riverdale episode names are generally taken from classic cinema, and shadow of a doubt is one of my favorite hitchcock movies. i love joseph cotten and teresa wright in this film. the suspense and game of cat and mouse is beyond amazing. and the show is definitely trying to echo this cat and mouse game and foreboding with the increasing evidence that seems to indicate hal cooper is the black hood.
i mean, this is a character who has shifted from fairly innocuous to total douchecanoe over the course of the season so while i would have been sad and horrified earlier on, at this point i'm like, yes. let it be hal. get him off our screens. he's totally ruining the f.p. and alice vibe.
other subplots include the increasing competition between the lodges and the andrews on the mayoral race, with poor beleaguered archie stuck in the middle. he's canvassing for his dad, but he's also looking for the black hood. whose eyes he still sees in his nightmares. and there's also the dark circle bit of nonsense, which i think is more hiram using archie as a pawn to muck up things for fred. i don't know, there's too much double-playing and i hate all this mob stuff.
it brings me back to everything i hated about general hospital before i stopped watching it. hiram is totally sonny and archie is jason. like if they started quoting gh lines i'd be like yeah, that sounds about right. also i'm still kind of annoyed about how the show seemed to indicate that hermione was the one pulling all the strings and then went back to making hiram head honcho.
anyway, this is all building to something explosive with some real stakes. it's a pressure cooker situation in riverdale, and things will start to blow up over the next two episodes. this recap is totally a week late btw, so i'll cover the next episode shortly. and the season finale is tonight.
i mean, this is a character who has shifted from fairly innocuous to total douchecanoe over the course of the season so while i would have been sad and horrified earlier on, at this point i'm like, yes. let it be hal. get him off our screens. he's totally ruining the f.p. and alice vibe.
other subplots include the increasing competition between the lodges and the andrews on the mayoral race, with poor beleaguered archie stuck in the middle. he's canvassing for his dad, but he's also looking for the black hood. whose eyes he still sees in his nightmares. and there's also the dark circle bit of nonsense, which i think is more hiram using archie as a pawn to muck up things for fred. i don't know, there's too much double-playing and i hate all this mob stuff.
it brings me back to everything i hated about general hospital before i stopped watching it. hiram is totally sonny and archie is jason. like if they started quoting gh lines i'd be like yeah, that sounds about right. also i'm still kind of annoyed about how the show seemed to indicate that hermione was the one pulling all the strings and then went back to making hiram head honcho.
anyway, this is all building to something explosive with some real stakes. it's a pressure cooker situation in riverdale, and things will start to blow up over the next two episodes. this recap is totally a week late btw, so i'll cover the next episode shortly. and the season finale is tonight.
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