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Informationen zum Autor C. H. Mitford is a writer who splits her time between New Orleans and New York City. Klappentext Introducing a new series of unauthorized biographies on the world's biggest names and rising stars in entertainment, sports, and pop culture! Complete with quizzes, listicles, trivia, and a full-color pull-out poster of the star, this is the definitive collection to get the full Scoop! and more on your favorite celebrities. Riverdale has got it all: • Dangerous gangs. Check. • Murder mysteries. Plenty. • High-school drama. *Side eye roll* • Awkward love triangles. Where do we even begin? While we can all agree Hiram is LITERALLY the worst, one question remains: Will Jughead ever take off his beanie??? Get the full Scoop! and more on your favorite cast's on-screen drama, their IRL relationships, and to find out who your spirit character is... Are you a Betty Cooper or a Veronica Lodge? An Archie or Jughead? Or maybe you're a Hiram after all? Chapter 1 Are you binge-watching Riverdale? Because we are DEF binge-watching Riverdale. This show is straight-up addictive and pushing the boundaries of what we usually think of as “teen viewing.” It can get dark, and there’s a lot of dark to explore in the underbelly of this small town, but it also thrives on knowing humor and much wokeness. And for us, Dramedy + Wokeness = Excellence. FACTS: Archie Comics has been around a looooonnnnng time. Like your grandma and grandpa probably read Archie. It’s changed over time, obvs. When it started in the 1950s, it was apple pie on steroids. Bright, Polaroid-saturated colors, cloudless skies, and saccharine sweet. Everyone had the same face, only their Technicolor hair and clothes were different. Many of your faves were already there: Archie, Betty, Veronica, and Jughead. But it never veered off the story line of the Betty-Archie-Veronica love triangle, with Jughead just wanting to eat. Their clothing style changed with time, but everything else retained that sticky sweetness. It was like they, and all of Riverdale, were frozen in time. In the ’90s, sales began to fall, because BORING. Marvel and DC were pounding them. But eventually, a new CEO arrived and BOOM! Things got much cooler. They were finally willing to explore more adult themes, portraying issues on gun control, politics, financial recessions, long-term relationships, and same-sex marriage. Which is awesome because the new, improved Life with Archie gave us Kevin Keller! Who became a senator! We are so here for that. The series ended in 2014 when some loon tried to shoot Kevin, and Archie took the bullet to save him. SQUISH! Undeterred, the Archie Comic peeps came out with Afterlife with Archie, getting us a lot closer to our jam, Riverdale. It was complete zombie realness when Sabrina Spellman, the teenage witch, tried to revive Jughead’s beloved floof Hot Dog, but the spell gets borked, no pun intended. The point is, when they saw everyone’s response to the darker, creeptastic Archie, they knew they had a good thing. Riverdale took the ball and ran with it. And they’re serving up ALL the things, and we are shook. It’s a small town, and yet there are drug runners and murderers. We take that back. We mean murderers galore. Don’t forget cults, lots of empty coffins, organ theft, evil nuns, gryphons, gargoyle kings, and conversion therapy, which, last time we looked, was a bunch of snake oil. How all this goes down in such a wee town is beyond us, and you’ve got to wonder if it isn’t sort of like when 1700s Paris emptied their prisons into Louisiana. It’s completely bananas, and we love it! Still, we have lots of questions . . . Like, why did poor Svenson have to die when he’d already lost all his fam as a kid? And, how do they keep their bodies so tight while constantly eating burgers and milkshakes? Will Jughead e...
