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Oh lord, I'm in Worcester. It is true we are very 90s, but I gotta defend Acoustic Java. Good coffee. However, we also have many fine parks where nothing good ever happens so I don't know why that wasn't an option.

Robin is the hero we need.

The transitional cat will never not be hilarious.

IIRC he was turned by a vampire orderly who happened to be a big fan, at the hospital where he was taken after his "fatal" stroke, but he'd already suffered brain damage. She never outright says he's Elvis. Everybody just calls him "Bubba." But it's Elvis. As for Jamie Walters- really? Times have changed; I don't think anybody who likes Jared Leto's band has been swayed by his Various Media Shenanigans.

I'm pretty sure that Elvis-vampire thing happened in the Charlaine Harris novels.

There is Steve Hodel, who had his book come out a few years ago accusing HIS father, who was assuredly Not A Nice Person and very possibly killed SOME people. Then again, Steve Hodel also thinks his father was the Zodiac killer. He might have gotten into it for the money, but damn if he didn't SUPER COMMIT to the murdering. I'm morbid as hell and I've got a pretty strong stomach, but Holmes makes my skin crawl. I haven't read "Devil in the White City" yet, partly for that reason, but I'd be interested to see if it devotes a lot of space to the trial and media sensation- that interests me, especially since the newspapers over in England (where H.H. Holmes was not) had more or less invented the sensation of Jack the Ripper not long prior.

I actually like the theory that there wasn't even one single Jack the Ripper, just a series of unrelated crimes and somebody writing letters who may or may not have had anything to do with it. As for Holmes, he almost certainly was not America's first serial killer; they just didn't really have much apparatus in place for tracking such things for a long time, so extremely probably cases that appeared to be unrelated were not, particularly in cases where a killer may have traveled between states and jurisdictions. But on topic: I already wasn't planning to watch these, because the idea that Holmes had anything to do with Jack the Ripper is so obviously ludicrous on its face (Holmes's methodical MO alone is so INCREDIBLY far off from the nearly public throat cutting and mutilations that characterize the Ripper cases), but the sound design just in your clips made me laugh so hard I cannot with this. Also I wish I had a cool name like "Amaryllis Fox."

That kimono only belonged to Tammy's grandmother if she too was an expat fond of satin and velcro.

Around the 18 minute mark, Sarah and Tara's commentary is overlapping for me.

I'm glad you guys have kept the beeparoonie.

SUSAN. JESUS. RETROACTIVELY DUMP HIM. HE SUCKS.

SUSAN. JESUS. DUMP HIM. HE SUCKS.

IANAL and the law office I work for is in MA, not MD, but at least in my state there are statutes of limitation on civil charges as well as criminal. And you're not allowed to nope out of a subpoena; if you do, after a certain number of attempts to get you in a judge can issue what's called a capias order to have you literally picked up by the cops and brought in to testify.

Worcesterite here, the Palladium is still rocking and Worcester is a surprising hotbed of the metal scene on the east coast. Also we have many other awesome and cool things going on. Stop by and I'll take you on a tour of Why We Are Unexpectedly Awesome And Not At All An Etobicoke. </derail>

SUSAN. JESUS. DUMP HIM. HE SUCKS.

The Serpents are really the best behaved gang I've seen on TV in a long while. And queer-friendly! I mean, what do those guys do besides hang around looking tough and dealing a little weed? That Riverdale, which we're constantly told is a small town, has both a "south side" whose residents apparently aren't invited to the town jubilee and a whole extra high school, is unlikely. I lived in a town of ~6000 as a kid and we and the surrounding towns (the surrounding towns were quite a bit smaller in population) had to join forces in a regional high school. It would make more sense if this was sort of a Springfield/Shelbyville situation with the "south side" a different town entirely. NOBODY thought of taking Cheryl to the hospital to get her checked out for hypothermia? Of course, then Penelope might have put a psych hold on her and she wouldn't have been able to burn down Thornhill quite as dramatically. I do hope Nana was out. Does Val just not have anything else to say since she dumped Archie? FIGURE THIS OUT, SHOW. FP was reading a Sabrina comic.

None of them could help Archie punch through the ice? The ice that was supposedly too thin for them all to stand on? The ice that they were all standing on in a group?

Let's see if this embeds...

So was her facial reaction to Archie's suggestion they loop in their parents!

I'd forgive so much if it turned out Joaquin is the real criminal mastermind here and he's laughing all the way to Black Mirror. (There is absolutely nothing in the show to support or even suggest this, for the record; it would just amuse me.)

I am in the camp that does not consider third cousins "incest." There are lots of places that are still okay with marrying your first cousin, and compared to that, third cousins are barely related. Both Alice's righteousness and Penelope's smugness about it were way too much. Jughead and Betty are the ones directly affected by the Blossom-adjacent events, and both of the actors continue to kill it. Hoo boy, do I still have some questions though. About the nature of the Blossoms' business, exactly why Cliff shot Jason (and then happily participated in reviling Cheryl for it), why do we assume Joaquin is telling the truth, why doesn't Jughead's mother want him, how did the Serpents get to be so progressive...

"Who could have predicted this very predictable thing?" Cisco's hair looked GREAT. It's unfortunate that I just can't with his lousy attitude this season. Cisco! I loved you, man! Also looking great: Caitlin's new outfit! There, that's two positive things.

I agree. I'm not feeling "ugh Peyton" nearly as much as some other commenters, but it might be just because Ravi is acting like such a goddamn Nice Guy this season and has turned my favorite character into someone who just puts my teeth on edge. Peyton was right when she said he's taking everything that's happened to her and made it all about him. As for her, I feel sorry for her being shoehorned into a love triangle, but given how Blaine's been treating her and how Ravi's been treating her, I can't entirely blame her for her uncertainty, even if Blaine is/was horrible. The shots literally framing her in between Ravi and Blaine, I cannot forgive.

It sounds better in German.

What's that German word for vicarious embarrassment? Because that is what I felt watching that. I'm officially old. I do remember having an Archie comic where Cheryl Blossom tried to start a topless beach, so she's always been a little unpredictable.