![]() ![]() I know I said I’d move on from the musical aspects but I had to delve into this one last aspect. ![]() An honest to goodness, excellent and fun episode! This truly is the season that keeps on giving. I mean, did you HEAR all those harmonies!? I struggled to take any notes other than “oooh” and “that voice.” I’m on cloud nine folks. I know this thought is going long but I could keep gushing about the singing in this episode – and I probably will – for at least another few hundred words. The only one of the main cast that still struggles was poor Charles Melton. As for Madelaine Petsch, Camila Mendez, Casey Cott, Lili Reinhart, and Vanessa Morgan, they kill it as always, showing off for this final episode why we keep having these types of episodes. True, Cole ducks out pretty fast but KJ had a LOT more singing on his own to do. Seriously, the two weakest singers of past specials, KJ Apa and Cole Sprouse, have never sounded so good. They were integrated in a far more natural way and actually could play to the actors’ vocal strengths. It helps that the songs were (I’m assuming) written for the episode rather than written into it. “Archie: The Musical” FELT like a musical, perfectly blending the unreality of the genre with the hyper-reality of Riverdale. This one may not be quite as tight as that episode but damn if it doesn’t come close. Thankfully, the writer/director team behind my favorite of the Riverdale musical episodes, “Next to Normal”, came back and absolutely knocked it out of the park. ![]() And we all know that the track record for CW musicals are… mixed at best. Because, friends, we all know what those previews are like. Once I saw the preview last week, I was relieved. I was starting to get worried there wouldn’t be any this season, what with them sneaking in the occasional music number throughout the rest of the season. It wouldn’t be a Riverdale season without a musical episode. What’s that? He was the center of nearly every OTHER musical episode? Shush! Don’t take this away from him (or me.) What better place than in a musical episode? It seems fitting for the theater kid that he is. It’s time he was front and center for something other than cruising in the woods and being part of not one but TWO cults. What’s up river-bitches?! Kevin’s been in the background for too long. ![]()
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