The Riverdale spin-off sanitizes itself silly.
The charming yet slight new seriesKaty Keene(debuting Thursday at 8 p.m. ButKatys swank Fifth Avenue setting and rom-com-on-steroids storytelling feels like another (final?)
She wants to be a famous designer, and personally sews seemingly everything that everyone around her wears.
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Katy lives in a nominally crammed, arguably gigantic apartment with two ambitious roommates.
Jorge (Jonny Beauchamp) is a drag performer with Broadway in his sights.
Katy Keenewas developed byRoberto Aguirre-Sarcasaand Michael Grassi.
Everyone looks incredible, every piece of clothing is art-designed to an almost Wes Andersonian degree.
This is Hales third try at CW stardom, after the recentLife Sentenceand the fondly-remembered-by-this-critic class comedyPrivileged.
Josie keeps talking about how much scarier her hometown was and shes right!
A show about New York doesnt need to be nasty.
Katy and KO smooch at Coney Island.
Every firefighter is a hottie date prospect.
New York, Katy narrates.
Dialogue like that got banned decades ago.
Aguirre-Sarcasa is a retro guy, I get it.
About that: Alexander has a sister, Alexandra, played with devouring relish by Camille Hyde.
In these early episodes, Alexandras a barely appearingdiabolus ex machina.
(Even an escort subplot turns into a moral fable about monogamy.)
Alexandra feels like the insanity the show is trying to bottle up.
Free the crazy, I say!
Better title:Poser.Grade:B-
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