The teen drama “Riverdale” is king of ridiculous and not-well-planned plotlines, which is why most viewers come back every agonizingly hysterical week.
Maybe unbeknownst to the many Naval Academy midshipmen, graduates and fans in Annapolis, the CW show — loosely based off the Archie comics — began a Navy boxing subplot in its third season, which came to a climax in its season five opener Wednesday night. In vintage “Riverdale” fashion, the plot was dropped abruptly and unceremoniously, for drama.
There’s plenty of dramatized media that involves the Naval Academy, like the 2006 movie “Annapolis.” “Riverdale” also does not endeavor to have normal plots.