Riverdale 204
This episode was pretty decent, I just hate that it takes me so long to watch it because by the time I get to the episode, I've been pretty much spoiled for the whole thing. Despite being spoiled, I really enjoyed the episode. I am a sucker for angst and they really seem to be setting the scene for a combustable scene between Betty and Jugehad.
Things that I liked:
- SweatPea. The name says it all. It's like he is trying to be hard cause of circumstances, but he really isn't a thug by nature.
- The north vs southside drama. It's so much better than Cherly being a petty bitch
- Jughead being a true crime junkie. I had a friend who would eat up those books on serial killers.
- Betty manipulating her mother with the use of badly applied black eyeliner
- Jughead sleuthing with both Betty and Toni.
- Fred being Fred
- Hiriam cackling at how easily he manipulated Archie
- the continued lack of the pussycat dolls. I feel like they are just the token black girls on the show that they don't need now cause they have Toni. It's really annoying and more than a little irritating. The show can have more than one POC representing per episode.
- Toni being randomly bitchy to Betty. I was fine with her sleuthing with Jughead and trying to be an ally. But I really think that she is judging Betty based on her mothers pieces in the register. I do feel like she has a point about how the southside is blamed for everything bad in riverdale, but the way she takes it out on betty was disconcerting.
- Betty suddenly thinking like her mom just so they can create drama between jughead and betty
- Um why isn't jughead being allowed a voice in the events in his life? He is not exactly a shrinking violet.
- ARchie! He is just an entitled dumb ass
- Veronica existing soley for Archie. I feel like her struggles are no longer about her. It's great that she loves Archie and is being a good girlfriend, but what other stories does she have and can she have more scenes with Betty for Godsakes