kaimalkap
There is an idea of Riverdale, of what kind of town it is, what sort of families live there...a notion that it exists unchanged and unchanging..as if frozen in a time capsule...that it must be exactly how it presents itself to the outside world..SAFE.DECENT.INNOCENT. So that if you were looking at it from the window of a train, rushing by, you might wish you lived there. But that's only one aspect of it, and only on the surface...
The truth is, if you really want to understand Riverdale, and what kind of place it is, I have to tell you about it's shadows, the town beneath the town...