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Not only a Ferris Bueller reference, but a Wargames reference! That brought me back. "I taught myself how to code." Now that's some method acting! "You told him you're open to his ideas? You're FUCKED!" Love Mel Brooks.

I can't even comment on Kody anymore because I've already said it here a hundred times. It was the same shit this week. But the line(s) of the night were when he said that Janelle wanted him for his money, and then she got what she wanted and left. Uh, no, you douchebag. Janelle was the wife who worked a full-time job to help make ends meet for years. She didn't leave you because she got what she wanted, you self-absorbed buffoon. she left you because she wasn't getting ANYTHING that she wanted.

I couldn't get into this. We just finished a season in New York, and now we're back in the worst part of New York - soulless, pretentious, provincial NYC society. And the focus is on my least favorite AH actor, Emma Roberts. The Rosemary's Baby plot doesn't grab me. I don't relate to these characters. I did like the style and the cinematography. KK was competent in a role that doesn't exactly demand much, at least so far. I'll give it one more episode.

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This whole season is talking head segments or two of them chatting in a kitchen or around a bonfire about how bad and broken the family is. Nothing actually happens on this show anymore.

I predict that it actually is the Pickwick Triplets and the three dolls are the murderers. And Charles will check into the white room permanently. Would that be art imitating art?

Yes, Sobyn needs to go back to her trailer and Kodvid needs to disappear in the desert.

I knew Joy couldn't be the killer this season because they already went that route with Jan before.

Great to have a Steve Martin showcase episode where he can just be funny. His trips to the white room were hilarious.

He couldn't be with his daughter during major surgery, but he could be at Aurora's ear piercing. That says everything you need to know about him.

All Kodvid cares about is loyalty and submission. Bow to his rules and authority. There is no love from him, no empathy, no compassion. He has no problem abandoning his own kids if they don't worship the ground he walks on. Forget the wives, they chose to be with him. But the kids didn't, and his behavior toward them has been monstrous. And he is such a narcissist, incapable of seeing that he is the common denominator in every single bad relationship in that family.

Wow, Christine and Janelle really took off the gloves. Christine saying flat out that Robyn was the favorite wife and she was never part of a plural marriage. Kody immediately made Robyn his one and only wife and started treating the others as exes. Then Janelle calling out Kody's Covid BS when she said that after the pandemic was over, he and Robyn came up with a new excuse to keep the families apart.

Well, this is easy to forget because this bonkers show decided to throw in a flash-forward followed by a multiverse alternate timeline the last few seasons. But after the Archie gang got their memories back, they were essentially 27 year olds in teenage bodies. The show never explored this because their memories came back in the penultimate episode, but yes, the "quad" was actually between four adults. They got to experience senior year of high school again with adult knowledge and experience.

My feeling was that in the original timeline, Riverdale was a dark and evil place that was destroyed by Hiram and the Blossoms, but in the new timeline, goodness prevailed. I wanted to see that manifested in the present in Tabitha's merged universe. Sure, Riverdale could have declined entirely for organic reasons. It's lightly implied that the Riverdale in the show is in upstate New York, so it might have been in a good location for suburban expansion. But some small towns thrive while others die all the time based on chance and logistics.

My main problem with "the quad" was that not only did the writers choose to have Jughead in there and not Reggie (which I sort of get because Jughead-Betty-Archie-Veronica were the Big Four on this show), but that Archie never told Reggie. This made absolutely no sense as the two of them had become like brothers. So all those months, Archie never mentioned it to Reggie and Reggie never noticed anything? And Reggie would have been pissed at Archie when he found out, not all "golly gee" with Betty. My other nitpick is Riverdale itself at the end. All they showed was the Riverdale sign and Pop's, and it had a general feeling of a dead and dying place full of weeds and decay. Why not show downtown with people on the street and kids at the high school? The Archie gang fixed things in the 50s, so the town should have been alive and well in the 2020s. If Pop's closed, have another business in there, or an "under new management" sign. They chose to show a rather depressing version of modern Riverdale instead, which was out of step with how the series ended.

I really enjoyed the Alice scenes. Her landing the airplane was officially the last wacky scene in the series, and it was great. I thought they did a good job of bringing closure to her and Betty. Her combative relationship with Betty was always one of the themes of the show. I have known and witnessed several contentious mother/daughter relationships over the years. While Betty and Alice were over the top, these relationships really can get that extreme. I've seen mothers who were terribly emotionally abusive to their daughters like Alice was to Betty, but their daughters still wanted their love and approval. I think in some ways, Betty and Alice had the most relatable and most real relationship in the series.

So a sweet, weepy, Betty-centric finale. Given that this has always been an ensemble show, it felt a little odd having the final episode be from the POV of one character. But narratively, it does work. All of them ended up having great lives, except Fangs, of course. He ended up becoming Riverdale's Ritchie Valens. Jughead starting "MAD" Magazine was fun, as well as Betty dressed up all Mod Squad in the editorial room of her magazine in the late 60s. I agree that the foursome was forced because of the Veronica/Jughead pairing. That whole relationship was totally contrived and baseless, and everyone knows she had a genuine history with Reggie that was completely ignored. It would have been much more authentic if she and Reggie had a reconciliation scene after they got their memories back, and let him be the fourth person. Especially given his strong bond with Archie. Jughead already had a heavy presence in the final episode being the narrator and Betty's angel guide. I also agree about how this group would not have fallen out of touch over the years given all the monumentally crazy shit they had gone through together in Riverdale. But nitpicks aside, the finale was a fitting epilogue that hit the all right emotional notes. So long, Riverdale. You will always sit alongside Gotham as two of the nuttiest guilty pleasures I have ever watched. @Bill1978 Why, he became a porn star of course!

Yeah this show is annoying because there is way too much lag between when the events happen and when we see them on the show. It's not good when you watch an episode and say, "Yeah, I know that already."

A lot of people agreed there was a serious pandemic but didn't trust Big Pharma or believe that the vaccines were either safe or effective. They saw big profits for Big Pharma corrupting the process. That's where the whole debate about choice versus mandate came from. And Kodvid and Sobyn apparently didn't get the vaccine because they don't believe in vaccines generally.

Could be, though I'm past 60 and no problems. But I don't run around all the time between all these homes and wives and ex-wives and kids. I would be exhausted. And if he's getting his needs met from Sobyn, I don't see the motivation to run to one of the others for some sexy time. He's pretty much limited his options to Janelle anyway.

Kodvid continues to cement his position as the resident narcissistic sociopath. He once again trots out Covid tests (whenever this was filmed but at least late in the pandemic) as a means of control while rehashing how he curled up in the fetal position and cried during the pandemic. Still gaslighting, only caring about himself and how Christine and Janelle have "wronged" him. Talking about hating Christine and being the devil he has become. This guy was born a devil.

Facebook is way too far out there. They can buy stock in Xerox and IBM, Johnson & Johnson, etc. McDonald's, KFC. And bet on every World Series and Kentucky Derby. Instant fortune. Of course, on the sports bets they would have to go on memory. They wouldn't have the sports history book like Biff had in Back to the Future 2. Archie and Reggie might be sports nuts with an encyclopedic memory of who won what championship each year.

Yet another forced "relationship" done for shock value. And it wasn't even a 1955 tv she used, it was an early 60's era color tv. So yeah, why not just bring in a 2020s 70-inch flatscreen?

It was a nice episode. Lots of positive vibes. Alice finally isn't terrible. Archie's friendship with Reggie was one of the highlights this season. Great to see how things wound up with them. Nice moment with Jughead and the Pep editor. Great to finally see Tabitha for half an episode. She was sweet. Bittersweet ending for Jughead and Tabitha. A shame that Jugehead's whole family was left out of the 1950s universe. It was a definite gap. I do like the theme that they left their dark future for a past where they restore the goodness of the Archie universe in the 1950s. From what Jughead said, they pretty much watched their whole lives on tv. This was definitely a rush job. How can you mentally reconcile two timelines? Major confusion. Their 1955 selves remember everything from birth. How do you reconcile growing up in the 1940s with your memories of growing up in the 2000s? If this had happened even two episodes ago, they would have had time to explore a lot of this stuff, including the realization of the different relationships they were in, like Jughead/Betty and Archie/Veronica. Tabitha's explanation of the timelines made absolutely no sense. By weaving the multiple timelines into one, you have the 1950s Archie gang in the same universe as the 2010-2020s Archie gang. But the 2010s-2020s can never happen that way now, so where do their memories come from? Maybe only the memories of the original universe made it into this one. Whatever. It makes sense that Betty and Jughead would be the two who would choose to remember all of it.

It was fun watching the show rip off The Americans for the Blossoms plot. The difference is it was fun to hang out with the Jennings, even though they were Russian spies. The Blossoms? Uh...no.