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Riverdale (Season 1 - 2017)
Chiprocks1:
Trailer #1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XmFTADupMc
Chiprocks1:
Episode 1 & 2
Chapter One: The River's Edge / Chapter Two: A Touch of Evil
I've been meaning to check this out for awhile but I totally forgot that it had already started airing. I'm 4 weeks behind schedule, but I managed to knock out the first two today and I gotta say, this is damn good so far. I remember the Trailer dropping awhile back, but I wasn't really paying attention to the characters. Had I paid attention, then it wouldn't have been a huge surprise to learn that everyone in Riverdale comes straight from the pages of Archie's Comics. Yes, THAT Archie's Comics. Now I'm not a history buff and I don't know all that much about the comics itself. Sure, I read a handful of issues, but that was when I was in Elementary School. So, as you can guess, my knowledge of any and all past story-lines is beyond limited going into the series.
At face value, Riverdale has some subtle and not so subtle stylistic influences. On the surface what comes to mind is that a big chunk of what I've seen so far reminds me a lot of Veronica Mars (a series that I still love to this day), as well as some Mean Girls, Friday Night Lights and even Disturbing Behavior seems to have it's imprint here. You all know that the High School genre is one of my favorite genres to write personally. So I have been itching find a High School series that was and is worthy of my time and investment. Riverdale right now is hitting the marks I like. The first two episodes were fantastic. Right from the very start with the VO narration from Jughead, I was hooked. The rest of the cast that makes up Archie, Betty, and Veronica are perfectly cast. I'm definitely on board till for the rest of this season.
Chiprocks1:
I think I'm up to Episode 10 now and so far every episode has been super fun to watch. Great characters, great actors and very well written. I give all the episodes 4-5 Stars. Why am I posting this one today? Well, the last episode...more specifically the final shot of the episode is what made me grin from ear to ear and slap myself on the forehead and say "D'oh!" Whenever I watch a show or a movie that centers around High School....I ALWAYS compare it to The Breakfast Club. So when Archie's mother was finally revealed to be portrayed by Molly Ringwald....it made perfect sense. I can't believe I didn't see this coming since bother Archie and Mom have Red Hair and made the casting even more obvious. So yeah, loving the show. It's easily my Favorite New Series of the year. FYI, the person I thought they were going to have as Archi'es Mom: Jennie Garth for obvious reasons given that the Father is played by Luke Perry. Figured they would just go for broke and make it a true nostalgia kick and have the 'It' couple from Beverly Hills: 90210 as parents.
Chiprocks1:
Episode 12 and 13
Anatomy of a Murder / The Sweet Hereafter
So, overall this season and the series itself has been a great surprise...a true guilty pleasure. But there was one minor hiccup that kinda took it down a notch from being a truly great series and that was the revelation that Clifford Blossom was the murderer. I don't know what it is, but having him be the one just seemed contrived and not really thought out all that well by the writers. Sure, he may have been the one they decided on before they ever shot a single frame of Season 1....but it still doesn't take away from the fact that this was just a little too obvious of a choice to lean an entire season on. Since the revelation came before the season finale, I knew that The Sweet Hereafter would have to kick-start another murder mystery to hold us over until Season 2 and sure enough, that's exactly what we got. He good episode, but the fact that they just killed off Luke Perry's character does suck. I liked the mix of new and old actors carrying this show. Well, that's one less old. I'm still sticking with the series no doubt. Why couldn't they have killed off Robin Given's character of Mayor. That would seem to be a better and more reasonable choice since they could have made it "politically" motivated. But then again, everyone would have applauded this instead of feeling the sting of a cool character as Fred.
Neumatic:
I totally forgot that this was already added to Netflix. Starting the first episode now (I also noticed Twin Peaks is on Amazon Prime, I've gotten a hankering to see it but I don't have time).
BTW, I have to repeat myself. Chip, if you love the high school genre, you gotta check out the rebooted Archie comics. Archie itself is more of a comedic drama...
...but I have to give Jughead the edge because it's a little more cartoonish and comedic... it's rather like The Simpsons meets John Hughes. There's two trades of each out at least, as well as a collected TPB called "Road To Riverdale" that's a sampler of each, out as a tie-in to the show.
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