Hadrea Batt

This show would honestly make a lot more sense if it was about immortals trying to function normally like modern people and failing. Miserably. Seventeen and eighteen year olds running a rum production, owning and running a youth club, constantly ignoring restraining orders, involved with cults and just going back to everyday life when it's convenient, keeping a corpse in a house for probably a month plus, holding one's own mother hostage and only letting her out with blackmail to run a club, running a gang that's just there as a background piece now, doing some vigilantism on the side, and don't forget fleeing the town for I forget how long because one of the father's has been trying to kill them. Repeatedly. This is all stuff the seventeen and eighteen year olds are doing. This show might still be interesting if it had any roots in any semblance of reality, or if it was about immortals just failing to fit into normal/modern society. Also, the only thing related to the Archie comics in this show is the names of the characters and the location now. Season one of this show was AMAZING, binged it in a night. Season two was fantastic, happily watched it over a weekend. Season three was interesting, but weird and lacking (for me). Season four is the WORST and honestly I cannot wait for it to be over, it's so bad. After season four I won't watch this anymore and I dread the next episode, but I've seen so much of the season and there's supposedly only four episodes left of the season.

I really love this show, I've read all the old Harley comics I could get my hands on, I started reading the new stuff, but this show is by far the best. I love watching Harley grow as a villain on her own and recognize that what she and the joker had was a hugely abusive relationship, I love how Ivy is growing and developing, and honestly I binged all the episodes out so far because I couldn't stop watching it. I'm so excited to see where this goes.

I would've called it something else instead of Are You Afraid of the Dark, because this is a HUGE disappointment compared to the old stuff. This isn't a scary story anthology like the old stuff, it's terribly cliche and is just a three part series about the Midnight Society trying to handle when a story turns out to be real. It'd be a good mini-series if it was called something else instead of trying to ride the nostalgia train with the same title and similar theme music as the original series.