![]() It’s a Very, Very Mad World (Season Two, Episode Eight)īetty feels distant from Jughead who is a little preoccupied playing head honcho of his gang, the Southside Serpents. We will find you, we will hunt you, and we will end you.” Of all the times for Archie to keep his top on?! “We’re called the Red Circle and we’re coming for you. But we are legion,” Archie says as a crew of shirtless, masked beefcakes pulse their pectorals in the background. Any teen vigilante group worth its salt needs a threatening promo video, so Archie gathers his bros in a garage and films a Tom of Finland ad as imagined by ISIS. Inspired by a comic book called The Red Circle that he sees while retrieving a gun, Archie gathers his fellow football players and forms a “watchdog” patrol. The Red Circle (Season Two, Episode Three)Īfter his father is shot by a masked gunman, a guilt-ridden Archie becomes obsessed with protecting his town from the killer, who becomes known as the Black Hood. They make a plan to lure Chuck into a threesome and get him to confess the truth on camera but things get weird fast when Betty emerges wearing a black bob wig: “Betty couldn’t make it so she sent me instead.” She drugs Chuck with a “truth serum,” handcuffs him inside a boiling jacuzzi, and nearly drowns him while dissociating. Veronica goes on a date with star football player Chuck Clayton who later spreads a rumor that he gave her a “sticky maple.” After learning that Chuck and his friends have used this highly-local slut-shamming tactic on many women, including Betty’s older sister Polly, Betty and Veronica take matters into their own hands. Meet Dark Betty (Season One, Episode Three) In honor of Riverdale’s series finale, we have gathered together the show’s most ridiculous moments. It’s a testament to the tenacity of the show’s cast and writing staff that all of this insanity felt relatively plausible within its universe (and eventually, multiverses). ![]() Truly anything could happen in a single episode: an evil Dungeons & Dragons–like roleplaying game, a tickle-fetish racket, an alien preserved in a barrel of maple syrup, etc. At its best, Riverdale was a borderline Dadaist experiment in absurdity, a writing exercise in suspending disbelief. But, perhaps unexpectedly, the show evolved into a genre of its own because it stopped adhering to the rules of reality very early on. The CW spin on the comic series recasts its beloved characters - golden boy Archie Andrews (KJ Apa), sardonic weirdo Jughead Jones (Cole Sprouse), girl-next-door Betty Cooper (Lili Reinhart), and heiress with a heart of gold Veronica Lodge (Camila Mendes) - as modern, horny teens who hope to solve a murder mystery.įrom the start, Riverdale unabashedly paid homage to a wide variety of stylistic influences, from Twin Peaks’ off-kilter noir to Gossip Girl’s soapiness to Glee’s campy musical numbers. When Riverdale premiered back in 2017, it quickly distanced itself from its source text, the wholesome Archie comics.
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