It was by this episode that I realized the show was meant to have an 80s ninja-movie aesthetic…from characters to direction to OTT cheesiness…almost as a self-aware sendup of Danny's origins…and the tone just never came together to sell it properly. Probably because going *too* self-aware and meta would ruin the…

I'll say this, Riverdale is surprising me. I was expecting the story we see on the surface, but they are going further than I thought. Betty came across as a typical "over-medicated good girl with overbearing mother" but the strong suggestion here that there is an actual psychological condition at play is very…

The minute they started with Enzo and his "bucket list", you had to know what the final act would bring, right?

I would have liked to have seen this show turn into Damon and Stefan doing the inverse version of "Highway to Heaven"…