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16 Sep

Riverdale Creates Its Own Church Because Why Not?

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This Riverdale review contains spoilers. Riverdale Season 5 Episode 16 “Being canonized has always been one of my life’s goals.” And so it came to pass that Cheryl Blossom turned water into maple syrup. Goddamn Riverdale is glorious trash. In what is either very subtle marketing for The Eyes of Tammy Faye or just the best direction this show has taken since everyone was hopped up on Jingle Jangle, the Blossom family’s “Church of Jason” antics came into sharp focus this week. Although relegated to a B or C plot, this plotline — which works equally well as a satire…
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09 Sep

Josie and The Pussycats is the Spinoff Riverdale Deserves

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This RIVERDALE review contains spoilers. Riverdale Season 5 Episode 15 “Our story is about three young women bursting with talent.” When last we saw Josie McCoy (Ashleigh Murray), she was in New York City trying to make her dreams come true on the ill-fated (and gone-too-soon) Riverdale spin-off Katy Keene. Often when characters are spun-off and their subsequent shows fail, they vanish into the pop culture ether — The Ropers from Three’s Company being the textbook case of this phenomenon. But not so for Josie. This latest episode debuts a new iteration of the character, one who has achieved her…
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01 Apr

Riverdale Gives Clarity on Betty’s Future Path

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In Riverdale’s stunning midseason finale, the question of whether Betty will ever give in to her dark impulses is answered. This Riverdale review contains spoilers. Since making her comic book debut in late 1941, Betty Cooper has become an archetype (and Archie’s type, well, one of them) for the so-called all American girl next door. Beautiful and blonde were her original personality traits. However, the comics were much smarter than to just let Betty become a tired ditzy stereotype. Through the writing of Archie legends like Frank Doyle, George Gladir and Kathleen Webb, Betty Cooper was transformed into a character…
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25 Mar

Riverdale Season 5 Episode 9 Review – Chapter 85: Destroyer

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The mundane mingles with the supernatural in a enjoyably goofy episode. Riverdale Season 5 Episode 8 “It is better to know the truth and make peace with it.” In a bit of selfless wisdom, Cheryl states the above words to Betty in tonight’s bonkers installment. The context being that Betty doesn’t want to tell her mother that it looks like Polly is a goner. So she goes to Cheryl basically to inquire whether she feels that her cousin’s life would have been better had she not known Jason’s true fate. The from-the-heart response that Cheryl gives her is quickly ignored,…
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18 Mar

Riverdale Season 5 Episode 8 Review – Chapter 84: Lock and Key

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This Riverdale review contains spoilers. Riverdale Season 5 Episode 8 “Am I crazy or have you been feeling the same way too?” Since Jughead’s narration opens most episodes with the most obvious observations possible, I’m going to return the favor by stating the following: Riverdale is not a series known for its profundity. Over its five seasons to date it has proven to be a dumb show that is more often or not done smartly. Or maybe its ability to constantly induce narrative whiplash has be semi-concussed and believing that the program is way better than it has any right…
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11 Mar

Riverdale Season 5 Episode 7 Review – Chapter 83: Fire in the Sky

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Riverdale meets The X-Files in a bizarre, hilarious outing. This RIVERDALE review contains spoilers. Riverdale Season 5 Episode 7 “Something very strange happened in Riverdale last night.” It’s increasingly difficult to review Riverdale because this remains a show that has transcended criticism. To be blunt, it just does not give a single fuck. Not that it has to at this point. We’re not even ten episodes into the series’ fifth season yet and the sheer volume of things happening right now is whiplash inducing. This latest episode featured, ahem, UFOs, serial killers, art forgery, irresponsible firefighting, ham-fisted commentary on contemporary…
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25 Feb

Riverdale Season 5 Episode 7 Cast, Release Date, Trailer, and News

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Riverdale Season 5 is here. The CW network drama returned in January 2021 with a brand new season. Really, the beginning of the fifth season was a continuation and conclusion of Riverdale‘s Season 4 story, which was cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic. Currently, Riverdale is on a mini-hiatus and will be back on March 10th with “Fire in the Sky.” Check out the promo… And here’s the synopsis: “Following in his Grandpa Artie’s footsteps, Archie begins to recruit Riverdale’s new volunteer fire department; Toni’s attempt to lure Cheryl out of Thornhill and back into daily life in Riverdale leads…
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18 Feb

Riverdale Season 5 Episode 5 Review – Chapter 81: The Homecoming

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Archie, Jughead, Betty and Veronica are back home, but will they — and Riverdale — ever be the same? This RIVERDALE review contains spoilers. Riverdale Season 5 Episode 5 “Spread the news far and wide that Riverdale and its children will not be at the mercy of Hiram Lodge’s destructive whims.” Of course, this being Riverdale, the above declaration by Toni was immediately undercut by the fact that, yep, once again the town and its children are at the Mercy of Hiram Lodge’s destructive whims. (It’s somewhat shocking an emo cover of “Once in a Lifetime” didn’t immediately begin playing,…
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11 Feb

Riverdale Season 5 Episode 4 Review – Chapter 80: Purgatorio

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Riverdale reinvents itself as the fifth season properly gets underway. This RIVERDALE review contains spoilers. Riverdale Season 5 Episode 4 “To be honest, it doesn’t even feel like Riverdale anymore.” You can say that again Archie. Following three episodes originally intended for last year and a seven-year time jump, Riverdale‘s fifth season gets well and truly underway with an installment designed not so much with shaking up the status quo but reinventing it completely. To borrow the name of a Flaming Lips song — you just know NYC writer’s block-stricken Jughead listens to lots of the band’s output — suddenly…
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04 Feb

Riverdale Season 5 Episode 3 Review – Chapter 79: Graduation

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This RIVERDALE review contains spoilers. Riverdale Season 5 Episode 3 “Are we doomed to just be haunted by this town for the rest of our lives?” So asks Jughead Jones in this most emotional episode of Riverdale, and it’s a question that is uttered almost rhetorically even though we all know the answer. There’s a valedictorian feel to this installment in every sense, one that subtextually speaks of how the series is closing the door on what is what in order to reinvent itself. And friends, it’s arguably the most grounded episode the show has ever done…and maybe the best?…
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28 Jan

Riverdale Season 5 Episode 2 Review – Chapter 78: The Preppy Murders

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This RIVERDALE review contains spoilers. Riverdale Season 5 Episode 2 “So now we have a preppy murderer on the loose…” The most valid criticism about Riverdale over the course of its now five seasons is how the series constantly drags out its ongoing mysteries, only to frantically race to wrap them up. Due to the pandemic, what was initially intended as last season’s big resolution episode just played out before our eyes and it was….kind of meh? Let’s examine the wrapping up of these various plots from most to least successful, shall we? As I speculated in last week’s wrap-up,…
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21 Jan

Riverdale Season 5 Episode 1 Review – Chapter 77: Climax

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This RIVERDALE review contains spoilers. Riverdale Season 5 Episode 1 “Clearly our last two weeks of high school are going to be fraught…” Friends, on this day we find this country starting a new chapter, one that is full of hope and excitement for the future. I am of course referring to the airing of Riverdale‘s season premiere, a somewhat wheel-spinning, melodramatic affair that feels more like the closing pages of a book than the start of another story. And that’s because it is precisely that. This episode was a leftover from last year, filmed but not completed production until…
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10 Dec

Riverdale Season 5: What to Expect

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When Riverdale‘s fourth season ended abruptly shut down production due to Covid-19 earlier this year, the show had to quickly narratively pivot. Instead of tying together several season-long plot threads — including revealing the true motives of Charles, whether or not the Stonewall Preppies would get revenge against Jughead, and, most importantly, who is behind the mailing of sinister videotapes to the town’s residents — the show wrapped with Mr. Honey leaving Riverdale High and the gang viewing a new tape in which masked doppelgangers of themselves act out their former principal’s murder. It’s all pretty creepy, and since the…
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14 Sep

Riverdale Season 5 Begins Production

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And just like that, the world is one step closer to having Riverdale back. Series creator Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa posted a photo to Instagram Sunday night revealing that filming was set to get underway on Monday, Sept. 14. Aguirre-Sacasa wrote: “After fourteen days of quarantining 🇨🇦 and months of prep, #Riverdale Season 5 starts shooting tomorrow. Spent the night in the bubble, reminiscing with these lovely people and celebrating @lilireinhart 24th birthday 🎂 How time flies. Looking forward to seeing the rest of the gang this week. Here we go….” View this post on Instagram After fourteen days of quarantining 🇨🇦…
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10 Jul

The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and Riverdale Crossover That Never Was

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It was Sage Francis who quoted Kurt Vonnegut who paraphrased John Greenleaf Whittier when he declared “of all the words of mice and men the saddest are ‘it might have been'” in his 2014 song “Vonnegut Busy.” Despite who originated this oft-used declaration, the truth remains that few things are sadder in life than a missed opportunity. And in 2020, when good news is extinct? Well, could-have-beens feel more devastating than usual. For Archie fans it’s been a rough couple of weeks. First, Katy Keene was cancelled by the CW after its promising first season, and word has come that…
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