Riverdale - Halloween

Discussing Ep. 4.4

- The tapes were nothing but six hours of someone filming their house? That sucks! What kind of a reveal is that? It should have been a porno or some hidden camera in their house or something more sinister.

- Okay, right off the bat.....who in Riverdale still has a VCR to play the tapes? The sender might as well have sent one of those old film reels while they were at it!

- And I love that most of them are viewing these tapes on old TV's.....except for Ronnie for some reason.

- Well, at least Falice is back on.....for now.

- Yeah, and Betty better knock that look off her face, considering her and Jug were unabashedly making out in front of their friends! Hypocrite!

- Wow! So what's Betty's problem with Charles? She begrudgingly calls him her "half brother" and is wondering why he's still in town. What's the problem, Betty? He's not into any kinky shit like Chic was that he can teach you how to do seedy shit like live streaming to horny older men in a dominatrix outfit and a wig? Fuck off!

- Oh, for crying out loud!

It's stupid shit like Toni even putting up with Cheryl having her dead brother sitting at the table while carving pumpkins that give people the idea that women will put up with just about anything. Toni should have been out of that relationship faster than a bat out of hell. Mind you, Cheryl has already given her enough reasons to leave so her staying.....I have no sympathy for Toni if Cheryl fucks her life up with her ridiculous antics!

- AHA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!

These guys dressing up as the Black Hood and the Gargoyle King? The insensitivity of it all makes me smile because I don't care about Betty's stupid feelings anymore. So yeah....I applaud these students for their lack of sensitivity!

- How did I know that that coffee was spiked?

- Ya know what, I'll give them credit for giving a nod to the comics. Archie as Pureheart and Mad Dog as The Shield.....I remember those characters from the comics.

- AHA HA HA HA HA HA HA.....the kids dressing up as BH and GK.....freaking the fuck out of Betty.....it warms my heart! And Betty's costume sucks!

- Why does Jug even have a lighter? He doesn't smoke.

- Oh, good grief!

So not only do the FBI have rotary phones....Betty's household has one too! Mounted on the wall no less! Is this a Cooper thing? Look, like I said before, I like nostalgia as much as the next person but what the fuck is this? Who is coming up with the decor for this place?

- I like this guy already!

He's been on the road for 18 hours straight....just wants a cup of coffee and a home cooked meal....is trying to make it back to his family by daybreak....all tugging on the naive heart strings of Veronica! I'm looking forward to something sinister happening here. And it's Veronica's fault anyway....if Pop's was closed, she should have locked the door!

- Toni and Cheryl dressing up as Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy? Sacrilege!

- Yes! I love Nana!

She's so bad ass, she doesn't need a costume!

- Whoa! That was unexpected! Jellybean bleeding on the floor!

- On a side note, it's disgusting that I'm seeing all these ads for Christmas already! Halloween barely finished and they're all starting with this Christmas nonsense. This is bullshit!

- AHA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!! Normally, I would consider what Jellybean did as a cruel prank but if it torments Betty, then I'm fine with it.

- Jug, I wouldn't expend all the oxygen in that coffin with your lighter if I were you! Rather, I think it's time to get your knuckles bloody and start punching your way out of that coffin!

- Four against two! Mind you, it's Super Archie so I suppose Dodger could have 100 guys and he'd still lose.

- Ya know what?

I'd be absolutely fine with a demonic entity invading their home and tormenting them (with the exception of Nana, of course) until they went insane! I'd be just fine with that! Cheryl and Toni's collective stupidity warrants it.

- I'd be even doubly fine with it given that they seem to be performing this seance in a very Catholic chapel, replete with the Virgin Mary standing right behind Cheryl! Ya don't get more sacrilege than that! Because they couldn't pick another room in that mansion...they had to pick the chapel!

- AHA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!! There were triplets but only two survived. And now Julian is back? I wish that were true.

- Again, I don't know how or why they made Toni into this pathetic accessory to Cheryl. Who in the world would put up with their girlfriend digging up her dead brother and keeping him around the fucking house?!?

- I'm kind of intrigued by Principal Honey's pep talks to Kevin and Reggie. He hit them hard with some truths and I'm wondering where he's going with it all.

- AH HA HA HA HA HA!!! I'd be totally fine if Polly was indeed prank calling Betty. I'd have super respect for Polly for that!

- "Edgar, is that really you?"
"No, bitch! It's your sister!"
Now is that any way to talk to your older sister, Betty?

- Of course! Of course a news bulletin about an escaped mental patient just happens to pop up when Ronnie is alone with said escaped mental patient! Unfortunately, she won't die because of plot protection.

- And the M.O. for the serial killer is kind of dumb. The Family Man who forces his victims to make him a home cooked meal? How do you force someone to make you a home cooked meal? If it were at gunpoint....maybe. But if I were in a kitchen and someone was "forcing" me to make them a meal, you're damn right I'm grabbing a large kitchen knife and making extra room in his stomach for it!

- What is it with these people? Jug doesn't have a flashlight. The Family Man doesn't have a flashlight. They're all carrying lighters to see in the dark!

- Okay, that's just fucking dumb! Unless Ronnie had her own lighter and was going to light the Family Man up like a Roman candle, there is no way she had the foresight to know that he was going to be looking for her in the dark using a lighter!

- And she just leaves him there to burn to death. Nice.

- Surprise, surprise! Betty would make an excellent candidate for the FBI Junior program according to Charles. But why the Junior program? Why not enrol her in the regular program? I mean...shit, she already knows how to defuse a bomb using nothing but a pair of scissors and a hairpin without having ever having seen a bomb before let alone knowing anything about them. Hell, why not just give her the FBI badge right now? Why does she need to go to school for it? She's probably already more skilled than any FBI agent out there given the way they write these characters as being above and beyond what a normal teenager could possibly be!

- AHA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!! Principal Honey trashed Reggie's car after he had him clean his office. If Principal Honey could pull those kind of cold hearted tactics against Cheryl, he will be my hero!

- AHA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!! So Jug wasn't buried alive....he was just in a coffin? I love it!

- Like....really? Cheryl admits to gaslighting Toni. That's serious narcissistic shit right there! And she did it so that Toni would allow Cheryl's dead brother to be placed back in the house again? This is not love! Toni should get the hell out of there now!

- AHA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!

So Chuck is actually spying on Betty! I love it!

I actually liked this episode, if only because most of the main characters were pranked and tormented throughout it! Jug got buried in a coffin....Ronnie was almost killed by a serial killer.....Betty was being prank called by potentially Polly and was pranked by Jellybean.....Toni and Cheryl are being potentially haunted by the ghost of Julian.....Reggie got his car trashed. The only one who came away unscathed was Archie, which makes sense because he's....

Overall though, I will say they've left some intriguing mysteries behind. However, if the past 3 seasons are any indication, none of those mysteries will be brought to any degree of a satisfying conclusion!