She is awesome in Riverdale. Her character is complicated. She makes you like her & hate her at the same time. The show would NOT be as good without her. Love her!

Another great (and shocking) episode last night! It was nice to see Betty rallying the town to save Pop's restaurant. Very creepy scenes at Cheryl's house with her mom. Looks like Jughead may have gotten himself into a mess with lawyer. More of the Lodges up to no good. And poor Archie-he is going to worry himself to death. Nice to see Reggie get more screen time. And that ending--Good grief!!

Season 2 Episode 2:

Poor Archie. Yay Betty getting one over on Cheryl. Liked seeing more of Reggie but not in that role. Loved seeing Midge & Moose...

Hate the Lodges. Feel bad for Veronica. Love the Black Hood reference.

Loved the old saving Pop's trope from the comics played out (with a dark twist).

And loved/hated the ending.

What are the "easter eggs" ... I'm keep hearing this all the time and I just don't get it? ... Sorry to bold your post here.

I've tried, really tried, but I just can't get into this show at all. I'm four episodes into Season One and it just feels flat to me. Part of it is that I have never read any Archie comics, so I have no nostalgia for the property, and the Easter eggs are lost on me.

However, the bigger problems for it growing on me are:

1. I have only found two semi-regular characters I actually like, those being Fred Andrews and Sheriff Keller. Everyone else is horrible in some form or fashion, especially Betty's mom and Cheryl.
2. As for the main HS kids, none of them looks, talks, or acts like a HS kid. Granted, I get that this is TV and they are using older actors to get around things like child labor requirements as well as having them be involved in more mature situations, but it's weird to see "teenagers" behaving that way. I've spent enough time around the HS kids at my church, and not one of them even remotely would fit into this environment.
3. I don't understand where Riverdale is or what kind of town it is supposed to be. Is it designed to represent "small town USA" or is it the suburb of a bigger city? I'm asking because I spent time student teaching in a rural small town (each graduating class had about 70 kids), and none of the "rich kids" like Cheryl walked around wearing high fashion from New York. They were more likely to drive a cute car and own a horse than carry a $500 designer handbag; they also were more likely to be passively indifferent to their lesser classmates rather than be nasty and cruel.
4. Yes, we get it, Kevin is gay, and that's fine. However, he's not a character, he's a stereotype, and it's annoying that they can't give him more to do (or haven't in the first four episodes) other than to spout catty little snark and comment either on the girls' fashions or every male character he encounters.
5. I liked Betty for the first couple of episodes, but the whole thing in the hot tub with the jock that she almost drowned while going all split personality as her sister was too much. Following that up with her breaking into Miss Grundy's car, then doing her "interview" of Miss Grundy, was nothing that any HS student in reality would do. How many HS sophomores know how to use a Slim Jim to open a car door and then pick a lockbox with a hairpin, as well as having the chutzpah to approach a teacher and ask her all kinds of personal questions about her previous teaching positions and educational background?

I think the biggest issue I have is that this show wants to be in the "real world", but it pushes the boundaries of suspending belief. When I watch a show like Supernatural, I know that it is supposed to be a fantasy, but the sad thing is, Dean Winchester is more realistic than any character in Riverdale (at least the teens, as I find Fred Andrews very realistic as a single dad running a business and trying to raise a kid). He has both mommy and daddy issues and he feels an overwhelming sense of obligation to protect his younger brother, and in order to deal with those matters, he eats poorly, drinks too much, and sleeps with anything in a skirt, yet somehow, even considering all of the demons, angels, God, Lucifer, and other things that go bump in the night that he deals with, that seems far more true to me than a boy who is sleeping with his music teacher, a girl who may or may not be crazy because of her older sister's problems, a rich girl transplanted from the big city who instantly wants to be friends with said possibly-crazy girl, another rich girl who vacillates between bitch queen and wanting to be friends with the people she terrorizes, and a kid who lives in an old drive-in and is writing a novel at the age of 15/16.

Sadly, I think Riverdale may just not be for me.