The show's not exactly starting off with a bang, but it's nice to see that the writers are willing to wrap up the past season properly, rather than squeezing it into a cold open coda before throwing fans into the unknown.
"Chapter Seventy-Seven" doles out challenges to the main romantic relationships rather than basking in the heat they radiate, and still, there's plenty of warmth to defrost the loyal viewership after making it through the frostbitten wasteland of 2020.
Riverdale is far from logically consistent, but at least stay true to your characters. And if breakups need to happen before the time jump, at least come up with a good reason to do it.
It's not about what high school was actually like, but how it should be in the mind of an imaginative Gen Z'er's naughty fantasies... The kind of guilty pleasure that will keep calling viewers back as long as it keeps its madness intact.
