#Daily comet series#

There are people who will read a recap of this season finale on EW.com, as I did today, stumble upon this passage, and think, “Yep, that makes sense!”: “Cheryl and Toni have to give their bodies over to the spirits of their ancestors and have sex. I especially love thinking that there are likely hordes of Riverdale fans who never gave up on the show, and so all of these twists don’t seem so ludicrous to them. At some point she has the realization that if she magically takes on everyone else’s powers and then transfers them to Cheryl-via a hot lesbian kiss, naturally-it could be enough to save everyone. Apparently Veronica’s supernatural gift is that she can absorb other people’s powers.

Cheryl has had the power to bring people back to life, but if she uses her powers to melt the comet, then everyone she’s revived will die. Jughead’s girlfriend Tabitha can hop back and forth through time. Did you know that the former teens of Riverdale all now have magical powers?īetty can sense people’s auras. I had a blast doing it anyway.ĭid you know that an evil magical person named Percival had put a force field around Riverdale, trapping the residents inside to face their deaths, as Bailey’s comet hurdles towards them? Wait, let me back up. If your instinct was to read more about what’s been happening lately on Riverdale in the hope that it might help you make sense of any of this, I can tell you from personal experience that it won’t. Is more context valuable in this situation? Or would it be unfair to deprive anyone of the shock of being provided with a two-sentence explanation of what happened in the finale at face value-a startling, yet invigorating experience? I struggle with how much to zoom out here, because, I kid you not, I have never felt more alive-more viscerally entertained-than I have this afternoon, reading plot descriptions and recaps of the last few episodes of Riverdale.

And Season 6 comes complete with a gorgeously outrageous twist in this finale that makes me feel that we’ve all been sleeping on true brilliance, and what may be the most audacious art of our time. It has become, as I’ve recently learned, something else entirely.

#Daily comet series#

Once upon a time, I used to watch the CW series, which, back then, was a modern, sexified teen drama series inspired by the characters of the Archie comics.

The events of the Season 6 finale of Riverdale, which aired Sunday night, have come across my social-media feeds this morning, and I am in disbelief. There is nothing lazier and more boring than when a long-running show is in the news, and someone says in catty disbelief, “That show’s still on?!” There is nothing more thrilling, however, than to realize a long-running series is still airing, and that is what they’re doing on it now?!?!