Still baffles me as to how the writers can even possibly fathom any notion as to how a young underaged girl like Veronica can make, drink, and sell liquor, not to even mention the speak easy! And what message are they intending to send to their underaged viewers? :thinking:
Veronica still tries the same tactics when going up against her dad, every season. “Daddy, you may have kept me from doing this. But here are my plans to counter that.” Hiram: thank you for telling me everything because I will screw up those plans.
It’s still funny that her idea of being independent. Consists of her getting something handed down to her. The Speak Easy she is so proud of her is because she kidnapped someone for money. She calls that earning it.
Oh and the Cheerleader scenes are always so corny and unrealistic.
All I’m saying is: chhh chhh chhh cherry bomb!!
Pretty good episode. Love everything that is Cheryl. Glad she's back to her old self, being a sassy queen!
I actually missed these goofy characters over the holidays.
Frank is surprised to learn that Archie boxes. Frank quite literally walked in and met Archie in the fucking boxing gym he owns. Do the writers not remember what they wrote?
Still utterly ridiculous that Veronica is now able to manufacture and sell alcohol. Also love how the teens are just drinking rum like it's the most normal thing in the world for teens to do.
I'm no rum expert, but maple syrup rum sounds fucking disgusting. What would teenagers even know about making rum taste good, anyways? They're fucking teenagers! They don't know shit about alcohol!
Also, merely adding maple syrup to her existing rum will not circumvent the patent issue. It's still inherently the same recipe.
Oh yeah, of course Bret is the football captain for Stonewall. There is no way in hell that prissy dude is an athlete, lmao.
Also, private schools and public schools would not be in the same division for anything. This is stupid as fuck.
Are we supposed to be rooting for Cheryl taking back the Vixens? Because I'm absolutely not. She's just a bitchy entitled teenager who has no business being in charge of anything. What kind of teenager would demand to be allowed to coach a team over a much better qualified adult? And Appleyard was 100% correct - they are cheerleaders, they should be doing actual cheers. Not these ridiculous, overly sexualized pop song dance routines. By the way, because Appleyard had been coaching them, when the hell did they have time to rehearse this particular dance routine?! Huh???
I can't believe they actually had the audacity to pretend Veronica is still a cheerleader, lmao. I had just brought that up a couple of episodes ago. She hasn't done anything cheer related in ages, but nope, definitely still on the team... lol.
"The quiz championship is only a few weeks away." "Well, then we should enter it and win." That's not how that works. You can't just decide to enter a championship mere weeks before it takes place, because you suddenly feel like it. God, this is so dumb!
I guess they had storylines planned for Fred, but it's a shame Archie's father figure was replaced so fast...
Review by Kevin BeazleyBlockedParent2021-02-14T23:05:33Z
This episode is just 45 minutes of people doing shitty things and avoiding consequences and not learning anything. Is Cheryl taking back the Vixens supposed to be a sassy slay queen girlboss moment? Because she really doesn't deserve them back. Her place was taken by an appointed coach after she missed a billion school days/practices without informing her cheerleaders because she was busy talking to the dead corpse of her brother and thinking her house was haunted. And being made to seem like a lovable little vulnerable sweetheart because of it. And vilifying the family members who wanted to get psychiatric help for the woman who was TALKING TO A CORPSE. She can't fathom that her absence necessitated a replacement, that's so unfair to her. So she locks her replacement in a room and takes over. Most infuriating thing I've ever watched. No consequences will ever fall on Cheryl, she can just do whatever shitty thing she wants and the story will treat it as some kind of empowering moment.
Archie's uncle is the same god damn way. He gives Mad Dog the drugs, and Mad Dog takes them, and Archie is rightfully angry. But then Archie's uncle gives some bullshit speech about "Mad Dog can make his own decisions" and Archie goes oh my god he's my uncle he's family what was I thinking I miss my dad and he forgives him for selling his friend drugs that put his health at risk. Jesus Christ every time Archie is poised to take a step forward he just cries about his dad and reverts to forgiving everyone and clinging to literally everything that has his dad's name on it, no matter how bad it is for him. His uncle has been a consistently shitty person so far, and Archie's mom has told him that Frank is a shitty person, and Archie forgives literally everything he does, and the story acts like that's the right thing for him to do.
Really frustrating episode to watch. Fuck all these characters I hate them.