I was so shook.

It's coming back! I'm so excited!

- [Jughead] People will look back at this as the exact moment

that last bit of Riverdale... - Oh, is this Riverdale?

Riverdale? Oh, I'm so excited!

Oh, Riverdale!

I love Riverdale.

It's coming back. I'm so excited!

Is this a spoiler? Because I love this show

and I have not seen this yet.

- [Archie] I came out of the bathroom

and there was this man wearing this hood,

with a gun, and Pop Tate and then pointed it at my dad

and fired it. - Oh my God.

I'm not a fan. I know that's a bad--

everyone's obsessed with it.

- [Archie] Then he... - [Veronica] Then he what?

- [Jughead] For a moment it looked like you were

about to say something about that hood guy

and you reconsidered. - I love Cole Sprouse.

I know Cole Sprouse is in it from Zack and Cody.

- [Cheryl] Things are going to be different now, mommy.

Better. - Oh, Cheryl Blossom freaks me out.

- [Cheryl] You'll see. - What?

Riverdale? How did I not hear about this?

What?

I haven't seen that yet. Okay, that's sick.

I still have no idea what the show's about

but it looks good.

I guess we need another teenage drama

and this is it, but Archie, really?

There's a difference between and adaptation and just

using the names to promote a show.

I love Riverdale so much! I literally watched the first season

in, like, three days.

Oh my God, my heart's already beating.

I watched the first season of the show,

and I was, ugh. It was so good.

- [FBE] So that was the trailer for the second season

of Riverdale, which will be premiering on October 11.

Mm-hm.

Yes, yes! That's so close.

I'm so excited. I love Riverdale so, so much.

My best friend and I, she's blond,

we're going to be Betty and Veronica for Halloween.

- [FBE] Fans have been requesting we cover the show for a while,

so we're now going to show you some clips from season one.

Okay, I'm ready.

I love Riverdale. It's honestly such

a guilty pleasure.

You have to keep watching it. Each episode ended

in a cliffhanger, and I was like,

I can't just leave it here and go to sleep.

I have to watch it.

- [Kevin] So, let's start with skinny dipping.

Oh, Moose.

- [Kevin] And then see what happens.

- [Moose] Dude, are you okay?

This part had me shook.

This is the scary part. I hate this.

Oh.

What the [bleep]?

- Imagine finding your homie like that.

That's so scary. I don't know what I would do.

He didn't drown. He was shot.

Oh my God. This is all just revisiting,

all back in my head.

- [Jughead] Riverdale wasn't the same town as before.

- It was a town of shadows and secrets now.

I don't know what to think of it yet.

It just seems like any regular TV show

on the CW network.

It's a little cheesy but it looks interesting.

When I first watched that, I literally screamed.

I was like, "Oh, shit."

Yeah, this was a big turn. Okay, this show

is actually pretty good.

- [Veronica] Betty, can we make a vow?

So retro. I love it.

- [Veronica] That no matter what, no boy will ever

come between us again.

Aww.

- [Veronica] Deal? - [Betty] Deal.

She's gonna break the deal. I can already tell you.

Honestly, get you a friendship like them.

And then a guy walks in.

And then the dramatic look at Archie.

I can't. Like, I can't.

So they were already like, "We're never gonna let

a boy get between us." And then the two main guys show up?

- [Betty] You guys wanna join us?

Okay. It feels like it would be

one of those Degrassi type shows, you know?

Where there's drama everywhere and people dying for no reason.

That was so cheesy, but I still wanna watch more.

I got chills, I'm so excited. I love Riverdale.

Aww, Jughead and Betty are cute.

All right, so they're in a relationship, I think.

- [Jughead] Hey there, Juliet. - This is so cute.

Cole Sprouse is so cute.

- [Jughead] Haven't gone all full Yellow Wallpaper on me, have you?

They're just perfect for each other.

- [Jughead] We're all crazy. We're not our parents, Betty.

(laughs)

- [Jughead] We're not our families.

I love the show, but there's also some

fake deep moments.

Oh my God. They get so cute.

It's so weird seeing him on TV again.

- [Betty] What? - Is he gonna kiss her?

(gasps) I love them. I love it.

This is so cute.

And that was the beginning of an era.

He's so good to her. If they break up this season,

I'm done.

Seems very bland. Maybe if I watched the actual show,

I'll get into it.

What they did was they looked at every previous teen drama

and they just took lines from it. I don't have anything

against the show, I just think it's overhyped.

Oh, I remember this scene. It's where she pops off.

Oh my God. I love this part.

I was so shook.

I love her.

That's a good song.

The soundtrack makes everything so dramatic.

♪ I can do without ♪

God, I hate her parents so much.

They're like, "What the hell is she doing?"

Cheryl's my favorite character.

This is the first scene where I started to not hate her.

She's also crazy, though. I don't trust her.

- [Cheryl] Welcome to Thornhill. Thank you all for coming.

See, I feel like if I knew the context behind these clips,

it would hit me a lot harder.

At first, I was like, "Okay, this is a stereotypical,

cheesy, character." But then, it's like,

"Okay, she's actually a human."

Her character just has so much depth to it.

I love it. I love that they didn't

just make her a complete bitch.

They gave her some backstory, too.

- [Jughead] You and Archie are my friends, okay?

Oh my gosh, this scene.

Oh my God. Is this the weirdo scene?

I've seen this, okay.

- [Jughead] Everyone else, including Kevin, including Veronica,

are people that, two months ago, I would have actively shunned.

- [Betty] Why? - [Jughead] In case you haven't noticed

(speaking along) I'm weird.

- I'm a weirdo. I don't fit in.

- And I don't want to fit in.

Relatable.

- [Jughead] Have you ever seen me without the stupid hat on?

Oh my God. Such a meme.

- [Jughead] Have you ever seen me without the stupid hat on?

- That's weird. - (laughing) This is the worst

monologue ever.

- [Betty] It was just a party, Jug. - [Jughead] It's not just a party.

- It's the fact that you don't know or even care...

Come on. She's trying to be nice to you.

- [Betty] What the hell is that supposed to mean?

- [Jughead] Betty, I'm not one of your projects.

I don't like this part, 'cause he didn't appreciate it.

She's trying to go out of her way to do something for him.

- [Betty] You're not a project. You're my boyfriend.

- [Jughead] Until you're sick of slumming it with me?

- Or until Archie changes his mind and says he wants to be with you?

I just can't take him seriously knowing his prior work.

I'm sorry, man. I'll give it a try, though.

Oh my goodness, this dialogue, it sounds like something

I would have written in middle school.

For some people, it's addicting, 'cause you need to find out

what happens next, right? And I think that's what

makes drama shows so popular.

I love Riverdale. It's the drama.

It's the aesthetics. It's just everything

about Riverdale makes it amazing.

Usually I can catch on to shows and figure out what's going on,

but this show-- I just tried not to expect anything,

'cause it kept throwing curve balls.

As a show, it really keeps you on your toes.

But just some of the cringey dialogue

just makes it a little more enjoyable,

'cause it takes you out of it, but to a point where

you can laugh at it, and I appreciate that.

I don't hate it.

- [FBE] So Riverdale is actually based on something.

- Do you know what?

No.

It doesn't seem like anything. I have no idea.

Based on a murder?

The Archie comic books?

It's a comic.

Yeah, it's based off of the Archie comics.

- [FBE] So Riverdale is actually based on

the Archie series of comics.

"Archie?" I've never even heard of that.

I've never heard of it.

I've heard of it, but I have no idea

what it's about, or anything.

I didn't even know that, and I was walking

in the market one day, and I just saw it sitting there.

I snapped my friends. I was like, "What the heck?"

- [FBE] So actually, we have a few Archie comics

to show you now.

Oh, what the heck? These are literally

the characters from the show.

Oh yeah, I've definitely seen these before.

I just never read them. They got the characters

pretty on point with their cast selection.

Sounds happier. There's not that much drama in this.

You can just see the high school drama in this

and just compare it to this, you're like, "Huh?"

Where did this come from?

- You've got the comics right here and then you've got

dark looking Riverdale. That's so weirdly different.

- These were comics that were essentially meant to be uplifting.

Overrunning theme is just that Archie's a good guy, you know?

But in the show, he's hooking up with three girls at once,

leading one on, being a horrible person to his "best friend."

- The show is about a murder, and betrayal,

and people's relationships. And this is, like, a comedy

slash teach some kids some good morals.

That's cool, I guess, but I just don't understand

where they even got the idea for the show from this.

- (FBE) So now we're gonna show you some images

of the characters from Riverdale next to

the characters from Archie comics that

they're based on.

- Okay, cool.

- (FBE) So here's Archie and Jughead.

- Yeah, that's amazingly on point.

- I can kind of see it. They got the hat down.

- I like how even though the personalities

are very different, they kind of kept

the looks the same.

- It takes these nice, innocent, sweet characters,

and it just makes them these horrible people

who you can't have sympathy for,

'cause they're just mean.

- (FBE) And then here are our female characters.

- They know what they're doing. If they want to go

off of the books solely.

- They did a really accurate job. All of the actors look

pretty much like their characters.

- They're just so serious in these actual pictures

and in the comic, they're all like, "Hi!"

- So I really like this. I'm so into it!