I should probably be posting something from one of the various awards going on this weekend but I am not.  In part cause I slept all morning and was awake at various parts of the night and man, I am a mess.  Just a mess.  Anyway, I caught up on Riverdale and I was pretty critical of the show after the pilot and still have my issues but am warming up to it.  I didn’t really want a dark re-imagining of the Archie universe because one of the best things about Archie is that it is a bunch of light, funny comics about a bunch of teenagers that has run for 70 plus years and has never taken a negative view of the youth of America.  They are largely good kids.  I didn’t want to see a take about the kids getting their sick and twisted kicks and it sure looked like we were in for that (the pilot pulls out the hoariest of hoary cliches by having a male student fuck his teacher.  This never leads to interesting stories and somehow it is never addressed that this makes the teacher a rapist and shouldn’t that scare us all?) But at this point I am warming up and in part because it seems like they are all decent kids.  Too many secrets that make me roll my eyes but these aren’t terrible people thus far.  Which is nice because I have always been team Veronica but you don’t really need a team.  Betty and Veronica have been rivals at points but always friends.  Which is, in my opinion, a relief and something that isn’t addressed often enough as a fantastic thing about the comics.  So why am I team Veronica?  Because Betty would probably be a better girlfriend in every way, is a wholly decent and good person but uh… Veronica is vaguely dismissive and too good for everyone and that’s kind of hot.  Basically because I am an idiot.  Anyway, Camila Mendes plays Veronica on the new show and among the issues I had with the pilot was the lines they shoved in her mouth that no human being could say convincingly.  It lead to what felt like a bad Blair Waldorf impression.  But that has goes away already and I am back to adoring Veronica.  And I am liking Camila Mendes take so far.  And is anyone still reading?  Who cares this much about Archie besides me?  No one.  Well, one guy.  I worked with one guy who was full on obsessed and used to buy those digests at the grocery store all the time and read him during break when we were in high school.  So some dude named Eric cares.  And I care.  Today I want to fuck Camila Mendes.