Basically my friends love this show and can't get enough of it, so I tried watching the first couple of episodes, and had a really hard time getting into it, or seeing what all the hype is about.
What I don't get is, is that this show is suppose to be based off the Archie comics. But it tries to be dark and controversial, and it keeps falling flat on it's face, cause it's Archie. It wants to be Desperate Housewives, and has a similar vibe to it, with a mystery murder that took place, and one of the characters, narrating the story, in a similar fashion.
But I don't see how you can put something as lighthearted and silly as the Archie comics onto a Desperate Housewives like adaptation.
I mean that would be like redoing Breaking Bad, and at the last minute of writing, the producer's say "Hey, we need to put The Flinstones in this, dark gritty crime drama about a family man in the drug underworld.
It just doesn't work. I kept laughing with the show uninentionally throughout the first two episodes, and laughing at it, just to keep from crying. Now I am no prude. I love dark drama movies, and plenty of my favorites are those. In fact my friends tell me my taste is too dark and depressing sometimes in movies.
But at least those movies try to be taken seriously, where as this tries to bring the Archie comics into it!
Now this show does have a really good idea to start off with I think. A high school boy, is having an affair with one of his school teachers, and they both are witnesses two a murder, but do not want to tell, cause they don't want to get into trouble. That is a solid idea for a controversial drama right there. But not for Archie and Ms. Grundy!
Also, the show wants to be dark and controversial, but I feel it also doesn't have the guts to go all the way. For one thing, Ms. Grundy is not even that much older looking than Archie, and she looks 25-30, tops. If they want to go this route, they could at least have gotten an actress in her late 40s to early 50s for the role, and there plenty of hot actresses that age. But they don't even have the guts to go that far, and want to be controversial, yet play it so safe.
So the show has two significant flaws:
1. The controversial subject matter doesn't work cause it's Archie.
2. It's not willing to go all the way with it's controversial subject matter, and even if it did, it still doesn't work cause it's Archie.
So it doesn't work either way, cause the whole concept is a clash of contradictions from all sides.
Also, so far in the show they introduce characters which have nothing to do with this murder plot, and they feel random and forced, like Josey and the Pussycats, and Moose, who is now gay. But the homosexuality is not treated as naturally being part of the story, and feels like such a random forced subplot, again trying to be controversial in the Archie universe, just for the sake of being controversial, and it also causes a lot of unnecessary laughs.
But maybe it's just me? What do you think?
What I don't get is, is that this show is suppose to be based off the Archie comics. But it tries to be dark and controversial, and it keeps falling flat on it's face, cause it's Archie. It wants to be Desperate Housewives, and has a similar vibe to it, with a mystery murder that took place, and one of the characters, narrating the story, in a similar fashion.
But I don't see how you can put something as lighthearted and silly as the Archie comics onto a Desperate Housewives like adaptation.
I mean that would be like redoing Breaking Bad, and at the last minute of writing, the producer's say "Hey, we need to put The Flinstones in this, dark gritty crime drama about a family man in the drug underworld.
It just doesn't work. I kept laughing with the show uninentionally throughout the first two episodes, and laughing at it, just to keep from crying. Now I am no prude. I love dark drama movies, and plenty of my favorites are those. In fact my friends tell me my taste is too dark and depressing sometimes in movies.
But at least those movies try to be taken seriously, where as this tries to bring the Archie comics into it!
Now this show does have a really good idea to start off with I think. A high school boy, is having an affair with one of his school teachers, and they both are witnesses two a murder, but do not want to tell, cause they don't want to get into trouble. That is a solid idea for a controversial drama right there. But not for Archie and Ms. Grundy!
Also, the show wants to be dark and controversial, but I feel it also doesn't have the guts to go all the way. For one thing, Ms. Grundy is not even that much older looking than Archie, and she looks 25-30, tops. If they want to go this route, they could at least have gotten an actress in her late 40s to early 50s for the role, and there plenty of hot actresses that age. But they don't even have the guts to go that far, and want to be controversial, yet play it so safe.
So the show has two significant flaws:
1. The controversial subject matter doesn't work cause it's Archie.
2. It's not willing to go all the way with it's controversial subject matter, and even if it did, it still doesn't work cause it's Archie.
So it doesn't work either way, cause the whole concept is a clash of contradictions from all sides.
Also, so far in the show they introduce characters which have nothing to do with this murder plot, and they feel random and forced, like Josey and the Pussycats, and Moose, who is now gay. But the homosexuality is not treated as naturally being part of the story, and feels like such a random forced subplot, again trying to be controversial in the Archie universe, just for the sake of being controversial, and it also causes a lot of unnecessary laughs.
But maybe it's just me? What do you think?
Last edited by ironpony; 05-18-17 at 09:16 PM.