People's estimations of the power of nepotism are hilariously exaggerated. As if Lena Dunham's C-list NYC artist parents have enough clout in Hollywood to get her an HBO deal.

I love that they have these big-screen showings, but they're all always a fiasco at my local multiplex. I don't know if it's just my theater or what, but i go to all of these events and not a single one has ever gone off without a hitch: the movie starts without sound, the sound starts without the movie, they forget…

I made a similar point in a much earlier article written when that season was airing: if he was really unhappy, didn't get along with the rest of the cast, and hated working there to the point of leaving, they wouldn't have given him a whole storyline about being unhappy. They would have just written him off the show,…

TV By The Numbers has it as a Likely Renewal.

🎶 Every kiss begins with kayfabe… 🎶

Along the same lines: try convincing someone who was in grade school in the 80s that they almost certainly didn't see the Challenger explode live on TV in their classroom.

I just noticed that the header image has a real Accidental Renaissance vibe. Somebody slap a golden spiral on it!

From the album Rust Never Sleeps, which confirms a Jason / Sabrina necromancy plotline.

I've been thinking about this a lot, actually, and this definitely feels like one of those shows where like not even two seasons from now we'll be all "Remember when this show was a murder mystery? And there were dramatic scenes played straight? And Riverdale University had never been mentioned?"

Oh, that's a good point. There was also the as-yet unfulfilled foreshadowing in a Jughead monologue about how suspending the football team would have consequences none of them could have predicted. (Or something like that.)

I really like Cheryl's bizarro characterization as the main teen antagonist who also tries to protect the gang and is always hanging out with them. Someone on here (was it you?) mentioned that it was like those Ralph Wolf / Sam Sheepdog cartoons, where Cheryl is a total jerk during her shift, then clocks out and hangs…

Yes! Jughead should be Brad Pitt in Ocean's Eleven: constantly eating something in every single scene.

He's a total gym rat. By which I mean sometimes he sleeps in the crawlspace of a local gym.

Sometimes the show's jarring tonal shifts can be really exhilarating, and sometimes they can be exhausting. I thought this week was an example of the latter.

For me the question I constantly have about his character is: "Is this Moose or Reggie?"

• It was really weird coming back to Riverdale after a two-week absence, like trying to remember a particularly crazy dream I had. "It was basically that Archie comic, but…different? And you were there, and Luke Perry was there, and LaFergs was there…"

It sounds much better in the original German.

Call me old-fashioned, but I think these viral marketing stunts have gotten way out of hand.

So she's a tween Irene Adler?

I came here to post an off-topic comment as well, so I'll just tuck it under yours: