Again, these things happened in an episode that featured an extended Close Encounters of the Third Kind homage, so yeah, no. Archie’s firefighting crusade is just the latest manifestation of his messiah complex.
But you just know that this is all leading to some big science fiction reveal, and you should know how much this thrills me given what website you are reading these words on.Īs for the other plot developments, the Vixens saga is only interesting in that it sets the stage for the inevitable Choni romantic reunion. Maybe Tabitha is right, as Jughead’s UFO experience was just a result of his budding alcoholism. It is established here through a charming flashback featuring 1970s Pop Tate that the town has a heretofore unrevealed supernatural past. As with everything in 2021, it’s unclear exactly what the hell is happening here.
Clearly the producers are going for a The X-Files thing here, even if its maple syrup-drenched stank is more of the Baywatch Nights sci-fi variety. Since Riverdale doesn’t believe in understating anything, Jug is investigating Mothmen and UFO’s now. Oh yeah, he’s also immersed in the sort of psuedo-scientific happenings that are the stuff of a Leonard Nimoy In Search Of… fever dream currently plaguing his community. A failure as a writer, he has resorted to working at Pop’s (is he even teaching at Riverdale High anymore?) and drinking his days away. There’s nothing as daringly go-for-broke that the series’ has attempted before as the current Jughead storyline. I’ll tell you this though, it was ridiculously entertaining. Was it a great episode? Or a terrible one? With Riverdale who can even tell anymore, and that’s probably the whole point. This episode made me feel simultaneously concussed and giddy. I mean seriously, how can you even begin to sum up such an experience other than to sigh, and get started on the confounding work that lies ahead?
So as someone whose job it is to parse the subjective quality of the show, installments like the one that just aired make such a task a fool’s errand. I’m sure I missed something just there, but that’s forgivable seeing how Riverdale remains a show that jarringly transitions from one increasingly inexplicable plotline to the next, pausing only when it deems fit to throw in a baffling musical montage.
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This latest episode featured, ahem, UFOs, serial killers, art forgery, irresponsible firefighting, ham-fisted commentary on contemporary issues ranging from fiscal crises to veterans suffering from PTSD, and a dance off. We’re not even ten episodes into the series’ fifth season yet and the sheer volume of things happening right now is whiplash inducing. To be blunt, it just does not give a single fuck.
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