual small-screen experiment called In Treatment.…

It may seem like hardcore Christians have exclusive license to the holiday persecution complex, with their annual…

The fourth season of David Simon’s seminal HBO drama The Wire placed the public school system of Baltimore under a…

We don’t really know who Betty Cooper is, but to be fair, neither do the people writing Riverdale. Consistent…

Though the lyrics to “Werewolf Bar Mitzvah” would suggest ‘spooky’ and ‘scary’ as roughly equivalent concepts,…

There was a point, while watching this week’s screener, when I felt compelled to double-check and make sure I hadn’t…

And we’re back, ladies and gentlemen.

The timing of Luke Perry’s sudden passing earlier this year left Riverdale in an awkward holding pattern. Even in…