5 reasons Katy Keene is a show that deserves to find a new home

Katy Keene -- "Chapter Eight: It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" -- Image Number: KK108A_0257b.jpg -- Pictured (L-R): Ashleigh Murray as Josie McCoy, Julia Chan as Pepper Smith and Lucy Hale as Katy Keene -- Photo: Peter Kramer/The CW -- © 2020 The CW Network, LLC. All Rights Reserved. /

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Katy Keene — “Chapter Five: Song for a Winter’s Night” — Image Number: KK105a_0680bc.jpg — Pictured: Ashleigh Murray as Josie McCoy — Photo: David Giesbrecht/The CW — © 2020 The CW Network, LLC. All Rights Reserved. /

Josie McCoy finally gets the spotlight she deserves

In all honesty, Riverdale never really knew what to do with Josie McCoy. Which is the sort of travesty that deserves a piece in its own right, because she’s Josie McCoy. Of Josie and the Pussycats. And the show completely wasted her character, ditching the rest of her band and repeatedly sidelining her in awful storylines. (Remember when she dated Archie? Blech.)

Katy Keene finally gives Josie a place to belong – showing the character making new friends, finding her own way, and pursuing her dream of a music career. Katy Keene – given that it’s set in New York City and Josie works in a music shop – provides a much more natural fit for the character and the fact that she often needs a reason to sing doesn’t feel nearly as weird or out of place here as it sometimes did on her previous series. Josie belongs in a more diverse and thoughtful show like Katy Keene and it seems very wrong to have to say goodbye to her just as her story was getting started for real.

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