There are a lot of “television show” on the television show “Riverdale”. The adaptation of the archie comics by Roberto Aguirre -Sacasa – an inspired and chaotic queer work which is as joyfully absurd as painfully serious when it wants to be – burns scenarios as there is no tomorrow. This is how, ultimately, the show is able to engage in sub -intrigues involving everything, combat clubs for illegal teenagers to diabolical wizards, from alternative realities to the tickling porn industry. (The latter is very real and even Present “The Last of Us” the actor Spencer Lord.) The same goes for the genres in which he is unleashed, although there are two in particular that “riverdale” is constantly returning throughout his race: horror and musicals.
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It may not be surprising, then, that “Riverdale” is born a pair of spin-offs in the forms of the “frightening adventures of the horror of Sabrina” and the fantasy of the healthy showbiz of “Katy Keene”. The latter, which Aguirre-Sacasa developed with Michael Grassi, follows the titular character (Lucy Hale) and his friends as they continue their dreams to hit him great in the fashion, art and culture industries of New York. Consequently, even more than its parent program, “Katy Keene” is packed in branchies with musical sequences that cover everything, tunes from Broadway to Billboard Hot 100 Chart-Toppers. He also gives Ashleigh Murray as Josie McCoy a chance to shine in a way that the pussycats starlet has never had space on “Riverdale”.
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Unfortunately for Katy, Josie and Company, their dreams were quickly destroyed: “Katy Keene” lasted only one season of 13 episodes in the course of cancellation by the CW, compared to seven seasons for “riverdale” on the network and a pair of seasons in two parts (extending to 36 episodes in total) for “Sabrina” in Netflix. Didn’t people just cared about this corner of the Archie-Verse? Well, no, the truth is more complicated than that.
Katy Keene had trouble standing out above the rest of the CW crowd
Remember that this thing about “Riverdale” is sometimes a serious shocking? Well, “Katy Keene” is Aguirre-Sacasa and her crew fully carrying their hearts on their sleeves to tell a story about Go-Eem theater (and people cut with the same fabric) living aloud in the big apple. This is essentially what Aguirre-Sacasa did when he was younger, which adds a personal touch to the spin-off to go with his softer melodrama and all the stylistic fulfillments that a television budget will buy you. Critics were generally, in, wishing Katy in turn, as evidenced by his 91% Rotten tomatoes The criticisms mark, with accessories ranging to its atmosphere of distribution and resolutely victory effects. (The brighter colors and mood of the series also make a nice contrast with The neo-black styles inspired by “Twin Peaks” by “Riverdale”.))
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The problem was not that people did not like the show, it is that they did not look at it. As Deadline Noticed when “Katy Keene” was officially preserved in July 2020, his “soft” notes (like the president and chief executive officer of CW, Mark Pedowitz, said it before the cancellation of the show) were actually typical for the CW series. But when the other programs in the network tended to see a significant boost in the delayed visualization at the time, “Katy Keene” did not do so. Even when COVVI -19 locks came into force a month after the program start on February 6, 2020, viewers were more inclined to catch up with the new CW programs that had created the previous fall and buzzed more buzz – namely, “Nancy Drew” and “Batwoman” (the latter also benefited from being part of the then).
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Just like the pandemic killed the spin-off spin-off “Green Arrow & The Canaries” by CW, “ It is likely that the increase in production costs that followed did not help to give “Katy Keene” the possibility of developing her audience with a second season. Maybe if the show had come at a different time, things would have been in another direction. On his credit, however, Hale took everything in stride, telling E! Online A month after the ax of the series:
“I really knew where Katy would go in the second season and all the shots for her, so it’s always a disappointment to see it stopped without you wanting it, but ultimately, I only had incredible things to say about this show and the people and all the people involved. It was really a highlight of my career and life in NYC was incredible.”
Spoken like Katy herself. You can catch it as well as the others by broadcasting “Katy Keene” on Max.
