TV 2019~
Best, Worst, and Weirdest: Riverdale
Riverdale is not good and it is not bad. It transcends goodness and badness to exist on a plane all its own, where teens own speakeasys, and other teens don masks to become vigilante crime fighters, and other teens recover from their late father's career as a serial killer, and other teens keep their dead brothers in the chapel they have in their basement. Jughead writing murder mysteries while trying to solve possible murders while we all fear for his own murder is the most normal thing happening. There's something comforting about how bonkers this show is, independent from how bonkers real life became this year. And never forget that 2019 is the year Archie Andrews got attacked by a bear.