I haven't been keeping up with Riverdale, so the 'Cheryl made out with everyone in town and absorbed everyone's powers and nearly destroyed the earth' caught me a bit off guard
I didn't realize how far behind I was on Alex's Riverdale videos and I cannot express just how severe the shock I got was with the opening explanation of "Cheryl took all their magical powers and now they're back in the 50s"
Right? I last saw the season where Elizabeth became an FBI agent, came back to town and is traumatized by some case she couldn't solve a while back. It taking the magical route basically speaks to me that the producers wanted to keep the show going and the script writers were like "eh...whatever, I just want a paycheck" Riverdale has truly become the Hollywood equivalent of Indian soap opera 😂
@@fouulout and their faces are slightly different. For them being identical if you have looked at them enough it’s easy to tell them apart. Zach and Cody helped me out with that 😂
It goes from boring to wildly entertaining in a pretty slow progression but the limited fun moments in season 1 and 2 feel so much more special in retrospect. I'm shocked that this crazy show still manages to feel crazy and new and fun even this far off the rails though.
I binged it, all the way through half of season 5, I guess they had a midseason break in s5 when I started watching. I watched it at a time when I was not well and just wanted to distract myself. I won't deny, it is pretty bad, but I could still watch because Lili is the prettiest girl to look at and I like how the prettiest girl doesn't fall for the jock but the nerd one.. Even that went downhill from season 5 and that's when I started skipping parts or watching half heartedly just to see how things end out of curiosity. But this show opened doors for US teen shows for me, I have watched Teen Wolf and Vampire Diaries universe since then and liked them even with their imperfections, especially TVD.
That Emmett Till thing is really horrible, thats a real life murder and putting it in a show that clearly doesn’t give thought to the writing makes it seem like they are using this tragedy in a very misguided attempt to make the show seem more serious. Very upsetting
@bummie yeah I mean it's already bad enough when we get shows that glorify real murderers but this is very poor taste when you have a show about teenagers solving badly written mysteries. Just feels exploitative
I mean way back in season episode 3 Veronica made reference to actual horrific sexual assault cases, Steubenville - A rape case that occurred in Steubenville, Ohio, on the night of August 11, 2012, when a high-school girl, incapacitated by alcohol, was publicly and repeatedly sexually assaulted by classmates. Glen Ridge - A rape case that occurred in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, where a mentally handicapped girl was raped with a broomstick and a baseball bat by members of the Glen Ridge High School football team in 1989.
@@denisablaskova3269 to be fair I’ve never actually watched more then one episode because it was just not my thing when it came out, and the more I hear about it the more I think this is probably one of the worst shows (that isn’t reality tv on tlc) in recent years, way up there with 13 reasons why
It does, and there’s a Twitter account that posts out of context screenshots and it makes me snort every time because riverdale has a line for almost any situation
The scene where Jughead has to explain his friends they are not in the right timeline, who they really are and that Archie and Betty needed to make out in order change the timeline was hilarious. Cole Sprouse deserves an award for making Jughead serious and crazy at the same time and delivering all those lines without laughing.
@@cristina.ganymede I have heard of it, but never watched it. I have watched other movies/tv shows about parallel universes or time travel by the way. I love that genre :)
Cole committing to the line "You have to use your chronokenesis and get us the hell out of 1955" is acting genius. Not many people could deliver that line with any seriousness.
Honestly this season just made me realize how cheated we were out of a 50's period-piece. Both KJ Apa and Lilli Reinhart are actually pretty good at playing these goofy teen character archtypes, and I think if they had just stuck with the mystery, maybe giving them different mysteries to solve each season, it would have been pretty good.
Playing to the Nancy Drew and Hardy Brothers tropes. Midnight Club showed how well these actors can be as other characters (specifically teenage versions of their parents and really evoking the actors who play the parents), and KJ Apa has demonstrated he can do emotional scenes really well when he gets the material. It’s the writing and creative decisions that have failed the actors and cheated the audience.
2:50… my jaw hit the floor when I saw they were incorporating this in the show.. I mean Riverdale tackling the Emmet Till Case is like if Barney the dinosaur were to talk about the Challenger Disaster.. I mean Ik the writers are high as a kite but they can’t be this dumb.. they honestly can’t think they’d be able to talk about it with the respect it deserves..
The fact that the principal calls Cheryl out for dancing with another girl, which like Alex said, was very common, but not for dancing with a ~black girl~ tells me anything I need to know about the show's understanding of gay and black history.
Especially since in some cultures girls would basically be almost completely isolated from boys until they were adults (especially if they went to all-girls schools and colleges), so dancing with other girls was literally the only authority-approved option for them
The fact that Emmett Till’s accuser died literally today meanwhile Riverdale is using the horrors of his murder as a basically backdrop set piece is such an emotional dissonance. I know that Riverdale doesn’t seem to have any editors or anything, but still, who approved this?!
My jaw dropped when they brought in Emmett Till but then I remembered that this show also had Tabitha trying to stop the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. so I guess no tragedy is off the table for their black characters huh Addendum: It is hilarious that Veronica's weird way of speaking fits perfectly into the 1950s
i'm not black so please correct me if i'm wrong, but i find it so.... weird that the writers gave all the black characters such a traumatic storyline. i mean, you have betty being a goody two-shoes girl next door, archie being a jock, jughead with his old hat, etc etc, and then toni and the other two black characters in the show are fighting for emmett till's rights. that's so serious and so different from the rest of the group that it's giving viewers emotional whiplash. i appreciate that they want to discuss this very real and horrific moment in history, but i don't think ANYONE expected riverdale to discuss this. and tbh, with the way they're treating it right now and the way they're representing it, i don't think riverdale can be trusted to discuss this.
Through season 6, I feel like they started to acknowledge the absurdity and leant more towards it. Idk why they decided to have more serious/complex issues in the show now
I don’t think it was right to bring in Emmett tills tragic story but based on these videos, it seems like most of the characters had very traumatic storylines if you think about it. Like bettys dad is a serial killer, Archie’s life in general is nuts, same with Veronica and Cheryl and jughead so, that’s all pretty damn traumatic. I think it’s just different because this is adding in a real life tragedy
(tldr: I agree, roberto cannot be trusted to do true life, sensitive and horrific storylines as such. And he didn’t bother to see it all the way through anyways). adding to the comment above, throughout the season the other characters also have pretty traumatic or not nice events happen to them. Betty and Veronica both get disowned by their parents, Betty is even hit by Alice whilst Veronica is again manipulated by her father into covering up his conspiring with the Russians and is told her parents are divorcing. Reggie experiences a fair bit of racism throughout most of season, Archie has lost his dad in the war and is pushed around by his uncle. Cheryl is also treated awfully by her parents when they realise she is a lesbian. Jughead’s mentor is murdered. Whilst it certainly isn’t on the same playing field as what you mentioned they gave to the black characters of the show, the rest of them aren’t all sunshine and rainbows. Not as dark as the original timeline characters, but it’s there. Plus, Roberto (who’s surprised) didn’t even commit to consistently portraying the civil rights movement throughout the seasons to even do it justice. He did the same thing with the threat of Communism and Stalin… made it a bit threat one episode then lit it simmer unimportantly in the background 😐 So once he’s ticked his box and covered it, Toni didn’t really get much more of a storyline after that. It was just about finding her feet with Cheryl. And Tabitha barely even appeared in the whole season. Clay, equally, his storyline was surrounding being Kevin’s boyfriend and working for Veronica in the movie theatre 😭 he spent too much time on the wrong things to actually give the black characters proper fleshed out storylines and backgrounds. Granted they aren’t the core 4, but with it being the last season he could’ve given them the send off they deserved.
@@DavidKen878 25, 26, 28 and 28 to be exact. Cole is 30, Vanessa is 31 and Casey (Kevin) is 30. KJ would have been 19 when the pilot aired, and 18 when the it was filmed, so everyone in the cast was legal and thus fewer restrictions on the risqué material. Ashleigh, who plays Josie, is ten years older than KJ, and their characters were briefly in a relationship early on. To make the Fake Grundy storyline even creepier, KJ was eighteen when he filmed intimate scenes with an actress who was mid-30’s in age. Even knowing the show would have had an intimacy coach doesn’t make it better. I suppose one positive about the 50’s setting is that the show has to be more conservative with the fanservice to be more accurate to the period.
Once the stars are released from their contracts, hopefully they'll go onto bigger and better things. They're all really talented, not that you'd ever realise it based on this show alone.
The whole dark room toni dance sequence was SO uncomfortable along with Betty's dream like i don't need to see every single character kissing every other character for no reason 💀
@@romeofernandez8608 In one MBAV episode, Ethan and Benny cross-dress. Benny says his name is "Betty" and Ethan says his name is "Veronica". Career foreshadowing?
@@romeofernandez8608 Considering Riverdale is getting an actual series finale and MBAV didn't (and it ticks any MBAV fan off to no end), I'd say she actually improved. It sucks that, until she drew attention to it, that she was the lowest-paid regular because she's black. But since she made that stir, I'd assume, she's doing better than ever financially. I do wish she was able to get better roles aside from B-rated TV shows
Its so weird how when I was in school, everyone just kept talking about Riverdale and how much they loved it, and then suddenly it just went quiet. Not a single word was said about Riverdale again after season 2 or season 1.
The scene from Glass Onion where Kate Hudson exclaimed:"it's so stupid it's genius!" & Daniel Craig yelled:"no! It's just stupid!" came to my mind during this video. 😵 Also a show having an end of season cliffhanger/tease that got lazily resolved at next season's premiere is nothing new.
the most interesting thing about this season to me is how unironically great KJ Apa is at playing a 50s character. like everyone else is pretty hit or miss but somehow he is perfectly matching the inflections and absolute dumbassery of those characters
@@theunbearablejuan This is gonna sound weird but I've often been very impressed with the acting on Riverdale, actually. The material is silly, but the actors really do give it all they've got. I continue to be especially impressed with how Betty's actress can just apparently cry on command and make it look like her heart is literally breaking apart over whatever dumb thing they're making the character cry over. That's gotta be so hard on such a silly show.
Apa generally does better as Archie when he can lean into the hamminess and awkwardness of the character and plot, instead of being the super serious Adonis god, the show really wanted him to be.
Giving Cheryl's room THREE Shego posters is the funniest thing you have ever done on this channel! I fully had to pause until I stopped laughing. Loving Shego is definitely a wlw thing!! :D
the seven seasons of Riverdale seems like a cosmic horror entity, I'm glad I can experience the show through your channel because I doubt I would survive watching it myself.
Thank you Alex for sacrificing your sanity for us. Also this cast is now really too old to be high schoolers. Archie looks like he has a kid that goes to highschool.
how the hell did they fuck up this badly💀riverdale lost its spark years ago. i can't believe this show went from a teen drama to a murder mystery to a cult story to a musical to witchcraft to time travel
I agree. A simple “Who Done It?” murder mystery was probably the only decent plot in the entire series. It just spiraled into chaos as things kept going.
I have been reading Archie comics for like 35 years and I have loved the new edgier versions of it like Afterlife with Archie, the Mark Wade Archie-verse and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. I was really excited for Riverdale. Just like when I found out, as a child, that there was an Archie cartoon! Pure joy! But my god. I watched the first season of Riverdale and could not get passed the 1st episode of Season 2. Watching these re-caps is my only exposure now and I am shocked every time at the choices made. They managed to take a comic empire that is literally all over the place and take it to 11 in the weirdest ways.
Thank you for sharing Riverdale's very insightful and tasteful interpretation of Emmett Till. It did not at all make me want to gouge my eyes out and destroy my eardrums when they even sort of mentioned it.
I'm sorry, last time I was here Veronica's dad was a mafia boss and there was a board game that made you see goats. Now I'm hearing about *looks at notes on hand* meteors and time travel? Sure is... an idea, I guess.
Veronica looks like a cougar mom, Archie looks like a post-steroids jock, and Jughead looks like a "Back to the Future" reprisal. Took one for the team, Alex! You may rest now 🎉❤!
As a black person, the "head in hands" feeling that I got when the show mentioned Emmett Till is almost indescribable What. Please. Never. Why. No. Stop.
As a POC, the amount of involuntary shrieks that left my body when that was mentioned…Yes, they should’ve addressed that being zapped back to the 1950s was gonna be genuinely dangerous for the Black characters (however sparse and terribly written they were) but SPRINKLING IN BLACK TRAUMA JUST FOR THE SAKE OF IT IS NOT HOW YOU DO IT, YOU ASSHOLES.
@@gracekim1998 you should definitely learn about Emmett Till. You'll understand why this was unbelievably out of their reach for representing him respectfully. It's like last season when the "stop MLK from being assassinated" plot. Completely unnecessary and disrespectful
I remember watching the first season and thinking Riverdale could be my new favorite show a few years ago... How did "Lets solve this murder" turn into "serial killer, magic, time travel, ANGELS"?
The first episode of riverdale s new season was weirdly good. Obviously Veronica was over the top but she’s calmed down since then I also really liked how they handled some very sensitive issues
Hey, here's something to cover my "not buying Surfshark or downloading whatever that other game is". I already have a VPN and mobile games... oof, no thanks. You're an awesome creator and I hope the video take-down stuff works out in your favor.
This show has gotta be the world's greatest con ever. The writers must have thought hey let's see if a network would pay us for making the most illogical show ever. Riverdale don't try to be a social commentary show
If Jughead wanted to show his friends that he knows about the future, why didn't he just tell Kevin and Cheryl secretly about how he knows where their attraction lies. He had sex with Betty, he would at least remember some kind of birthmark or scar.
5 seasons of fun. Then 10 seasons of “I’m attached to this and there’s a good episode here and there but boy is this a poorly written slog”. And then you finish it and you never watch it again.
14:18 "We did not raise you this way, Ethel!" "Do you have any idea what it's like to be a teenage girl and look like this?" Oops, sorry, wrong Shannon Purser movie.
I stopped watching the show years ago, and not only jump the shark. The shark went to space . Still enjoy watching Alex’s video so so going to miss them
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This channel is the only reason I know anything about Riverdale.
Me too
same bro
Same 😂
Lol same
exactly
The fact that the actors can say their lines without laughing proves that they're actually way more talented than the writers want us to think.
They are talented.
They are so talented but wasted in this. They're so happy it's over cause they've been wanting it to get canceled since like season 4
They probably laughed many times before filming the final take 😂
I'll be honest... I thought it ended YEARS ago. How it's gone on this long is beyond me
You've been watching Alex talk about this show for years. So how did you think it ended?
i shouldn't have to explain it to you but obviously it's because of the power of archie's abs
@@DavidKen878 A bit presumptuous.
Me neither
@@OpinionParade How so?
I haven't been keeping up with Riverdale, so the 'Cheryl made out with everyone in town and absorbed everyone's powers and nearly destroyed the earth' caught me a bit off guard
same
Yeah, I'm recovering from that sentence rn.
I'm recovering from "Betty and Archie need to make out, while we blow up a bomb under their bed"
Same
she only kissed veronica tho
I didn't realize how far behind I was on Alex's Riverdale videos and I cannot express just how severe the shock I got was with the opening explanation of "Cheryl took all their magical powers and now they're back in the 50s"
I got to... season 3, I think? What a simpler time it was.
@@aurea.Hahaha same
@@aurea. I think season 3 was more insane
Right? I last saw the season where Elizabeth became an FBI agent, came back to town and is traumatized by some case she couldn't solve a while back.
It taking the magical route basically speaks to me that the producers wanted to keep the show going and the script writers were like "eh...whatever, I just want a paycheck"
Riverdale has truly become the Hollywood equivalent of Indian soap opera 😂
I always thought that it would be super funny if they switched Cole w Dylan like mid season at some point, and just never mentioned it
That would be hilarious.
It would be noticeable though for sure they sound diff nd look slightly different
@@fouulout and their faces are slightly different. For them being identical if you have looked at them enough it’s easy to tell them apart. Zach and Cody helped me out with that 😂
They’re not identical twins are they?
@@romeofernandez8608 they’re identical
Even when the show ends you will never be free of Riverdale, it’s a traumatic experience
They butchered heathers and Carrie 😭
just like my life
He'll never forget all of those abs 😆
I think some psychologist made this series to have more money from ppl who watched this series
You can check out whenever you like but you can never leave.
Binge watching this show must be the weirdest thing. How do you go from a classic murder mystery to wizards and time travel apparently.
Yeah, not gonna lie, the binging is gonna be odd
It goes from boring to wildly entertaining in a pretty slow progression but the limited fun moments in season 1 and 2 feel so much more special in retrospect. I'm shocked that this crazy show still manages to feel crazy and new and fun even this far off the rails though.
I binged it and can confirm you are 1000000 percent right lol also like to mention a lot of musical scenes
Yeah 😅 that must be confusing
I binged it, all the way through half of season 5, I guess they had a midseason break in s5 when I started watching. I watched it at a time when I was not well and just wanted to distract myself. I won't deny, it is pretty bad, but I could still watch because Lili is the prettiest girl to look at and I like how the prettiest girl doesn't fall for the jock but the nerd one.. Even that went downhill from season 5 and that's when I started skipping parts or watching half heartedly just to see how things end out of curiosity.
But this show opened doors for US teen shows for me, I have watched Teen Wolf and Vampire Diaries universe since then and liked them even with their imperfections, especially TVD.
ironically the face Archie makes when he sees Veronica is the closest thing we’ll get to comic book Archie
@@saintgein I used to read those comics as a kid but I never knew Riverdale was based on them 😭
the rest of the season the Archie character becomes exactly like the comics. it is surprisingly enjoyable. KJ Apa plays it so well
That Emmett Till thing is really horrible, thats a real life murder and putting it in a show that clearly doesn’t give thought to the writing makes it seem like they are using this tragedy in a very misguided attempt to make the show seem more serious. Very upsetting
i was thinking the same thing..
@bummie yeah I mean it's already bad enough when we get shows that glorify real murderers but this is very poor taste when you have a show about teenagers solving badly written mysteries. Just feels exploitative
I mean way back in season episode 3 Veronica made reference to actual horrific sexual assault cases, Steubenville - A rape case that occurred in Steubenville, Ohio, on the night of August 11, 2012, when a high-school girl, incapacitated by alcohol, was publicly and repeatedly sexually assaulted by classmates.
Glen Ridge - A rape case that occurred in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, where a mentally handicapped girl was raped with a broomstick and a baseball bat by members of the Glen Ridge High School football team in 1989.
** season 1, episode 3
@@denisablaskova3269 to be fair I’ve never actually watched more then one episode because it was just not my thing when it came out, and the more I hear about it the more I think this is probably one of the worst shows (that isn’t reality tv on tlc) in recent years, way up there with 13 reasons why
GET OUT OF THE CONTRACT, RIVERDALE ACTORS! You deserve to be free and not locked in the mind prison of a perv.
Yeah true, won't lie I'm gonna miss it tho. There's nothing so cheesy and over the top as this show
I’m happy for the actresses who play Betty, Veronica, and Cheryl as they’ve shown they can succeed without the show.
Who's the perv?
@@pinkroselite4173 I don't even know what I'm gonna watch next
@@notoriouslysky If you havent watched it yet, Reign by the CW has a lot of fun, unhinged energy (not as much as riverdale though)
I am SURE the writers had a bet about 'let's see how much they let us get away with'...bc that is the only explanation for this insanity 😂😂
Lie the real explanation is that they use the show to wash dirty money
To be fair this is also kind of the most…dare I say Normal Riverdale’s been in a LONG time despite how hokey the dialogue still is
"Kevin, you directed some musicals and were in an organ-harvesting cult." This show must have the most glorious out-of-context compilatons.
Even with context it makes no sense.
To be fair, he probably also didn’t want to out Kevin in this 1955 timeline. Same for Cheryl. But yeah, still agree with ya
It does, and there’s a Twitter account that posts out of context screenshots and it makes me snort every time because riverdale has a line for almost any situation
The scene where Jughead has to explain his friends they are not in the right timeline, who they really are and that Archie and Betty needed to make out in order change the timeline was hilarious. Cole Sprouse deserves an award for making Jughead serious and crazy at the same time and delivering all those lines without laughing.
So you haven't watched Avengers or Dr. Strange?
@@cristina.ganymede I have heard of it, but never watched it. I have watched other movies/tv shows about parallel universes or time travel by the way. I love that genre :)
Cole committing to the line "You have to use your chronokenesis and get us the hell out of 1955" is acting genius. Not many people could deliver that line with any seriousness.
I swear to God it feels like this show has ended like 15 times already
It should have been.
Just breaks between seasons when people forget it exists
Honestly this season just made me realize how cheated we were out of a 50's period-piece. Both KJ Apa and Lilli Reinhart are actually pretty good at playing these goofy teen character archtypes, and I think if they had just stuck with the mystery, maybe giving them different mysteries to solve each season, it would have been pretty good.
I still actively want this. Whether with the same actors or not.
I feel it could've been wednesday-ish, which isn't the best show ever, but I did find it more entertaining.
Archietypes hehe
Playing to the Nancy Drew and Hardy Brothers tropes. Midnight Club showed how well these actors can be as other characters (specifically teenage versions of their parents and really evoking the actors who play the parents), and KJ Apa has demonstrated he can do emotional scenes really well when he gets the material. It’s the writing and creative decisions that have failed the actors and cheated the audience.
It's sad to think that they could have really adapted Archie's Weird Mysteries into a period pixe
2:50… my jaw hit the floor when I saw they were incorporating this in the show.. I mean Riverdale tackling the Emmet Till Case is like if Barney the dinosaur were to talk about the Challenger Disaster.. I mean Ik the writers are high as a kite but they can’t be this dumb.. they honestly can’t think they’d be able to talk about it with the respect it deserves..
thats the perfect analogy lmao
Even Barney the Dinosaur would've handled the matter more tastefully than this show
The fact that the principal calls Cheryl out for dancing with another girl, which like Alex said, was very common, but not for dancing with a ~black girl~ tells me anything I need to know about the show's understanding of gay and black history.
Especially since in some cultures girls would basically be almost completely isolated from boys until they were adults (especially if they went to all-girls schools and colleges), so dancing with other girls was literally the only authority-approved option for them
The fact that Emmett Till’s accuser died literally today meanwhile Riverdale is using the horrors of his murder as a basically backdrop set piece is such an emotional dissonance. I know that Riverdale doesn’t seem to have any editors or anything, but still, who approved this?!
I’m a mechanical engineer and understanding the thought proces of riverdale is harder than any of my classes
I feel like Riverdale is a moment in history that people are going to look back on and just say, “it was a weird time.”
That's an understatement! 😂
Similar to how we look at Victorious now
My jaw dropped when they brought in Emmett Till but then I remembered that this show also had Tabitha trying to stop the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. so I guess no tragedy is off the table for their black characters huh
Addendum: It is hilarious that Veronica's weird way of speaking fits perfectly into the 1950s
i'm not black so please correct me if i'm wrong, but i find it so.... weird that the writers gave all the black characters such a traumatic storyline. i mean, you have betty being a goody two-shoes girl next door, archie being a jock, jughead with his old hat, etc etc, and then toni and the other two black characters in the show are fighting for emmett till's rights. that's so serious and so different from the rest of the group that it's giving viewers emotional whiplash. i appreciate that they want to discuss this very real and horrific moment in history, but i don't think ANYONE expected riverdale to discuss this. and tbh, with the way they're treating it right now and the way they're representing it, i don't think riverdale can be trusted to discuss this.
Through season 6, I feel like they started to acknowledge the absurdity and leant more towards it. Idk why they decided to have more serious/complex issues in the show now
I don’t think it was right to bring in Emmett tills tragic story but based on these videos, it seems like most of the characters had very traumatic storylines if you think about it. Like bettys dad is a serial killer, Archie’s life in general is nuts, same with Veronica and Cheryl and jughead so, that’s all pretty damn traumatic. I think it’s just different because this is adding in a real life tragedy
(tldr: I agree, roberto cannot be trusted to do true life, sensitive and horrific storylines as such. And he didn’t bother to see it all the way through anyways). adding to the comment above, throughout the season the other characters also have pretty traumatic or not nice events happen to them. Betty and Veronica both get disowned by their parents, Betty is even hit by Alice whilst Veronica is again manipulated by her father into covering up his conspiring with the Russians and is told her parents are divorcing. Reggie experiences a fair bit of racism throughout most of season, Archie has lost his dad in the war and is pushed around by his uncle. Cheryl is also treated awfully by her parents when they realise she is a lesbian. Jughead’s mentor is murdered. Whilst it certainly isn’t on the same playing field as what you mentioned they gave to the black characters of the show, the rest of them aren’t all sunshine and rainbows. Not as dark as the original timeline characters, but it’s there. Plus, Roberto (who’s surprised) didn’t even commit to consistently portraying the civil rights movement throughout the seasons to even do it justice. He did the same thing with the threat of Communism and Stalin… made it a bit threat one episode then lit it simmer unimportantly in the background 😐 So once he’s ticked his box and covered it, Toni didn’t really get much more of a storyline after that. It was just about finding her feet with Cheryl. And Tabitha barely even appeared in the whole season. Clay, equally, his storyline was surrounding being Kevin’s boyfriend and working for Veronica in the movie theatre 😭 he spent too much time on the wrong things to actually give the black characters proper fleshed out storylines and backgrounds. Granted they aren’t the core 4, but with it being the last season he could’ve given them the send off they deserved.
Love how they're doing the high school plot even though all of the actors are very visibly the wrong side of 30.
Archie, Betty, Cheryl, and Veronica are younger than 30
@@DavidKen878 Riverdale is so bad that make the actors look older than they are
@@lucassun9369 Or they just look that way on their own and the show has nothing to do with it.
@@DavidKen878 25, 26, 28 and 28 to be exact. Cole is 30, Vanessa is 31 and Casey (Kevin) is 30. KJ would have been 19 when the pilot aired, and 18 when the it was filmed, so everyone in the cast was legal and thus fewer restrictions on the risqué material. Ashleigh, who plays Josie, is ten years older than KJ, and their characters were briefly in a relationship early on. To make the Fake Grundy storyline even creepier, KJ was eighteen when he filmed intimate scenes with an actress who was mid-30’s in age. Even knowing the show would have had an intimacy coach doesn’t make it better.
I suppose one positive about the 50’s setting is that the show has to be more conservative with the fanservice to be more accurate to the period.
@@jbcatz5 Okay. What does any of that have to do with the original comment?
Once the stars are released from their contracts, hopefully they'll go onto bigger and better things. They're all really talented, not that you'd ever realise it based on this show alone.
👍👍. They definitely deserve better than this
The actress playing Jughead’s sister deserves better
@@chasehedges6775 The actress who played his sister hasn't been on this show for years.
I think Camilla And Cole are both capable of turning in good performances from this show alone.
@@DavidKen878 Good for her but she was introduced in the third season
Big props to whoever was involved in that character select animation. That was great!
Still can’t believe Riverdale went from a murder mystery to a show with superpowers and time travel 😂😂
Yeah it was good until it was murder mystery show only 😢
d-d-did...oh dear you must have not know then huh????
i think you need to looks in the archie comics before saying shit like this cause ohhh boy
@@maymay5600facts though,I really missed reading Archie comics 😂
@@adoroselatte i remember i borrowed an archie comic from a friend in prep school and forgot to give it back T_T
@@maymay5600 whoops 💀🗿
It’s actually so disgusting to me that they thought they could deal with Emmet Till it feels so inappropriate 😭✋🏾
I haven’t seen Riverdale and you are spot on about that scene. I was literally saying “what? WHAT? WHAT???”
I imagine this in Mrs Broflovski’s voice
I haven't watched a single episode of Riverdale but I love Alex explaining this bizarre, weird show
The only thing I'll miss about Riverdale is Alex gleefully making fun of it. I love his videos more than the actual show.
Yep. Watching people tear the show apart is more entertaining than watching it.
Admitting you love the show to any extent is pretty bold
Same! lol
I am sure that when Jughead was doing a summary of everything that happened he was trying so hard not to bang his head on the table in front of him
The whole dark room toni dance sequence was SO uncomfortable along with Betty's dream like i don't need to see every single character kissing every other character for no reason 💀
Riverdale is a stain on your soul that you'll never shake Alex. Never.
How did you get those emojis? Is there an for it?
@@RandomSwiftie13 exactly I wanna know as well
@@RandomSwiftie13 its probably paid service or something
Veronica's wig is a crime to fringe history
As a My Babysitter's A Vampire fan, Vanessa Morgan saying "Immortal Aphrodite" instantly made me think of Sarah
That was Sarah? How far she’s fallen
@@romeofernandez8608 In one MBAV episode, Ethan and Benny cross-dress. Benny says his name is "Betty" and Ethan says his name is "Veronica". Career foreshadowing?
@@enbeast8350 wait that’s her?!😮
I thought one of the girls looked familiar 🤔
@@romeofernandez8608 Considering Riverdale is getting an actual series finale and MBAV didn't (and it ticks any MBAV fan off to no end), I'd say she actually improved. It sucks that, until she drew attention to it, that she was the lowest-paid regular because she's black. But since she made that stir, I'd assume, she's doing better than ever financially. I do wish she was able to get better roles aside from B-rated TV shows
Its so weird how when I was in school, everyone just kept talking about Riverdale and how much they loved it, and then suddenly it just went quiet. Not a single word was said about Riverdale again after season 2 or season 1.
The scene from Glass Onion where Kate Hudson exclaimed:"it's so stupid it's genius!" & Daniel Craig yelled:"no! It's just stupid!" came to my mind during this video. 😵
Also a show having an end of season cliffhanger/tease that got lazily resolved at next season's premiere is nothing new.
Let's just thank Alex for going through every season of Riverdale for us. He made it to the end for us:)
This show is very impressive… how even the actors can’t explain the show is an art form.
the most interesting thing about this season to me is how unironically great KJ Apa is at playing a 50s character. like everyone else is pretty hit or miss but somehow he is perfectly matching the inflections and absolute dumbassery of those characters
The actors in the show do miracles considering the material they are given.
@@theunbearablejuan This is gonna sound weird but I've often been very impressed with the acting on Riverdale, actually. The material is silly, but the actors really do give it all they've got. I continue to be especially impressed with how Betty's actress can just apparently cry on command and make it look like her heart is literally breaking apart over whatever dumb thing they're making the character cry over. That's gotta be so hard on such a silly show.
@@Tuilelen Facts! It is genuinely impressive how these guys can go all in on such crazy writing 😂
Apa generally does better as Archie when he can lean into the hamminess and awkwardness of the character and plot, instead of being the super serious Adonis god, the show really wanted him to be.
You’re the character pal. Cats back then were normal, dig? If I catch a square like you causing static at the sock hop, you better split.
Giving Cheryl's room THREE Shego posters is the funniest thing you have ever done on this channel! I fully had to pause until I stopped laughing. Loving Shego is definitely a wlw thing!! :D
the seven seasons of Riverdale seems like a cosmic horror entity, I'm glad I can experience the show through your channel because I doubt I would survive watching it myself.
Alex, I dropped this show many many years ago but I always looks forward to you filling me in. Thank you sir.
Thank you Alex for sacrificing your sanity for us. Also this cast is now really too old to be high schoolers. Archie looks like he has a kid that goes to highschool.
riverdale has to be a social experiment. no way someone wrote a script/storyline like that and thought "wow, this is amazing!"
how the hell did they fuck up this badly💀riverdale lost its spark years ago. i can't believe this show went from a teen drama to a murder mystery to a cult story to a musical to witchcraft to time travel
For me that's why it's such a good show. It's just pure fun imo
12:26 NOT THE SHEGO POSTERS 💀 as a queer woman, I relate
How this show went 7 seasons is crazy
The irony of you saying that while watching someone else talk about.
No, this is too easy. I feel like they’re going to make an extra two seasons just to spite him. 😂😂
Yeah I don't trust them but I think this is the end
I just hope the child actress playing Jughead’s sister goes on to have better roles
11:39 I can’t watch this anymore 💀
Me too 😭
I've only ever read the old Riverdale comics.... This is so bizarre
Your 16 bit Riverdale video game character selector is ON POINT.
I miss season one of Riverdale when the show still had shitty writing but it at least made sense
Are you saying that time travel due to a comet is doesn't make sense? How dare you😂
I agree. A simple “Who Done It?” murder mystery was probably the only decent plot in the entire series. It just spiraled into chaos as things kept going.
U mean archie sings Play Football and fucks everyone while the others solves the mistery
How did it go from "Who killed Cheryl's brother" to being about nothing with random things happening for no reason and making no sense?
I don't know If I'm the only one who's watched riverdale exclusively through reviews 😂
No you are not
I have been reading Archie comics for like 35 years and I have loved the new edgier versions of it like Afterlife with Archie, the Mark Wade Archie-verse and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. I was really excited for Riverdale. Just like when I found out, as a child, that there was an Archie cartoon! Pure joy! But my god. I watched the first season of Riverdale and could not get passed the 1st episode of Season 2. Watching these re-caps is my only exposure now and I am shocked every time at the choices made. They managed to take a comic empire that is literally all over the place and take it to 11 in the weirdest ways.
Thank you for sharing Riverdale's very insightful and tasteful interpretation of Emmett Till. It did not at all make me want to gouge my eyes out and destroy my eardrums when they even sort of mentioned it.
Hahaha I cant😂😂😂, that animation at 11:51 is amazing
I'm sorry, last time I was here Veronica's dad was a mafia boss and there was a board game that made you see goats. Now I'm hearing about *looks at notes on hand* meteors and time travel? Sure is... an idea, I guess.
Alex, you did it! You made it to the end!
Veronica looks like a cougar mom, Archie looks like a post-steroids jock, and Jughead looks like a "Back to the Future" reprisal. Took one for the team, Alex! You may rest now 🎉❤!
This channel is the only thing keeping Riverdale alive
As a black person, the "head in hands" feeling that I got when the show mentioned Emmett Till is almost indescribable
What. Please. Never. Why. No. Stop.
As a POC, the amount of involuntary shrieks that left my body when that was mentioned…Yes, they should’ve addressed that being zapped back to the 1950s was gonna be genuinely dangerous for the Black characters (however sparse and terribly written they were) but SPRINKLING IN BLACK TRAUMA JUST FOR THE SAKE OF IT IS NOT HOW YOU DO IT, YOU ASSHOLES.
Wait so they really did go out of their way to mention a real event?😬😅 uh oh
@@gracekim1998 you should definitely learn about Emmett Till. You'll understand why this was unbelievably out of their reach for representing him respectfully. It's like last season when the "stop MLK from being assassinated" plot. Completely unnecessary and disrespectful
@@gracekim1998 They didn't teach you that in school?
@@lisah8438No. Don't know why
Sometimes I get that urge to watch riverdale from the beginning but then I see scenes like at 4:45 then remember tht I’m good…
I remember watching the first season and thinking Riverdale could be my new favorite show a few years ago... How did "Lets solve this murder" turn into "serial killer, magic, time travel, ANGELS"?
The relief in Alex’s voice when he said “no more Riverdale” is palpable. I’m sure the actors are thinking the same thing. 🤣
Still can’t believe this show went from finding out who killed riverdal’s golden boy to people having powers in the 1900s 😂🤣
Riverdale is like a bunch of fever dreams.
The Star Wars Sequel Trilogy in nutshell
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There's something very funny about woke fever dreams.
I like fever dreams and I'm sad to be woken up soon
Same they're so chaotic they're good
Alex meters is so relieved hes just like ''no more riverdale lets go"
Btw love ur vids and nobody can spoil this at the time I'm wacthing
This is the first time im watching riverdale so im so fucking confused wtf
I can't believe that the show survived that long with its awful storylines and dialogue.
The first episode of riverdale s new season was weirdly good. Obviously Veronica was over the top but she’s calmed down since then
I also really liked how they handled some very sensitive issues
I’m just glad she doesn’t say “daddy” every 5 seconds
@theoldestdaughter
“Daddykins”. That’s straight from the comics.
I don’t like that they randomly added an Emmet Till storyline, it’s extremely insensitive
@@zandikhetwayo7444 THIS
7:24 when Alex talks about Archie face has me dying😭😭😭😭
Hey, here's something to cover my "not buying Surfshark or downloading whatever that other game is". I already have a VPN and mobile games... oof, no thanks. You're an awesome creator and I hope the video take-down stuff works out in your favor.
I'm still so very confused how this exists considering the original comic...
This show has gotta be the world's greatest con ever. The writers must have thought hey let's see if a network would pay us for making the most illogical show ever. Riverdale don't try to be a social commentary show
As someone who has never seen the show or even knew the premise, this was insane to watch!
Dont watch it. If you do just watch 1-5 season
“Take someone who’s never seen Riverdale and show them this scene”
That someone would be I… WHAT.
2:09 as someone who knew basically nothing about riverdale and thought it was just a normal Archie adaptation that made me fall off my chair
If Jughead wanted to show his friends that he knows about the future, why didn't he just tell Kevin and Cheryl secretly about how he knows where their attraction lies. He had sex with Betty, he would at least remember some kind of birthmark or scar.
cant believe we're at the end ... its been a journey
Oh don't worry Alex. When Riverdale ends, you can't start doing Supernatural. 15 seasons of pure fun 💜
Then The Winchesters.
5 seasons of fun. Then 10 seasons of “I’m attached to this and there’s a good episode here and there but boy is this a poorly written slog”. And then you finish it and you never watch it again.
@@starcrysis23idk I kinda love seasons 6-15 more as it takes itself less seriously
First season was actually so good😂 remember watching it when it came out. Now it’s crazy how the actors haven’t left
14:18 "We did not raise you this way, Ethel!"
"Do you have any idea what it's like to be a teenage girl and look like this?"
Oops, sorry, wrong Shannon Purser movie.
I can’t believe that your sacrifice comes to an end, thank you Alex ❤️
2:04
What ever happened to this show being about murder mysteries and them drinking milkshakes all the time?
This show is a freaking rollercoaster
Now this show it's kind like a combination of Wandavision,multiverse of madness, supernatural and charmed
I love the fact that you made Cheryl have Shego posters in her room😂
I finished the very first season of Riverdale... now seeing all this has left me absolutely gobsmacked.
bro wtf. i only watched upto season 3. this went from 1 to 1000000 in just 3 seasons?
I stopped watching the show years ago, and not only jump the shark. The shark went to space . Still enjoy watching Alex’s video so so going to miss them
mann im happy and sad that riverdale is ending.. :(
The series is one of the worst things I have ever seen
Be happy it’s over.
The only thing good from this series was Alex’s videos on them.
Why? You act like you were forced to watch it.
Ikr I'm going too miss laughing and cringing at this show
The end of a Legendary Alex Meyers Era is over…
The character select screen gets me every time, its amazing!
These drawings are so cute! ♥️😊
Alex, you should check out Wolf Pack next. The actress who played Buffy is in it, and people are barely talking about it.
That means it probably sucks 😬
@@4everbuffylover That makes it an ever better video suggestion lmao
"And then we read the Bible and sing hymns to Jesus. Isn't that right Jebadiah?" - 😂😂😂😂😂 this is too good
I have no idea whats happening in Riverdale 90% of the time but I always watch these videos for entertainment.
The part at 3:30 about the dream made me lose it. I can't stop laughing! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Might find zome spelling errors because of the tears.
THE SCENE AT 3:40, KILLED ME 🤣😂😂😂😂
😂😂 same