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And we don't want to know them personally. Why would I want to spend even an hour listening to Jill try to convert me (or, good Lord, listening to the starving orphans sing), while dodging the tweezers she keeps in her grifted purse, and then end up stuck with the bill?

I think that's the whole purpose of this season.

Kaylee's frosted blue eyeshadow and wagon wheel spokes mascara make me feel like I've time traveled to 1986.

I am so glad you said this. That storyline was genuinely offensive.

It's too bad BME didn't give all of them a halfway decent education.

Kaylee wants whatever BME tells her to want.

I guess it depends on what you mean by the same show (no sarcasm here). I think for a lot of people, me included, the same show means watching the same characters we've come to know wrap up the six seasons of relationships and storylines we watched. That is not what season seven is, and that's why a lot of people find it unsatisfying. They expected a continuation, not a total reboot.

Yep. The show's Instagram page keeps posting pictures from past seasons, and they should really stop. At least 75% of the comments are about how much better the show used to be. People don't want to watch an entirely different show in the last season, especially when the gimmick comes at the expense of actually wrapping up the show.

I don't think it does bear any real connection to the previous six seasons. The characters are all strangers. What a stupid way to end a show.

She had no use for anything academic after graduating. She doesn't do anything. Oh, sorry..."graduating."

Imagine being so categorically opposed to anything fun.

I don't understand how Jill says that with a straight face. He is, as we know, neither of those things.

"Christians CAN have wholesome fun!" Apparently not.

I don't want him, and I don't understand why she wants him.

"Fun."

Their Devil is such a pedantic little shit. "I'm gonna make the power go out during this woman's insipid speech!" He's the freaking Devil. Doesn't he have anything more exciting to do?

Thank you. That storyline is borderline predatory and really problematic.

I see what you did there. And I concur.

It's hard to blame her for picking the dogs. They actually like being at her house.

I'd grab a bite at The Timber Mill. I'll make sure to leave my tie at home, enjoy the salad bar (one trip only, please), and ask them to leave bacon bits off my baked potato (I don't eat bacon because of the nitrates).

I believe (I'm really digging into my knowledge of the comics here), Jughead is officially asexual in one iteration, and he can be seen as asexual in others (like it's not stated explicitly, but the implication is there), and then he dates some in others. I would say he's definitely less hormone driven than Archie in every iteration ever.

From what I remember, it's not terrible, sort of hints that Jughead dislikes women? I could be misremembering. It definitely seems like they're leaning into the characters' comic personalities this season.

Comics Jughead does, so maybe that's the characterization they were using? None of the characters feel like they did for the last six years. I personally won't miss the Jughead/Veronica "relationship," aka a plot device you could see from space.

So he left parenting up to their mothers.