Season 1>Archie, Betty, Veronica, Jughead and Cheryl Blossom investigate the murder of Cheryl’s twin brother Jason Blossom, shot in the head and dumped in the river.>Archie is having an affair with his music teacher Ms. Grundy, who is actually a child predator who stole the real Ms. Grundy’s identity to keep grooming teenage boys.>Veronica father Hiram is a mobster who wants to take over Riverdale for a different reason each season.>Archie’s father Fred is divorced from Archie’s lesbian mother Mary and begins fucking Veronica’s mother Hermione, who is estranged from Hiram.>Betty’s parents Hal and Alice are so controlling she manifests an evil split personality named “Dark Betty” when she puts on a black wig.>Jughead is an edgelord whose father FP is the leader of a local drug-dealing biker gang, the Serpents.>Cheryl is a closeted lesbian mean girl whose parents Clifford and Penelope are the richest family in town.>Josie and the Pussycats are an all-black girl group until Josie ditches the other two to go solo.>Betty's gay best friend Kevin is addicted to cruising the woods for sex with closet cases.>Archie hooks up with Veronica and Betty hooks up with Jughead.>Betty finds out Jason got her sister Polly pregnant and their parents locked Polly up in a convent because Hal and Clifford are cousins, making Jason and Polly’s relationship incest.>Jason found out Clifford was pushing drugs through the Serpents and threatened to expose him if he didn’t let Jason and Polly run away together.>Clifford shot Jason and blackmailed FP into getting rid of the body with plans to frame FP for the murder, but the gang exposes Clifford and proves FP’s innocence.>Penelope kills Clifford in retaliation and frames it as a suicide.>Cheryl tries to commit suicide as well, but the gang saves her.
Season 2>Riverdale is terrorized by the Black Hood, a serial killer targeting the town’s sinners and who wants Betty to become his apprentice.>Archie forms a vigilante group to hunt down the Black Hood and later becomes Hiram’s capo, but regrets it when he learns Hiram wants to build a private prison in Riverdale.>Jughead becomes the new leader of the Serpents and gets them to stop pushing drugs, so Hiram recruits their rival gang, the Ghoulies, to terrorize the town and frame the Serpents.>Clifford’s twin brother Claudius appears and conspires with Penelope to send Cheryl to gay conversion therapy at the convent so they can take over her inheritance, but she escapes, comes out and begins dating biker girl Toni Topaz.>Penelope later kills Claudius to become the sole master of the Blossom fortune.>Archie and Betty expose the school janitor as the Black Hood and briefly hook up. It later turns out the Black Hood framed the janitor and is still at large.>Betty finds out Alice and FP dated in high school and had a son they gave up for adoption. She tracks down her half-brother Chic and learns he is an addict and a gigolo.>It later turns out Chic was her real brother’s boyfriend, killed said brother and stole his identity, so Betty arranges for the Black Hood to kill him.>Betty learns her father Hal is the Black Hood and arrests him.>Archie and Jughead prevent the Ghoulies from destroying the town and clear the Serpents.>Fred runs for mayor against Hermione, but loses.>Hiram frames Archie for murder and has him arrested.
Season 3>Archie must join an underground bloodsport prison tournament sponsored by Hiram. He later escapes and flees to Canada, but returns to Riverdale to face Hiram after surviving being mauled by a bear.>Betty and Jughead investigate a string of suicides caused by Gryphons & Gargoyles, a fantasy board game created by the demon-worshipping nuns at the convent and weaponized by a masked mastermind called “the Gargoyle King”.>Hiram has been spiking the water supply with drugs to make the teens hallucinate and drive them to suicide so he can have Riverdale quarantined under his stewardship, but the gang stops him.>Hiram is shot and Archie becomes the prime suspect, but it turns out to have been a hit ordered by Hermione, who found out Hiram had been cheating on her. Hiram is later arrested, but escapes prison with Hal.>Betty learns Alice, Polly, Kevin and others have joined the Farm, a cult led by Edgar Evernever and his wife Evelyn Evernever, who masquerades as a student to groom teenagers into the cult. They are secretly harvesting the members’ organs to sell on the black market.>Jughead’s mom Gladys and his sister Jellybean move into the town, while FP becomes the new sheriff. Gladys attempts to take over the drug trade, so Jughead later runs her out of town.>Archie fucks Josie, but then she's shunted off to failed spinoff land.>Alice turns out have beeen undercover to help the FBI dismantle the Farm and her handler is her son Charles, who is alive after all.>Edgar has been using the money from the organ trade to build himself a spaceship and attempts to escape in it, but Alice shoots him dead, while Evelyn is arrested.>Cheryl learns that Penelope is running a brothel and having an affair with Hal, whom she later kills. Penelope is the Gargoyle King, with Chic as her enforcer.>They abduct Archie, Betty, Veronica and Jughead, who survive a series of deadly trials and expose Penelope and Chic. He is arrested while she is entombed by Cheryl.
Season 4>Fred dies in a car accident, and Archie decides to honor his memory by becoming a masked vigilante and protecting the local children from a family of drug-dealing criminals.>Archie also meets Fred’s estranged brother Frank, a former black ops operative, and must protect him from government assassins.>Betty becomes an FBI trainee under Charles and discovers she has “serial killer genes”. She also learns that Charles and Chic are in cahoots to torment Alice for abandoning Charles and arrests them.>Veronica meets her evil half-sister Hermosa from one of Hiram’s extramarital affairs and gets into a patent battle with Hiram over the family’s rum recipe, but they make amends after Hiram fakes a degenerative disease.>Cheryl digs up Jason’s corpse and believes she can communicate with it. She accidentally kills relatives who find out and ropes Toni into covering up their murders, leading to their breakup.>Kevin begins producing tickle fetish videos.>Jughead is accepted into a prestigious boarding school and inducted into a secret society of aspiring writers from which his estranged grandfather was once expelled, and wins a contract to ghostwrite a popular series of mystery novels over his colleagues Bret and Donna.>Donna and Bret conspire to murder Jughead and frame Betty, but the gang realizes their plot and fakes Jughead’s death to acquire evidence against them.>Turns out that Pendleton, the author of the mystery novels, stole his idea from Jughead’s grandfather and also killed Donna’s grandmother, and Donna orchestrated everything to use Betty and Jughead to expose the truth.>Someone called “the Watcher” begins blackmailing the townspeople with incriminating videotapes. The gang finds out Jellybean is the Watcher and FP moves her away from Riverdale.>Archie and Betty fall for each other but decide not to hook up for Veronica and Jughead’s sake.>The gang graduates and Archie joins the military.
Season 5>Five years later, Archie is a veteran with PTSD from "the war" and Betty is an FBI agent with PTSD from being held captive by the Trash Bag Killer, who keeps sending her taunting letters.>Veronica is married to Chad, an abusive banker who attempts to kill her when she decides to divorce him, forcing her to kill him in self-defense.>Jughead is a washed-up alcoholic writer haunted by memories of a "Rat King" who turns out to be a homeless man who was eaten alive by rats in front of him while he was too drunk to help.>Cheryl believes the spirit of Julian, her other twin she absorbed in the womb, is possessing a doll and haunting the mansion.>Penelope escapes from her tomb and becomes a faith healer, and Cheryl joins her, but later takes control of her congregation.>Hiram is now the mayor of Riverdale and wants to mine Palladium from underneath it. After several failed attempts to sabotage Archie’s renovation efforts, the entire population gets together to run him out of town.>Jughead begins dating Tabitha, the new owner of the local hamburger joint where they all hang out.>Toni becomes a surrogate for Kevin and his bisexual boyfriend Fangs, but then she and Fangs fall in love and decide to raise the baby as their own, and Kevin sues for custody but loses.>Polly has become a truck stop hooker and is killed by a serial killer. Betty launches a rogue investigation and is fired from the FBI.>Jughead investigates extraterrestrial activity in Riverdale and discovers that the “Moth Men” terrorizing the town are actually armored inbred offshoots of the Blossom family who have murdered Polly and several other women.>Cheryl learns her great-grandmother Abigail Blossom was a witch burned at the stake by the ancestors of Archie, Betty, Veronica and Jughead and demands an apology. When they refuse, she places a curse upon the city, just as bomb planted by Hiram destroys Archie’s house, where Archie had been keeping a sliver of Palladium.
Sounds kino
Season 6>The magic of Cheryl’s spell and the science of Archie’s Palladium splits reality in two, creating a parallel universe called Rivervale.>Rivervale Archie is driven insane and attempts to keep altering reality to revive his father, forcing Rivervale Jughead to lock himself in the gang’s sex bunker to keep writing the stories of Riverdale in order to keep the Multiverse stable.>In Riverdale, the gang survives Hiram’s bomb and learns that the Palladium has given them superpowers: Archie is super-strong and invulnerable, Betty can see people’s auras, Jughead is a telepath, Veronica has a toxic kiss and Tabitha can time travel.>Cheryl is now possessed by Abigail, but the gang manages to exorcise her and lock her in the Julian doll, after which Cheryl manifests fire powers and the ability to resurrect the dead.>Percival, an immortal warlock who fled from the Rivervale reality to escape a debt with Satan, arrives in town with plans to build a cursed railroad that will unleash Hell of Earth, and the gang must stop him.>The Trash Bag Killer targets Betty again, but she manages to kill him.>Percival convinces Alice, Frank, Kevin and several others to join him.>The gang discovers that Fangs and Toni's son Anthony is Riverdale’s guardian angel and Percival wants to sacrifice him to complete his plan. They manage to age Anthony into adulthood and he destroys Percival’s physical body in Riverdale, exiling his spirit back to Rivervale where Satan claims him.>With his dying breath, Percival summons a comet to destroy Riverdale. With no other option, Cheryl uses magic to reset the timeline back to the 1950s, with everybody being teenagers again and only Jughead remembering the truth.
Season 7>Tabitha becomes Riverdale's new guardian angel and tells Jughead they must create a better past to ensure that the future where Riverdale is destroyed doesn't happen, then erases his memories.>Archie is torn between basketball and poetry.>Betty explores her sexuality and discovers feminism.>Jughead writers horror comics and fights critics who claim they're a bad influence on teens.>Veronica renovates the town’s old movie theater and discovers a passion for the arts.>Cheryl struggles with her sexuality and her attraction to Toni.>Kevin struggles with his sexuality and his attraction to another student, Clay.>The gang investigates the murders of the parents of their friend Ethel at the hands of a sinister Milkman.>It later turns out Ethel is Hal's illegitimate daughter. Alice divorces Hal and offers to adopt Ethel, but she declines and moves away.>The Milkman was an assassin hired by Clifford and Penelope, actually Soviet spies. The gang exposes them and they are arrested.>Tabitha returns and announces that with their actions, the gang has defeated racism, sexism and homophobia and changed the future.>Everybody gets their memories back and Archie, Betty, Veronica and Jughead become a polycule.>Archie moves to California to become a railroad worker, marries a nice girl and starts a family.>Veronica moves to Hollywood and becomes a successful film producer, but never marries.>Jughead opens his own successful comic book label, but never marries.>Betty launches her own successful women’s magazine, but never marries.>Cheryl and Toni get together and become activists.>Kevin and Clay get together and become theater directors.>On present day, an elderly Betty returns to Riverdale with her adoptive granddaughter, being the last surviving member of the gang.>After revisiting her childhood home in the now-abandoned town, Betty passes away and reunites with the gang in the afterlife modeled after their teenage years.
>>155675488Veronica and Betty revealed in Riverdale as bisexual finally solved the longrunning comics problem.
>>155675361duh, stay outta riverdale
>>155675361I’m good thanks
>>155675361Plot instability aside, the thing that impressed me most about Riverdale was how well it used its budget. It had the same budget as the other CW shows, yet it looked gorgeous. The showrunner for all his many weird fantasies, genuinely wanted his little fantasies to look good and you could tell. By contrast most other CW shows felt like they were half-assing it.
>>155675981This series is a good example of an official fanfic.
Still mad how badly they did my boy Reggie >>Made him Asian>>Demote him to background fodder>>Fire the original actor because he complains about being made background fodder and replace him with a different ethnic Asian>>Only storyline he gets is a c-plot where the two Reggies meet towards the end of the series
That's a girl's show yuck
>>155675361All kino. I foolishly dropped off midway through the DnD season
>>155676569Actually it was pretty dude bro show with hot chicks.
>>155675361I remember there being a trend of girls posting selfies that emulate the lighting of this show.
>>155676530They made Reggie a minor character?
Didn't the show end with Archie Jughead Betty and Veronica all getting into a foursome?
>>155675488AI have yet to come up with something more KINO than this
>>155675361>>155675380>>155675397>>155675419>>155675442>>155675459>>155675488This sounds retarded but is it the entertaining kind of retarded?
>>155677082Yeah. Demoted him for Cheryl while turning her into a dyke
>>155675361Today I will remind OP that they announced a zombie movie Archie and got the Riverdale guy to do it
>>155675397What the fuck I dropped this show at season 2 I think I made a huge mistake.
>>155677192Yeah go for it
>>155677192archie fist fights a bear. its fucking kino
>>155675361Any good feet shots across the--*checks notes*--ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-SEVEN EPISODES???
>>155680633Yeah, I think someone on the show realized Camila has great feet because she has a scene in the second season
>>155675361I never even knew this was an Archie thing because it clearly didn't look the part and I never really thought about the name of their town that much to not think it was just a cliche cool highschool town name. Why was something like this even made? It's dumber than Hanna Barbera officially making that banana splits horror movie where the characters go around literally murdering everyone.
>>155677192sounds like Archie Sonic
>>155680725The comic Afterlife with Archie achieved some level of notoriety, the writer of that became Archie’s chief creative head, and from there he created the show
All of that sounds like what would have happened if the shitty filler arcs in the middle of the second season of Twin Peaks would have gone on for 7 more seasons.
It’s forever amusing how /co/ originally was all in on getting a Twin Peaks type Archie show and when they actually madr a show like that /co/ immediately started going REEEEEEEEE HOW DARE YOU RUIN MUH PRECIOUS ARCHIE LIKE THIS
Is this actually good or is it like sharknado where normies pretend it's good when it's actually boring and unfunny?
>>155681423I remember they did a recreation of Bob lunging towards the camera from Twin Peaks lol
>>155682164>when it's actually boring I dont know what it is but it's not that. Although earlier seasons might be for yi
>>155681755When people hear "Twin Peaks style" they think "spooky murder mystery in rural Americana with a surrealist touch" not "All that lame corny quirk chungus shit with a cartoon villain in Robbie Rotten costumes, Ben Horne thinking he's a confederate officer and Nadine regressing to childhood that the writers room improvised after the murder was resolved and both Lynch and Frost were working on other things."
>>155675981>the thing that impressed me most about Riverdale was how well it used its budgetUntil the last season where they blew their budget on the 50s sets and had to keep the entire season there instead of going back to the previous timeline
>>155682164I really enjoyed it as a Gotham type "let's see how crazy things can get" show but also watched it as it aired, I could't really think about marathoning entire seasons at once
make a retrospec video about this dead topic, you massive fag
>>155682249>quirk chungusCool buzzword bro
>>155680725Archie comics hired a feminazi to run the company who hated the wholesome nature of the entire line. So she wanted a huge chunk of the company's money licensing out R rated properties to do crossovers with Archie as well as hiring a big name horror writer to create an R rated pro satanism reboot of Sabrina the Teenage Witch that never got finishedBetween this and her sexually harassing her assistance and a nuisance lawsuit over a hack writer of Sonic that cost them the Sonic license, the company was on the verge of bankruptcy so they funnelled all their cash into a dark grim and gritty TV show on the CW after the CW rejected the explicitly satanic Sabrina comic (which ended up made by Netflix after Riverdale was a hit), knowing if it failed the company was dead and it shockingly was a huge hit
>>155675488>>155675459>>155675442This sounds amazing but I really don't have time to watch all this shit. Someone should make an abridged cut with just the insanity.
>>155677192Not really
>>155675361This isn't even all that crazy compared to what comes after
>>155677192>but is it the entertaining kind of retarded?No, it's just crazy on paper, in practice it's extremely boring.
>>155682890>Someone should make an abridged cut with just the insanity.Doesn't work because the scenes themselves are really not that interesting to watch. It only sounds fun in summary highlight of plot points format.
>>155682809>to create an R rated pro satanism reboot of Sabrina the Teenage Witch that never got finishedI still do not understand that show, it basically had nothing to do with Sabrina.
>>155682728Cope
>>155682164>when it's actually boring and unfunny?That one
>>155675419Pretty sad that Fred only died because his actor, Luke Perry, died in real life. How different things might have been...
>>155675459You missed Sabrina's cameo that season.
>>155682809>pro satanism reboot of Sabrina the Teenage Witch that never got finishedStill mad. That comic was genuinely an interesting read. Now they've got a slew of slop Archie horror that's been shit all the way down.
>>155682164I think the biggest appeal was seeing how each season would top the last in batshit insanity.
>Season one is Twin Peaks>Season seven is Avengers: Secret WarsI've read the overviews five times and I'm still struggling to pinpoint the exact moment it jumped the shark
>>155683251Since episode 1 because Archie as Twin Peaks make no sense.
>>155675361>>Archie’s father Fred is divorced from Archie’s lesbian mother Mary and begins fucking Veronica’s mother Hermione, who is estranged from Hiram.I don't remember this happening>>155675361
>>155677192It was sorta fun to watch couple of seasons during talkback threads on /co/ but watching it solo is probably gonna be a grind
>>155683071It's... it's NOT... ??
>>155684376Just keep reading, Season 1 was the tamest.
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