Riverdale

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Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

This could have gone for 10+ seasons if they played their cards right. Instead they surrendered to the same hack, woke writers rooms that destroyed Flash and Arrow's latter seasons.

I really enjoyed the first season of Riverdale. I was pleasantly surprised by how great it was, actually, even with the undercurrent of cheesiness.

But I think the decline began in season 2, and the show's just gotten worse since. I don't think it was wokeness per say, just the same trap a lot of teen dramas fall into: love triangles, cheating, breaking up popular pairings for drama's sake, melodramatic subplots that take up way too much time, etc. I'm sure the show got its injection of wokeness eventually. I stopped with s2, so I don't know for sure. I've heard some really dumb crap about the later seasons, and it sounds awful. I really hated that they went all in with Archie/Betty. Yuck.

And did they actually kill Archie? Someone mentioned it in this thread. If true then wow.