#Riverdale season two

[futureempressoftheuniverse]

i'm on season 2 of riverdale and i'm at the part where they shut down southside high and the serpents are told they aren't allowed to wear their jackets in school anymore after the fake graffitti and honestly *that's* the most unrealistic us public high school behavior in the show so far. anyone who's perused any public school's dress code knows that any gang markings/jackets/colors are always explicitly banned; they would have been dress-coding them the minute they walked through those doors lol

[cherryblossomsredrum]

rewatching season two rn and DAMN we need to talk about this outfit more

[fashion4standusers]

Anyway, if I had a nickel for every time a series had six installments that gradually escalated in ridiculousness, only for the sixth installment to end with a universe reboot and the seventh installment to pick up in a new universe where alternate versions of the original characters now exist in the distant past, I'd have two nickels.

One of those series is JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. The other is Riverdale

[arsenicpanda]

the #1 archiereggie shipper, but in a homophobic way

[gottagobackintime]

Another queer show cancelled…

[autumnrory]

imagine how good it would’ve been if riverdale had played around with different relationships for the first six seasons and not just the very last one

[redsodaz]

doom patrol really said 2023 is the year of the gays and so far they are NOT disappointing

[lesbojughead]

people died

[bettyminicoop]

I really don't have any expectations for this season.

But it pisses me off to no end that they go out of their way to pretend that Bughead never existed and that we made them up.

[grusinskayas]

started watching twin peaks and just now realized that's what riverdale was trying so hard to be. it was trying to be twin peaks. feel like my brain has just expanded with this new information i acquired

[goingiincircles]

DAMN NO JASON RIP MAN U STARTED RIVERDALE

[carnivalls]

so, in honor of riverdale finally ending (and both their and our worlds never quite being the same), me and a friend decided to continue the work set out for us by this quiz with one of our own. pure season 7 edition. so without further ado: test your knowledge with our very own fever dream riverdale s7 two truths and a lie. enjoy 👍

[arsenicpanda]

So interesting how every girl in 50s Riverdale can be desirable except Ethel. Gee, I sure do wonder what's different about her

[thatiranianphantom]

Okay, let’s say some things about promo!

*disclaimer, not an expert, not in the industry, could be wrong, etc.

Okay so let’s start with a few things:

~ RD has a significantly declining viewership, such that they are likely costing more money than they make

~ they eked out a last season for reasons that probably had a lot to do with latent profit and syndication as well as the huge cost of mounting a new show and already established contracts

~ the promos are consistently bad and have been for years, and rarely reflect the actual content of the show

Now. Considering this show hasn’t been afforded any extras for the last few years, up to and including a photoshoot for their last season, which indicates to me that the network does not want to spend more on this dead horse than they absolutely have to, I am going under what a think is a pretty safe assumption that the promo cut is outsourced. They don’t do it in house, it is likely farmed out to the cheapest place to do it. Which costs less, but it means it’s done by people with no knowledge of or connection to the show. That’s significant, because they likely have no idea what is going to turn the viewers away. It explains why the formula of how to promo well sounds simple but they keep whiffing it.

Promo’s job isn’t to reflect the show accurately, especially not on the CW. Promo’s job is to show enough action to pique your interest. The people cutting the promo very likely flip through the episode and look for any particularly salacious moments. A shot of the Cooper house just isn’t going to get people talking. They’re not looking for that. They’re looking for shots they can manipulate or cut in such a way that it looks exciting. That, to me, really explains the JT of the promo. Someone with zero RD knowledge cutting an episode that is likely almost entirely worldbuilding and exposition with whatever shots they can find or manipulate that look exciting.

Putting completely aside the fact that it looks quite dreamlike, putting aside the fact that Erinn has rarely been seen on set, let’s remember that promo is designed to manipulate. So whatever this promo or the full one shows, can we at least accept that we have a long and storied history of promos looking inflammatory and turning out to be nothing? And that goes for all shows. Just ask the EO shippers.

[daisythornes]

momentarily breaking my hiatus JUST to ask if archie and jughead ever kissed now that riverdale is over

[normiewizard]

cult season magic season serial killer genes i thought this show was about highschoolers WHATEVER. in season 4 jughead goes to prep school and dies