Say what you will about riverdale but how many other shows feature a gay immortal baby that may or may not be the second coming of christ
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Tragic moment trying to look through the “High&Low” tag but it’s all just people with the words “high” and “low” tagged…
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The thing about Riverdale is that the show is camp throughout its entire run but the nature of that camp shifts as the show progresses. It's camp contrasted with camp. The early seasons are grim teen melodrama camp, where the ridiculousness comes from the intensity of the show's brutality and cruelty. By the time we get to season 7, the show has been given a mandate from a literal angel to make the world brighter, and fully transitioned into silly wacky cartoon hijinks camp. This positions camp against camp, and their juxtaposition tells us about both.
Contrasted with the saccharine silliness of season 7, the early seasons feel not melodramatic, but violently hyperreal. The Riverdale of early seasons is realist; the Riverdale of season 7 is idealist. This is not something that simply happens to the characters, but is a direct consequence of their actions: Tabitha has set them off to make the world brighter, and they succeed at doing so. When the teens stop Project Moloch in the show's antepentimate episode, the last bit of bleakness in Riverdale is carted off to a Russian gulag with Clifford Blossom. As their reward, Tabitha shows the teens the events of earlier seasons, but "only the good parts".
Quite literally, Tabitha gives them the ideal riverdale, as opposed to the violent realism of "the way things used to be". When they go to the Sweet Hereafter, the teens of Riverdale are not sent back to their actual high school, a place of poisonings, murders, and repression. Instead, they are rewarded with what they have created for themselves across the show's final season: not the realist high school they were trapped in, but the idealist high school, the one they always saw glimpses of but only truly existed in their dreams.
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We had such a good day yesterday and the day before and now we’re all sad *sigh*
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you know the worst part of living outside of the us is that i have never known the epic highs and lows of high school football
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i started riverdale last week and now i’m at season 3 i’m just letting y’all know i’m going to be real annoying about it
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i gotta say it, riverdale had the best one liners.
“that means you havent known the triumphs and defeats, the epic highs and lows of hight school football”
ELITE.
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sometimes you just go to work and come home and go to sleep and sometimes you watch a really great movie and then see a cluster of people rping literal fucking n*zis online
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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series
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well I locked my keys in the car for the first time in my life in the chilis parking lot but on the bright side a bald old man came over to me and my brother and asked if we get a hard time about the color of our hair (pink and blue/pink and purple) and we were like “oh no people are really nice :)” and he goes like oh great! dinner is on me and gave us a $50 so you know
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Charles forgot because his 100th GP with Ferrari is nothing compared to the triumphs and defeats, the epic highs and lows of high school football
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