Well, they fucking got me.
I honestly cursed aloud when I realized that Riverdale had actually pulled off a twist on my ass – the fed on Archie turned out to be a plant by the Lodges to assure his commitment to them, and I didn’t see it coming, focused as I was by Cheryl’s liquid lipstick game and the fact that Madchen Amick has FINALLY stepped back up into the main cast proper. Anyway, there’s a lot to cover this week, so let’s dive in.
Well, after a week like last week, there’s always going to be a drop-off.
And that’s not to say that this week’s ACS: Versace outing, House by the Lake, is a bad one, by any means. But after last week’s total blinder of an episode, whatever comes next is going to feel less fully-formed by comparison.
Another month, another Carrie recap. And a brief aside to remind you, with the new movie coming out, that the recap project I so cruelly abandoned in order to take this one on was Fifty Shades Freed, and that you can catch up on all those recaps before the movie (“movie”) comes out here. On with the recap!
I wanted to like this one, I really did.
That’s right, I said it – I’m a Gerard Butler fan now.
When Riverdale does genre, it does genre hard. And this week, as it turns it’s hand to mobster movies, that pays off big-time.
How did Get Out become one of the only awards-bait horror movies of the last few decades?
Ah, man. I stand by everything I said last week about whether it’s defensible to use violent crimes like this for entertainment, and whether ACS: Versace was specifically passable in that sense or not, but fuck me if that wasn’t just a fantastic fifty minutes of TV.
Let’s start Oscar Season with the most Oscarbaity of the bunch!
The Cutprice Guignol 