Three years ago, Irish madman Super Eyepatch Wolf made a video on the teen drama Riverdale which is loosely based on the Archie comic books series. While the show was already infamous for its very bizarre plot, I think that video amplified it to a lot of people.
Three years later he has made a follow up video with the plot developments that have occurred in the show since, and if he wasn’t also showing footage from the show alongside the events he discusses, I would think it was another elaborate joke like his Space Jam video.
I’ve always been just barely aware that there’s a whole world of people watching those shows. I categorize them all in my mind as the descendants of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Riverdale, Smallville, and Supernatural are the other ones that I actually know the names of, but I’m sure there are others.
Super long serial plots that don’t have a planned ending. Lowish budget production. US television. I think the only thing that keeps them from being soap operas is the that they air them at a different time slot. They also often add some fantasy or sci-fi elements when soap operas don’t do that so much.
They’re actually more honest adaptations of comic books to the screen than movies are. Floppy American comics are also neverending serials. If you think about it, the soap operas are the televised form of the early romance comics. These shows are the televised adaptations of more contemporary comics. The only difference is that the big comic publishers didn’t keep publishing the former. Thankfully we now have things like WEBTOON filling that need.
If this person made a video series on The Amazing Spider-Man, the comic book, it would also come across as even more insane than Riverdale.
