Meanwhile, Penelope Blossom is coping with the loss of her husband as only Penelope Blossom could. And while we’re on the subject anyway, she and her husband want to buy Fred out. Fred is upset that Hermione fired the Serpents and hired a new construction crew, despite their loyalty - but her top priority is ensuring that Hiram, due home from prison at the end of the month, won’t have to get his hands dirty when he returns. The elder members of the Lodge and Andrews families also face their fair share of tension. This statement registers to me, an admitted old person, as bullshit, but registers to Veronica as a terribly romantic thing to say. It’s just that he wants to have what they have, that whole “soul mates” thing. Young love! Veronica eventually confronts Archie for staring “wistfully” at Betty and Jughead, but he insists he only likes Betty as a friend. Why would she be? She’s happy with Jughead! Archie doesn’t believe that Betty is really 100 percent okay, but in reality, it’s more like like he’s not 100 percent okay that she’s 100 percent okay. Veronica’s terrified to tell Betty about her “budding romance” with Archie (or, as he puts it, the fact that they’ve “kissed a couple of times”), but her gal pal isn’t bothered in the slightest. When her parents refuse to print her piece in The Register - they’re afraid she’ll become a target for the Riverdale citizenry’s anger towardsthe Serpents - she goes ahead and publishes it her damn self in the school paper. She invites Archie to perform with the Pussycats and Betty to deliver a speech.īut Betty, in full Holden Caulfield mode, is more interested in writing an article excoriating the town’s grown-ups for refusing to acknowledge that anything has changed. Mayor McCoy, who’s eager to blame all this inconvenient unpleasantness on the Serpents, is fixated on Riverdale’s upcoming Jubilee celebration of the town’s 75th anniversary. How can her parents pretend everything is fine? Well, they aren’t the only ones. Life at the Cooper house is seemingly back to normal, with both Hal and Polly living at home once again, but Betty doesn’t buy this act for a second. He refuses to name names - not even for a lesser sentence - despite facing 20 years in prison. But Jughead’s dad denies the Southside Serpents had anything to do with it. Jones tell him who, exactly, was selling Blossom’s drugs. The family business was really a front for the late Clifford Blossom, noted son-killer, to smuggle heroin from Canada. So, Blossom Maple Farms wasn’t what it seemed, to put it mildly. Until then, don’t change, keep in touch, love you like a sister, have a great summer! But hey, that’s okay - at least we have future story lines to look forward to. Unfortunately, Riverdale’s season finale fails to match the winningly bizarre penultimate episode, given that it’s more concerned with tying up loose ends and setting up future story lines than, you know, unraveling the mystery behind the murder at the show’s heart. Surely, this isn’t true, and surely, it would be much better for nobody to lie, but surely, few people in Riverdale ever make sound decisions anyway, so this is par for the course.Camila Mendes as Veronica, Cole Sprouse as Jughead, and Lili Reinhart as Betty. Instead, he gets Betty - great! - and Fred Andrews, who shows up suddenly and decides it would be helpful to tell Sheriff Keller that Jughead was working for him on July 4th. None of the evidence is enough to warrant much of an arrest, but Jughead still fears being made a scapegoat and requests a lawyer. Everyone watches as Sheriff Keller escorts Jughead to an interrogation room at the station and presents him with circumstantial evidence that might link him to the murder: a record in juvie, an arson incident six years prior, and a history of being bullied by the football team - including Jason. Juggie heads into the newspaper office at school and finds that the principal and the sheriff have discovered his massive Homeland-esque Jason Blossom homicide board (which, in Jughead’s defense, is as inappropriately housed at the school as Sheriff Keller’s investigation). The real tension from F.P.’s hotheadedness comes a bit later upon Jughead’s arrest.
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