Jughead, a 16 year-old kid who knew Brad Rayberry for maybe a couple of weeks at most, is asked by the police to help out their investigation. This includes providing incredibly basic information such as next of kin, because surely a 16 year-old kid who knew the guy for only a little bit would know such information better than the police.
The owner of Pep Comics doesn't find anything strange about handing Rayberry's personal information over to a 16 year-old kid, instead of, you know, giving it to the police.
Brad Rayberry was supposedly a famous author. Why hasn't news of his death spread already? Why would Jughead's phone call be the first time that his own wife is hearing of his death? Although I suppose that this is theoretically possible for the time period. One of the few times that Riverdale's lazy writing has paid off in its favor.
June Simpson sure did travel all the way up from South Carolina, in 1955, very quickly. Like it was no big deal.
Why does Jughead have unlimited access to Rayberry's apartment now? The police are done with it, so wouldn't the landlord start emptying it out for a new tenant?
Why would someone (the cat lady) go to a dead person's apartment looking for milk? That makes absolutely no fucking sense whatsoever.
Reggie borrowing someone else's car and then just driving it anywhere he pleased like that's totally normal is weird. So is not filling it with gas. Although Archie should've noticed the car was low before it ran out. That doesn't make much sense.
I love how everything at Pop's is apparently free. They got up from the table and left without paying, and then later Pop hands them the jerry can filled with gas and they don't pay for it.
Archie still talks about Jughead as if they're best friends. But this timeline's Archie and this timeline's Jughead have almost never interacted. Jughead has almost nothing to do with the rest of the cast most of the time.
Not sure if it's a good thing or a bad thing that Archie and Reggie didn't immediately assume that Betty and Veronica had been kidnapped. It's 1955, there's no cell phones, and they didn't leave a note of any kind. It would be perfectly reasonable to assume that two teenage girls who were left all by their lonesome on a deserted, secluded road could have been abducted.
I know I've already said something similar, but Ritchie Valens would not be performing on the east coast in 1955. He was 14 in 1955. He didn't start performing until 1957, and he didn't become a national hit until 1958. I guess none of the writers bothered with a two second Google search.
Shout by Janine HieplerBlockedParent2023-06-05T08:15:46Z
I love this season. It's so much better than the random superhero crap they showed before. Love the season 1 and 2 vibes.