Riverdale

Meet 'riverdale' Star Madelaine Paetsch

... in an eerie setting. Glamour: Their relationship is a bit creepy. Will that be explored more. Madelaine: Yeah, as much as it can be. There was never an intimate sexual relationship, of course. This isn’t a plot-spoiler, but Jason was the first person who ever loved Cheryl unconditionally. She didn’t really know how to feel about that because she never felt it from her parents or her friends before. To her, he was her “person," her other half, her soulmate, as she says in the pilot. Losing him kind of explains a little bit why she lashes out so much. Glamour: Before they get in the rowboat, Cheryl says, “Are you scared, Jason?” Why. Madelaine: You will know exactly why I say that in episode three. Glamour: Oh, I like that. Will viewers find out who murdered Jason by the end of season one? Or does the reveal come much earlier. Madelaine: We just read the script last night, and we all found out who killed Jason. So, in episode 12 you find out. By episode 13, I think you will understand the whole spiel. Glamour: Cheryl has some of the best ...

Riverdale’s Madelaine Petsch Has The Best Acne Treatment Routine

... Pretty Little Liars murder and mystery thrown in for kicks. Also at the center: ginger dreamboat Archie (A. J. Kapa), caught between girl-next-door Betty (Lily Reinhart) and glam New York transplant Veronica (Camila Mendes). But he's not the only absurdly beautiful redhead in town. Because watch out world for Cheryl Blossom — essentially Riverdale's version of season one through early six Alison Di Laurentis, i.e., the meanest of mean girls at Riverdale High — who's played by drop dead gorgeous Madelaine Petsch. "It's always a dream to play the villain, but it's also so hard because [the cast] are also my best friends, right?" says Madelaine to Teen Vogue on a call while on break from filming Riverdale in Vancouver. "I have to be mean to them on-screen and, afterwards, I'm always hugging them. 'I didn't mean it!' But she's awful and I love it.". See, in real life, Madelaine is the total opposite of her on-screen alter-ego and ...

Riverdale' And 'the Young Pope' Mark A New Era Of Absurd Tv

... is so outlandish that it prompts one to wonder just how self-aware they are. Of course, that’s precisely why absurd TV is the most fitting entertainment for our current era. With Donald Trump in the White House — a sentence that still feels outlandish — our very reality has become a joke that’s gone too far , only with no accompanying laugh track to signify that it’s on purpose. It’s no coincidence that The Young Pope comes across as a startling parallel to the rise of Trump. Just as sci-fi and fantasy shows help us to filter unbelievable reality through fictional lenses, absurd TV helps us grapple with the era where nobody’s sure if or when to laugh. In the era of alternative facts and rogue national park Twitter accounts ; when a reality television star has the nuclear codes, we’re left waiting for a punchline that never seems to come. In the entertainment world, ...

Cole Sprouse's Riverdale Castmates Love Suite Life, Too

... the episode that well," Sprouse interrupts. "I thought you were a fan.". Renewed or Canceled? Find Out the Fate of All Your Favorite Shows. Apa goes on to describe a scene from the 2006 episode "Birdman of Boston," in which Cody, played by Cole, takes care of a hawk (not an eagle) after its mother abandons her eggs on the balcony at the Tipton. Sprouse played Cody, opposite his twin brother Dylan, from 2005 to 2011, on both the Disney Channel's The Suite Life of Zack and Cody and its high-school-on-a-boat spinoff The Suite Life on Deck. Disney; CW. Lili Reinhart and Camila Mendes, who play Betty and Veronica, were also big fans back in the day. "I had a huge crush on those boys," Mendes reveals. "I didn't have a crush on them, but I mean, I would go home from school, drop the backpack off and watch Suite Life," Reinhart tells us. Can The CW's Riverdale Save the Coming-of-Age High School Drama Genre. Meanwhile, Madelaine Petsch, who plays ...

Riverdale' Star From 'burbs Survived Drama Of Her Own

... Bolingbrook, Naperville, Hinsdale and Oak Brook in quick succession - while growing up. Hermione Lodge (former Naperville resident Marisol Nichols), left, is the mother of Veronica (Camila Mendes). They live in a world of crime, seduction and betrayal in The CW production of "Riverdale," beginning Thursday, Jan. 26. - The CW. She attended Naperville North before graduating from Hinsdale Central High School. ("I only knew like two people at Hinsdale," she said. "I was only there for the last six months of my senior year."). She had never been involved in theater. That changed when she went to the College of Du Page. On a whim, she tried out for Arthur Miller's "A View From a Bridge" and nabbed a lead. "The second I got on stage, it was like oh-my-God! I love this! I love this!". She credits two Du Page teachers, Frank Tourangeau and Marco Benassi, for changing the course of her life. Three months after the play, she and other Du Page thespians won a national speech ...

Riverdale’s Jughead Is No Longer Asexual, And That’s A Problem For Fans

... have been making when reaching out to Riverdale showrunners and executives at the CW. One writer on Twitter, James Campbell, pointed out that historically, people at Archie Comics used to problematically refer to Jughead’s lack of interested in women as being a “woman hater.”. “You couldn’t just like girls, you had to ‘like’ like at least some or there must be something wrong with you, i.e. you must ‘hate’ women,” Campbell wrote. “There have been numerous attempts over the years to either give Jughead a girlfriend, or have a girl pine after him (enter Ethel). “Those efforts smack of an attempt to hetero-normalise a 'queer' character. Straight-washing. Not a good look, and it never works or sticks.”. When Zdarsky first decided to make Jughead canonically asexual, he told Comic Book that it was a personal decision. He thought Jughead as an asexual person was much more interesting to write than just having a character who wasn’t as ...

What Are Critics Saying About ‘riverdale,’ Cw’s Dark Archie Comics Drama

... Peaks’ meets ‘Dawson’s Creek,’” adding that, “Styled with referents to the 1950 s and early ’60 s, it exists out of conventional time, evidently now (with nods to ‘Mad Men’ and ‘True Detective,’ Netflix and HBO) but also then.”. John Doyle of The Globe and Mail describes the show as having “the look of a drama set in the recent past — that period to which Donald Trump refers when he brays about making America great again — but it is emphatically set in the present. A present in which Veronica can be designated as looking like Betty Draper in a certain season of ‘Mad Men.’”. It Updates ‘Archie Comics’ Archetypes for the 21 st Century. “The show takes the outlines of the Archie universe — the iconic love triangle between the blonde, the brunette, and the redhead; the yellow-and-blue letter jackets; the after-school chocolate shakes at Pop Tate’s diner — and colors them in ...

Don’t Get Stuck On The Comparisons To Past Shows

... a show you will not be able to stop watching. "Riverdale" premieres Thursday (Jan. 26) at 9 p.m. ET/PT on The CW. Share this. Posted by: Lindsay Mac Donald. Lindsay Mac Donald is a Los Angeles based entertainment reporter with an affinity for CW superheroes. She graduated from Pepperdine University with a major in Media Studies and a borderline unhealthy obsession with TV in 2012. She would much rather spend the day binge-watching ‘The Flash’ or sorting ‘Game of Thrones’ characters into Hogwarts houses than venturing outdoors. TV words to live by: “Never ignore coincidence. Unless, of course, you’re busy. In which case, always ignore coincidence.”. Watch Better. Thanks for signing up. Watch Better. Get Screener's essential guide to the best TV—and TV writing—delivered to your inbox every ...

It’s Gossip Girl Meets Twin Peaks In Riverdale’s Much-anticipated Series Premiere

... not to think about the fact that this episode was originally supposed to air last week before ABC decided to push it back to make room for a profile of Donald Trump instead. Riverdale (The CW, 9 p.m.): It seems like only yesterday that the internet was aflutter with jokes about The CW’s decision to turn Archie Comics into a gritty, sexy teen drama, and here we are mere hours away from the show’s debut. The new series is set to have far more sex and murder than the squeaky-clean comic series it’s based on (though, mercifully, no time travel ). What’s more, Riverdale’s promos even contained more than one reference to Twin Peaks. Of course, the series will likely be more Gossip Girl or Pretty Little Liars than David Lynch, but regardless, we’ve asked La Toya Ferguson to weigh in on whether Riverdale is a soapy hit, a hot mess, or a little bit of both. Premieres and finales. Grey’s Anatomy (ABC, 8 p.m.): Before Scandal reveals its election results, Grey’s Anatomy takes a trip to prison. In the midseason premiere, Arizona, Bailey, and Jo visit a maximum-security women’s prison in order ...

Can Riverdale Save Tv's High School Drama Genre

... (Cole Sprouse), the gang's all here, Josie (Ashleigh Murray) and her Pussycats included. Centering on a small town filled with secrets and shaken by a murder, with a slightly '50 s aesthetic, Riverdale is the TV equivalent of the cronut, with Twin Peaks as the croissant and Gossip Girl as the donut. Though there are adult characters, with Luke Perry (Yes, Dylan Mc Kay is now a "hot CW dad"), Marisol Nichols and Madchen Amick taking on the parental characters, Riverdale is mostly set in the hallways of Riverdale High School and the bedrooms of its teenage students, as well as Pop's Chock'lit Shoppe. But CW president Mark Pedowitz said the network didn't look at the show as "a high school drama," as Riverdale is comprised of "adult storylines" happening with teenagers. "There is an adult level to it. We looked at it from that aspect," Pedowitz said at the 2017 Winter TCA Press Tour. Also a deciding factor? Filling "a need in the marketplace," as a massive void will soon be left by several massive teen dramas coming to an end this season, ...

Mädchen Amick On 'riverdale' Similiarities To 'twin Peaks,' 'gossip Girl

... in Hollywood first hand. "Slowly but surely we have much better female roles to play and to choose from. When I was just starting out I had two choices: I could be the beautiful girl on the main man's arm as decoration or I would have to do a little independent movie to get any depth in the female character," said Amick. "Nowadays, I see a lot of depth in the female roles, with a lot of diversity and a lot of things they are dealing with so that's very welcoming.". Amick is excited to play Alice Cooper (no, not that one) on "Riverdale," Betty's mom who comes equipped with a "Mommie Dearest" vibe, past tragedies and "deep seeded secrets." And while the show has some solid buzz (we've seen the pilot, it's a lot of fun), she's surprisingly pragmatic with her expectations for its success. "There's a lot of excitement on set and there's a lot of really great reviews. [her co-stars] turn to me all the time like, 'Mädchen what's wrong?' And I'm like, no, no, I'm very excited as well, I hope the best for it, but I've been in the business for 30 years and I've done numerous TV shows and you just ...

Riverdale

... teases the tragedy of wealthy queen bee Cheryl Blossom (Madelaine Petsch), still mourning the disappearance of her beloved twin brother. K. J. Apa, he of the red-dyed hair and loosely covered Kiwi accent, plays Archie Andrews, newly returned from a summer working construction for his father (Luke Perry, making you feel old) with musical dreams and six-pack abs. As everybody's resident gay best friend Kevin Keller (Casey Cott) observes, "Archie got hot," which might as well also be The CW's tag line for the show (or the network at large). Girl-next-door Betty (Lili Reinhart) is determined to finally tell best friend Archie about her love for him, but immediate complication comes in the form of Veronica Lodge (Camila Mendes), daughter of a disgraced businessman and new to Riverdale. Many of your favorite Archie universe characters are there, assuming you have such things, but they're all just a bit askew. Jughead (Cole Sprouse) is a melancholy writer working on a book which, judging from the hackneyed voiceover, isn't ...