r/AskReddit 28d ago

What is a super popular TV show or movie that you can’t stand?

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u/midnightfury4584 28d ago

Right. I don’t understand how high school could be that dramatic.

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u/LoginForMyPorn 28d ago

It's like they crank the world up to eleven.

Archie goes to juvie. "Okay, what's that like?" "I don't know. Jail for kids?" "Okay, fine. So prisoner abuse and secret fight clubs and riots, check"

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u/midnightfury4584 28d ago

Veronica’s dad creating a game just to get rid of Archie lol dude’s practically loaded and could’ve just hired an assassin. Then again, going through great lengths to kill a high schooler is a bit of a stretch.

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u/rainbowmouse96 27d ago

My dad and I used to watch the show together and our running joke was that absolutely anyone living in Riverdale would do better as a crime lord than Mr. Lodge. He's so dumb and ineffective, and he's been caught before. And then there's kids who are committing murder and solving crime and never getting caught. Mr. Lodge: the least dangerous character in the show

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u/midnightfury4584 27d ago

Yet somehow he’s still in power, no? Always has some kinda ace up his sleeve.

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u/Rough_Idle 27d ago

Plot armor

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u/midnightfury4584 27d ago

Yeah… no arguments here.

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u/GiantSquidd 27d ago

…do none of you follow politics? Once you’ve got enough money and a position of political power, it’s very difficult to remove you if you’re determined to stay where you are.

If anything, it’s been real life that felt like badly written fiction lately.

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u/Rough_Idle 27d ago

I wouldn't suggest solving real life problems with a gun, but it's pretty easy to do it as a writer. I've killed off crucial characters because they annoyed me. All you have to do is make their death significant to the survivors.

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u/[deleted] 26d ago

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u/Rough_Idle 26d ago

Nothing right now. I've worked to punch up scripts before and was a ghost writer for an anthology series.

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u/matty80 27d ago

He's so useless that at one point his own teenage daughter outwits him by inventing maple syrup rum, which (a) sounds hideous, (b) is illegal for an 18 year old to sell, and (c) seriously?

The whole show is laughably silly. In the end I had to stop watching it because everyone in it is an idiot. Even Jughead, who's meant to be a genius, regularly makes incredibly stupid decisions whenever. Like... Archie, 1950s small-town wholesome comic-book character, is in fact not a confused teenager but is instead some sort of gangster-hunting badass? Okay then.