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Are we ready for Old-Timey Mustachioed Jughead? (We are not ready.)
Reviews - Riverdale
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Hey, a Hair musical number that's not “Aquarius” or “Let The Sunshine In!”
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Over the years, a goodly handful of tertiary characters in the Riverdale world have ended up behind bars, jail being…
C
For years now, Kevin Keller has been a sensitive topic among fans of Riverdale. Before Cheryl Blossom came out and…
B+
The key party spiked in popularity during the ’70s as the free livers and lovers of the previous decade’s…
D+
The recent discovery that money is pretty much fake has set the Internet ablaze with talk of stonks, non-fungible…
B-
Though the town’s key twentysomethings have converged on Riverdale High as a new locus of action, “Back To School”…
B
Upon last week’s return to a changed Riverdale seven years into our present, I compared the lamentable state of the…
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It’s always edifying to take note of which craziness on Riverdale ends up permeating the mainstream. Every week…
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After everything, all the serial killers and cults and furtive bang seshes in the sex bunker, that this was the only…
C
The advertising for this season of Riverdale has made no attempt to pussyfoot around the gigantic countdown clock…
B
The worst thing about the pandemic/quagmire that has engulfed the past year, on top of the worldwide mass death now…
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It’s been a little under eight weeks since Riverdale halted production after a crew member tested positive for…
B+
This week’s episode begins more auspiciously than any that’s come before, a hyperbolic claim I nonetheless feel…
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As pandemic stay-at-home orders have forced all of humanity to get real comfortable with a stationary lifestyle real…
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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 …
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Maybe we should feel betrayed. Last week, Riverdale went to great lengths to convince us that Jughead was morally,…
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When committing one’s self to watching a soap opera, a viewer must breed a certain skepticism where…
B
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…
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First things first: is the tickle-porn stuff merely the best subplot in the storied history of bananas Riverdale subp…