I've been in need of a trashy new teen drama for while now, ever since Gossip Girl ended. I've always gotta have a good guilty pleasure. Before that it was The O.C., before that the classics of the WB like Dawson's Creek and Felicity (Buffy doesn't count as a guilty pleasure, that was high art which I will defend as such until the end). So I've been waiting for one for some time- could this finally be it? Produced by the superhero maestro Greg Berlanti (although he was formerly the creator of Everwood), this reinvention of the classic Archies comics is supposedly Gossip Girl meets Twin Peaks, but early word from TV critics is that the first four episodes are deliciously addictive. I'm in. But how funny is it to see the original 90210's Luke Perry as the dad in a teen soap?? Riverdale starts January 26th.
