Weekend WatchAlong: The Archies! 6pm Chicago Time! Some Nice Nostalgia for a December Evening

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Happy Saturday! Time for a nice watchalong with some nice nostalgia, for those of us who grew up reading Archie comics.

The Archies

On Netflix, beautiful looking, Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy music, and Zoya direction, couldn’t be bettered.

At 6pm Chicago time, I will put up an “And PLAY” comment and we will all comment along from there!

339 thoughts on “Weekend WatchAlong: The Archies! 6pm Chicago Time! Some Nice Nostalgia for a December Evening”

  4. Ok I really hoped Dhishoom Dhisshoom was going to be after Betty and Veronica discovered Archie two timing them but like, I should have guessed from the Jughead PoV that it was imaginary 😭

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  6. Also this song is my absolute fave sequence so far and the whole reason I got excited about The Archies. There’s such a lovely jazz element about it…it reminds me of a So You Think You Can Dance sequence with all the girl finalists to Eartha Kitt’s My Discarded Men

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  11. I do love that this isn’t just about the park itself and the shops around it and the kids’ familiarity, but how tied their own parents livelihoods and histories are to the place.

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    • And the fragility of this whole community, Mr. Lodge isn’t trying to destroy anything, but without realizing what he is doing, getting rid of the bookstore and the park will change the town and break the magic of balancing Anglo and Indian

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  19. Until this part of the film, I am really impressed with Kushi Kapoor! I still can’t tell if its because of the way her character was written or because she just really embrassed the role!

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    • I wanted to like Suhana the best. And I will say that Suhana can emote like crazy! totally believable whenever emotions are complex. But when emotions aren’t complex, she looks like she is acting. Whereas Khushi, in this film, didn’t actually have such complex emotions to display. So could she do what Suhana did? I don’t know. But as far as regular screen charisma she is spectacular.

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  23. Huh. I was thinking in her intro how crazy it was for Suhana to be doing this movie after her brother was put in jail. Like, not disapproving of her, but how strange it must have been to come from high drama and identity belonging issues to this film. And now it feels right, the way the young people have to decide between staying in this confusing in between world of modern and old, or just going to England/Australia/where ever.

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  28. While they talk about political apathy and stuff, I just remembered, wasn’t Reggie introduced making out with a girl in the backseat? So is he not in love with Dilton after all?

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  33. I do love that even the people who tried to adjust into the system (Betty’s dad, Ethel) find themselves disillusioned and would rather go back to the way things were.

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  34. I like that Archie is a cad, but at the same time a human cad. Who could use a backbone, but also honestly likes two girls at once.

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      • I guess the only actor I found captivating was Khushi. So while I will give Reggie props for great acting during Dilly’s break down, I didn’t find him any less captivating than Reggie or Dilly or Jughead a whole. And I don’t know why I call Dilly dilly instead of Dilton, and even then he is in my head as Tilly because that is how my ears heard it.

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  37. Archie would be such a great rep for polyam with this dialogue IF he’d just been OPEN with the girls he liked that he liked them both! 😭

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  38. Another angle of the Anglo-Indian story that is there without being said, this is a generational love story. The people who moved here were refugees from the world because of their love stories, and now it is generations of people making choices for love.

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  39. I think it is interesting with these young actors, some are clearly better than others at playing the happy go lucky natural characters. AND THEN when things get tricky, other actors who weren’t so goo at the happy go lucky, shine when emotions get tricky.

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