'Riverdale's' Musicals Just Aren't Cutting It for Fans Anymore

Almost every season of 'Riverdale' includes a musical episode and all of the cast contributors sing, but why are there so many musicals?

The first time Riverdale featured a musical episode, it was once adorable. The following season, when they did it again, it was once still sort of amusing. Now, however, most fans just need to know why. Why does Riverdale do so many musicals?

At this level in the sequence, it's almost definitely time to get rid of them and as a substitute fill the Forty two minutes with content material that is helping propel the story forward slightly than most commonly filler subject matter.

While it's true that sometimes Riverdale musicals partially have compatibility into the narrative of an episode, that isn't at all times the case. The Season 2 musical, which makes use of Carrie: The Musical as its backdrop, incorporates the mysterious serial killer the Black Hood into the creepy musical the youngsters put on in class. And it works.

But in Season 3, while there are lots of subplots going on directly, including a cult on a farm and Jughead's mother running what is largely a meth lab, there's in point of fact little need for Heathers: The Musical.

So, why is there such a lot singing in 'Riverdale'?

In 2018, ahead of Riverdale's first musical episode, showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa explained to Variety why he decided so as to add musicals to the sequence.

"[Our characters] are kids who, even though they get involved in crime and stuff, are still high school kids — and high school kids do musicals every year," he mentioned. "So it feels like, on a show with high school kids, it's easy to get to [a story where] we're doing a musical. It's one of the kinds of classic coming-of-age rites of passage."

At the time, he sought after the tune in Carrie: The Musical to help heal the wounds in more than a few relationships between characters. And it helped, to an extent. But what will have been a one-off episode within the series as a complete opened the door for musicals in every season — even Season 5, the majority of which takes place long after the primary characters are in high school.

'Riverdale's' solid in reality sings each track.

Even regardless that most of the Riverdale cast participants aren't professional singers, they do perform their own songs in each and every musical episode. Granted, those songs are edited for quality and the actors don't sing them are living all over filming.

But even the actors whose characters would not have music-centered storylines belt out the ballads themselves.

'Riverdale' fans aren't wild in regards to the musical episodes.

Even in case you love musicals out of doors of Riverdale (which is where they belong, through the way in which), some fans just cannot get at the back of Riverdale's musical episodes.

Following the Season 5 musical episode, one fan wrote on Twitter, "I like musicals but combined with a murder mystery series, [they] are just incompatible and frustrating."

Another fan shared on Twitter that, for them, the musical episodes are "distracting."

Maybe some fans are still completely at the back of the fanfare of Riverdale musical episodes. But now that a number of of them are in the back of us, there is no hurt in protecting them there because the sequence strikes forward.

Watch Riverdale on Wednesdays at Eight p.m. EST on the CW.

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