![]() ![]() One minute we have a character criticizing the male gaze mere minutes before the camera lingers on another key player – a teenager in the show’s universe – stripping down for an impromptu pole dance during a downbeat performance of a Tears for Fears cover. Indeed, this is perhaps the only cliche that the series has wholeheartedly embraced instead of upending expectations as has become its norm over the past 21 episodes. ![]() In previous reviews, I’ve trotted out the old adage that Riverdale wants to have its cake and eat it too. Which brings us to tonight’s instalment, perhaps the most uneven episode to date. Obviously, we here at Den of Geek are all in, but that doesn’t mean to say that the journey is always going to be a comfortable one. ![]() Like its spiritual precursor Twin Peaks, Riverdale will do whatever the hell it wants, and viewers can either hop aboard like Betty on the back of uneasy rider Jughead’s motorcycle or tune out entirely. As it has been well established by this point, this is a show where the improbable has become ordinary, and the sensible rarely exists at all. ![]()
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