It’s 2020, and as promised during our Riverdale Season 4 First Impressions post last year, we’re back, and we have opinions! As we luxuriate in these precious episodeless weeks between the first half of this trash fire of a season and the second half, we’re here to talk about what’s gone down so far, what is yet to go down, and whether or not it should be legal for this television show to exist at all.
Read moreRiverdale Season 4 First Impressions
Here at BSG headquarters, we have decided to engage in an act of communal self care and NOT recap the fourth season of Riverdale. We know that this is a huge disappointment to all five of the people who actually watch the show in real time and not when the entire season drops on Netflix over the summer, and we’re sorry. Of course, you know we can’t quit cold turkey, so here’s the plan: we will do three blog posts for Riverdale’s fourth season. This, the first, is our “season preview,” if you will. We’ve watched the first three episodes and have recorded our thoughts and predictions based on what’s gone down so far. We’ll check in again during the mid-season hiatus, and then we’ll post after the finale to see how everything stacks up and how truly unpredictable this show is.
Read moreRiverdale S3 Finale: Survive the Night!
It's FINALLY here! The finale of Season three of Riverdale. Hard to imagine how much more bonkers it could get, but here we go...
In this episode, all the strands come together, so I'm going to do my best to go chronologically.
Read moreRiverdale Recap! S3E21: The Dark Secret of Harvest House
With Riverdale’s season finale airing tonight, we have a LOT of questions that still need to be answered — some of them stemming from last week’s episode, “The Dark Secret of Harvest House.” Here, we parse through the penultimate episode and make our final predictions about Season 3. Join us, won’t you? *cue cult chanting*
Read moreRiverdale Recap! S3E20: Prom Night
WELCOME BACK, RIVERDALIANS!
We’re nearing the home stretch of this season—and boy has it been a marathon. How will the writers wrap up this whole Gargoyle King plot? Let’s see if they can! In typical Mary fashion, I’ve split up this ep into groups of characters.
Read moreRiverdale Recap! S3E19: Fear the Reaper
Hi everyone! We’re back with another dark, and I mean that literally, episode of Riverdale. So let’s dive right in.
Read moreRiverdale Recap! S3E18: Jawbreaker
After a short hiatus, Riverdale has returned with a bang! Or like, a sound, at least.
This week we got to check in on a number of plots, from the happenings at Edgar Evernever’s Farm to the latest G&G quest, and were even treated to an amateur boxing match at a teen-owned gym sponsored by a teen-owned speakeasy. Teens! They own stuff.
Let’s get on with our attempt to pull this apart.
Read moreRiverdale Recap! S3E17: The Master
Hello, Vixens!
We’re back in Riverdale this week, investigating drug dens, the mob, and weird cults. There’s a LOT to get to this week, so let’s just jump right in. We’re splitting up the recap into sections, covering one character at a time, so we can keep everything straight.
Read moreRiverdale Recap! S3E16: Big Fun
Here is the moment we've all been waiting for: the Heathers: The Musical episode of Riverdale...
Gabriella: Full disclosure, I've never seen Heathers: The Musical. I have seen the original film, however, so I was not really prepared for this episode — which I'm kind of glad about because I surprisingly really enjoyed it.
Read moreRiverdale Recap! S3E15: American Dreams
What exactly is the American Dream™?
After this episode, we’re no closer to figuring it out than Jughead is. Here’s what the American Dream isn’t: finding out that your mom is the new drug kingpin in town, or fighting a dozen different nerds convinced a board game has marked you for death, or moving out of your house because your mom has joined a cult, or, you know, breaking up with your servant/security detail/boy toy because he wants more than you’re willing to give him. Just to list a few random examples.
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