"One does not just watch Riverdale. One needs to be in the zone."

@friendlyspaceninja

8 ай бұрын

Put it on my gravestone

@thatbee3585

8 ай бұрын

Agree. The first season was my favorite. It went downhill fast after that . My option only .

@fajararsy_saiga9567

8 ай бұрын

Also the reacting thing, somewhat refered to a fanfic of watching things. And it feels weird in the live action idea.

@notnat4435

8 ай бұрын

amen

@dontrelate465

8 ай бұрын

We live in a simulation

Don't cry because it happened. Smile because it's over.

@anacosta7782

8 ай бұрын

Im fucking lmao I just cant believe this really exist, like what the heck?????

@mojovr5003

8 ай бұрын

Underrated comment

@davineuskens21

8 ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@gildanonofyabiznez6430

8 ай бұрын

Lmfao

@fredh33

8 ай бұрын

But that’s the issue let say I do cry about it, why the f*ck end inn the 60s

I am very, VERY disappointed that the show didn't end with a 2D animated Jughead telling the story to his classmates with all of them baffled by what the hell they just witnessed.

@lina.998

8 ай бұрын

honestly, when he mentioned multiverse, I expected a twist to show us animated Archie Comics

@mpazinambao2938

8 ай бұрын

​@@lina.998 that would have been dope actually.

@Butterfly-ql4pg

8 ай бұрын

Honestly would've been a lot better than the ending we actually got 😂

@idongesitusen5764

8 ай бұрын

That would have been unique

@jamangel

8 ай бұрын

Lmfao

Riverdale managing to nuke not only its own universe/continuity but also that of like 10 separate shows is the most Riverdale thing ever and ngl I kind of admire it

@Dave102693

8 ай бұрын

And I hate it smh

@caseycampbell4787

6 ай бұрын

10 different shows???

@valhatan3907

5 ай бұрын

Sabrina, some other CW's shows and Riverdale are canonically in the same universe. If Tabitha merged all the universes into one, then ...

@compassrose1466

4 ай бұрын

@@valhatan3907bruh sounds like cross over excuses 😢

@ricniks4619

3 ай бұрын

Ikr like I thought they did that so they could have some characters from other shows crossover into the final season for some fan service. But no they just did it for no reason but to just throw the characters into a newish setting and not have to worry about the story of the last 6 seasons haunting them.

30:16 I was sure you were going to say "It turns out that Archie, Betty, Veronica and Jughead all merged into one single entity".

@Sfeksophobia

8 ай бұрын

SAME and I was totally ready to accept it

@bebebongBaebae

8 ай бұрын

Me too but it turned out to be more insane than that

@island_girl_shan2011

7 ай бұрын

Me too 😅

@ricniks4619

3 ай бұрын

Honestly I think that would be better than what we ended up getting 😂

@mujiescomedy279

Ай бұрын

I saw your comment beforehand and still thought he would say that

The Veronica Betty Jugheaf Archie foursome is one of the most insane things I’ve ever seen in a show. They really went on Wattpad for their ideas huh

@sophieamandaleitontoomey9343

8 ай бұрын

Roberto is so fucking weird.

@ttm9227

8 ай бұрын

I mean actually to be fair it’s probably the closest the show ever gets to the actual riverdale comics tho so in a weird way it’s fitting

@jtgd

8 ай бұрын

Lmfao

@mariannnnnnna

8 ай бұрын

It's insane yeah - and I hate to use this word - but it's also kinda based tbh. If I knew RAS wasn't such a bad writer and Riverdale wasn't a mess, he would've been a genius for it (like someone said, it fits the comics)

@trinaq

8 ай бұрын

Agreed, I wouldn't be surprised if that was true! 😂

I *love* how Roberto was so passionate about bringing LGBT+ representation into Riverdale, and yet completely erased Jughead's canon asexuality. Almost like he didn't actually care and just wanted to sexualize a bunch of teenaged characters.

@maevem316

8 ай бұрын

Yeah, the Jughead thing is why I could never just watch Riverdale to have fun with how bad it was even as many of my friends did, lol. As an aroace person who was a huge fan of archie comics (and specifically jughead) it was just too frustrating

@kyledawson871

8 ай бұрын

​@@maevem316It's crazy because in the beginning of the season when Jughead lost his memories, it felt like he was finally being portrayed as asexual. I remember when Veronica was hosting the makeout party, he looked visibly disinterested. He was obsessed with comics, food, and being a writer. I remember the scene where he took her to the movie theater and ordered enough snacks for a group of people and asked Veronica is she wanted any. I hate how asexual people are left out of the queer community! Side note: I actually wouldn't have minded if Jughead and Ethel ended up in an asexual relationship. They had good character interaction this season.

@kor6999

8 ай бұрын

@@onceyouseeityoucantunseeit1126 I think a lot of writers when it comes to representation, only write what they find hot consciously or not. It's a limitation when it leads to certain groups of people being excluded.

@kyledawson871

8 ай бұрын

@@onceyouseeityoucantunseeit1126 I agree

@kyledawson871

8 ай бұрын

@@kor6999 I agree

When you mentioned Lili carrying the finale, I realized I have an intense desire for her to have a long and fruitful career now that she’s free of the monster

@alightthatnevergoesout

8 ай бұрын

Chemical Hearts, a movie she made in 2020, honestly might be worse than riverdale

@otttimon5654

7 ай бұрын

@@alightthatnevergoesoutWas the movie bad cause of her or cause the script was bad? Cause the first has implications for her talent as an actor and the second is just the same thing she did in Ricerdale, acting with a bad script, and she has proven to be good in those situations.

@ayah2114

7 ай бұрын

@@alightthatnevergoesouthave u seen the movie she was in recently she was like pregnant in it or something i was wondering if it was worth the watch

@alightthatnevergoesout

6 ай бұрын

@@otttimon5654 Fair question, the script was awful. I was more-so just saying that her career outside of Riverdale isn’t off to a great start. Not having a crack at her acting.

@ricniks4619

3 ай бұрын

@@alightthatnevergoesoutYeah unless she is in something that’s special she is basically fucked because all it takes actors being in something terrible and people won’t treat them like they have real talent.

The foursome is so funny not only as a bold choice to just _not making anyone choose_ but also by the fact that they made a point of not having jughead and archie being intimate. Like, the effort to not let cole sprouse be queer on screen after just erasing jughead's asexuality

@DustyStarrs

8 ай бұрын

yuppppp

@vitra_

8 ай бұрын

the way it’s also hinting on the sexualization of lesbians… and we know Roberto.. is creepy…. 🧍

@akashajones6079

8 ай бұрын

Gay or bi, queer isn’t a thing.

@justequelquun9620

8 ай бұрын

@@akashajones6079Queer is very much a thing

@micolea1569

8 ай бұрын

@@akashajones6079queer is an umbrella term that has been used for years to refer to people under the lgbtq+ spectrum. hope this helps!

The first season wasn't perfect, but it had so much potential. I firmly believe the show would've been better if they just stuck to the premise of "aesthetic small town who done it murder mystery but teenagers are the detectives."

@Maialeen

8 ай бұрын

I thought season one was fantastic. The show was aesthetically just beautiful, the mystery was intriguing, the feeling of being suspended in time in that town where everything is both old and new just added to the eerie, dreamy feeling. That season can be watched on its own and if you pretend it ended there, it's enjoyable. I don't know what drugs people responsible for the show started taking but I've never seen anyone drop the ball like that. The devolution of this show is one of the most bizarre things that's happened with any tv show on television. Even weirder than Family Matters morphing from a family sitcom to a zombified Steve Urkel hellscape.

@jadenbryant9283

8 ай бұрын

​@@Maialeenagree although tbf there is scooby doo

@cgm530

8 ай бұрын

That's the exact premise of about a hundred other shows, though. And Riverdale S1 was a mediocre example of it. At least they did something original by leaning into the crazy.

@mxngos7493

8 ай бұрын

@@cgm530 Idk, I feel like the 50s diner but modern and dark was pretty original for a teen drama on the CW xd

@xbluebirdx

8 ай бұрын

​@@MaialeenYou described the feeling I used to get from season 1 of Riverdale perfectly. There was just this vibe that kept you on the edge of your seat. Even the eerie music of the title screen matched up to it all.

“Season 6 ends with Cheryl saving Riverdale from a magical comet.” Like, I KNOW that Riverdale’s storylines have been absolute insanity for years now, but I still can not wrap my mind around the fact that this is the same show that started out as this silly little murder mystery 😭😂

@JamesLawner

8 ай бұрын

Not to mention that angels and the Devil are involved with the show! 🤣

@ubermaster1

8 ай бұрын

Best part, she apparently got the power to stop the magic comet, by absorbing the powers of the main cast, cause yes for that season, the entire main cast had powers, they gave it to Cheryl to save the world

@RAINBOWNIGTHMAREPRODUCTIONS

8 ай бұрын

She saved the comet...But i guess not really.

@KatieLHall-fy1hw

8 ай бұрын

It should have been an anthology. This last season was they trying it. And I think that would have worked way better 😆

@katm8128

8 ай бұрын

Riverdale tried so hard to be twin peaks but failed to see what made twin peaks, twin peaks

We gotta appreciate these actors who did such a professional job of keeping a straight face and staying in character throughout most of the series even when the show was completely bonkers x) We could see by the end of season 6 that they were so tired of it, but in s7 it's like the light came back in their eyes, they knew the end was coming and they were so happy to be free at last!

@ville__

8 ай бұрын

I'm better than Friendly Space Ninja, my content is better !

After living 80+ years, why would meeting up with people you really only hung out with in high school be what you want to do after your death? It would be one thing if the story had them continuing their close friendship post school, but its weird if they all split after graduation. What does that say about the quality of relationships they had as adults? Especially since the reboot season meant they didnt have the bonds from living through all the wild stuff in the first 6 seasons.

@smaay

8 ай бұрын

Yeah and Archie and Betty had families too. Wouldn't Archie prefer to spend the afterlife with his wife and kids? Or Betty with his daughter and granddaughter? What about Toni and Cheryl? They're together but wouldn't they feel their son is missing? After all, they lived more years as his mothers than together without him. I'll be damned if when dying of old age, after living a long and fulfilling life full of wonderful people, friends, lovers, a husband and kids, I end up in the afterlife as a teenager joined exclusively by all my high school friends lmao.

@hollymelon7527

8 ай бұрын

for real though, and itäs also strange they never kept in touch even though they all went into arts and publishing and became super successful. You're telling me they never crossed paths? Isn't networking like the main thing in such industries? lol

@lub8657

8 ай бұрын

@@smaaydoes the show specifically mention you can only spend your afterlife in one place? because they could’ve been with all of them

@deeznutsinyamomma

7 ай бұрын

Kinda zoned out after season 4

@miladeg4161

7 ай бұрын

I mean, they did remember the first 6 seasons, kind of... I'm wondering what exactly they actually remember, because "good stuff" can be a lot of things... sure, having fun is good, but so is being supported by your friends when you're sad... anyhow, yeah their adult relationships must've sucked apparently😬

FriendlyspaceNinja and Alex Myers, the unsung heroes of the Riverdale reviews. We thank you for your service

@timgreten67

8 ай бұрын

Already planning on watching the Alex Myers version after this

@Jenninka

8 ай бұрын

I knew I was in for a good time when I saw Alex dropped a 26 minute video

@noctap0d

8 ай бұрын

🫡

@technicolordreamer

8 ай бұрын

Just came here after watching Alex's last Riverdale video. We'll always have Abs: The Musical.

@abiade9614

8 ай бұрын

Real o7

honestly, the whole concept of the final season is EXACTLY what I always wanted as a kid growing up obsessed with archie comics. Just a funny sitcom type show about fashionable teenagers in the 50s going to the beach and the diner and school dances. It's disappointing and feels like a waste that they didn't just do that from the start, it would have been so much better imo

@noodlebanana7512

8 ай бұрын

YES! I was always so happy with the casting too in terms of appearances and so let down.

@Faeriebunnie

8 ай бұрын

@@noodlebanana7512 yes the casting was so great! Its really a shame it turned out the way it did

@jjhh320

6 ай бұрын

A true slice of life series lol

@nikeolas

5 ай бұрын

That's me with the Winx live action. I wanted a colorful, girly, glittery fairy world with pretty and fashionable teenage girls saving the world, like the cartoon. And all we got was 2 seasons of, whatever grunge-y mess Netflix decided to put out.

@Faeriebunnie

5 ай бұрын

@@nikeolas I was just thinking about that the other day because that show was also so disappointing!! where is the glittery fairy adventure why is it so angsty and dull 😭

50s Archie was so much fun and I feel sad for Apa to have waiting so long for this. He nailed it! (and dear god they did not let Archie nail his teacher this season)

@nathanielcharlesdorvil9615

8 ай бұрын

Yes I thought when miss Grundy came back they were gonna hook up😅

@Takaichi666-

7 ай бұрын

Definitely, don’t get me wrong I do like the serious Archie but it was great to see him be goof around and have fun

@woahitsfranco5286

5 ай бұрын

i was so happy they dropped that plot point i was so scared they were gonna bring it back

@ludoviclee1810

2 ай бұрын

23:16 😊😊

The fact that Roberto ended his chaotic show with the four leads in a secret quad relationship is peak fanfiction and the ending this show deserves Though it was awesome for the cast to be employed for seven years, I’m excited to see what they’ll all do outside of this world Goodbye Riverdale, you truly embodied the epics highs and lows of prime time teen television

@trinaq

8 ай бұрын

Agreed, there will never be another show quite like it, both for better and worse.

@nickkenneyjpg

8 ай бұрын

ill stand by season 1 being a high in the series but the rest of the show is just a low to me lmao

@adamjohnson3419

8 ай бұрын

I saw a thing about that on Twitter. I thought it was a joke. But apparently not.

@Kerosiin

8 ай бұрын

Camila Mendes is really good in Do Revenge imo, though she is literally just playing almost the exact same character she was for 6 years at that point.

@sophieamandaleitontoomey9343

8 ай бұрын

That’s the most Roberto thing on a tv show that I’ve ever seen.

What would have been cool for Riverdale was each season should have been a different year (1950s, 2017 ect.) with different love interests, storylines, murder who-dun-it, villians, and character arcs. And then MAYBE something besides MAGIC could have tied the whole show together. 😊

@msf2399

8 ай бұрын

So go full anthology series, basically? …Yeah, I could see that. It would even fit in with the comic book origins of the material.

@andrecarpenter2432

8 ай бұрын

Anthologies shows are pretty hard to be good

@mariannnnnnna

8 ай бұрын

​@@andrecarpenter2432if it's entertaining enough (which Riverdale was at times) then it's fine and could've worked out I guess. It'd def be a hit or miss season kind of show but the plotlines would've way less convoluted even if they still were batshit crazy (like AHS)

@michonnewalker4246

8 ай бұрын

Like Wandavision

@sophiagomez1892

8 ай бұрын

So basically like American Horror Story but the characters are the same? That’s cool ig

I think the cast of Riverdale deserves some special award for delivering their lines and acting with a straight face

I've seen the show on and off over the years, and I never fully understood why KJ Apa had gotten the lead role until I saw clips from the last season. He's much more endearing as the final season's version of Archie, and it showcases his charisma as an actor in a way it just never did with the more "serious" versions of Archie. It's unfortunate that it took this long for the show to give him the opportunity to do that.

@alightthatnevergoesout

8 ай бұрын

he’s gonna make a killing off “wholesome” roles for the rest off his career, he’s perfect for them

@ville__

8 ай бұрын

I'm better than Friendly Space Ninja, my content is better !

@kingtufu1

6 ай бұрын

“What the FRICK uncle frank!”

Cole sprouse being basically the only actor you didn't mention about being excited to see in future was honestly a highlight lmao

@smaay

8 ай бұрын

I noticed that too and it filled me with joy lmfao.

@andreeab2948

8 ай бұрын

Why? Its something wrong with cole? Just curios

@kezia8027

8 ай бұрын

@@andreeab2948 he's kinda just a nothing actor? Like I don't think he's a BAD actor necessarily but god he thinks far too highly of himself for the mediocrity that he provides.

@noodlebanana7512

8 ай бұрын

@@andreeab2948he does have allegations of some abuse.

@AStoryteller-for-fun

8 ай бұрын

@@noodlebanana7512 Nothing new

Honestly my favourite thing about this finale was after all that teasing, two different ships, and a poly relationship, the woman Archie ends up with doesn't even get named in the episode. He just met some girl in Calafornia he settled down with, and we never even learn her name.

@CuteKiller313

8 ай бұрын

reminds me of Sookie's ending in True Blood which felt almost specifically designed to troll shippers

@billmcdermott9647

8 ай бұрын

So he doesn’t stay with his two girlfriends and boyfriend…he eventually settles down?

@sunny-zh1wr

8 ай бұрын

its giving sam winchester lmao

@Maialeen

8 ай бұрын

Calafornia garls thay're andanaible. Faine frash fairce, thay gat at an lack.

@picturethis4903

8 ай бұрын

poly means polynesian lol

Cheryl staying my cringe queen from the first to last episode, we love consistency

This feels like a non ending almost like a shrug like your dad telling you a story as a kid and they don't know how to end it and just shrugs going "I don't know they all go their seperate ways"

@stephennootens916

8 ай бұрын

I thought it was more the end of Stand By Me by way of a messed up Twilight Zone episode.

Archie Jughead Betty and Veronica being in a 4 way was the most Riverdale thing they could come up with. I'll guess I'll give them props for that.

@TheArtGremlin

8 ай бұрын

I THOUGHT THAT WAS ONLY A JOKE ON TIK TOK THATS REAL????

Thank you Roberto for inspiring and teaching a generation of future writers to know that no matter how much self doubt they feel, no matter how bad their work might be, no matter how many edits they have to go through, to be rest assured that it could be worse. At least they had nothing to do with the writing on Riverdale.

@tryingmybardest

8 ай бұрын

Honestly whenever I feel bad about my own writing, I remember shows like this exist (for so damn long), and then I am reminded that it could infact be so much worse :) At least what I do stays consistent and you don't have to sit here like "...Are these the same characters?? Is this the same story??" Honestly mind blowing how bad writing can be allowed in shows still. Honestly flabberghasted.

@jamangel

8 ай бұрын

Lmfao

@Shay416

8 ай бұрын

I could literally give my 10 year old crayons and he'd come up with better material.

@nacienunbarco

8 ай бұрын

NOT ONLY THAT. If this hideous thing made it and was literally watched by millions, you definitely have a chance too.

@angyvirtu3593

8 ай бұрын

Honestly, writers can learn something from Riverdale. Like what not to do when writing a show or any other medium of storytelling.

My Grandma told me one time she was browsing on tv and saw Riverdale and she wanted to "see what was up with Archie and the gang" as she put it, but I guess she ended up watching right in the middle of some serial killer sex stuff which she probably wasn't expecting at all. I just remember her being so surprised and so disappointed when she mentioned it, suddenly coming across this review reminded me of her. Wonder how she'd react to the superpowered witch MCU multiverse ending.

@cynicalperson161

7 ай бұрын

My Dad apparently loved the Archie comics growing up and I'm glad he's never seen this show.

I need everyone to know that "the characters watch their own show" is a fanfiction trope

I'm honestly not even surprised that it ended up with the four core all dating each other. It's on point for this ludicrous show. At least the cast are finally freed from the shackles of bizarre plots and mediocre writing.

@xcobmi

8 ай бұрын

Even mediocre is stretching it a bit far, don't you think?

@sophieamandaleitontoomey9343

8 ай бұрын

It’s even bigger cop out ending than the ending of Vampire Knight.

@WhySoPrettyJinsoul.

8 ай бұрын

​@@sophieamandaleitontoomey9343 NO STOPPPPPPP WHY YOU HAD TO REMIND ME OF THAT ONE 😭😭😭😭😭

Cheryl parents being satanist Soviet spies was the crazy kind of twist I expect from this show

@Sirennsz

8 ай бұрын

what? when did that happened?? ( I stopped mid-season 4)

@WaltDevil060

8 ай бұрын

At Season 7. It's random and very whatever. Just don't ask

@lounirs

8 ай бұрын

​@@WaltDevil060i thought it was made up omfg 💀💀💀💀

An underrated detail of the finale is that among Archie's accomplishments YEARS LATER was that he was an amateur writer. He was never great to begin with, but I love that everyone else gets a hyperbolic take on their season seven arcs and Archie is still just mediocre at the thing he's supposedly most passionate about.

I watched all 7 seasons, and at times it definitely got bad, but I liked the ending. The very last scene where everyone is reunited in the diner, seems so appropriate to the source material. They will spend eternity, forever 17, living their happy lives in Riverdale, just like the comics have been for the last 80+ years.

@CHiCguitar

8 ай бұрын

It's almost a ridiculous How We Got Here story. The story ends exactly where the comics are.

I'm still shocked that according to the final season, Jughead created the comic Sabrina the Teenage Witch.

@angyvirtu3593

8 ай бұрын

Which makes no sense, because Sabrina exists within the Riverdale universe as a real person.

@josuenogueras7141

8 ай бұрын

@@angyvirtu3593 it makes total sense now

@marielaberge8236

8 ай бұрын

​​@@angyvirtu3593 this season establishes that the universe she was in (the original Riverdale timeline) no longer exists

@RAINBOWNIGTHMAREPRODUCTIONS

8 ай бұрын

@@marielaberge8236 Well the show is over, so Roberto doesn't care I bet. Even though, he brought her back to life off-screen. So she's gone now. I wonder how fans of that show feel now.

@octaviablackthorn9

8 ай бұрын

@@marielaberge8236does that mean that everything that happened in Sabrina no longer exists as well? Or should be be expecting a ‘50 style reboot of TCAOS in a few years?

Archie, Betty, Jughead, and Veronica getting into a quad relationship doesn’t even surprise me. Roberto had to get one last fantasy he had in there before the show ended

Veronica’s actress was soooo funny in Do Revenge and it’s a shame that so much of her time had to be spent on riverdale LOL

It's just so clear that RAS wanted to merge Sabrina and Riverdale together years ago, and really lean into the supernatural elements early on. Make a supernatural mystery the core of each season.

@angyvirtu3593

8 ай бұрын

Sabrina was originally going be Season 2's main antagonist, believe it or not.

@TacticusPrime

8 ай бұрын

I never liked the RAS version of Sabrina, but that's at least **an** idea.

@alim.9801

8 ай бұрын

​@@angyvirtu3593 wait really, they said that??

@Dave102693

8 ай бұрын

@@angyvirtu3593I would of watched Riverdale if that was the case lol

@RAINBOWNIGTHMAREPRODUCTIONS

3 ай бұрын

@@angyvirtu3593 What was the story going to be and why was she the antagonist?

I’ve been saying this for years: I think Riverdale is a choose your own adventure story so the actors and writers never know what’s coming up. It’s based on the choices of…someone. A poll somewhere online? Rich people? The producers?

@tonym.8069

8 ай бұрын

More so a crazy fanfic writer who fell ass backwards into running this show.

@bentobias737

8 ай бұрын

A blindfolded duck.

The writers: "Can you fans forget about the weird shit?" The next episode. The writers: "Here's the weirdest shit we've got."

The 1950s not having the word for serial killer but having the concept of a "quad" made me laugh so hard.

I think the worst part of this is that the polycule just. Happened offscreen. People have been clamoring for an Archie/Veronica/Betty polycule for _ages,_ and then they just... half-ass it.

Honestly I respect the dgaf attitude towards the last season. Truly the greatest example of "how tf do you manage to crash and burn something thats already a burning wreckage"

The mental gymnastics you have to perform in order to listen and comprehend whats happening in this show is insane. And the moment Dylan started explaining the plot I couldnt stop laughing.

@samthedystopianrat1945

8 ай бұрын

having watched the ENTIRE show as it came out(entirely ironically from the get go) it was a mind blowing prison

I interpreted the ending differently! After Jughead’s speech we hear typing- I thought this was like the very first episode when he began writing the ‘Riverdale’ story- so technically nothing we saw was true, and in fact we are all still in the storyline from Season 1 with Jughead creating the storylines we see in every season

@noodlebanana7512

8 ай бұрын

Oooh I like that

@Niya.B649

7 ай бұрын

I thought it was gonna be Jughead was writing another book in the present day, not stuck in the 50s...🙃

@TheAkwarium

22 күн бұрын

you're giving the writers too much credit lol

Is it weird that I can't help but respect Riverdale for its absolute crackhead direction? There's something impressive about how a show this long-running and so big could get so far by being absolute batshit bananas.

When Riverdale uses a Multiverse in its plot, you know the trope is dead.

@mmbaszak5028

8 ай бұрын

Naaah... Spiderverse is still amazing.

@RodrickMarsMoon

8 ай бұрын

​@@mmbaszak5028And Everything Everywhere All at Once. Like, when a movie about a woman trying to connect with her daughter being thrown into a Multiverse chaos understands what makes a multiverse story great more than a movie that has Multiverse in the title (we know which one), we know the world is getting crazier 🤗😅.

@mmbaszak5028

8 ай бұрын

@@RodrickMarsMoon I forgot about it and it's one of my fav movies, I'm kinda embarrassed 🙈

I wish the whole show was 50's Archie. It was such a better idea, kinder idea, and could have had so many of the fun storylines from the comics. Riverdale of the future was strange and evil.

@lsamoa

8 ай бұрын

Strange and evil was what made it fun. Season 7 had such cookie-cutter storylines we've seen a million times before that I could barely keep myself awake watchign it.

@Ultravenom1

8 ай бұрын

@@lsamoa I read Archie comics. The comics ARE fun, without being evil or cruel. Especially the Jughead comics.

@lsamoa

8 ай бұрын

@@Ultravenom1 The comics are great but a TV series is a different best

@Bogkun

8 ай бұрын

I still remember when the show was announced as a modern dark and brooding take on Archie and I couldn’t help but laugh and say, “Nope! Hard pass!”

@lsamoa

8 ай бұрын

@@Bogkun It did work for 5-6 seasons though, on a fever dream kind of level lol

I’ll never understand why they didn’t make this show into an anthology from then beginning. The Archie catalogue is HUGE so much to work with and they chose to set it at some dudes high school for seven years. Like there’s a whole set of comics where they’re zombies! Zombies and we had to deal with love triangles and daddy issues for almost a decade. Annoying.

I'd love to see someone talk about The 100 that had an insanely bad ending. The series had a such a good start but turned to insanity after few seasons. SPOILERS How does teens that try to survive on apocalyptic earth kill all of humanity while basically becoming gods themselves at the end make any sense?? Who thought that would be a satisfying ending

@lond1n1

8 ай бұрын

anything past season 5... this anomaly was just so fucking dissatisfying

@elogerm7557

8 ай бұрын

The source material ended around like season 3 I think... Sooooo yeah

@lond1n1

8 ай бұрын

@@elogerm7557 actually the show is very different from the source, and in the source they also go to another planet

@JurgenWindcaller

8 ай бұрын

@@lond1n1 i thought they were always on earth and didn't leave though I haven't read the book

@TheAnthonyMarlowe

3 ай бұрын

I liked it

“Roberto, are you flirting with me?” Made me audibly laugh😂

Alex Meyers and Friendly Space Ninja, thank you for all the bravery you’ve shown covering this show extensively. A moment of silence for all the collective brain cells who were departed too soon.

@trinaq

8 ай бұрын

Preach, they watched it so that we didn't have to!

@michonnewalker4246

8 ай бұрын

Bravest men I know

@inkchip7351

8 ай бұрын

The sacrifice will not be in gain that's not a spelling error

I've never watched a minute of Riverdale, but honestly hearing about it makes me so intrigued. It's almost like RAS wanted to pull off a years-long prank and actually managed to do it before the studio (hypothetically would have) decided to step in. I have to respect that level of tenacity and obnoxiousness.

Riverdale is a living meme. Nobody has described the chaotic nature of Riverdale better than super eye patch wolf.

Never thought this day would come 😭 somehow it feels bittersweet??

@trinaq

8 ай бұрын

Seconded, Alex Meyers created an entire musical epilogue for his video, which, and now Dylan is giving his two cents!

@yoshigamemaster6127

8 ай бұрын

Lmao I always think a show i seeing a while ago ended just to see videos about the show just ending

I hope the actors find more interesting projects after this mess of a show, all the actors of the main cast were actually pretty good.

@andrecarpenter2432

8 ай бұрын

I mean, they all had a stable job for several years.

@thelastjerkbender2505

8 ай бұрын

Yup. Cole Sprouse, Lili Reinhardt, KJ Apa and Camila Mendes are all highly skilled actors and deserve better than this piece of shit show.

@marocat4749

8 ай бұрын

Yep they are all good, but bettys actor better get good roles after pulling off that bizarre storys well.

@Maria-rj9ys

8 ай бұрын

MORE interesting?? you may not like it but this shows bonkers storyline were very interesting

@deepakmenon6720

8 ай бұрын

​@Maria-rj9ys interesting to you maybe. Not for people with sense.

The "characters of the show watch their own show or movie" is such a classic fanfiction story that it's always weird to see it in the actual program.

This entire last season just feels like a fanfic, complete with the writer's fav pairings. That last episode is like an end note with the other plot the writer didn't want to write. Fits with what we know about Roberto and his past with the source material...

The finale is the perfect example that when you try to please everybody in the shipping world you end up displeasing everybody.

@wariowarecomix

8 ай бұрын

I was very pleased because I was a big hater of the shipping side of the fandom and was at this point hoping nobody gets an endgame as a penalty for fighting about them all the time

Goodbye, Riverdale. The cast & crew, you all suffered so much, and I thank you for your sacrifice. You embodied chaos in its purest form, and your trainwreck was interesting to watch. The ending was peak fanfiction, and I don't think anyone would've had it any other way. I'm glad you noticed Riverdale, you're weird, you're a weirdo. But you embraced the weirdness till the very end.

@gino97r

8 ай бұрын

I laughed so hard

@queenkatara7861

8 ай бұрын

This comment is written better than the actual show was.

It seems like this 1950s universe should’ve been the original trajectory of the show since they decided to drive it off a cliff after season 1

@diamondwhite3908

8 ай бұрын

@@LilithsCosmicLounge it’s best not to subject yourself to any other seasons. It’s not even good enough to hate watch

I remember being really into Riverdale for the first three seasons. Kinda sad to see it ending. Almost like part of my teenage years died.

Riverdale will be remembered as the epics highs and lows of weirdness. But Gossip Girl reboot will be remembered for absolutely nothing.

This show is what happens when you have a writer's room filled with fanfic writers more interested in making PG-13 fetish material with a cast of hot twenty-somethings than with telling a coherent story. It was the cinematic embodiment of the phrase "no thoughts, just vibes".

@125loopy

8 ай бұрын

These CW writers' rooms are filled with wattpad and ao3 users who never grew up

@Sirennsz

8 ай бұрын

Don't insult fanfic writers like that, i've read fanfiction with way better writing than this mess of a show and they do it for free

@geministrial950

8 ай бұрын

@@125loopy I will not allow this slander against AO3 users, those people actually know what they're doing.

@aimeejenesse116

8 ай бұрын

You've never read fanfic dude, fanfic can be really really good. This feels like people who were entitled and never got criticism on their writing going ahead and helming a show.

@mamamentos

8 ай бұрын

That's an insult to fanfiction itself lmao

i dont think roberto even realized that he erased pll or sabrina or any of the other shows bcuz hes that incompetent😭....

Final season of Riverdale has the same energy of me ended my middle school creative writing essay with “and it was all a dream”

If you look at this show as a wattpad fan fiction that started off strong but the writer got depressed so they just wrote down whatever to fill chapters and just used the fan fiction to cope with their own life and come up the most ridiculous things possible to then feel bad they completely stopped trying so they wanted to start trying again at the very end but the story has become so crazy that they don’t know how to make it better and they didn’t want to start over so decided to just reset everything without resetting everything and just end it but only tried to give that reset an ending Vs the whole fic, then the show is pretty watchable

@RodrickMarsMoon

8 ай бұрын

That's the most specific thing I've ever read in my whole life 😐😅...!

I love how "still better than the Gossip Girl Reboot" is basically a big meme for FSN's channel

@AJ-xc4qe

8 ай бұрын

Teen Wolf the Movie was a much bigger burn at that show. I never watched Teen Wolf nor the movie it's based on. Nor that movie's sequel. But I love the show because of how interesting it is and his reaction to the show's decision making.

Riverdale kinda reminds of Glee in a way. A normal show about highschoolers that went off the rails and basically re-set itself by the last season. Except Glee did a finale right and it was an enjoyable and heartfelt finale that for the most part fans are happy with.

I had to pause at the halfway point because it is unreal to hear that they used one of the most self-indulgent fanfic tropes in a TV series that airs on cable television and it didn't get eviscerated on the cutting room floor. Love triangles, kitschy character/relationship dynamics, even fan-service are all one thing, but having your characters watch their own television show in a group together just to see their reactions? Never would have guessed. The pilot and these videos are the extent to my engagement with the Riverdale TV show and even after hearing all of what has gone on these past seven seasons, it's the watching your own series to remember your past that is tripping me up the most. Kudos to you Friendly Space Ninja for diving back in to finish chronicling this series.

Ain't gonna lie, this season actually feels like every fix-it fic on AO3.

@lightworthy

8 ай бұрын

i’ve read much better fix it fics by 12 year olds is my problem

@bigbrainsmallpeepee

8 ай бұрын

do not do ao3 authors dirty like that 😭😭

The contrast between watching Nancy Drew (which aired before Riverdale every week) to Riverdale was insane. Like, ND got no promotional material whatsoever and was getting almost double the views every week compared to Riverdale which was flooded with promos by the CW. This week when they both ended felt like the end of the CW truly and seeing the two different reactions from each fandom made me glad I kept watching every week.

@randywhite3947

8 ай бұрын

I still need to watch Nancy Drew

@DaayZero

8 ай бұрын

@@randywhite3947 Do it is very much worth the watch

@tonym.8069

8 ай бұрын

@@randywhite3947it has flaws but it does what Riverdale tried to do with the crazy mysteries and magic and such better. Season 1 had one of the wildest mysteries and a sorta self awareness you would not expect for a CW show. I do hate how one romance turns out but its CW a happy stable deepning couple is like not to be lol

@samkathryn4825

8 ай бұрын

It’s mostly good (especially the first season). It’s rough sometimes, but I overall enjoyed it despite the typical CW-isms.

@MissJasmine305

8 ай бұрын

You can really tell how much a network doesn't care about a project when so little promo goes into a show that people don't even know said show ended or even still *existed.* I never watched Nancy Drew (I gave up on the CW after S3 of The Flash and didn't watch any of their shows after that), but I had been so sure that it had been cancelled because I never saw any promo about it featured *anywhere* online. Out of curiosity, is it worth checking out?

Ah yes, polyamorous relationships, the simplest type of relationship to be established in no time whatsoever. Famously very easy to organise and establish in both real life and fiction. It's wild. Ending love triangles in a polycule is the joke/ideal suggestion, but most people want to actually, y'know, see that happen. Not have it done off screen.

@DeathKitta

6 ай бұрын

I love poly so much and it is SO undershown, I would have killed to have some good developed polycule xD

@christabelle__

5 ай бұрын

It always pisses me off how poly people are so villified in shows, too. Or how people are like 'but we can't be together because...we forgot polyamory exists and love isn't a finite resource'.

Roberto did a nonsensical time travel storyline in “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” too. (Among other unforgivable things). He’s got some terrible obsessions with otherwise harmless tropes.

I really think if they had gone the anthology route this show could have been way more than it was. If each season was it's own story, with the same characters spread over different times, with new challenges and goals and each season being it's own complete story RAS could have told dozens of different stories with these characters without falling all over himself to make everything that didn't fit make sense. Imagine at the end of season 1, no shooting just the four main characters enjoying milkshakes. And then season 2 hits, maybe it's set in the 70s and the Black Hood holds up Pop's Diner and we get to try and figure out who the Hood is with everyone more or less at new start positions. They aren't the same characters so you really have no idea who it could be. Season 4 could be the Organ trafficking ring set 20 years into the future. Season 5 could be about witches set in the 1800s, etc... It would hardly be breaking new ground but it would have meant RAS could tell his insane stories without giving everyone an aneurysm. And, since every season the characters would be stripped down to their base component parts everyone would be a suspect, everyone would be discovering things about themselves. And, since a lot of people attach themselves to certain characters it would be a great way to mess with people's perceptions of themselves. A lot of people identify with Jughead as he was in season 1, someone who was going through a hard time and had to focus a lot on basic survival, like keeping a roof over his head. But what if in season 2 he comes from an affluent family and was as entitled as Cheryl or Veronica? Would he still be as beloved?

@JamesLawner

8 ай бұрын

Riverdale could’ve been CW’s American Horror Story (but with less Horror).

@lolok6338

8 ай бұрын

OH MY GOD this idea is so good it has me so pissed

@TrinityBopp

8 ай бұрын

That would’ve also kept it in true Archie comics fashion. Archie gang does so much random shit that it could’ve worked.

@lover564399

8 ай бұрын

i need a fanfic like this or a book RIGHT NOW

@sukriti7213

8 ай бұрын

Goddamit, now I really want there to be an animated series or something that follows this idea.

I have to say it's so funny to see them rework the show into just a 1950s teen comedy all while seeing the 7 years of age on these "teenagers" face 😭

@sonjaimmonen6610

8 ай бұрын

I was thinking this throughout the video! Archie kinda gives me the vibes like in the movie Love Guru, where they edited Mike Myers' head onto a child's body to show the character as a child (it was very intentional comedy). I feel like the camera lens or something to do with shooting the series, isn't helping either. KJ Apa just really outgrew the teenage character. And I'm not saying he looks old. I'm saying he doesn't look like a teenager. He looks his age.

artemis fowl did "it ends by jogging the main character's memory by starting the entire story from the opening of book 1" first and better and more emotionally impactful

@No1fan15

8 ай бұрын

THANK YOU for mentioning Artemis Fowl! I adore how the OG series can be read in a loop

this last season being described like this feels very much like someone who just spent WAY TOO LONG on a bender doing all sorts of crazy things and trashing places and all, and then at the end they come back to the people they hurt being like "hey, can you forgive me for going wild, since you had fun at the party I threw that trashed the entire plot of land it was on? Pwetty pwease? 🥺"

You know what would be so fun? If they all had their memories wiped (just like it is in s7) and the plot(?) is the same... except in very random moments they reference stuff from 2023. And it gives you this unnerving feeling that something is off, even to the characters. And they, slowly, realise that theyre not in the right era. Conflicts happen, some characters prefer this era over the other yada yada yada. In the finale, they come back to their period.

@lsamoa

8 ай бұрын

There were so many anachronisms left and right that I really thought that's where they were going, but in the end none of that happened. It's a shame, it would have been fun.

36:26 In Season 6, during the Rivervale episodes, there were two Jugheads. The Jughead who's telling us the story, (and referred to as Narrator Jughead) and the Jughead who's inside of the story. Basically, I'm saying that the Jughead who guided Betty throughout the finale is Riverdale's Narrator Jughead. The Jughead who's been telling us the story of Riverdale since its very first episode.

@gmrb5249

8 ай бұрын

What

@27westwest

8 ай бұрын

@@gmrb5249 The correct response

@kohlerxxx

8 ай бұрын

​@@gmrb5249the show was narrated by Jughead, in season 6 there was a storyline were in a different universe a version of Jughead was hidden away writing the story. It's likely that is the Jughead old Betty is with

@marina.chayka

8 ай бұрын

The problem is this universe was destroyed, so Narrator Jughead doesn't exist lol

@LaGiniComenta

8 ай бұрын

@@marina.chayka That Jughead was not only the narrator but the writer of the story. He had to be writing endlesly to Riverdale and Rivervale not to colapse. So I assume he stoped writing when Tabitha erased the timelines and just went free. (Because being the writer of the story makes him even supperior to Tabitha, I suppose xD)

It's so weird that the end of the season three 90s flashback with the parents had a more satisfying way of explaining how the parents ended up where they did than the SERIES FINALE

Eureka pulled a similar stunt, "let's send them to 1950 and re-roll the entire modern timeline when they make it back" and I feel like it's where Riverdale writers pulled this idea from

@Warriorette12

8 ай бұрын

Right?! When he was describing the 50s thing, I actually said aloud “Huh, kinda like what Eureka did.” And without watching Riverdale season 7, I can guarantee that Eureka did it better

@stahppls2293

8 ай бұрын

It's Umbrella Academy S2

The spirit Jughead that talks to Betty is clearly Dylan Sprouse.

@EF-kk3vh

8 ай бұрын

It’s the ghost of focking Trevah from the After movies

@xbluebirdx

8 ай бұрын

​@@EF-kk3vhBest answer 😂

The polyamory cop-out makes me laugh so much, it's kinda genius ngl

Since you skipped a few episodes in Season 7, you missed that they kept name dropping the play "Our Town" in a handful of episodes. The Series Finale takes straight from the third act of Our Town--where the female protagonist after having died is given the chance to relive one day in her life that she chooses--which she does accompanied by the "Stage Manager" who has a quasi-angelic by way of rural New England presence about him. Throughout which the female protagonist dwells on the future of the people she encounters as well as eventually comes to realize that people don't appreciate the simple joys of life while living it--and how terribly sad that is. TLDR: The series finale is just a Riverdale adaptation of Our Town's Act 3.

@nicolelawrie6734

3 ай бұрын

I have been SEARCHING for this comment!

Thanks for treating us to two videos so close together, Ninja. I'm looking forward to seeing the cast move onto bigger and better projects. At least it kept them working for almost a decade, and I'll miss seeing You Tubers like you and Alex Meyers gloriously roast it.

@mayhemilyy

8 ай бұрын

i felt like an era was ending when i saw the newest Alex Meyers video... the internet will never be the same

@LK-my3wq

8 ай бұрын

I see you everywhere

@ritikab7078

8 ай бұрын

W

"Roberto? Roberto? Are you flirting with me?" i giggled

I can’t believe RIVERDALE finally solved the shipper problem.

@_____2219

8 ай бұрын

Put everyone into a poly relationship

Riverdale took the phrase "It's a canon event" to whole new meaning 😂

Is it technically a quad relationship if Jughead and Archie aren't in a romantic relationship with each other?

@JM-gs5oc

8 ай бұрын

Who's to say they weren't? Yeah, there's not much to support in the show, but the core four had a weird relationship anyway

@lsamoa

8 ай бұрын

@@JM-gs5oc Betty never mentioned them hooking up and there's never been any vibe between them so it's safe to say they weren't together. Had Reggie been part of the quad instead of Jughead it probably would have been different. Anyway, technically quad can have any kind of combinations including threesomes, foursomes, 101 only etc. There are no rules.

@JM-gs5oc

8 ай бұрын

@lsamoa yeah that's what I was alluding to with my previous comment, but I guess I wasn't all that clear. All I meant is that every relationship is different, and what works for people in a relationship varies

@lsamoa

8 ай бұрын

@@JM-gs5oc Indeed

what I love about the ending is the amount of people tweeting (x’ing?) about the fact that Jughead and Archie were supposedly in a quad-relationship without ever having kissed on the show. KJ Apa has definitely kissed male actors on the show so people are saying it’s Cole’s fault 😭😭

@lsamoa

8 ай бұрын

Not everyone in a quad needs to be together for it to be a quad though

@oranges7706

8 ай бұрын

​@@lsamoa I think the problem people had was more that the show was perfectly willing to show Jughead/Betty, Betty/Veronica, Archie/Veronica, etc: basically every potential couple *except* the MLM one. And with Roberto's... unfavourable track record with queer representation, it felt to a lot of people like the only reason they showed Betty/Veronica was that WLW relationships are seen as "hot" by a lot of male audiences and creators, unlike MLM ones. To a lot of people it sort of cemented/highlighted the idea that Riverdale is pretty performative in its "activism", and that it only shows relationships that its creators/writers see as hot

@lsamoa

8 ай бұрын

@@oranges7706 Yes I get that and I agree, Riverdale is all about performativity when it comes to these questions. But concretely for Jughead and Archie to have a credible romantic relationship at this point, there would have needed to be some cues to it earlier. Reggie and Archie would have worked, since they had a threesome together and have been shown as close to one another in the 50s, but not Archie and Jughead. It would have been too late in the season to have them develop feelings for one another. They barely even interacted during this season as it is.

@oranges7706

8 ай бұрын

@@lsamoa I suppose. I haven't watched the show since, like, S3 (?) so I'm not fully caught up on the lore and everything; but then that's just a testament to the bad writing, if anything: if they're going to have a quad relationship, they should at least have _some_ interaction between all the members, even if it's not romantic 🤷‍♀️ Bad rep or bad writing: _Riverdale_ chose both lol

@lsamoa

8 ай бұрын

@@oranges7706 Jughead and Archie barely interacted during most of season 7 and there hasn't been any explanation for it. It's one of the things I've hated about this season. Most likely when they got their memories back (long story), they finally remembered they were friends. Then they'd go on double-dates with the girls during senior year and both sleep with them (separately), but there's never been any romantic vibe between the two of them. Archie and Reggie however watched gay porn together and had a threesome with a middle-aged prostitute (at the age of 15... lots to unpack there but it's OOT). So if any of the boys would have hooked up later, it would have been the two of them, not Archie and Jughead.

i love that the "we had to merge the timelines so the show's original timeline" isn't just a copout to avoid dealing with all the shit that was set up for six seasons; it's also flagrantly stolen from DC's crisis on infinite earths. like i know they all belong to warner anyway but come on.

Riverdale having a Crisis on Infinite Earths is the funniest shit I've ever heard lol

Riverdale might be one of the last shows to be allowed to jump the shark and dip in quality. It's a lot more common now for series to be axed if they don't pull in numbers that these studios want, even if the show is really fucking good. In a way, it concluding marks the end of an era. With many good shows being cancelled at best and taken off of streaming services at worse, it's a sad feeling that regard.

@Bryan3on

8 ай бұрын

Part of the reason why it was allowed to do like that because the show heavily reliant on Netflix streaming numbers & international viewership. For those who don't know, the show is exclusively distributed by Netflix in some region outside US which simulcast with the US TV broadcast.

Honestly I've always considered Betty the main character and I'm glad the writers do too lmao

@marocat4749

8 ай бұрын

She deserves it,shehe and the serialkiller and cultpsychologiclthriller and that were somehow the most grounded? Or she grounded it somehow?!

@emmyrodriguez4816

8 ай бұрын

i was just thinking this 😇

@freddice8156

8 ай бұрын

I mean from season 1, it always kinda feels that way doesn't it? Betty the main character who actually does shit, Jughead the narrator and Archie and Veronica just exist.

@raymondzeng1564

8 ай бұрын

Congrats......you think like the Riverdale writers...

See, the poly relationship could've been so interesting to explore if it wasn't just thrown there as a last ditch effort to satisfy their audience. I've never seen a show handle polyamory and honestly it'd be nice to see how they do it.

Remembering only the good things is probably worse than remembering only the bad things. Imagine you're stuck in the 50s and you have the memory of a past life in the future where apparently everything was perfect.

And thus Riverdale ended in the only way it could have… Everyone dead.

All I can say I’m just glad #freetheriverdalecast finally came to fruition.

I knew a kid in middle school that was obsessed with Archie Comics. His whole room was themed around it. I often think about him and about what he thinks of this show.

Y'all I just found out that Lili Reinhart was found hospitalized after the filming of the series finale due to strenuous back pain from carrying the show for seven seasons.

I find it weird that the whole finale episode was centered around Betty when Archie is supposed to be the main character of the entire show and we were just told his ending instead of seeing it.

@jbcatz5

8 ай бұрын

Even when Archie was seemingly leading storylines Betty would end up the protagonist. The Black Hood arc starts out Archie focused but it’s Betty who ends up in the game of psychological cat and mouse with the killer (who is retconned into being her father). Betty and Jughead drive the plot more than Archie does because it feels like the writers both didn’t settle on how to handle the character and wanted to keep KJ Apa retaining a buff physique to show off sans shirt.