I am right now in S3 E4. When I watched S2, I felt around 10 episode could have been skipped in between (maybe just watching them quickly or so). Are there any episodes moving forward that I can do (obviously going to skip the musical ones - but any more)?

Hi all! My friend and I started a podcast called "Riverdale: The Drinking Game: The Podcast," where we lightheartedly discuss the show through the lens of the drinking game we made. Our first episode dropped yesterday please join us to watch, listen, and play along as we rewatch one of our favorite shows.

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Here are the rules that come up in Chapter 1: the river's edge:

• !Jughead opens the episode by saying Riverdale is a town of lost souls!<

• !gratuitous blossom drama!<

• !Kevin, sploosh!<

• !archie shirtless!<

• !archie acknowledges football or music!<

• !a character makes a pop culture reference that makes you say “what the fuck.”!<

• !a cover of a song!<

• !black characters outnumber white characters in a scene!<

• !an adult finds archie attractive!<

• !Finish your drink if the title card shows up 10 minutes or later into the episode.!<

• !existing character revealed to be gay!<

Please drink responsibly. Or don't. I'm not Alice Cooper.

So I made a mistake of reading reviews on Riverdale before getting to season 3. Now that I’m on S3 there’s a lot of things I don’t like about it, it just seems the entire show changed to an completely different type of show, I don’t hate it but I don’t know what to think.

I am not a fan of musicals so that part I really don’t enjoy. But without giving any spoilers does the show get better? Should I continue watching? I truly enjoyed season 1 and 2 and hate breaking from a show and not finishing it but I’m starting to loose interest but I still have hope if that makes sense! Lol

Just realised that when I was re watching silence of the lambs. Hannibal said the same lines over the phone that TBK said to betty and she also said the same line of "you know i cant promise you that" or something like that in 5x19. Just thought that was interesting.

I don’t really remember it that lividly but i am rewatching (almost near when they find out). Did the ppl inside the tapes actually die? Did jellybean and her friends kill them? Was it someone else or smth? I didn’t get it the first time either tbh 😭

I honestly think that credit has to go to Lili Reinhart for making Alice seem like a genuinely totally different person despite the fact that young Alice and Betty are identical. It also happens that young Alice is my favourite Lili look in all of Riverdale, she's even more staggeringly good looking as young Alice than she usually was.

But I like how Flashback Alice was both a hardass and also vulnerable at the same time, like you got to see her tough girl facade crack during some of the flashback scenes. While I'm not saying that we should have had too many flashback episodes to the point where they become stale, I certainly wouldn't have minded seeing more Lili playing a character like she did in the flashbacks.

Maybe they should have just made Betty like Flashback Alice instead of the wholesome girl next door she is (even if that'd be a massive departure for the Archie Comics character) and it could have lead to a heartwarming moment where Alice encourages Betty to be who she wants to be and not to worry about what people think (a direct contrast to Hal's 'What would people think?' line).

we know riverdale is ridiculous from the beginning, the pacing is strange show is unrealistic whatever. But I’m on a rewatch now (previously didn’t make it pass season three) Just started S3E1 and i feel like they just really committed to leaning into the camp of the show, along with ridiculous plot points. What was the moment you felt like the show got to be a little too much or too unrealistic?

No cuz I’m rewatching the series and like i js realised how weird some of their outfits are 😭😭

(They look usually amazing in them though)

Thoughts?

This is just a thing that I've noticed in that people are often quick to criticise how much of a train-wreck Riverdale becomes (and I'm not going to deny that it doesn't go off the rails to an insane degree) but I have to think that's part of its charm.

However, something like David Lynch's Twin Peaks is arguably just as insane as Riverdale (both shows starring Madchen Amick, who played Shelley Johnson and Alice Cooper, funnily enough) and yet that show gets a lot more praise for how unhinged it is.

That's all. Super goofy with it out while wearing a tie/jacket.

Now, don't get me wrong, I get that it must suck to have your school raided in a pretty authoritarian manner by a power drunk mayor and there's the whole 'southside vs. northside' shit that was happening.

But, if you look at it; Southside High was a crumbling, underfunded and barely functioning shithole that even the students didn't want to attend; going to Riverdale High in the North would been a step up pretty much by default.

But then we have Jughead making a big deal about it and I'm just like "Mate, you were there for all of 5 minutes, why do you care?" at least someone like Toni had been there for longer, so it would make sense that she'd care more about Southside High, no matter how shit it was.

That said, they were justified at being annoyed at not being allowed to dress the way they wanted to when everybody else in the school could, if they want to wear matching leather jackets then that should've been fine.

Mine is probably season 4 since jughead is my fav character and it focused a lot on his time at stonewall prep. Also the flash forwards of the mystery of his ‘murder’, as well as Veronica going to war with her father y Hermosa being introduced to the show.

What abt yall

I swear Cheryl Blossom (I thiiiiink in the 50s arc) does a dance to Rockin Robin. I think maybe it was a dance battle too but I'm not sure. I can't freaking find it anywhere though. Did I make this up? Or what am I thinking of?

Slight spoilers

Throughout the series, quite a few actors get to play a handful of versions of either their own characters or their character's parents. Off the top of my head it seems Madelaine Petsch (Cheryl) plays the most? If possible when discussing such, please note spoilers!

BIG SPOILERS for: Season 6 episode 3 Chapter 98 "Mr Cypher"

In this episode we see Betty "kill" the Trash Bag Killer who is apparently Glen?!?! (I don't know if she actually did or not because it's Riverd(v)ale.) But is he actually the Trash Bag Killer?? Or was that just Mr. Cypher's way of messing with Betty?? Please don't tell me who it is, just yes or no if it's Glen. 😅

At the time this season came out, I swore they would date and I remember Lili Reihnart saying she wanted to see Betty dating another woman, then Jillian Drake appears in the sixth season with a romantic interest in Betty, but Betty refuses and then dreams about her.

I thought that Jillian Drake would appear in the seventh season and that she and Betty would hook-up, but she was simply forgotten and this entire plot was forgotten.

Do any of you know what happened for this plot to be forgotten?

https://youtube.com/shorts/1JdVulG0UCg?si=AfWB_qthbaV3_O_G

I decided to rewatch Riverdale and I forgot how much this show pissed me off.

From covers to just background music, there is a TON of jams in this show, so what is your favorite?

Personally, mine would be in S4E13 with their use of Who Do You Love by Monsta X ft Pitbull (K-Pop fans what's upp)

I’m currently at the s7 e5 and I don’t get the goals or where the season is going with that.

Like is it going to get better?😂😭

Sabrina would have completely destroyed that comet just saying. As unlike Cheryl sabrina is very experienced.

Also Tabitha saying she went back in time and couldn't fix anything but I wish sabrina came back and fixed it as in sabrina, she went back in time, decades and managed to fixed it.

Will always find it creepy that after like 4 seasons Cheryl still keeps hold of Jason's corpse. Also surly he would have been like bones by then??

Am I the only one who is thinking that from season 5 onwards things are going south? I haven't seen all the seasons yet, but I like reading the episodes list, so I know what's going to happen. So suggestion. Should I keep going and watch it or not?

My daughter and I will be visiting Vancouver this Saturday. As a Riverdale fan, she'd love to go to Rocko's Diner. Are there any options to get there? It's quite a long way from Vancouver. Trains? Car share? Any Riverdale-focused tours?

PLEASE NOTE ANY SPOILERS! When referencing certain scenes/episodes, if possible include season & episode.

I'm curious to see opinions on all ships whether they're cannon, fannon or ludicrous! It can be about main character ships; Betty, Jug, Archie, Veronica, any supporting character ships, parent ships, etc! Also curious to hear any hot takes on ships that most people like, why don't you agree? Or do you think they just don't fit?

Content warning: animal cruelty & spoilers

Season 4 Episode 5 "Chapter 62 Witness for the Prosecution" we learn that Betty's cat Caramel was hit by a car, she got her Dad (black hood) for help, & he handed her a rock and told her to take care of it. In the episode she believes that it was her fault, but Kevin assures her that it wasn't her fault but her murderous father's. I was curious to hear what you all thought on the topic. Was Betty or her father at fault? (Keeping in mind Betty was clearly a young girl.)

So, from what I can tell, there was nothing even mentioned about the US being at war during any season of Riverdale before Archie said he was going off to join the army just before the time skip (it seems a bit of a dick move to say to your friends 'Oh, yeah, I leave tomorrow morning, sorry to drop this bombshell on you').

But I'm fine with not knowing who the US is meant to be fighting, but also because Riverdale's time is sort of all over the place with a mix of modern and vintage. But it could have been interesting if there was radio announcements or TV announcements about heightening tensions or even a full on outbreak of war, but a character changes the channel before the other nation is mentioned.

It's also weird how they introduced this random character called Jackson to basically be someone for Archie to talk about the war with after the time skip, but why didn't they just send someone like Sweet Pea with Archie to give him something to do outside of just being a Serpent (I don't even think we know the guys real name...unless Sweet Pea IS his real name?).

Then we have Veronica being understandably scared about Archie going off to potentially die, which is understandable only for her to say "You know there's a war going on?" even though they've never mentioned anything about it before...unless it just kicked off not too long before that scene?