Halloween has arrived in our darkish little city on Riverdale Season 7 Episode 11. Though from the best way the adults dismissed it, you’d suppose it was the city from Footloose.
Still, nothing might maintain again all of the spooky celebrations.
Costumes, a creepy cemetery, a murderous milkman, and a musical quantity had been all on faucet for the evening. Is it a trick for Halloween? No, it is a Riverdale deal with.
For a darkish and creepy collection like Riverdale, Halloween is the vacation most up their alley. Between the killers and the supernatural, most chapters really feel like Halloween.
“Halloween II” embraced the fun-loving spirit of the season, and it reignited what the city sorely missed from the day. There was drama, however everybody appeared to get in on the tips.
Like Veronica’s ghost present occasion on the Babylonium.
Only Veronica Lodge might hear in regards to the deaths of 4 Riverdale High college students and use it for enterprise achieve. And let’s not neglect in regards to the flashy musical quantity to a Rocky Horror Picture Show track with mentioned ghosts singing about their urges.
Was it in poor style? Maybe a bit.
Did it get the job achieved? Veronica was singing all the best way to the financial institution.
Musical episodes and singing has been a sensitive space throughout Riverdale’s seven seasons. Some adore it, whereas others hate it with a ardour.
We’ve had large musical episodes, just like the Carrie musical on Riverdale Season 2 Episode 18, or one-off musical numbers, like Josie and the Pussycats on Riverdale Season 1 Episode 6.
Archie: Riverdale has a humorous relationship with Halloween.
Veronica: Dare I ask?
Cheryl: Unfortunately, we don’t embrace All Hallows Eve the identical means Greendale does. We have guidelines in Riverdale.
“Halloween II” wasn’t a musical episode; it solely featured a track from a musical. With Riverdale Season 7 being the final, the musical contact was welcome.
If it was going to work, this was how you can do it. Unless Riverdale is secretly planning an all-Grease chapter! (I might totally see that occuring because the plot is presently set in Riverdale 1955.)
The large shock of the hour was Clay and Kevin discovering Veronica’s little secret.
She’s placed on a courageous face, however Veronica is not the kind to share her weaknesses with others. She hasn’t even informed her BFF Betty but that she’s residing on the Babylonium.
Hopefully, Veronica will ultimately inform somebody the reality. She misses her dad and mom and may’t preserve residing on the movie show earlier than somebody notices.
Her wanting on the previous picture of her household was so heartbreaking!
I favored how the ghost present was additionally profitable in serving to the opposite {couples}. Fangs/Midge and Cheryl/Toni are a lot stronger of their pairings due to the evening.
It’s nice that Midge and Cheryl felt open sufficient to share their secrets and techniques.
When Riverdale Season 7 Episode 1 started, Cheryl and Midge fell into the basic trope of a well-liked lady and her reluctant minion. Cheryl was extra of a wealthy lady bully than an precise pal.
Cheryl and Midge’s rising friendship has been one of many sweetest under-the-radar growths of Riverdale Season 7. They felt like they cared about one another and would genuinely preserve their secrets and techniques. It’s the friendship we did not know we wanted.
Was anybody else shocked Cheryl felt so assured to kiss Toni in public?
It was a really daring transfer for her to instigate that kiss within the open. Sure, she’s going to blame it on the efficiency, nevertheless it’s nonetheless a threat she by no means felt comfy doing. Her current progress and self-acceptance have been a pleasant improvement.
Jughead: Jeepers!
[Jughead sees the dead body]
Ethel: I informed everybody there was a milkman!
Hopefully, Evelyn would not let all of it come crashing down.
It can be a disgrace for the social-climbing snob to smash every thing. She completely will, although; we’re speaking about Evelyn right here, and she or he desires payback for Cheryl’s therapy.
This will little doubt get ugly when she spills the beans. Penelope will make life hell for Cheryl when she finds out.
Elsewhere, Jughead and Ethel’s investigation helped the principle plotline transfer ahead. I’m grateful for his or her scenes as a result of this thriller wants new power.
How is it that the principle case appears like a C or D plot?
Even with Mr. Rayberry’s homicide on Riverdale Season 7 Episode 7, the killer milkman story has barely had a blip of momentum. Don’t get me mistaken, there have been a couple of scenes and twists right here and there, however for probably the most half, the main target has been on the opposite characters.
With Ethel murdering the milkman, this twist may very well be what the plot must dive deeper into this case. Seriously, we will not ignore that she simply butchered the serial killer making an attempt to kill her.
Speaking of the killer, why do you suppose Ethel was the following in line?
There have to be a motive for a way his victims are linked. Mr. Rayberry, Ted Sullivan (the unique author), and Ethel’s dad and mom appear so random that the thread would not make sense.
Sheriff Keller: Mr. Rayberry killed himself. We have established that.
Jughead: No, you established that. I’ve not established that.
We might theorize that the milkman was initially after Ethel, and he killed her dad and mom as a result of they received in his means. But even then, he took his candy time looking for her. Being trapped at The Sisters of Quiet Mercy made her a sitting duck!
I am unable to wait to see what twists might be arrived now that we’ve a physique proving the killer milkman existed.
Sparks had been flying between Betty, Archie, and Reggie. Steam radiated from them at each flip. Betty’s little daydream did not assist issues both.
The Halloween occasions had been the proper backdrop to tease Betty’s romantic selection.
It can be somebody between Archie and Reggie; the inevitability was set throughout Riverdale Season 7 Episode 10. And I cherished that Reggie and Archie each got here to phrases with backing off after Betty made her selection.
Their friendship has been an ideal spotlight, particularly since Archie and Jughead have barely had any scenes collectively. Like, I imply in any respect. Are they nonetheless BFFs?
But we will all agree about “#Barchie” on this state of affairs.
Finally! It took without end for them to get again collectively. The universe is beginning to type itself out.
Betty and Archie have chemistry, and their scene at Fred’s grave was heartwarming. They have romantic chemistry, not simply lust or ardour.
Reggie: I’d lower out of right here.
Archie: You don’t have to do this.
Reggie: Come on, Andrews. I noticed you two within the cemetery holding fingers. You don’t want a seismograph to choose up these vibrations.
Archie: Okay, Reg, in the event you say so.
Reggie: I do.
Reggie has sense of self-awareness. He acknowledged Betty and Archie had an intimacy that he could not break; it saved him from making an attempt, and we had been spared chapters of a drawn-out love triangle.
It’s the deal with that retains on giving.
Last Thoughts From Sweetwater River:
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Reggie dying unexpectedly in a automobile crash can be surprising. He’s a giant character, so it might be stunning for Riverdale to jot down him off. Anything is feasible, particularly since Julian appears to be on life assist.
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You go, Dilton! Set these clear boundaries!
- Alice could not deal with the facility of Rocky Horror. She’s not as courageous and commanding as she thinks she is.
Now, over to you, Riverdale followers.
What did you consider “Chapter One Hundred Twenty-Eight: Halloween II”?
Who do you suppose will survive the automobile crash? Will Archie and Betty ever have an uninterrupted romantic second once more? What will Jughead and Ethel do subsequent now that the milkman is lifeless?
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