Riverdale S5 ★☆☆☆☆

There is still some joy to wring out of this. The obvious one is just watching the writers just give up more than anyone has ever given up before. There’s mothman aliens! Actually they’re a clan of hillbillies that were never mentioned before. Plot resolved! Sure. Why not. Who gives a shit.

The deliberate anachronism getting stronger and stronger as the show goes on is also quite fun. In particular Citizen Lodge’s bit of portraying 1980s Riverdale as 1920s New York is really funny but also as I’ve been rewatching The Simpsons I have also realised that that show did the exact same joke in Lisa’s First Word. Even aside from that bit Citizen Lodge does stand out from other episodes of Riverdale simply because it actually has a plot rather than just the scattering of random unrelated events that usually make up an episode of Riverdale.