What starts as an excuse for Riverdale to clad Kevin in its finest low-cut tank tops unravels into some compelling character work. This worries Goody Two-Shoes Betty, who thinks Kevin might get targeted by the town’s resident serial killer. He doesn’t have a way to express his sexual desires and hates using the hookup app GrindEm because people never look the same in person as they do online (which, honestly, sounds like more of the complaint of a 30-something TV writer than a repressed and horny teen), so he likes to go off to Fox Forest to cruise men. Like the best of Riverdale, Kevin’s cruising story line is a little ridiculous, and therefore sublime. Kevin Keller, who, for once in Riverdale history, has something interesting to do. Kevin Keller, whose BFF wishes he weren’t cruising right now. Here we find sweet, beautiful, dull Kevin Keller, the sheriff’s son, pretending to jog, looking for a chance to get off. Muscled men in tank tops rendezvous with each other, glistening as if to imply sex acts the CW cannot air. In the woods on the edge of Riverdale, away from the diners and drug deals, beyond the halls of both the good and grimy high schools, sexy things are afoot.
