So, I was actually gonna wait a little bit longer before doing this video,
I mean, I just did part two like a month ago and figured
Maybe I should leave more time open before the next on.
But then I started catching up on some newer episodes of Riverdale
and...What the heck is this show even trying to be any more? Is this real life?
How is this a real show on TV? Like,
I... can't even think of the words to say right now.
I don't even know if this video is gonna be all that funny because I mean I'm
just utterly baffled. First,
let's talk about the main plot point or whatever stick MacGuffin thing of the show. Which is of course the black hood.
Spoilers if you're not caught up yet, but I mean let's be honest here,
are you're really missing anything at this point? So throughout the show, the Black Hood's been causing a lot of trouble for everyone. Especially
Betty. We're taking down this weird like Sounds and the Lands Stephen King wannabe kind of thing where like
the Black hood's like
cutting off people's fingers and mailing them around town.
He's calling peoples cell phones or whatever. And ultimately it's revealed that the black hood is allegedly Mr. Svenson.
Oh, oh, what what what's that? Who's Mr. Svenson you ask? Exactly! A character
they introduced halfway through the season that maybe says like two sentences the entire show turns out to
maybe,sort of, kind of be the
Black hood, and I'm supposed to care why? I mean we learn a little bit about his backstory
But we know nothing about him as a person
We know that he's the janitor at the school, the end and how the whole like black hood reveal thing goes down is maybe one
Of the sloppiest things I've ever seen since maybe ever in like the last five minutes of episode 9
Archie and Betty learned that mr.
Svensons family was murdered when he was younger and he may have put the blame on the wrong guy which led to a group of
People publicly executing this guy in the park after his family was massacred
young Conway- young Svensson
Identified the man responsible, then a small group of Riverdale citizens
took matters into their own hands and
well...
Executed him now can I just say here
I mean okay Riverdale has been trying to tackle some heavy subject matter here and there I get it
But this show takes some weird 180s. Just like out of nowhere anyway so 30 seconds later
We learned that Cheryl's really weird grandma or whatever she is, was part of this group and 15 seconds later
We learned that Betty's grandfather was also part of the same group and that Betty might have a picture of him standing in the spot
Where they buried the guy who may or may not have been the right guy in the first place. Now, Betty finds the exact picture
Like three minutes later and knows exactly where it was taken and how to get there. Wait
Is this it?
Betty look at the ground. That's where they buried the preacher. Yeah, look at the branches, the devil's hand
That tree is in Picken's Park
Huh.
She and Archie rushed to the park, but not before we see maybe the most bizarre scene in the history of TV, Archie, my grandfather
Killed a man in cold blood. An innocent man. What if that's why he picked me, the Black hood?
This is the part,
where we end this.
I can't do this alone. Tomorrow we're gonna wake up and everything is gonna go back to how it was, but right now
I need you with me. I need Betty Cooper.
Arch...
What is even happening here? Who would ever do this?
"Hey, I know where the murderer is" "Awesome! You want to make out?" "Okay!"
Really? I mean
I get the whole, like, "teenagers and their hormones" type of thing but like what the heck is this even supposed to be
Anyway, they get to the park and find a freshly dug grave
We're all just supposed to accept that during the several hours. It must have taken to set all this up
No one in the whole town saw someone digging a grave in the public park and thought
"Hmm... this might not be normal"
The black hood shows up, Betty hits him with the shovel
They chase him down, and he gets shot and killed by the sheriff
And we learned that the black hood - or at least this black hood wink-wink nudge-nudge. You know I'm saying kids - Was Mr. Svenson
He's dead.
Who is he?
The town demanded blood for blood.
This is the whole payoff after nine episodes of this. Every piece of the black hood puzzle
We've gotten up to now is completely pointless because all the important information is given to us in like the
last five minutes!
Now, you see here's a really clear example of why season one,
I think was so much better than season two. Season one also had a murder story
But it was the entire focus of the plot of the show. We were given every
Important character pretty much from the beginning, and we got to know everyone involved rather well
So when it was revealed that the guy who killed Cheryl's brother was actually her own dad
It was a pretty big deal like we knew this guy we had some sympathy for him
Maybe sort of kind of now in season 2 we're supposed to care about this janitor that we know nothing about but I'll tell you
right now This is not even the worst of it season 1 characters were goofy and cheesy like whatever, but they were consistent
But now I don't know why or how this is happening, but everyone is like completely schizophrenic
They do things in one scene and then in the next scene they're a completely different character
Let's take Jughead for example. Throughout all of season 1 and most of season 2 he's against being involved with the Serpent's then he joins
them for the greater good or whatever and still wants to keep all the gang culture garbage at arm's length when Betty decides that she
Wants to join the Serpent's too
So she can be with Jughead she even puts on this like striptease show thing to join them, but Jughead is just not having it
Why would you do that?
I wanted to be a part of this
The Serpents, your world.
Why?
It's- It's gonna be okay. We'll figure out what we have to do, together.
No, Betty mm-mm
Not together. If you stay, I don't know if I can protect you anymore
It's not your decision to make
Actually
Yeah, it is. I mean okay?
She learn how to do this whole dance number in like ten minutes or whatever
But more than that Betty goes through all this and jugheads just like; nah
And then in like the very next episode jugheads like no one
Disrespects the serpent's like what?
What what do you even want Jughead? Jughead is supposed to be the guy who's always like all right guys we need to think this
Through rationally, I know everything okay, I'm writing a book and then he goes and cuts off someone's tattoo right off
They're arm like what HYUCK! Are- are you the black hood Jughead cuz this is some next-level stuff right here
Then we have Veronica. One minute, she's hanging mistletoe on Archie's roof being just a cute little girl and all that garbage
Now we have no choice, but to kiss
And then the next minute. She's drinking whiskey with her parents plotting some kind of shady business deal that of course
We can't know about yet, because how else are you gonna drag the show out for ten more episodes?
Well Veronica
Now you know. You know everything
So mija, what do you think? I'm in but I have ground rules
well
One ground rule. I refuse to do anything illegal. Oh, that's fine
Especially since we're not doing anything illegal either
I mean what is this madmen now? In a similar
But I guess completely opposite way you have Cheryl, really if you get down to it Cheryl is the only character that's really had like
Substantial life-changing things happen to her. I mean other characters sure they have like ups and downs and all that but Cheryls life
Has been completely turned upside down she lost her brother lost her dad lost her house
She tried to drown herself, but was saved by Archie and Friends
And yet she still acts
exactly the same as she did in season one you see back in season one it made sense for her to be like rude and
Selfish and all that because in her mind everyone was a suspect
But now after everything's more or less kind of settled she still treats everyone like garbage
and is still
Incredibly selfish across the board. Starting out season two there was this wide-open
space for a potential like redemption story
Trying to befriend everyone again or her and her mom getting close together like that kind of thing
But instead just gets put in the backseat and does absolutely nothing
It's like all of season one just never happened
But you know I think the real issue if I could just be a little serious for a second, okay
So season one was thirteen episodes long
Which is pretty standard now in the world of like binging Netflix and all that stuff right so thirteen episodes
We had to learn all about the characters, the town, and go through the murder mystery this made the story feel a lot more
Focused and digestible, but season two is 22 episodes
And we don't really have anything else to learn about the main characters like not really
I mean sure we're introduced to people like Veronica's dad or whatever, but that's about it
So not only do we have more episodes, but also we have a lot more empty time to fill in each episode
Which means everything gets stretched out as long as possible we have the black hood plotline, Veronica's dad's plotline, Cheryl might be a lesbian
plotline, where's this coming from I have no idea
I mean hey more power to you, but like... what? Jughead in the serpent's plotline, Jughead and Penny plotline,
Jugheads dad's plotline, Betty's sisters plotline, Betty's brothers plotline, Betty's mom's plotline, Kevin's plotline,
I mean this show is all over the place!
It's like the writers of the show watched half of the first season of lost and they were just like hey man check it what what?
If Riverdale also didn't make any sense? Right on man. Just as long as we throw in a random musical number every episode
No one's gonna even care! Sweet duude
I mean nothing really makes sense or connects together in any way like things are just kind of happening?
Sequentially, I guess. Basically there's just no focus anymore
You know I get these messages from people
Once in a while where they're like why do you talk about teen dramas if you hate them so much if you hate teen dramas
Why you making all these videos that kind of thing I think is I don't hate teen dramas at all
I actually like as a concept. I really like teen dramas
Just because something is meant for teens doesn't mean it needs to be like dumb
I guess what I'm trying to say cuz it's like I mean teenagers aren't dumb, but a lot of the media
That's aimed at teenagers is kind of dumb you know and so my point is like teen dramas could be really great
I mean there are some good examples like you know Hunger Games
I think is a very good example or even like season 1 of Riverdale season 1 was cheesy
But it wasn't dumb like storytelling wise it it had a focus it had a mission it had like a story to
Tell and it told it and it was cohesive and made sense it was actually
Quite well done season 2 is a mess and so the point of me
You know talking about Riverdale or any of these teen dramas is not just to make fun of it
It's really just to be like this could be a lot better and here's some examples of just these weird oversights that are just bizarre
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