Riverdale - In Treatment

Discussing Ep. 4.8

- Oh, no! The boring videographer is back with his, or her, boring footage of people's houses. I had completely forgotten about this storyline and I'm surprised as all hell that they remembered it!

- I think Toni is more frightened at the doll being invited to watch the footage than the footage itself!

- Ohhhhhh.....Gina Torres!

Normally, I'd welcome such an actress to a show but she is FAR too good for this show! Her presence alone cannot elevate this show from the depths of shit that it has reached.

- "When did you become a liar?"
You're asking this of Betty....now? Where were you for the past 4 seasons, Alice?

- She didn't get into Yale....and she's surprised? Well, fuck...I'm surprised too! I mean, she's obviously overqualified, right? She's attended all of but two classes in high school, but why let that stop her or any other Riverdale student from getting into college or university? Especially Betty, who is so innately good at everything she does.....what does it matter that she didn't get into Yale? I'm sure she would have gotten bored within a week of Yale because it was "too easy!" Fuck this show!

- Oh, fucking hell!!!

First of all, since when did Alice give a damn about Betty's sex life? Since when did Alice give a damn about Betty, period? Secondly, I'm not one to side with Betty but she had an EASY argument, that being saving her idiot mother who decided to join a cult as an undercover agent and almost got herself killed doing so, not to mention all the other shit that they've been through. This is absolutely horrible writing and I don't know why they wrote Alice to be like this.

- What the fuck is this now?

They're logging all of Mrs. Burble's sessions as case numbers now?

- So now Alice Cooper is Alice Smith. Sounds like an alias and a really bad one at that. And plus, she's still wearing her wedding and engagement rings.....so this makes no sense.

- This is ridiculous! They drew this whole Alice/Betty drama OUT OF NOWHERE!!! So Betty didn't get into Yale and Alice believes that it's because she's having too much sex. This is so much contrived bullshit that I can't even wrap my head around it! This is such a waste of an acting talent like Gina Torres to be involved in a show this stupid!

- Whoa....hold up! So Alice admits that she was under the influence of Edgar....and that's why she gave away Betty's college fund, but then admits that she started working with Charles as an FBI undercover agent? No....NO!!!! You can't have it both ways! She was either working for the FBI since day one or she was legitimately under Edgar's influence. Fuck this show and their shitty writing!

- I'll give Betty credit for spilling all the events of the last 3 seasons. At least she did that.

- "She's too young to have sex."

This show is admitting this now? Betty has admitted she is all of 16 years old at this point but has been fucking Jughead like a rabbit for 3 seasons now.....which means that she may well have been 14 or 15 when she became sexually active! This is the most irresponsible show that I know of and no doubt contributes to the warped views that young people have about sex. You contrast this with the way Legacies wrote the Josie/Landon relationship and I can't help but shake my head at this show because it does nothing to help kids have an appreciation and respect for what the sex act actually means!

- And another thing....Betty is NOT an adult, not is she's 16 years old. Now, maybe it's different in the States but to my knowledge, Alice is responsible for Betty until she turns 18. And while I'm not defending Alice in any way (they've done a horrible job with her character as well), they're elevating these kids to a level they don't deserve to be on. At 16 years old, you DON'T know what you're doing! Trust me.....trust anyone who was 16 and can look back with years of experience and maturity behind them.....you don't know what you're doing!

- And again, this show goes on to blame the parents and glorify the kids. Yeah, it's all about Alice having a hard time letting go of her little girl. Never mind all the bad decisions Betty has done of her own volition. But yeah....it's all the parents fault. The parents and adults on this show don't know shit and the kids are supreme! Fuck this show!

- Archie sleeping in class is a surprise to anyone?

Actually, I'm surprised he's even in class at all!

- So the teacher doesn't send Archie to the principal's office for sleeping in class....he sends him to the school counsellor? What fucking school does that?

- "I try to carry on his legacy." Yeah....I don't recall Fred Andrew's legacy involving beating people up and telling the local businesses to "get out of my way!"

- He's missed a lot of FOOTBALL!!! According to Mrs. Burble, Archie's missed a lot of...not school....but FOOTBALL! How does that make any sense?

- If Archie had said "I put on a mask....and I try to be Batman," I'd have applauded this show!

- Well, shit! At least they're acknowledging that Archie is angry. But he failed to admit that he's an idiot! And he deserves to be spoken to like a moron because he IS A MORON!

- WHAT THE FUCK?!?!? How is Archie 18 and Betty 16? HOW?!?

- Sigh!

- 26 absences for Cheryl? Yeah right! More like 260!

- Raising twin toddlers......and why isn't ALICE FUCKING RAISING THE TODDLERS?!?

- If they write it that Mrs. Burble (and they keep switching from Ms. to Mrs.....it's annoying) diagnoses Cheryl as having narcissistic personality disorder.....I'll be HIGHLY impressed.

- She has a 4.0.....despite missing an admitted 26 days of school!

- A lifetime of trauma.....endured as a teenager. Unimaginable? You're damn right it is!

- I'll say this....her character needed this moment to get some kind of grace back because she's been so intolerable!

- Okay, Cheryl calling Mrs. Burble a "mallard" because she didn't understand that Cheryl had TWO brothers is uncalled for. Whatever sympathy I was starting to feel for her just went out the window with that one insult.

- Seriously....Cheryl is the one being gaslit? It wasn't Cheryl gaslighting someone else....like Toni perhaps?

- Well, at least Cheryl didn't get to keep her Vixens!

- So Ronnie got into Harvard! Based on what? Hiram pulling some strings and got her in is an explanation I could buy. Not her getting in because of her academic standing.

- So they're going back with this Luna nonsense. There is only one Luna in the CW Universe....my Luna!

- Wow! I'm surprised that Mrs. Burble is calling Ronnie out on her hypocritical behaviour!

- And Ronnie challenging Mrs. Burble's diagnosis is just ridiculous! Again, these stupid kids challenging the adults is out of control.

- She's a straight A student and runs two flourishing businesses. That line makes no sense at all and cannot exist in any sense of reality!

- WHAT THE FUCK?!?

He doesn't even go to school there anymore! Why is she having a session with this guy? Under what obligation is she required to spend one minute diagnosing this fucker?!? THIS MAKES NO FUCKING SENSE!!!!

- What the hell is it with the shaky camera? With Mrs. Burble, it's steady, but with Jughead, it's all over the place! Why are they doing that? Is it supposed to be symbolic? It's more annoying than anything else.

- Damn! I'll give Mrs. Burble credit....she humbled Jug quite quickly! Well done.

- You know what....that was a nice moment between Jug and FP!

- I will be most upset if they write it that Nana Blossom was the one gaslighting Cheryl. Well, maybe not upset. I'll laugh first....but then I'll be upset because then they will have to write it that Cheryl overcomes Nana because they have to make the kids supreme on this show. Fuck this show!

- Sigh!

Mrs. Burble DID NOT recommend Ronnie go head-to-head in a battle of business with her father. He told her to walk away. But of course, Ronnie is going to challenge him in the business world, and she's going to win because the kids are supreme on this show! Fuck this show!

- And to boot....shes' going to make RUM?!? She's barely old enough to drink but she's going to deal in liquor production?

This episode had such potential. I think Mrs. Burble was the like the only adult to have ever gotten the better of the main characters of the show, and so I applaud her for that. But it's all for nothing! Nothing will change. Cheryl will go back to being the intolerable bitch she's always been.....Archie is once again going back to being Stupid Archie who does everything out of anger.....Ronnie is once again challenging her father in the realm of business, trying to get the better of him.....and Betty will go and do whatever it is that she does that no 16 year old has any right doing.

That still boggles my mind. Betty is 16 years old, which means that when she was doing all that Dark Betty webcamming for older men nonsense, she was either 14 or 15 years old.

That's fucking disgusting and the writers and producers of this show should be ashamed of themselves!