History YMMV / Riverdale

* NoYay: The overall reaction to Archie and [[AgeLift Miss Grundy]] having a history. Explained more in Squick. This reaction only got worse after it became clear that Miss Grundy is [[spoiler: forcing Archie to stay quiet over something involving Jason's death]].

* NoYay: The overall reaction to Archie and [[AgeLift Miss Grundy]] having a history. Explained more in Squick. This reaction only got worse after it became clear that Miss Grundy is forcing Archie to stay quiet over something involving Jason's death.]]

*** Jughead is arguably the most popular Archie character and usually has a significant role in any version of the franchise. Reggie comes closer to being the EnsembleDarkhorse out of the main characters.
** The cast and the writers often compare the show to TwinPeaks, a well known and well loved murder mystery show that was known to mix drama and humor fairly well.

** Hilariously, despite the show not even being released yet, there are a lot of people on tumblr who are already rooting for the Bughead-ship [[note]] Jughead/Betty [[/note]] due to [[ShippingGoggles cute pictures]] of their actors hanging around break rooms and filming sets.
** The recent online leak of the Betty/Veronica kiss from the pilot seems to have made it the current most popular Riverdale ship.

** After a release of a pic of Betty/Veronica kissing people now want to watch for actual Betty/Veronica {{UST}}, instead of the supposed tension in the comics.

** Joking about the edginess of the show is currently popular.

* NoYay: The overall reaction to Archie and [[AgeLift Miss Grundy]] having a history. Explained more in Squick.
** This reaction has only gotten worse when trailers revealed [[spoiler: Miss Grundy is forcing Archie to stay quiet over something involving Jason's death.]]

* {{Squick}}: Despite the fact that Miss Grundy is considerably [[AgeLift aged down]] a LOT of fans have had this reaction to learning that she and Archie have had at least one sexual encounter if not pursuing an actual romance with each other. She may only be around 30 but she's still an adult while Archie is a teen ''and'' she's his teacher. Really the whole thing ''reeks'' of [[{{Ephebophile}} ephebophilia.]] A good portion of people who're checking out the show are praying that the plot will get dropped within the first few episodes because they find it so disgusting.

* JustHereForGodzilla: A lot of nostalgic ''Suite Life'' fans have said they're going to check out the show purely to see Cole Sprouse on the screen again.

* MemeticMutation: Joking about the edginess of the show is currently popular.

* {{Squick}}: Despite the fact that Miss Grundy is considerably [[AgeLift aged down]] a LOT of fans have had this reaction to learning that she and Archie have had at least one sexual encounter if not pursuing an actual romance with each other. She may only be around 30 but she's still an adult while Archie is a teen ''and'' she's his teacher. Really the whole thing ''reeks'' of [[{{Ephebophile}} ephebophilia.]] A good portion of people who're checking out the show are praying that the plot will get dropped within the first few episodes because they find it so disgusting.

* Hilariously, despite the show not even being released yet, there are a lot of people on tumblr who are already rooting for the Bughead-ship [[note]] Jughead/Betty [[/note]] due to [[ShippingGoggles cute pictures]] of their actors hanging around break rooms and filming sets.

* FanPreferredCouple: Hilariously, despite the show not even being released yet, there are a lot of people on tumblr who are already rooting for the Bughead-ship [[note]] Jughead/Betty [[/note]] due to [[ShippingGoggles cute pictures]] of their actors hanging around break rooms and filming sets.
*** The recent online leak of the Betty/Veronica kiss from the pilot seems to have made it the current most popular Riverdale ship.

** More like cast saving throw, but in nearly every group interview so far the actors will usually intergect briefly that the show isn't ''as'' dark as they (seemingly unintentionally) make it sound. Cole Sprouse in particular tends to point out that the Archie universe has gone dark before [[note]] ''"Life With Archie: The Married Life", "Archie Meets The Punisher," "Archie VS The Predator,"'' and ''"Afterlife With Archie"'' the name a few [[/note]] and that this kind of change [[OlderThanTheyThink isn't exactly new to the franchise.]]

** KJ Apa's/Archie's abbs, due to the fact that several news sites focused so much on them rather than actual news about the show and the fact that the teaser trailer gives us several [[FemaleGaze loving shots]] of [[MrFanservice Apa's physique.]]

* {{Squick}}: Despite the fact that Miss Grundy is considerably [[AgeLift aged down]] a LOT of fans have had this reaction to learning that she and Archie have had at least one sexual encounter if not pursueing an actual romance with each other. She may only be around 30 but she's still an adult while Archie is a teen ''and'' she's his teacher. Really the whole thing ''reeks'' of [[{{Ephebophile}} ephebophilia.]] A good portion of people who're checking out the show are praying that the plot will get dropped within the first few episodes because they find it so disgusting.

* {{Squick}}: Despite the fact that Miss Grundy is considerably [[AgeLift ged down]] a LOT of fans have had this reaction to learning that she and Archie have had at least one sexual encounter if not pursueing an actual romance with each other. She may only be around 30 but she's still an adult while Archie is a teen ''and'' she's his teacher. Really the whole thing ''reeks'' of [[{{Ephebophile}} ephebophilia.]] A good portion of people who're checking out the show are praying that the plot will get dropped within the first few episodes because they find it so disgusting.

** "WHERE'S JUGHEAD!?" [[note]] If the teaser is posted on ''anything'' you can expect this to be spammed like no tomorrow. This is likely due to the fact that the actors have all been ''really'' teasing stuff about Jughead, but he only appears for a split second in the teaser. [[/note]]

** KJ Apa's/Archie's abbs, due to the fact that several news sites focused so much on them rather than actual news on the show and the fact that the teaser trailer gives us several loving shots of [[MrFanservice Apa's physique.]]
** "WHERE'S JUGHEAD!?" [[note]] If the teaser is posted on ''anything'' you can expect this to be spammed like no tomorrow. This is likely due to the fact that the actors have all been ''really'' teasing stuff about Jughead, but only appears for a split second in the teaser. [[/note]]

* AuthorsSavingThrow: More like cast saving throw, but in nearly every group interview so far the actors will usually intergect briefly that the show isn't ''as'' dark as they (seemingly unintentionally) make it sound. Cole Sprouse in particular tends to point out that the Archie universe has gone dark before [[note]] ''"Life With Archie: The Married Life", "Archie Meets The Punisher," "Archie VS The Predator,"'' and ''"Afterlife With Archie"'' the name a few [[/note]] and that this kind of change [[OlderThanTheyThink isn't exactly new to the franchise.]]

* JustHereForGodzilla: A lot of nostalgic ''Suite Life'' fans have said they're going to check out the show purely to see Cole Sprouse on the screen again.

* BrokenBase: It would probably be easier to name things that haven't caused forums to erupt in flames. The DarkerAndEdgier and HotterAndSexier tones though have to be the biggest point of contention. Those against them say ''Riverdale'''s just trashy teen drama with an ''Archie'' paint job, those for them believe it could work and cite the popularity of more mature ''Archie'' comics as proof. Or for some, the novelty of ''Archie'' being a trashy teen drama might be entertaining at least.

* BrokenBase: It would probably be easier to name things that haven't caused forums to erupt in flames. The DarkerAndEdgier and HotterAndSexier tones though have to be the biggest point of contention. Those against them say ''Riverdale'''s just trashy teen drama with an ''Archie''paint job, those for them believe it could work and cite the popularity of more mature ''Archie'' comics as proof. Or for some, the novelty of ''Archie'' being a trashy teen drama might be entertaining at least.

* BrokenBase: It would probably be easier to name things that haven't caused forums to erupt in flames. The DarkerAndEdgier and HotterAndSexier tones though have to be the biggest point of contention. Those against them say ''Riverdale'''s just trashy teen drama with an Archie paint job, those for them believe it could work and cite the popularity of more mature Archie comics as proof.
** Or for some, the novelty of Archie being a trashy teen drama might be entertaining at least.

* Or for some, the novelty of Archie being a trashy teen drama might be entertaining at least.

* BrokenBase: It would probably be easier to name things that haven't caused forums to erupt in flames. The DarkerAndEdgier and HotterAndSexier tones though have to be the biggest point of contention. Those against them say ''Riverdale'''s just trashy teen drama with an Archie paint job, those for them believe it could work and cite the popularity of more mature Archie comics as proof.

* BrokenBase: It would probably be easier to name things that haven't caused forums to erupt in flames. The DarkerAndEdgier and HotterAndSexier tones though have to be the biggest point of contention. Those against them say ''Riverdale'''s just trashy teen drama with an Archie paint job, those for them believe it could work and cite the popularity of more mature Archie comics as proof.
** Averted with the [[RaceLift Race Lifting of multiple characters.]] The majority of fans are fine with a diverse cast it seems, even if some of them doubt in the show itself.

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* BrokenBase:
** It would probably be easier to name things that haven't caused forums to erupt in flames. The DarkerAndEdgier an HotterAndSexier tones though have to be the biggest point of contention. Those against them say ''Riverdale'''s just trashy teen drama with an Archie paint job, those for them believe it could work and cite the popularity of more mature Archie comics as proof.

* BaseBreaker: It would probably be easier to name things that haven't caused forum to erupt in flames. The DarkerAndEdgier tone though has to be the biggest point of contention, those against it say it's just trashy teen drama with an Archie paint job, those for it believe it could work and cite the popularity of more mature Archie comics as proof.

* BaseBreaker: It would probably be easier to name things that haven't caused forum to erupt in flames. The DarkerAndEdgier tone though has to be the biggest point of contention, those against it say it's just trashy teen drama with an Archie paint job, those for it believe it could work and cite the popularity of more mature Archie comics as proof.