Let’s just get this out of the way: Riverdale is not good. At least, the first episode isn’t. Which is really disappointing. I’ve never read the original comics but I’ve been a fan of how the Archie-verse has always been a useful palette on which to paint. There’s the 2001 movie,…
The stage is set, literally. What has been described as the Hunger Games of music (by a few people) is now being broadcast in the US for the first time. If something can be both overwhelming and underwhelming simultaneously, this is it. The presentation is the definition of excess, the…