I think one day CW is going to reveal to us that Riverdale was just a part of a social experiment. They're just trying to figure out what's the limit of stupidity people can watch.
I laughed so hard when Veronica finally gets a divorce to be with Archie and then BOOM next episode breaks up with him because she didn't feel seen... And then archie runs back to betty and she's all 'yup i want you too'. When? When did you? Oh honestly maybe magic existing here isn't the weirdest.
@@thiernobarry4462 she was literally like hey Arch you trying live in the Pembrooke. He was like nah I’m good. Then hours later after he saved civilians from a burning building, she asked him, “where do you see yourself in 5 years?” He was like in riverdale helping out the town. Her body literally almost passed from the thought of being middle class and was like aight ima head out. Lmao she says she hates her father but constantly was given allowance money and still tries to pretend she’s genuine. She also claimed she hated her husband because he was greedy but then shits on Archie for making an honest living. Meanwhile, she also is illegally exploiting high school students for her own profit, wants summers in the vineyards, expensive clothes and to live lavishly in NYC. She’s the most spoiled, entitled and delusional character I’ve ever seen on television.
All his musicals are awesome, but this one is definitely the best one. 😂😂😂😂 Never thought anything could have topped 'Shut up you're not my real dad'. 😂😂😂
@@theshire9173 I figured people that have heard it would, but it just occurred to me watching this, that the majority of current teens that populate TH-cam probably never played those games...
How Cole is able to keep a serious face in his scenes remains a mystery to me. Damn boy, you graduated NYU, you are a great photographer, why do you punish yourself with this?
I hear that they all have a contract to make 7 seasons so they got 2 more years of this torture. Though I'm sure they aren't complaining about the money this show generates.
Most of the actors openly hate Riverdale, and Cole especially has gone in interviews numerous times to talk about how awful the writing of Jughead has become. He's even refused to do certain things, like appear in musical numbers, in a desperate attempt to maintain the OG writing of his character. Sadly they're all stuck in a 7-season contract and can't leave until then. But if you look at any interviews with literally any of the actors in the main cast it's very clear they're all waiting for it to end so they can GTFO
Me and my mom both loved the comics and where really surprised and exited that they were making a show of it, but kinda confused about why the adds looked so Moody. Then the show came out. I hated the existence of this show at first and would not watch it but my mom watched it and was very confused. I mean, didn’t Archie like date Miss Grundy or something? And they made her wayyy younger than in the comics. When I heard about that I knew this show would make no sense. My hatred for it calmed down because at least it’s bad enough to be interesting, but when looking for anything related to the Archie comics my hatred is reignited when I am bombarded with Riverdale crap as if the much better comics haven’t existed for decades.
So, basically, Betty and Jughead are wannabe detectives, Veronica and Archie have broken up like 16 times over the course of 2 days, and Cheryl’s a witch. Got it.
Riverdale posted a gif of Reggie and Veronica on Twitter with the caption "Power couple alert", and I commented, "How many times are Archie and Veronica going to break up and date other people, then get back together? It just isn't a shocker anymore" lol and of course I got the stans telling me, "They aren't getting back together". How many times has everyone thought that over the course of the whole damn show?
There's a special place in my heart for actors in terrible TV shows and movies. I appreciate them collecting their paychecks for something that must be soul crushing.
I dunno, I feel like it might be kind of fun because you don't have to be too attached to what dumb shit happens to your character. Like every script they get has got to be like "Whelp! Lets see what ridiculous shit happens to me this week. Oh, I start a cult! Fun!" And then they get to work on their acting chops by trying to say all these ridiculous lines with a straight face.
I appreciate how they completely forgot that Betty’s ancestors and the same as Cheryls because they didn’t take the last name Copper until like Betty’s great-grandfather. So Betty’s ancestors are Cheryls ancestors so Beatrice Cooper (Betty’s relative who killed cheryls) couldn’t have existed. Your welcome
Their family wasn't that incest-y... Betty's father was Blossom by blood, but her mother was not - so ancestors from Alice side of family are NOT Cheryl's ancestors. And if current Coopers took surname later, there is possibility that they took it from towns other citizens that wasn't around anymore... Alice maiden surname was Smith, but at some point her ancestor could be Beatrice Cooper
literally died when veronica said "all i need is ARCHIE" LOL i thought she was going to say "all i need is to be away from you chad" or something but hey what do i know
I have to give credit to Madelaine Petsch here. She seems like the only one who's actually still having a good time being on this show, probably because her storyline is so batshit crazy that you can't help but try and have fun with it.
I think she's the only one who knows exactly what type of show she's in, and therefore plays the over-the-top wackiness with just enough conviction to make it believable, in its own bizarre way (I mean, YOU try saying half of Cheryl's lines without having fits of hysterical laughter, the fact that she can breeze through them while still displaying such charisma and personality really demonstrates her skill). In every episode of Riverdale, Betty and Jughead are always the most boring characters, because you can practically feel Lili Reinhardt and Cole Sprouse dying on camera, trying to somehow make the most ridiculous lines and the most ludicrous plot twists sound heavy and important, whereas I feel like both Madeleine and the writer Roberto Aguirre Sacasa have really latched onto Cheryl, making her this crazy camp icon utterly detached from any sort of realism, and therefore fitting Riverdale like a glove.
@@niktri8312 and Archie is just an anime protagonist were crazy shit happens to but he has to play off like it doesn’t have any effect over him. Veronica’s actor is trying her best to play it like Madelaine but she’s being given average to boring shit to say and do.
Cheryl's a God, Archie is the next Captain America, Betty is a super agent, Jughead is a writer and fighter, Veronica is an assassin, so basically their the new Avengers?
Has anyone ever met a riverdale fan in person? Im convinced they are just myths now. How this show still has an audience should be counted as one of lifes greatest mysteries.
Any riverdale "fan" only watches the show because of how ridiculous it is so they can laugh, I can't think of a single person who takes this show seriously
The other day, I saw someone wearing the South Side Serpents jacket. I was so shocked. Then I see this girl was something like 12 or 13 and I thought "here's why". She's a kid so that makes sense, she'll grow out of it.
@@simplyawful543 I was going to say the same thing, I think part of the reason I like Riverdale is because of how mindless and silly it is. It's like reality TV with a predictable plot line and less screaming, I watch it to fall asleep at night haha. 😂
I thought Veronica was gonna say “all I need is you out of my life chad” and I was like 💅🏽 Yes queen ! Know your worth! Don’t stoop to his level! .. suffice it to say i laughed out loud due to shock and the sheer ridiculousness of her saying ‘all I need is ARCHIE! ‘😂
Completely Lost it at that “captain America” line. Season 6: Archie and Betty are fused together from the explosion and solve crazy mysteries as a weird riverdale pony tail 6 pack monster. 🤔
It's definitely a garbo show. But I will say that it's definitely a "it's so bad it's good" type show. Whenever a new season is dropped, I'm always both simultaneously hyped and dreading to watch the new episodes.
Why do I feel like when Riverdale actually finishes, it will turn out that everything that happened was Jughead's fever dream and their still in high school.
They're all perfectly normal well adjusted adults, 99% of this is exaggerated or never happened, like we find out Betty's dad is fine and instead of being exposed as a killer he was exposed as like, a petty vandal. Instead of Clifford killing Jason he just dramatically slapped him at a public event once. Instead of Alice joining an organ harvesting cult, she briefly joined a pyramid scheme and sold shampoo out of her car. Cheryl didn't burn down her house she just burnt like a patch of wood above the stove while trying to cook stovetop popcorn. The entire story was a crazy series of YA novels Jughead wrote and they're just toasting him at a book signing or something. People would lose their minds lol.
That actually makes a lot of sense. There's a number of things that happen in Riverdale that seem like they can only ever be done in dreams. Or dreamt by a person who is aspiring to be a writer.
There's a joke in American Dad that Francine cries when she watches Gray's Anatomy because she feels bad for the actors. I feel the same about this show. If I was Cole I wish I would have actually been killed off.
Season 1 was never good, but it wasn't awful. Season 2 became a trainwreck very quickly, and the rest I've only been keeping up thanks to Alex's videos because I just couldn't anymore. Better things to waste my time on!
Season 1 wasn't a good show, but it honestly wasn't horrible and I did enjoy watching it and riding the hype train. However, Things were beyond repair by the floating babies in season 3 :)
@@kaitlynncorley3548 That was the season where I was excited to watch every episode because I knew I was one episode closer to the last one I would ever watch
The Captain America joke killed me, I was cackling so loud I woke up my boyfriend 😂 Also this new witch plotline makes about as much sense as the rest of the show considering Betty and Cheryl share ancestors and the Coopers didn't exist back then.
@@estrellaelise2763 her mom was, not her - but that doesn't make sense either because her witch ancestor who is a Blossom looked just like Cheryl and Cheryl looked just like her mom 😂
@@aubriejohnson5291 the parts where they go back in time. They always re-use the main actors cause the way i see it they're imagining it so they're filling in the people with the faces of their friends. Also if i remember right both the coopers and the blossoms existed but at some point a blossom and a cooper had an affair or something. Wasn't that the plot, i might be misremembering? Don't get me wrong this shit still made 0 sense.
The fact that this man took the time to not only watch this complete dumpster fire of a season , but He also wrote a song about it! Like seriously that song is the reason why this is my top favorite video from Alex.
The whole Jughead Incident buildup really had me thinking it was going to be SA or some similar/related violation. Of course Riverdale would never be that real, I should've known better. Still, "fell into a freak sinkhole and had rabies hallucinations for three days in the sewers" was not anywhere near my bingo card 😳
I love Archie's face when Cheryl demands a public apology from them, since their ancestors killed her ancestors. He looks like he just became sentient and realized how ridiculous this show is. XD
Well that's probably the least ridiculous part of the show. Blaming people for the actions of their ancestors is an actual thing in the real world (white guilt anyone?)
this video is so well produced. everyone who helped create this deserves a pat on the back omg. The musical interlude, the video game style characters so goooood!
Upcoming titles Alex will eventually use to describe _Riverdale_ : "... is an abomination." "... is so dumb, it's straight-up evil." "... is an affront to humanity and God Himself." "... makes you thankful for the demise of humankind due to climate changes." "... makes you pray for the Apocalypse." .... And, of course: "... Hey - 'wasn't that bad."
"Veronica, if you want to save your Friends, you need to kill me.....and then let these creepy Brain Surgeons put my Brain in your Body so I can be young again and rule over the Galaxy....uh, I mean Riverdale."
I think it's lost on a lot of people that the source material for this show is a newspaper comic about high school friends just hanging out and one is a dofus who loves hamburgers. Let that sink in.
I think that just makes it even funnier, because the actual Archie Comics bar the issue with Kevin is forever stuck in the '50s to not anger the people who thought Archie marrying Valerie was too edgy.
Or Jughead was writing all of riverdale and that’s why it makes literally no sense cos these are all just really terrible drafts 🤞honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if they pulled that
That's too boring for this trainwreck of insanity. "It was all a dream happening in purgatory, which exists on an alien spaceship only they aren't really aliens, they're ghosts."
I read archie comics a lot as a kid, when this show came out I was so excited, now it iust sickens me that they used some of the best characters from my childhood for their horrible teen drama
Am I the only one that misses the first season? It was like the only season that I actually really enjoyed. How the freak did we go from a murder mystery to A L I E N S ?!
You're not the only one. The first season really was the most decent and grounded season. It was just a simple murder mystery in a small town that gave you twin peaks vibes. It was awesome. Now I just treat the show as a "it's so bad it's good" type one.
"Turning against your own blood mija?" I know that the writers always retcon everything all the time, but like.... Veronica and Hiram have been at each other's throats multiple times since season one
Alex: not angry about hiram being alive Also Alex: sings an entire song about how agonizing it is to have Hiram be alive. Seeing the thester kid come out is always spectacular.
@Anonymus X to me it seems that they want to make riverdale into something like CAOS cus alot more people like the series, It wasn't perfect but it was better and alot more loved than Riverdale, thats why Sabrina is coming to the show
My son just started listening to insaneintherain because he loves video games and now loves jazz/big band music. Your profile name caught my eye-just saved a couple albums for him to try out. I like what I’ve heard so far! 👍🏼
TWO good things: the wardrobe and costumes somehow got even better, especially for Betty, Toni, Cheryl, and Veronica. Still true to their prior fashion sense but a little more mature and sometimes more businesslike. Half the reason to watch this show is it looks pretty so it's a nice touch lol.
I thought they all looked ridiculous. Betty playing FBI and Archie playing a vet., fireman, etc., Veronica playing the she-wolf of wallstreet, jughead the bum, down on his luck writer, and Cheryl the witch. The whole thing was just hilarious. LMBO
They're seriously going to include Sabrina in Season 6, anyone else smell the "They're dead, but not really" plot hole for Betty and Archie? Because at this point, why not? With the inclusion of "Oh, you didn't actually die, it was all a dream/hallucination caused by the explosion that knocked you into a small coma." They managed to skirt around Jughead not dying, now it's another character's turn, since death in Riverdale is non-existent for main characters.
actually makes more sense than anything else, considering who Sabrina is and the fact that she's canonically part of the Archie Comics universe...Boy Meets World once did a crossover with the 90s Sabrina, THAT was a weird episode...
I mean, they probably just escaped. That seems to be more the show's speed. They keep hinting the main characters will die in the season finales, only to dispel it on episode one of the following season. My guess is they live. Anything else would mess with the status quo too much and these writers really cling to keeping everything mostly the same.
@@mnemeikyu9299 True, but by the time we see the final numbers, it's in Hiram's car. Meanwhile Archie was struggling to tell Betty there was a bomb, and they had to leave. If they did escape, it's probably with major to minor injuries, and possible head trauma. That trauma leads them to believe they died, and brought back by Sabrina. Either way, the inclusion of Sabrina, and the fate of Betty and Archie means something supernatural happens that they later write off to keep the status quo.
I haven't been watching this season, so I decided to binge watch all of Alex's videos about it today. I accidentally watched a few out of order, but it literally made no difference to my understanding of the plot. So that really says a lot 🙃
I thought the video was over with Alex’s rendition of Still Alive, but then it kept going! I always forget about Cheryl, for some reason… Loved the song!
They have been living with Alice the whole season five. They have been popping up here and there through the season.. I know because I still watch it even though it’s terrible.
The concept behind the timeskip was really neat and when they pick up with it they had so many interesting things they could have done. Shame they wasted it on aliens.
Smart of KJ to pitch that Captain America shield scene to the writers, knowing that they would love it, and that it will potentially launch him as a candidate for the new Captain America, if and when the time comes... I mean, I guess that's what happened... Well played, man.. Truly POG.
Same. Because I remember when they used to have fun. Now, it’s a literal chore and they’re continuing to bitch and complain about the show. If y’all didn’t want to be a part of it, then don’t sign the fuckin’ contracts.
The Portal song being repurposed for Riverdale is the absolute LAST thing I ever expected, but it is giving me LIFE Congrats, Alex, you managed to match Riverdale’s randomness tit for tat
I think one day CW is going to reveal to us that Riverdale was just a part of a social experiment. They're just trying to figure out what's the limit of stupidity people can watch.
There isn’t one
There's a limit for me. This season. Now the tape killers I could handle. But the rest of season 5 even excluding the finale is a no go for me
social experiment would be very on brand with cole sprouse being in it. anyone remembers the who thing with him and tumblr in like 2013?
so they'll pull a cole sprouse Tumblr experiment?
@@varisrevolver4061 yeah but for humanity? There are enough people out there who either love or subject themselves to trashy/bad tv
Riverdale just isn’t the same without the epic highs and lows of highschool football
The triumphs and defeats, the epic highs and lows of high school football
@@symon9847 and no ones dropped out of 4th grade to sell drugs to support their grandma. What is this nonsense
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I read it as the UPS and downs of high school football 😭
Dead 😂
I laughed so hard when Veronica finally gets a divorce to be with Archie and then BOOM next episode breaks up with him because she didn't feel seen... And then archie runs back to betty and she's all 'yup i want you too'. When? When did you? Oh honestly maybe magic existing here isn't the weirdest.
I hate Archie for messing with BOTH girls . This guy need to be alone for a long long long long time
As soon as Veronica realized Archie had no intentions of every trying to be rich and greedy, she bounced
@@Mr.Sigmamale for real 😭
@@thiernobarry4462 she was literally like hey Arch you trying live in the Pembrooke. He was like nah I’m good. Then hours later after he saved civilians from a burning building, she asked him, “where do you see yourself in 5 years?” He was like in riverdale helping out the town. Her body literally almost passed from the thought of being middle class and was like aight ima head out.
Lmao she says she hates her father but constantly was given allowance money and still tries to pretend she’s genuine. She also claimed she hated her husband because he was greedy but then shits on Archie for making an honest living.
Meanwhile, she also is illegally exploiting high school students for her own profit, wants summers in the vineyards, expensive clothes and to live lavishly in NYC. She’s the most spoiled, entitled and delusional character I’ve ever seen on television.
she literally KILLED HER EX in order to be with archie and then they broke up LMFAO
the "somehow Hiram is still alive" musical is the musical we all deserved
All his musicals are awesome, but this one is definitely the best one. 😂😂😂😂
Never thought anything could have topped 'Shut up you're not my real dad'. 😂😂😂
Haha yes
I wonder how many people have heard the original “Still Alive” from Portal that he’s spoofing.
@@josiahharrison9843 I recognized it immediately
@@theshire9173 I figured people that have heard it would, but it just occurred to me watching this, that the majority of current teens that populate TH-cam probably never played those games...
I feel like CW uses Riverdale as a money laundering operation
I legit c u in every vid I watch u cool
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For Old Navy?
That makes so much sense now
The only reason its still on the air...
How Cole is able to keep a serious face in his scenes remains a mystery to me. Damn boy, you graduated NYU, you are a great photographer, why do you punish yourself with this?
Money, lots and lots of it, I don't blame the actors for staying, but I can see it is killing them slowly😂
They have a contract for 7 seasons and to be honest riverdale wasn't that bad in the first season and now they can't leave till the contract ends.
I hear that they all have a contract to make 7 seasons so they got 2 more years of this torture. Though I'm sure they aren't complaining about the money this show generates.
Most of the actors openly hate Riverdale, and Cole especially has gone in interviews numerous times to talk about how awful the writing of Jughead has become. He's even refused to do certain things, like appear in musical numbers, in a desperate attempt to maintain the OG writing of his character.
Sadly they're all stuck in a 7-season contract and can't leave until then. But if you look at any interviews with literally any of the actors in the main cast it's very clear they're all waiting for it to end so they can GTFO
Good to hear he's a great photographer, I was worried he was leaning on acting as his main talent and he's not great at that.
Cheryl: “Water, Earth, Fire, Wind…”
Me: “Long ago the four nations lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when Riverdale attacked.”
"Heart!"
"By your powers combined, I am Captain Planet!"
And.... Rain.
"Do remember when it was time? September...."
@@TheSpawnfan Dammit! That was exactly what I wanted to say! 😄🤣
You mean everything changed when Hiram Lodge attacked
@Anonymus X AHHAJSDKLRKFNFLG
Riverdale feels like a college improv show that just won't end.
Lol, why does this comment remind me of barney's one man show from HIMYM? Too much of rewatching the show maybe? 😅😅
And not even a good one
@Hikamaru 💋🤤 tf?
I hate y’all cause it’s so freaking true😭
I'm thinking DnD with a GM who has lost 90% of their notes and are randomly string things together on the fly based on films they saw while drunk
I know we're all amazed by how stupid this whole show is, but imagine growing up with the OG comics and seeing them become this 😭 I'd be so pissed off
The OG comics, that I grew up reading are the whole reason I started watching this show in the first place. Can't even describe my feelings rn 🙂
@@shatabhishagayan7697 I reread the og comics to cleanse myself off of this :)
Me and my mom both loved the comics and where really surprised and exited that they were making a show of it, but kinda confused about why the adds looked so Moody. Then the show came out. I hated the existence of this show at first and would not watch it but my mom watched it and was very confused. I mean, didn’t Archie like date Miss Grundy or something? And they made her wayyy younger than in the comics. When I heard about that I knew this show would make no sense. My hatred for it calmed down because at least it’s bad enough to be interesting, but when looking for anything related to the Archie comics my hatred is reignited when I am bombarded with Riverdale crap as if the much better comics haven’t existed for decades.
I have and I am. But considering that ever CW show since Smallville has tried to be a supernatural knock off I'm not sure what I was expecting.
Mother’s Basement is someone who did and his video is basically him being pissed off exactly how you described
“WHY IS HIRAM STILL ALIVE” and “Hiram is literally carrying the whole show” are two thoughts that can and do coexist simultaneously
I am so sick of these bots.
@@eldritchkitty2396 I know right🙄
Yeah but his actor is now leaving the show
@@anthonylesley982 really ? It’s been confirmed ? He’s not going to be in season 6 then ?
@@anthonylesley982 good for him.
So, basically, Betty and Jughead are wannabe detectives, Veronica and Archie have broken up like 16 times over the course of 2 days, and Cheryl’s a witch. Got it.
Riverdale posted a gif of Reggie and Veronica on Twitter with the caption "Power couple alert", and I commented, "How many times are Archie and Veronica going to break up and date other people, then get back together? It just isn't a shocker anymore" lol and of course I got the stans telling me, "They aren't getting back together". How many times has everyone thought that over the course of the whole damn show?
Easy enough to get, right?!
Just your average storyline.
Trying so hard to reduce my sarcasm.
I don't think Cheryl is a witch.
@@eiffelviolet oh no she definitely is of some sort
And that's just a normal day of Riverdale
the fact that some people actually watches this show and takes the characters seriously is beyond me
I saw a fan page on Instagram the other day and I thought it was a joke at first
The Starkweathers wearing those Mad Max-like armors should be the final straw that this series has gone bonkers already. 😐
This is why I came down to a youtube comment section of each riverdale videos
i've only been watching for the Sabrina crossover buildup lmfao after that imma head out
i used to take it extremely seriously in 2017, when s1/s2 were out, me & my friends talked about it constantly... now the show is just a mess lol
There's a special place in my heart for actors in terrible TV shows and movies. I appreciate them collecting their paychecks for something that must be soul crushing.
I mean it kind of is an art form, like how do you say those lines seriously and without laughing?
Their contracts end in season 7, can't wait to see who's abandoning the show first.
@@biancaf.5731 Honestly it could be any of them.
Robert Pattinson dissing on twilight when twilight film was still going on is one of the most iconic and funny moments in Tv history
I dunno, I feel like it might be kind of fun because you don't have to be too attached to what dumb shit happens to your character. Like every script they get has got to be like "Whelp! Lets see what ridiculous shit happens to me this week. Oh, I start a cult! Fun!" And then they get to work on their acting chops by trying to say all these ridiculous lines with a straight face.
WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT HOW COOL THE CHARACTER INTROS ARE!
Exactlyyy
the animations are amazing!!!
I know!
I love the mega man intros
ITS SO COOL I POVW UT
I appreciate how they completely forgot that Betty’s ancestors and the same as Cheryls because they didn’t take the last name Copper until like Betty’s great-grandfather. So Betty’s ancestors are Cheryls ancestors so Beatrice Cooper (Betty’s relative who killed cheryls) couldn’t have existed. Your welcome
😭😭
but also cheryl calls betty cousin. so no but yes because riverdale
Their family wasn't that incest-y... Betty's father was Blossom by blood, but her mother was not - so ancestors from Alice side of family are NOT Cheryl's ancestors. And if current Coopers took surname later, there is possibility that they took it from towns other citizens that wasn't around anymore... Alice maiden surname was Smith, but at some point her ancestor could be Beatrice Cooper
literally died when veronica said "all i need is ARCHIE" LOL i thought she was going to say "all i need is to be away from you chad" or something but hey what do i know
omg sameeee, i cried laughing
Should be, all I need is archie, for like one and a half episodes
Then like the next episode they break up because Veronica wants to be her own person or something.
@@zackfozzy7506 exactly haha
Same💀
I have to give credit to Madelaine Petsch here. She seems like the only one who's actually still having a good time being on this show, probably because her storyline is so batshit crazy that you can't help but try and have fun with it.
She must get her scripts and just go ‘wtf’ haha but she absolutely sells it every time.
I think she's the only one who knows exactly what type of show she's in, and therefore plays the over-the-top wackiness with just enough conviction to make it believable, in its own bizarre way (I mean, YOU try saying half of Cheryl's lines without having fits of hysterical laughter, the fact that she can breeze through them while still displaying such charisma and personality really demonstrates her skill). In every episode of Riverdale, Betty and Jughead are always the most boring characters, because you can practically feel Lili Reinhardt and Cole Sprouse dying on camera, trying to somehow make the most ridiculous lines and the most ludicrous plot twists sound heavy and important, whereas I feel like both Madeleine and the writer Roberto Aguirre Sacasa have really latched onto Cheryl, making her this crazy camp icon utterly detached from any sort of realism, and therefore fitting Riverdale like a glove.
I started liking Cheryl when I started seeing her like a Shakespearean villain. It makes her character more acceptable.
@@niktri8312 and Archie is just an anime protagonist were crazy shit happens to but he has to play off like it doesn’t have any effect over him. Veronica’s actor is trying her best to play it like Madelaine but she’s being given average to boring shit to say and do.
We all know Cheryl is the star the rest of the cast is just filling time.
"And somehow Hiram is still alive, still alive,... STILL ALIIIIIIIIIVE !!"
That song is a BANGER !!
@@mwu365 I know, thanks.
Cheryl's a God, Archie is the next Captain America, Betty is a super agent, Jughead is a writer and fighter, Veronica is an assassin, so basically their the new Avengers?
Cheryl is the scarlet witch
😩😂💀💀
@@charminsi So.....she will brainwash a whole Town and suffer no consequences for it?
Nooooooo….. do not, I repeat, do not ruin the avengers for me. lol
@@saraatiqi Same 😩🤣🤣
Crazy take: Hiram is actually the hero of the show he is trying to actually save us by killing the main characters
LMAO but they’re going to give Hiram another backstory like is his mom or his dad or his secret twin died b4 they could buy all of Riverdale
Well he continues to do a piss poor job of it. Fuck just nuke riverdale. Please god please.
@@camilagrijalva4109 Hiram left the show
Couldn't be truer, when Mr Weird (Jughead) dies I'll be very happy
He only been trying to kill Archie, and Archie is just a super soldier.
Has anyone ever met a riverdale fan in person? Im convinced they are just myths now. How this show still has an audience should be counted as one of lifes greatest mysteries.
bruh one of my friends is OBSESSED with this show. like she understands the writing is terrible but she still loves it. idk how
Any riverdale "fan" only watches the show because of how ridiculous it is so they can laugh, I can't think of a single person who takes this show seriously
The other day, I saw someone wearing the South Side Serpents jacket. I was so shocked. Then I see this girl was something like 12 or 13 and I thought "here's why". She's a kid so that makes sense, she'll grow out of it.
@@simplyawful543 I was going to say the same thing, I think part of the reason I like Riverdale is because of how mindless and silly it is. It's like reality TV with a predictable plot line and less screaming, I watch it to fall asleep at night haha. 😂
I absolutely love this show and I'm not a kid. 55 years old and can't get enough.
Alex’s musical numbers are so much better than whatever Riverdale is doing
Well obviously. Not to be rude
@@pinkwooper5129Duh (not being rude)
Well, they are covers of existing songs. At least, a couple of them are. "Still Alive" is the song from "Portal".
@@KeybladeMasterAndy it was better i found this comment and didnt have to make it. thank you.
And I thought Shut Up Your Not My Real Dad was my favorite song
I honestly am shocked that anyone actually watches this show and doesn't just keep up to date with it through Alex's videos
i dont watch it i just watch these vids
It's how I keep up to date with Riverfail
I do. I only watched season 1 and part of 2.
@@snoopygonewilder oof, same
@@snoopygonewilder omg exactly what i did
I thought Veronica was gonna say “all I need is you out of my life chad” and I was like 💅🏽 Yes queen ! Know your worth! Don’t stoop to his level! .. suffice it to say i laughed out loud due to shock and the sheer ridiculousness of her saying ‘all I need is ARCHIE! ‘😂
The funny part to me its that i could totally see her saying that in the comics.
I thought the same as well
even the face she makes like a toddler bragging
Like fr and then one or two episodes later. I feel invisible let's break up 💀 literally objectified herself to the stereotype of women needing men
Completely Lost it at that “captain America” line.
Season 6: Archie and Betty are fused together from the explosion and solve crazy mysteries as a weird riverdale pony tail 6 pack monster. 🤔
Naw, they are gonna be cyborgs or zombies or saved by Sabrina . which ever is the most stupid
@@lucassousa-nm1qm makes sense since Sabrina is coming to the show
shh dont give them ideas
Same I almost fell off the bed laughing
*YCenSoN is love, YCenSoN is life??? 😎😎😎**How is your mother doing??? 😳😳😳😳😳 Has she subethed to YCenSoN??? please do please do*
As someone who's only seen this show because of Alex Meyers, I can't help but be amazed at how much worse it becomes with every video upload.
Is commenting on TH-cam videos your professional career?
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I love the fact that I have never watched this show but religiously watch the updates because Alex Meyers is that entertaining.
It's definitely a garbo show. But I will say that it's definitely a "it's so bad it's good" type show. Whenever a new season is dropped, I'm always both simultaneously hyped and dreading to watch the new episodes.
Okay but Hiram’s last scene is fucking priceless. Like he just laughs evilly and drives off. The absolute unit.
spike c:
Right! He is all chad
Eh in my eyes he's a hero this season. Bulldoze over that fucking cursed town please
@@lilac.mascara Hiram Lodge: The Hero Riverdale Deserves But Not the One it Needs
Best part of the season ngl
Man lost but he took them with him
let's be real here, alex's song was better than any of the attempted musical thingy of the whole show
I wanna hear more songs like this from him, man can sing
That's because it's a cover of Glados' "Still alive"
YES
So, let me get this straight, Cheryl is the Avatar now???
(Also side note, the pixel art for the character selection is amazing 😍)
And a witch now
the intros for each characters are getting more and more intricate as videos go on and i LOVE it
Is the kind of dedication we’d expect from the actual production of the show.
He should review the show Prodigal Son next it has been canceled but,
I think it would make a great video.
Intros are more interesting than the show itself LOL
The fact he is still enduring the pain and suffering of riverfail for our entertainment. Also he just overall deserves some award
Absolutely!
What a guy
I mean, it's not a fail if it has hundreds of thousands of viewers and makes a ton of money
he Loves it.
CW cancels shows so easily so I don’t think riverdale is a fail...more like its fanbase is built different
The Captain America comment about Archie had me ROLLING
Alex: "This show is slowly killing us all"
Also Alex: Puts on a whole broadway musical just for us
.....A review and a show who knew!
"A whole Broadway musical" = A cover with slightly different lyrics of Portal's "Still alive" song
I NEED A PORTAL 3!
If Riverdale is killing us Alex's videos are keeping us alive
Why do I feel like when Riverdale actually finishes, it will turn out that everything that happened was Jughead's fever dream and their still in high school.
This might be the only ending that will make this show make sense
They're all perfectly normal well adjusted adults, 99% of this is exaggerated or never happened, like we find out Betty's dad is fine and instead of being exposed as a killer he was exposed as like, a petty vandal. Instead of Clifford killing Jason he just dramatically slapped him at a public event once. Instead of Alice joining an organ harvesting cult, she briefly joined a pyramid scheme and sold shampoo out of her car. Cheryl didn't burn down her house she just burnt like a patch of wood above the stove while trying to cook stovetop popcorn. The entire story was a crazy series of YA novels Jughead wrote and they're just toasting him at a book signing or something. People would lose their minds lol.
@@KaiInMotion that would be perfect.
That actually makes a lot of sense. There's a number of things that happen in Riverdale that seem like they can only ever be done in dreams. Or dreamt by a person who is aspiring to be a writer.
@@KaiInMotion someone pin this. I would die for this.
Riverdale is a grand social experiment designed to ask the question "How far can hot actors carry a show?"
The answer is: Very far.
That “Hiram is Still Alive” musical is more dramatic than the epic ups and downs of high school football
its a better musical than riverdale coulds ever hope for
I think the video should have ended there....who cares about Cherly.
The way you could barely finish saying "Archie is Captain America now" 😂😂😂
Seriously, when he threw that garbage lid, it was so hilarious. Had me cracking so much! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I mean, theyre both more or less the same age in real life. (The characters, not the actors)
I got so fucking weak 😭😂
There's a joke in American Dad that Francine cries when she watches Gray's Anatomy because she feels bad for the actors. I feel the same about this show. If I was Cole I wish I would have actually been killed off.
I remember that joke LOL
Damn, you just reminded me that Grey's Anatomy is STILL going. Fuck me, the actors must be just done with the show.
@@jjpark98 You think they're done? Look at the SVU cast
@@stelena1406 Why did you insult SVU?
@@kendrarasberry3078 I didn't. I said the cast after like 20-21 years of the same shit they must be tired.
The Polly death scene shows that these actors deserve so much better.
No I feel like that was an under-reaction to seeing the dead body of ur family member….
Nah
Fr, I kinda fell out of touch with the show, but Polly dying still hit hard.
@@meemr1479 it's shock, they were both shocked
My only question here: "How long has she been in this car, bc that smell must be ... well ... ew."
It feels like a fever dream that Riverdale season 1 was actually pretty good and now we have this
I don't know ... was it? All it did was make me want to watch the next one cause I thought it would finally go somewhere
Season 1 was never good, but it wasn't awful. Season 2 became a trainwreck very quickly, and the rest I've only been keeping up thanks to Alex's videos because I just couldn't anymore. Better things to waste my time on!
Season 1 wasn't a good show, but it honestly wasn't horrible and I did enjoy watching it and riding the hype train. However, Things were beyond repair by the floating babies in season 3 :)
@@kaitlynncorley3548 That was the season where I was excited to watch every episode because I knew I was one episode closer to the last one I would ever watch
The Captain America joke killed me, I was cackling so loud I woke up my boyfriend 😂 Also this new witch plotline makes about as much sense as the rest of the show considering Betty and Cheryl share ancestors and the Coopers didn't exist back then.
Cheryl was adopted remember ?! So this makes even LESS sense
@@estrellaelise2763 her mom was, not her - but that doesn't make sense either because her witch ancestor who is a Blossom looked just like Cheryl and Cheryl looked just like her mom 😂
@@aubriejohnson5291 the parts where they go back in time. They always re-use the main actors cause the way i see it they're imagining it so they're filling in the people with the faces of their friends. Also if i remember right both the coopers and the blossoms existed but at some point a blossom and a cooper had an affair or something. Wasn't that the plot, i might be misremembering? Don't get me wrong this shit still made 0 sense.
Let’s all be honest Archie probably shielded Betty with his abs
Best comment ever
Stronger than vibranium
@@hello7032 LMAOO
Archie has the abs of a Nintendo Gameboy.
I guess it goes without saying that Cole Sprouse has had that ‘I want out of this show now’ look for the whole season.
Is nobody gonna talk about how cool that character select screen is?!
The fact that this man took the time to not only watch this complete dumpster fire of a season , but He also wrote a song about it! Like seriously that song is the reason why this is my top favorite video from Alex.
Still alive is a song from portal, dude.
He did change some of the lyrics tho.
No I love the abs song and shut up ur not my real dad
I Swear I can never get enough Alex Meyers 🔥
He’s too cool for the internet
Couldn’t be more true
Omg @baba I love your videos😁🤩
Lol th-cam.com/video/BC5cErmspgk/w-d-xo.html
Hi
Facts
The whole Jughead Incident buildup really had me thinking it was going to be SA or some similar/related violation. Of course Riverdale would never be that real, I should've known better. Still, "fell into a freak sinkhole and had rabies hallucinations for three days in the sewers" was not anywhere near my bingo card 😳
me who has never seen even a single epsode of Riverdale: "Oh my god, I can't believe hiram is still alive!"
Yeah didn't he have some kind of muscle disease they just forgot about
"What is this, an execution? And you guys are what, like my executioners?" Someone was paid good money to write this line
What are we... Some kinda... Suicide Squad?
Palpatine has.. somehow... returned..
I hate sand!
"I would start walking Daddy"
Can we just take a moment to appreciate the "Hiram is still alive" song.
Dude, the effort you put in these videos! Hat's off!
“I’m still not following”
“I’m out”
Kevin describes my feelings perfectly
I love Archie's face when Cheryl demands a public apology from them, since their ancestors killed her ancestors. He looks like he just became sentient and realized how ridiculous this show is. XD
Than she goes and curses the ancestors again? And for what 🤦♀️
KJ forgot he was supposed to act and not show his real feelings
Well that's probably the least ridiculous part of the show. Blaming people for the actions of their ancestors is an actual thing in the real world (white guilt anyone?)
I didn't expect to hear "Still Alive" again after so many years, but that was the greatest thing to come out of this terrible show. 10/10
The dude who plays Hyram finally found the dignity to leave this hellscape
wym?
@@rubyyy325 Alex literally mentions in the video the actor who plays him has left the show.
Yeah him and the actress who plays Hermione are leaving. Hopefully skeet Ulrich and Molly ringwald can leave this hellscape as well
@@Sara-dp5dg Skeet left already too
@@shawneeblubb8084 oh thank god
'because jOkeS oN YoU Archie is - literally captain aMeRicAnow?!" *wheeze*
I can‘t breathe 😂😂
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Lol as soon as I saw your comment he said it
😂 I hope I didn't wake my neighbors by laughing for 5 min.
i mean he fought a bear
this video is so well produced. everyone who helped create this deserves a pat on the back omg. The musical interlude, the video game style characters so goooood!
Upcoming titles Alex will eventually use to describe _Riverdale_ :
"... is an abomination."
"... is so dumb, it's straight-up evil."
"... is an affront to humanity and God Himself."
"... makes you thankful for the demise of humankind due to climate changes."
"... makes you pray for the Apocalypse."
.... And, of course: "... Hey - 'wasn't that bad."
You put more time and effort into the transitions than the Riverdale writers put into the script 😭
"Somehow Hiram is still alive" has the same but opposite energy of "Somehow Palpatine returned"
"Veronica, if you want to save your Friends, you need to kill me.....and then let these creepy Brain Surgeons put my Brain in your Body so I can be young again and rule over the Galaxy....uh, I mean Riverdale."
I think it's lost on a lot of people that the source material for this show is a newspaper comic about high school friends just hanging out and one is a dofus who loves hamburgers. Let that sink in.
Ikr. I can't believe what they've done with the sweet fun Archie comics 😭😭
I think that just makes it even funnier, because the actual Archie Comics bar the issue with Kevin is forever stuck in the '50s to not anger the people who thought Archie marrying Valerie was too edgy.
I don’t even understand how or why they did what they did 😀
How did it devolve to this
It's really weird seeing this show and also remembering as a kid reading Archie comics.
10:55 If you had only shifted your characters’s arm to my right after the “I”, you’re hand would be the “V”
Missed opportunity
Final season plot twist: “it was all a dream”.
Or Jughead was writing all of riverdale and that’s why it makes literally no sense cos these are all just really terrible drafts 🤞honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if they pulled that
That's too boring for this trainwreck of insanity.
"It was all a dream happening in purgatory, which exists on an alien spaceship only they aren't really aliens, they're ghosts."
Final plot twist: it was all Jason Blossom on a drug trip... Or dying hallucinations.
@@kinkydao9646 I thought you said Jason Borne, and yeah, that'd be a hell of a twist.
I don't even know how I'd feel about that.
Can it even be called a cop out? Or cheap?
I’m too lazy to keep up with Riverdale but I’m still invested in the plot so I just keep up by watching Alexes videos lol
I don't even watch Riverdale but I watch Alexes videos, my mum does watch Riverdale and I'm more caught up then she is.
I feel like you've just expressed the collective experience of so many people who watch this channel haha
@@athena450 Yeah, there's only a few videos from Alex that I've watch the movie/series before and some that I watch after but no many
You are not lazy, you just have a sense of consistency and brain. Sometimes uncomprehensible for the writers
What plot tho
11:06 the songs in this “series “ of videos are all just way too good for what they are
I read archie comics a lot as a kid, when this show came out I was so excited, now it iust sickens me that they used some of the best characters from my childhood for their horrible teen drama
SAME IT HURTS SO MUCH
This. All of this.
Truth
Am I the only one that misses the first season? It was like the only season that I actually really enjoyed.
How the freak did we go from a murder mystery to A L I E N S ?!
Sometimes I'll go back and watch the first season and think how did it drop so low so fast.
Same, I remember this show being a simple teen drama with a murder, now all of the sudden they all have superpowers and shit 😂 how did we get here?
disagree i think the first Season is pretty ... Boring
That's the only season i see
You're not the only one. The first season really was the most decent and grounded season. It was just a simple murder mystery in a small town that gave you twin peaks vibes. It was awesome. Now I just treat the show as a "it's so bad it's good" type one.
"Turning against your own blood mija?" I know that the writers always retcon everything all the time, but like.... Veronica and Hiram have been at each other's throats multiple times since season one
Alex: not angry about hiram being alive
Also Alex: sings an entire song about how agonizing it is to have Hiram be alive.
Seeing the thester kid come out is always spectacular.
"They ask you how you are and you just have to say that you're fine
When you're not fine, when you're not really fine but they would never understand"
Hiram is to Riverdale as Sylar is to Heroes except it's somehow so much worse.
I guess Cheryl's having powers makes sense as to why Sabrina spellman is going to be in the next season.... cheryl's a witch
Honestly im not even surprised with her family history witcraft kind of makes sense to me
I don't understand the whole "Betty your ancestor killed mine" thing. I thought the Coopers were Blossoms 4 generations ago???
@Anonymus X to me it seems that they want to make riverdale into something like CAOS cus alot more people like the series,
It wasn't perfect but it was better and alot more loved than Riverdale, thats why Sabrina is coming to the show
@Anonymus X in my defense ive seen exactly one episode of Riverdale
I swear Alex's song about Riverdale just keep getting better.
And longer! I love Alex.
Hahahah that's hilarious... amazing work I am honored to have my Portal cover parodied by you. Thanks for having us!
Yo
My son just started listening to insaneintherain because he loves video games and now loves jazz/big band music. Your profile name caught my eye-just saved a couple albums for him to try out. I like what I’ve heard so far! 👍🏼
Literally only came to the comments to see how many people noticed that the music was portals still alive
Link?
'Is this a public execution? What are you my executioners?'
The writing in this show 🤣
I wasn’t the only one that knew that line was odd 😅😂
He rlly thought these people were gonna chop off his head circa 17th century French style
@A amen
Riverdale: here’s a shitty season 5
Alex: Finally! Here’s my chance to drop the most epic video ever!
The only thing good about this time skip was the fact they now play characters closer to their actual age. Also this song is a masterpiece
TWO good things: the wardrobe and costumes somehow got even better, especially for Betty, Toni, Cheryl, and Veronica. Still true to their prior fashion sense but a little more mature and sometimes more businesslike. Half the reason to watch this show is it looks pretty so it's a nice touch lol.
I thought they all looked ridiculous. Betty playing FBI and Archie playing a vet., fireman, etc., Veronica playing the she-wolf of wallstreet, jughead the bum, down on his luck writer, and Cheryl the witch. The whole thing was just hilarious. LMBO
I love how Archie saw a bomb under the bed but still felt the need to pause for dramatic effect.
Was not expecting a full musical number at the end of this. Thank you.
Whenever I think my fifth graders aren't good writers, I watch a season of Riverdale and thank God their writing makes more sense than this show's
They're seriously going to include Sabrina in Season 6, anyone else smell the "They're dead, but not really" plot hole for Betty and Archie? Because at this point, why not? With the inclusion of "Oh, you didn't actually die, it was all a dream/hallucination caused by the explosion that knocked you into a small coma." They managed to skirt around Jughead not dying, now it's another character's turn, since death in Riverdale is non-existent for main characters.
actually makes more sense than anything else, considering who Sabrina is and the fact that she's canonically part of the Archie Comics universe...Boy Meets World once did a crossover with the 90s Sabrina, THAT was a weird episode...
I mean, they probably just escaped. That seems to be more the show's speed. They keep hinting the main characters will die in the season finales, only to dispel it on episode one of the following season. My guess is they live. Anything else would mess with the status quo too much and these writers really cling to keeping everything mostly the same.
@@mnemeikyu9299 True, but by the time we see the final numbers, it's in Hiram's car. Meanwhile Archie was struggling to tell Betty there was a bomb, and they had to leave. If they did escape, it's probably with major to minor injuries, and possible head trauma. That trauma leads them to believe they died, and brought back by Sabrina. Either way, the inclusion of Sabrina, and the fate of Betty and Archie means something supernatural happens that they later write off to keep the status quo.
@@rainestar82 True, I remember that one.
We must give the actors an Oscar. I mean, they do what they do without phoning in or cracking up. Underrated
This seems like hands down one of the stupidest shows ever made.
Hirem Lodge is the best character. I actually want him to blow up Riverdale. Just out of spite.
After seeing his back story I started to like him . Everyone else so damn confusing .
I haven't been watching this season, so I decided to binge watch all of Alex's videos about it today. I accidentally watched a few out of order, but it literally made no difference to my understanding of the plot. So that really says a lot 🙃
The best part of Riverdale is that guy singing how bad the season was. That guy who had those amazing vocal chops needs a raise.
They will turn up mid season with some awfully unrealistic reason why they didn't die in the explosion
Don’t be ridiculous, they will be in the first episode. It’s about par for the course with this show.
Archie's abs. That's the reason.
They'll probably say that their ancestors protected them from the blast From The Beyond and be in the first episode with barely a scratch.
I thought the video was over with Alex’s rendition of Still Alive, but then it kept going! I always forget about Cheryl, for some reason… Loved the song!
what doesn’t make sense is how cheryl was taking care of the twins after polly died but they were never seen or mentioned again lol
I think alice still has the twins they just stayed with Cheryl for a few days.
They have been living with Alice the whole season five. They have been popping up here and there through the season.. I know because I still watch it even though it’s terrible.
Honestly if we find out that Cheryl is actually a witch and she has magic powers I will lowkey start watching Riverdale again
Me too.
Well she was queen of bees in one episode
I read somewhere that Sabrina was going to be in it so it’s possible
@@mr.pinkbread ah shit I forgot they are in the same cinematic universe
@@mr.pinkbread is Sabrina nearly as bad as Riverdale? If yes then I am watching 🤣
The concept behind the timeskip was really neat and when they pick up with it they had so many interesting things they could have done. Shame they wasted it on aliens.
If Riverdale was just Alex singing recaps over and over again maybe I'd actually watch it
The day this show gets cancelled will be a sad day for us/this channel
The amount of down right CRAZY storylines we've had with Cheryl. Like holy shit that girls need a psych ward
It’s always nice to hear a bit of Portal whilst talking about a show that I’ve never watched before
Smart of KJ to pitch that Captain America shield scene to the writers, knowing that they would love it, and that it will potentially launch him as a candidate for the new Captain America, if and when the time comes... I mean, I guess that's what happened...
Well played, man.. Truly POG.
Who knew these actors would be better off playing teens than actual adults
Same. Because I remember when they used to have fun. Now, it’s a literal chore and they’re continuing to bitch and complain about the show.
If y’all didn’t want to be a part of it, then don’t sign the fuckin’ contracts.
Please make a video on season 6 as soon as possible. I'm loosing my mind with every episode 😭😭
As soon as I saw the musical episode I was like “OMG I can’t wait for Alex’s next video”. You’re so much more entertaining then Riverdale
i skipped that episode. i just couldnt get through it
@@hellsbellas ya it was painful lol
Alex losing it over Archie throwing the 'shield' made me have to pause I was laughing so hard 😂
Alex's musical play was better than every musical number on this series combined
Riverdale should sponsor you, Alex. Soon enough it’ll have the characters playing a virtual reality game of themselves.
The Portal song being repurposed for Riverdale is the absolute LAST thing I ever expected, but it is giving me LIFE
Congrats, Alex, you managed to match Riverdale’s randomness tit for tat