![]() It was wise for the showrunners to make the character realize that he is a bit of a rudderless dolt. First and foremost are Archie’s struggles. That minor gripe aside, there’s a lot to enjoy here. Just one that, through no fault of its own, doesn’t really work as a season premiere. Writers Ace Hasan and Greg Murray handle this arguably thankless task with aplomb, squeezing out the necessary exposition needed to push the plot points towards their approaching conclusion while shoehorning in a (now unfortunate) Katy Keene tie-in. There’s a lot to be told here until the show finishes telling this specific story. Lodge’s illness and how he is using vigilantism to cope with it, the mysterious (and suitably anachronistic videotapes) arriving at the doorsteps of Riverdale residents, and the gang prepping for their imminent post-high school lives. As such it thrusts us into the start of the endgame of last season’s storylines - namely the fallout of the Betty and Archie kiss, Mr. This episode was a leftover from last year, filmed but not completed production until the pandemic lockdown was over. (Ew.) He credits Betty with saving his life, and now he knows he needs to get his drinking under control.And that’s because it is precisely that. He eventually emerged… and discovered the whole “Rat King” thing was actually a rabies-induced hallucination he had after he was swarmed by rats. Jughead kept the guy at bay by reading aloud from his book, but that night, he had a vision of Betty telling him he’ll drown if he stays underground. ![]() He finds out later he’d been treated for a rabies infection: That drunken night, he fell into a sinkhole and wandered through the subterranean tunnels of New York City, where he encountered a crazy guy calling himself the “Rat King” and waving a knife at him. Jughead woke up in a hospital bed after being unconscious for days. All the while, he tried to keep in touch with Betty, but when she didn’t come to his book release party, he got wasted and left her that venomous voicemail, calling her a “cold, fake, duplicitous bitch.” Ouch. (Even when he signed with a literary agent, the guy gave him a bottle of booze.) He moved to New York to write full-time, and turned to psychedelic maple mushrooms for inspiration after suffering from writer’s block, blasting through page after page to write his first novel. Last up in Cheryl’s Creepy Storytelling Hour is Jughead, who shares his life story at a meeting for alcoholics: After high school, he went to Iowa’s writing workshop, but quickly got bored there and started drinking heavily. So he’s no longer a danger, but we still don’t know what really happened to Polly - and Betty doesn’t think he was acting alone, either. But before she can start, the guy swallows his own tongue and chokes on it, killing himself. She grabs a chainsaw and warns the trucker she’ll torture him by carving off his limbs but keep him alive… which is exactly what the Trash Bag Killer threatened to do to Betty, we learn. The trucker fiendishly toys with Betty, sending her on a wild goose chase to dig up dog bones and admitting he sees all women as “prey.” When Betty brings in Alice to humanize Polly, the guy just taunts her, telling her that Polly “squealed like a pig when I slit her throat.” At this point, Alice just wants the guy dead - and Betty is ready to oblige. You’re in Riverdale.” (Fair enough!) She tells him he doesn’t have any rights, and the whole ordeal is giving her flashbacks to her close call with the Trash Bag Killer. When he demands a phone call as an American citizen, she replies: “You’re not in the United States anymore. Next, we catch up with Betty, who’s holding that trucker guy from last week captive in the high school’s auto body shop. ![]() (Cheryl still wants them to keep digging, though.) Archie apologizes to his doctor and says he wants to continue seeing her, but now she’s afraid to be alone with him… and he’s still having those visions of dead soldiers. Soon enough, though, all the miners are freaking out, and they realize it’s carbon monoxide from the mines that’s messing with their heads. Riverdale Recap: A Portrait of the Gangster as a Young Manīack in the mines, Archie is still having visions, this time of creepy aliens, and he goes into a paranoid frenzy, barging into the therapist’s office and accusing her of drugging him with psychedelics.
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