It's very much the definition of "so much better than it has to be." I mean, they got Jeanine Tesori (Fun Home) and David Lindsay-Abaire (Rabbit Hole) to do the adaptation, and those guys don't fuck around. It manages to be a faithful adaptation of the fun irreverence of the film, while actually acknowledging the…

I remember a quote in some movie magazine saying "are the adventurers gay? Well, they're only as gay as Crosby and Hope were, so… kinda?"

I thought the episode was going to end with a two-gunshot murder/suicide from the alleyway, with the Gang doing a slow burn and then, "…nice" in unison.

His blackness may plug into it, but at the same time I would wager his facial scars and gravelly voice play an equal if not greater role. More than being just a "scary black man," he is a physically distinctive actor.

Fun fact: Criss's driver's license still has his birth name, "Discount Ryan Gosling."

Best final shot of a movie ever? Maybe.

In the Archie reboot, the point of the character is that he has a good heart and musical skills, but is more or less shit at everything else. Scatterbrained, clumsy and awkward, he's never found a situation he couldn't inadvertently ruin or a friendship he can't accidentally derail, so his friends are always trying to…

I misread this as "Pepe Silvia is standing in for justice."

Yeah. It's just an implied facial with photoshopped "brown sauce." Instagram-friendly shorthand for "she just had sex with the black dude."

He's got every variant version of "Golden Age of Wireless," and nothing else.

They're all smart too, with the exception of a few characters like Moose, maybe Reggie. If you're in AP English, your American Lit class will cover at least a few of the authors they've name-dropped. I know I had a fair amount of Truman Capote and August Wilson in high school.

His first lamp will light admirably. He will then light a few candles nobody notices, then light a lamp so blazing bright, it almost burns down everything in its path. From that point onward, he will be known as "the guy who lit that one huge lamp," no matter what he does after.

The scene where PenguIn tries his best to sing opera was one of the best tragicomic moments in BTAS; it worked well for Penguin and as a reference to Williams and his own distinctive but extremely limited range.

The gender swapped counterpart of Mary Poppins is Willy Wonka.

We need less smooth Keith Stone Mitch Jarvis, and more trashy unhinged Rock of Ages Mitch Jarvis.

One of the trademarks of the Archie franchise in the past few decades is that nobody has any apparent bigotries or prejudices. They've done a pretty good job keeping the characters from feeling token-ish, though it doesn't always play; Riverdale may be almost as progressive as Night Vale, but you'd think there would…

I thought he was going to say "fuck God, I am God." Which even today would be a shocking statement.

The only cover of the Archies we really need is Jellyfish doing "Sugar and Spice," complete with psychedelic freakout in the middle.

Watching with my best friend, she described it as "Heathers, but more so." I described it as "What if early American Horror Story and late Glee were the same show?"

I wanted to write "Sherlock Holmes vs. Sweeney Todd," but was disappointed when I realized how many of the worthwhile elements of Sweeney were creations of Christopher Bond and Sondheim.