Riverdale

Can Riverdale Save Tv's High School Drama Genre

... in 2017. Riverdale Trailer Promises a Sexy Murder Mystery (and All Your Archie Comics Favorites Too). "Greg said, 'You're going to need a dead body, though,'" Aguirre-Sacasa said during Riverdale's panel at the 2017 Winter TCA Press Tour. "And I remember thinking, 'No, no, no. We're not going to need a dead body. No way we're going to need a dead body.' And we took a pitch out that was more slice of life and coming of age, and Fox bought it, and one of the first things they said is, 'We need to make this a little edgier. It needs to have a little bit more of a hook.' And seven months after Greg said to me, 'You need a dead body,' I was sort like, 'We need a dead body.'". When the man behind Joey and Pacey's relationship tells you you need a dead body, you get a dead body, which Riverdale did, and the mystery of Jason Blossom's murder will be one of the show's driving forces in season one. The CW. "That's when the show really crystallized artistically," Aguirre-Sacasa said of the deadly epiphany. "It went from just being a coming of age show to a loss of innocence show, and it really kind of framed every ...

Riverdale' And 'the Young Pope' Mark A New Era Of Absurd Tv

... the content is so outlandish that it prompts one to wonder just how self-aware they are. Of course, that’s precisely why absurd TV is the most fitting entertainment for our current era. With Donald Trump in the White House — a sentence that still feels outlandish — our very reality has become a joke that’s gone too far , only with no accompanying laugh track to signify that it’s on purpose. It’s no coincidence that The Young Pope comes across as a startling parallel to the rise of Trump. Just as sci-fi and fantasy shows help us to filter unbelievable reality through fictional lenses, absurd TV helps us grapple with the era where nobody’s sure if or when to laugh. In the era of alternative facts and rogue national park Twitter accounts ; when a reality television star has the nuclear codes, we’re left waiting for a punchline that never seems to come. In the entertainment world, shows that straddle the line between commenting on their ...

Mädchen Amick On 'riverdale' Similiarities To 'twin Peaks,' 'gossip Girl

... Lynch's classic '90 s show and "Dawson's Creek," both on which Mädchen appeared. "I'm also hearing it's a comparison to 'Gossip Girl,' so, hey it's three for three," she joked in a conversation with Too Fab's Brian Particelli. "I think the combination is fairly accurate. When I just hear the comparison to 'Twin Peaks,' I think there's definitely an homage or a nod, but it just has a very different rhythm. When you bring in 'Dawson's Creek' or 'Gossip Girl,' I think it's more accurate. I think it’s a good combination of both.". And while she conceded the shows share some DNA, the experience on set for the now 46-year-old actress was a complete 180 from when she was just starting out. "There comes a moment, I don't know when it hit me exactly, when I all of the sudden realized that on my seasons of 'Twin Peaks' we had a lot of ...

Riverdale' Star From 'burbs Survived Drama Of Her Own

... biological father. A Russian-Hungarian Jewish flamenco dancer was. • She joined the Church of Scientology and credits the church with helping her kick drugs. • She formed a not-for-profit group, the Foundation for a Slavery Free World, after becoming aware of children being exploited by the sex trade. Then, there's her career. She made her movie debut as Chevy Chase's daughter in 1997's "Vegas Vacation," starred as Special Agent Nadia Yassir in the 2007 season of Fox's thriller series "24," and had roles in a variety of other shows. Then 24, Marisol Nichols, left, starred as Audrey Griswold in the 1997 comedy "Vegas Vacation" with Beverly D'Angelo and Chevy Chase. Now she appears on The CW's "Riverdale." - WARNER BROS. Now, she plays Hermione Lodge in The CW TV series "Riverdale," a darker offshoot of the comic strip "Archie." It starts on Thursday. Her character, Veronica's mother, is married to an imprisoned crime boss who continues to control her life, even after she moves back to her hometown of Riverdale. Her high school boyfriend, Archie's ...

What Are Critics Saying About ‘riverdale,’ Cw’s Dark Archie Comics Drama

... triangle between the blonde, the brunette, and the redhead; the yellow-and-blue letter jackets; the after-school chocolate shakes at Pop Tate’s diner — and colors them in with a mixture of dark melodrama and faux-retro camp,” writes Flavorwire’s Lara Zarum. TV Line’s Dave Nemetz observes that: “The franchise draws on strong archetypes that still resonate: The all-American boy. The girl next door. The rich girl. The nerd.”. Archie Is Hot (and Sidelined). “Make no mistake: Archie may be hot now, but it’s Betty Cooper and Veronica Lodge who run this show, literally and figuratively,” MTV’s Crystal Bell advises viewers. “Much of ‘Riverdale’s success boils down to the nuts and bolts of character development,” writes Sonia Saraiya of Variety. She adds, “Betty and Veronica become plausible friends, each with a peculiar relationship with the unbelievably attractive Archie (whose interpersonal failings are ...

Riverdale

... play. Young and old, the women rule on Riverdale, providing the sexiness, scheming and delicious bitchiness while the men are mopey, sleazy or, worst of all, stable and unremarkable. The exception is Cott's Kevin, liberated and open and fearless in a town in which too many residents are hiding things. Lee Toland Krieger, director of the first two episodes, has given the show a good-looking template that accentuates the darkness and adds menace to comic-standard locations like Pop's Chock'lit Shoppe, now a murky, neon-splashed nightmare, or the local drive-in, now terrorized by a leather-clad biker gang out of a different era entirely. Everything wholesome in Riverdale has been made twisted and if there was ever any levity in the scripts, it's been drained. Aguirre-Sacasa and the other writers still get some humor out of reference-heavy patter that's sometimes witty and sometimes wildly over-the-top — the latter ...

Meet 'riverdale' Star Madelaine Paetsch

... and she’s used to everything being handed to her on a silver platter. She’s this kind of broken girl, who wants to see other people as broken as she is. She’s from a very broken family life. Glamour: One of my Glamour colleagues likened Cheryl to the Regina George or the Blair Waldorf of the group—the queen bee, if you will. Is she bucking stereotypes here or no. Madelaine: Well, the way the writers write the show, they make it so pointed. I think they’re making a comment on that stereotypical queen bee with Cheryl's character, in general. She is the most catty-like character by far, and I love it. I think that is the point they’re making, that that is the queen bee archetype. Do I think she’s similar to Blair Waldorf? Yes, absolutely. She has her moments; she is the queen bee of Riverdale High. That said, I think she’s much different than any other queen bee anyone has seen. Her brother gets murdered in the first episode, so you ...

Riverdale' Star Marisol Nichols Discovered Acting Love Here

... As for “Riverdale,” Nichols admitted she was skeptical when first told about the project, a drama about about the teenagers in the venerable Archie comic books. “I told people, ‘Do you mean Archie and Veronica from when I was a kid?’ I thought it wasn’t for me, because I’m not really a comic book kind of girl. I’m more into darker, dramatic kinds of roles. “But then I read the script and realized this was completely darker and much different from what I initially thought. We’re using the same characters from the comic books, but in a very different way.”. Nichols’ Hermione is the mother of Veronica (Camila Mendes), who vies with rival Betty for Archie’s affections. “They’re coming to Riverdale on the sly,” she said. “They’ve  been booted out of New York. Veronica’s father, my husband, Hiram Lodge, is in prison for embezzlement. We come from the world ...

Everything You Need To Know About Dark 'archie' Tv Show

... teen proved so immediately popular that his publisher MLJ Magazines soon changed its name to Archie Comics Publications. The core premise hasn't changed much since then: The popular, ambitious, accident-prone Archie tries to skate through his days at Riverdale High. Along for the ride: his woman-hating, eternally hungry buddy Jughead; his competing girlfriends Betty and Veronica; and a teeming cast of eccentric peers and grown-ups. That concept though has proved flexible enough to allow the gang to change with the times, adapting to rock & roll, disco, breakdancing and beyond. Archie and his friends have anchored a series of evangelical Christian comics, and starred in a musical animated TV cartoon that spawned the hit single "Sugar, Sugar." Over the years, the cast has expanded to include enduring characters like Josie & the Pussycats and Sabrina, the Teenage Witch. Even today, at a time when most comics are confined to specialty shops, Archie digests are still ...

Scandal' Is Insane And I Blame Trump ; 'riverdale' Is Great Fun

... a bit of "Everwood" thrown in. Archie, Betty, Veronica, Jughead, Reggie, Josie and the Pussycats, Mr. Weatherby and Miss Grundy (who's young a beautiful) are all part of the plot — which revolves around the murder of a high-school student. This is great fun and very entertaining. For more on "Riverdale," click here. Elsewhere on TV. • "Grey's Anatomy" (7 p.m., ABC/Ch. 4): Bailey, Arizona and Jo treat a violent teen and her unborn baby at a maximum security women's prison. • "Hell's Kitchen" (7 p.m., Fox/Ch. 13): The chefs create a unique dining experience for a group of well-known chefs. • "Supernatural" (7 p.m., CW/Ch. 30): Sam and Dean have to escape from a government-run detention facility. • "Project Runway Junior" (7 and 9 p.m., Lifetime): A fire drill sends the designers out of the workroom to meet their new clients. • Women's college basketball (7 p.m., BYUtv): Santa Clara at BYU. • "Lip Sync Battle" (7:30 and 8 p.m., Spike): Nina Dobrev vs. Tim Tebow; Ruby Rose vs. Milla Jovovich. • "My Kitchen Rules" (8 p.m., ...