Chapter Fifty-One: Big Fun (Riverdale)

"Chapter Fifty-One: Big Fun" is the sixteenth episode of the third season of the American television series Riverdale and the fifty-first episode of the series overall. The episode was directed by Maggie Kiley, written by Tessa Leigh Williams, and choreographed by Heather Laura Gray. It centered around Heathers: The Musical by Laurence O'Keefe and Kevin Murphy, based on the 1988 film of the same name written by Daniel Waters.

Plot
Rehearsals for this year's musical get under way, and Betty grows increasingly annoyed by Evelyn's involvement with the musical, as well as the lives of her friends. Meanwhile, Veronica learns some devastating news about her family.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) To start off this list, it's a filler episode. The episode makes no sense in the context of Season 3 and does nothing to progress the story.
 * 2) The episode is another terrible attempt at making a musical episode for the show after the Carrie episode in season 2.
 * 3) It ruins the original Heathers musical, which was pretty decent.
 * 4) The singing is awful. Most of the cast relies on too much autotune to cover it up.
 * 5) * Cole Sprouse possibly has the worst singing out of all of them. His voice is incredibly emotionless and always in a monotone, which is very noticeable when his character Jughead sings "Seventeen" with Betty.
 * 6) * KJ Apa and Ashleigh Murray are also bad singers, despite their characters (Archie and Josie, respectively) having musical talent in the show.
 * 7) * The bad singing is noticeable in "Beautiful," where most of the actors sound like they're tone-deaf.
 * 8) * Also, in "Candy Store," at the end of the bridge, the line "And end up like her" is sung down an octave for unknown reasons.
 * 9) The songs featured in the musical have been butchered, with noticeable lyric changes too (likely due to the show's high school setting). Many of them omit certain lines.
 * 10) * The most infamous lyric change is in "Candy Store," where the line "If you lack the balls, you can go play dolls. Let your mommy fix you a snack" is changed to "If you lack the juice, go play duck duck goose. Let your mommy fix you ice cream."
 * 11) ** "Pussy" is replaced with "doorknob" in the same song, an odd expurgation.
 * 12) * There are so many lyric changes done to "Big Fun" that it would take all day to explain them all.
 * 13) The choreography is terrible, particularly in "Beautiful," where one of the dances is just the characters swaying their bodies around.
 * 14) That insane plot twist where the musical is being used to indoctrinate the students into the Farm cult that's prominent in Season 3.

The Only Redeeming Quality

 * 1) Casey Cott (Kevin Keller) has the best singing out of all the cast.

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