7x19 Chapter One Hundred Thirty-Six: The Golden Age of Television

This was... I don't even know. I never expected a fully satisfying story that would connect back to present times, but they managed to make it even stupider than I would've guessed. There's just so many plotholes and issues with these 1955 characters learning everything that I don't even know where to begin. I think the foremost question would be "hey we were like 27, so why are we all teenagers again?"
I don't understand the point of having these characters become aware of the previous seasons. They are stuck in 1955. They can't go back to the present. So all you're doing is torturing them with knowledge that they can never make use of. Imagine learning about the Internet, and having memories of using the Internet, but knowing that you won't get to use it for another 40 years and change. That's insane.
The idea of all of them watching the actual Riverdale TV show that we've been watching all along is pretty hilarious, though. "Oh god, who wrote this crap?"

I get that this season has been all about the cast of characters attempting to instill modern progressive values into 1955 for some reason. It's ridiculous every step of the way, for a myriad of reasons, but sure, whatever. However, even with that context, Betty's conversation with her mother made absolutely no sense. "Why didn't you leave dad when he cheated on you?" Well, Betty, seeing as the cheating resulted in Ethel, who is the same age as you, that means it took place roughly 16-17 years ago. So it was 1939 or thereabouts. At that time, Alice had a young child (Polly) and an infant (Betty). Single mothers weren't exactly a common everyday circumstance in 1939. That was an instance of the writers applying modern values to something where it doesn't make any sense to do so.

I don't get why they decided to go so hard on this Archie likes poetry angle this season. Jughead is and has been the literary-focused character of the gang for the whole show. Why infringe upon Jughead's gimmick like this? I know Archie was a songwriter previously, but that is different enough to be its own thing. Making Archie be so deep into poetry just feels like it's trying to be Jughead 2.0.

Clay says that he's been "toying with" a screenplay of The Comet for a few years. Yeah, of course you have, Clay. How convenient. They're 16-17, so that means he started writing a screenplay when he was, what, 13? Come the fuck on, lmao.

There sure are a lot of gay people in this small town in 1955! Must be something in the water.