Undoubtedly, Netflix makes some great shows, like Stranger Things and the Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, however Netflix isn’t without some questionable ideas. One of those being their new TV show, Riverdale, which is a cesspool of cringey cliches. Like an athlete who is torn between sports and his passion for music, and a rich girl who has to deal with being “poor” even though she can go clubbing, buy clothes online and live in a townhouse with a butler. While the show does bring recent social issues to light like slut-shaming and race, there are a fair share of scenes where it seemed like nobody even proof-read it.
Don’t get me wrong though, it is a show my friends and I watch every week because it’s so cringey. Every episode there is a new way to cringe for example when Veronica thinks kissing Betty is somehow going to get them on the cheer squad. Or when Archie and Ms. Grundy start making out right in the school. It’s practically a fact that when a show is so bad it gets good again like Toddlers and Tiaras, Maury, Jerry Springer the Jersey Shore. Even Honey Boo Boo got her own show. Despite many people not even liking Here Comes Honey Boo because it got so infuriating, so many people still watched the show.
The same goes for Riverdale, one day I was watching it and making fun of it with my friends but now I count down the days till the next show and that is the highlight of my Friday. Is it hypocritical? Yes. Will I stop hating it and loving it at the same time? No. I will watch every scene of that show. Even though I ask myself a lot of questions on how anything is possible in that show like how do all the parents have a deep relationship with each other, how did all the parents have kids at the same time, why do all the parents keep living there if there are so many problems.
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