TV Series Review: Riverdale

THERE ARE SOME SPOILERS IN THE REVIEW.

Hello readers,

I am back with the first television series review of 2017 and before I start, I would like to wished the Chinese readers a Happy Lunar New Year! May this year be an awesome period and blessed with joys all year round. The television series review I will be doing is for this latest series based on Archie Comics, Riverdale.

Riverdale starred unfamiliar faces including Archie Andrews played by K.J. Apa who is hailed from New Zealand. Despite several changes including Judgehead's usual crown becoming a beanie (played by Cole Spouse) and the physical appearance of Archie differs from the actual comics, Riverdale nevertheless blends the mystery, the tenseness and unraveling secrets between characters and the surroundings. The story follows the town of the same name where on the Fourth of July, Jason Blossom went missing and hence, the sudden disappearance became a talk of the town and the start of the whole drama which will go on throughout the series.

As a person who has flipped through several Archie Comics in my early days, I was rather excited about Riverdale as it was mentioned on the radio channel I usually listened to before school. I remembered especially Archie's friendships with Betty and Veronica because they were crucial in the comics. Here in Riverdale, the pilot episode offered us a wonderful glimpse of the three coming together and you could just feel the tenseness in the relationships, the craving and desire were steady increasing. As the episode continued, we learnt of why Archie seemed indecisive in his own choices, leaving his father giving a thoughtful advise which he mentioned every decision that is made will have its own consequence (great advise). Archie's relationship with Judgehead could be seen when they were at the diner and given the context, it is likely Archie did something which Judgehead hoped he would not make the same mistake with Betty: going the long way round.

With the dramas coming in and the characters' intentions and secrets are slowly revealing time after time, Riverdale had a good start with introduction of the main characters and the retelling of the mystery circumstances around the golden boy, Jason including the ending. This pilot episode was straightforward and that is a good point of the series, not time consuming and definitely cut to the chase. If you haven't watched Riverdale, you should give this series a watch which will leave you praying for the next episode to come faster.

Ratings: 7/10