Riverdale: Body Double

• Riverdale’s third episode was fast and furious as secrets spill out of every corner. The fun part: we’re just getting started.
• We pickup with Cheryl being escorted out of class to . . . the principal's office where she quickly clarifies she is guilty, but not of murder. She is guilty in helping Jason fake his death. He wanted to leave Riverdale and never come back.

  

  #TwinDate

• In a flashback to the July 4th, the infamous twindate on the mountain, we see they made it across the river safely but they too hear the gunshot. Before Cheryl can spill anymore, her parents burst in and take her away.

  

  When your #TwinDate is interrupted by a gunshot!

• Elsewhere, Archie confesses to hearing a gunshot too, solely to save the other half of Team Kool-Aid. He lies and says he was writing songs that morning with his dog.  Luke Perry later grounds him upon hearing of his confession.
• Betty wants to reopen the school newspaper Blue & Gold with her “Juggy” and Veronica has a date with Chuck, the captain of the football team. Archie visits #NotFelicity in her empty classroom, where she suspends his “lessons” because of his confession.

  

  Riverdale seriously needs to update their technology!

  

  Seriously a typewriter . . .
• Veronica and Chuck seemingly have a nice date that ends in a kiss, but the next day, she is slut-shamed online, and when Veronica and Betty confront him in the locker room, we see what a true douche Chuck is.

  

  Veronica almost moved on 

• For the record, a “sticky maple” sounds so stupid, I don’t care if it’s a Riverdale thing or not.

  

  Almost . . .

• “Juggy” on his first assignment for Blue & Gold pays a visit to the Scout leader, Dilton Doiley to ask about the infamous 4th of July, but Doiley is not help.
• Later, in class, Cheryl want to repay Archie for confessing, claiming Jason would want to repay him too (creepy). Archie asks to get help from Josie and the Pussycats with his songs, which Josie agrees to, only because she likes Cheryl and not Archie.

  

  Behind the Scenes: Josie & The Pussycats

• Betty has found a group of girls also slut shamed by Chuck and his gang, among them is Ethel (Aka Barb from Stranger Things). Ethel tells them of a scorebook that the guys keep, giving each other points based off dates with girls. I will now call this the jock burnbook. Cheryl shows up to play Whois Me, only to be told off by Veronica.

  

  When Your Stranger Things Club doubles as a support group!
• That night at Pop’s, while Archie is sneaking out to watch Josie and the Pussycats play one of his songs, Juggy meets with a scout who tells him it was Doiley who fired the gun on the 4th of July as some sort of survival technique he was showing the scouts.
• Betty, Veronica, Ethel and Kevin sneak into the school to find the Jock burn-book, only to run into Cheryl wearing her “sky high boots.” They easily find the book and Cheryl is shocked to see Jason participated as well, having put Polly in it.. They snap a picture, but still need a confession.

  

  The start of Betty channeling Polly?

• Betty asks Chuck out and asks him to meet at Ethel’s, because she has a pool (LOL I’d stay away from Ethel’s pool because of what happened to Barb in Stranger Things).

  

  Kool-Aid hair Barbie

• When Kevin arrives to Ethel’s, Veronica greets him, claiming to be over what he posted about her and Betty shows up dressed as Mia Wallace from Pulp Fiction!

  

  Uma Thurman

  

  Betty Cooper

  JK it was suppose to be Polly and we get the best and most interesting scene of the night! After drugging him, handcuffing him inside the hot tub, and turning up the water temperature, Veronica gets a filmed confession out of him while Betty-I mean Polly, pours maple syrup on him, calls him Jason and demands an apology for what he did to her and nearly drowns him before Veronica gets her to stop!

  

  Betty/Polly gives Chuck a Sticky Maple!

• Also while the pool party confession was going on, Luke Perry met #NotFelicity to discuss his son and Cheryl’s mom slapped Betty’s mom because she owns the Riverdale Register and leaked Jason’s autopsy.
• The Jocks are busted, kicked off the team and Juggy dubs Betty and Veronica B&V. Cheryl gets in her hashtag of the episode, #JusticeForEthel and the final scene shows Doiley confessing to the gunshot to Betty and Juggy, but if they keep his secret he has a better scoop for them: He saw #NotFelicty’s car on the mountain that morning, meaning she was there too! End Scene!

  

  Where is the canoodling teacher/student relationship?

*****Extra Tidbits*****

• Betty totally acted like she didn’t remember calling Chuck Jason which makes me wonder if Betty suffers from DID or is Polly?!
• Josie and the Pussycats has a few lines tonight before being regulated back to the show’s band.
• Speaking of Josie, I am glad she also doesn’t seem to like Archie. He’s still horrible and i really wish he wouldn’t want to be a singer. That position on the show is filled, thanks.
• Betty and Jughead are who I ship on this show. Here’s hoping they get together.

Questions:

• Is Betty really Polly or is Polly an altar of Betty? Does Polly even really exist?
• What is a sticky maple?
• Does #NotFelicity actually teach in her music room or does she sit in there playing the cello all day? Does anyone other than Archie know that room exists?

  

  Alone again.

• Was Cheryl upset to see Jason's name or her name absent? #Twincest
  
• Do you see Archie or anyone else other than Josie and the Pussycats singing in Riverdale?

Join us next week, as we and the students of Riverdale dive into the Mystery of who is Grundy?! I can’t wait!!!


Welcome back! Riverdale, in all of your infinite drama, you surprise me still. This week we saw Riverdale take on slut shaming and entitled football players, and we got to see Archie collaborate with the Pussycats as he attempts to chase his musical dreams.

Thank God he put that acoustic guitar down and left the performing to the Pussycats. I give Archie a hard time, but I guess he isn't that bad. I just don't prefer his style. Body Double spent a lot of time trying to convince us that Archie has musical talents, though. He spent a chunk of time during this episode fighting with his father about his future and his music and how he thinks his dad doesn't support him. He also threw football in his dad's face, telling him that he understood football and basically that he wished he was able to support his music the way he would support his efforts put toward sports. I have to say, I was kind of glad that he called his dad out on that. When he grounded him and forbid him to do anything, Archie told him he would have made an exception for football, had Archie had a game to play and the stuttering response given by Archie's dad confirmed this. Not that I have anything against sports, I'm just criticizing Fred because of inconsistency.

Betty and Veronica were busy taking on a more serious issue during Body Double. See, Veronica got asked out on a date by the varsity coach's son, Chuck.

Subtle jealousy from Archie was welcome. Anyway, they went on a date, kissed, took a selfie, then went home. The next day, though, Chuck had sent the photo to everyone in his phone. The photo had been altered to make it look like V had maple syrup running down her face. They called it a sticky maple, and that is how you know this show is filmed in Canada. Nah, just kidding. Seriously, I guess I'm too old because I had no idea this was a thing. After some google searching and some urban dictionarying (new verb), I found out what it was. There is no need for me to repeat it here, just go check it out if you don't know what it is. Point is V was a victim of slut shamming and she wasn't having it. Betty wasn't having it either, but more on that later. 

Veronica wasn't sure how she was going to handle the situation at first, but she was urged by Betty to go to the principle. They would eventually find out that that would not be an effective plan. And congrats to Riverdale for portraying reality so well. Anyway,  Betty started asking the female population around school if any of them had had similar experiences. They had. A group of around ten girls had been rounded up by Betty, and at this point Veronica was ready to turn Chuck in to the principle, but Betty was ready to play dirty. Sadly all of the girls and their collective word would not be proof enough to convict anyone, and knowing this is what led them to devise their own plan. 

Dark Betty is dark. 

B and V decided to get Chuck over to Ethel's (her parents were out of town) so they could handcuff him to the hot tub and force him to admit that he and Veronica went on a date and kissed, that is all. They accomplished their mission after Betty threatened to boil Chuck in the tub, which was pretty funny and yet small amounts of scary too. Betty didn't stop at that. She attempted to drown him in maple syrup too. LOL. 

And just like that they were able to turn in Chuck and he was consequently kicked off the football team. I'm anxious to see how that comes back on them because narrating Juggy warned us that it would. 

You know how to keep me coming back every single week, Riverdale. Next week should be good. We get back to the murder of Jason and it looks like we get a juicy Grundy show! Woooo! See you then!