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"Forty-One Chapter: Manhunter" is one of those Riverdale episodes where, if you had to explain much of it to those who know absolutely nothing Riverdaleyou would seem very out of touch with reality. This is technically true for every episode, especially after the first season, but imagine that someone who does not know everything about this show is watching one of the scenes where Jughead goes on and on about Gargoyle Gang again and again. Then imagine them trying to understand why you are watching this show.
Let's be clear, I would say that these scenes are exactly the reason we're watching this show. During the scene where Jughead talks with Fangs and Sweetpea about the red paladin and the Gargoyle Gang gang, I took a moment to really enjoy the madness of this show and the real G & G (Gangs & Gargoyles). (To be as clear, yes, the Gargoyle Gang is even colder than the Snakes.) This is a scene to believe in, starting with a tent city that even weekly observers do not understand. Honestly, the hunt for Archie's man in this episode? Not even the most ridiculous part of the episode, and honestly, it's a bit disrespectful on the part of Michael Mann to refer to his film and to make sure that Archie moves quite easily in town (with the same stealthy look as Penn Badgley in You).
In fact, although the "hunt for man" plot is aimed primarily at embodying Archie's spirit that led to his decision to flee, the moment proper "Goodbye, Veronica" is the most important part. (Because Archie does not solve the problem when he trains Kevin in this adventure, Veronica does it entirely with magic pictures.) So, I'm going to get rid of it now.
I have already noted that if Archie / Veronica are still described as the shallower couples, they probably form a healthier couple than Jughead / Betty. Because even at worst, they are almost always honest with each other and do not let bullshit interfere with that. That's why their breakup is surprisingly disappointing. Not the same content, but the actual performance. It's a scene that should work, despite the absurdity of all circumstances, and Camila Mendes is doing everything in her power to sell her heartache. (It's a tough job, as she has to say "end of the game." Which actually involves breaks and make-ups, which makes the break insignificant, as it will inevitably be temporary.) But half of KJ Apa's things deflate it all. It's not as if Apa had never done emotional scenes before – things are often weaker because his stories are weaker, but he does what he can with what he's doing. He gave – but it would have been better not to see his reaction at all during this phone. call. Apa plays it as if Archie tries to stay strong and hold back tears, but instead, it seems like Apa is struggling to get through this scene. In trouble difficult. So, whenever Veronica loses her emotional momentum, Archie stops abruptly.
Now, as for the rest. Although the episode provides a number of interesting new additions to current stories (from Gargoyle's band at the end of Archie's prison to Betty's imprisonment), there are loopholes. Really, a lot happens in this episode, and although it may temporarily distract from these holes, they are still there. (There are no holes in the Gargoyle Gang plot.) The Gargoyle Gang is perfect, unless you want to explain how Joaquin might just have been the # 3 Serpent at this point. ..)
While it's great to see Archie's prison come to an end, Veronica found the missing piece to exonerate (which should have been found long ago) and her continuing show all his cards when it comes to Hiram really hurts the very concept of finally giving the character something to do. (Also, Veronica has decided to bring home a mountain of evidence instead of her speakeasy or bunker? It's amazing. Things are going well.) After six episodes – and evidence believed to exist since the first – Veronica Realizes that 10 minutes of Mary Andrews, Sierra McCoy and teenage detective Betty Cooper have all missed. As did the D.A. and the jury.
It's one thing if the video was missing and nobody had access to it, but that's not the case at all with this plot. Then the rest of Archie's exemption is set on the screen, which makes all he has to say, except perhaps Sheriff Minetta. The conclusion of this plot is something that almost every character should be angry because it insults the intelligence of these characters as well as that of the public. It's there that the Riverdale problem: when writers clearly do not know where they are going with a plot, it's really It is obvious that they do not know where they are going with a plot.
And in the process Riverdale In a way, the Innocence project looks like a bunch of dopes.
At the same time, Hiram, his very existence as a character, especially at full strength, continues to actively hinder adolescent characters (as characters). We all know that he is a Scooby Doo naughty who apparently has the ability to act as a foil for adults but would prefer far (even literally) with teens. And when do the teenagers walk towards him? They treat him as if he was another teenager and not an adult who had to make only one phone call for his will to be made. This is particularly striking when Betty, a teenage character who tends to resist adults, tries to draw the interrogation card on Hiram … and her "nothing of your business". (About his "personal relationship" with guard Norton) just shut up. It does not help that other adults in the scene – very weakened by their fear of the Gargoyle King and everything that goes on between G and G – do not follow her, especially Fred, whose fists should fly when it is Hiram working with the corrupt guardian of Leopold & Lobe. (Fred is extremely pbadive about Arnie's imprisonment, his sentence, and who knows if we'll even have a reaction to his son's escape.)
All the nasty adults in this series are not stuck in a state of arrested development either, because Penelope Blossom is a legitimate threat that never has to sink to the level of the child to be intimidating. Whenever Season 1 became a gothic series of horrors featuring flowers, it was a real treasure. and even last season, while Penelope had done some really despicable things to Cheryl, doing these despicable things to Cheryl had never consumed her (the opposite of Hiram and her obsessions). In some scenes here, Riverdale made a big case (perhaps unintentionally) for her to be the big villain of the series, not Hiram. Nathalie Boltt has always been an interesting part of Riverdale, as the unknown quantity of Riverdale adults, but the way she commands each scene she is in, suggests the opposite. She's absolutely brilliant, and this episode proves it even more in her bloody story of Daryl Doiley. It's when she tells her story – before she sees it: "I just escaped her." Smirked – they were cursed lovers you'd almost like to curse Riverdale for making him commit the unforgivable act of bringing Cheryl into conversion therapy at the Sisters of Quiet Mercy. Because we like it or not, it's a really nice performance of Penelope, which would make you almost see her as a human. I wrote in "Chapter Thirty-Nine: The Midnight Club" that it was difficult to reconcile the current Penelope Blossom with the most recent version played by Madelaine Petsch, but right now, despite its falsification, a click is being made finally.
And everyone buys it – probably an easy answer regarding the Ascension Night and the idea of a murderer among them – with the exception of Betty, who led Lili Reinhart to give one of her best exasperated head tilts when she said, "Donna Doiley's deceased father did it?" (Although you liked a good whore, he there is sometimes nothing like an absolute refusal to worry about people's bullshit emotions.) Really, the entire Betty / Midnight Club meeting could support an entire episode, just like the younger actors who play In fact, it is surprising that this is not the tactics used by the series, but it is also necessary that he address the address to Fred without questioning the fact that Hiram was working with him. guardian or that any of these adults do not care what Marty Mantle (Matthew Yang King) hit his son on G & G. is a little teasing, honestly.
Speaking of unforgivable parental acts, this episode ends with the sending of Alice Betty to the sisters. In a way, this betrayal turns Alice into a season one status, but at the same time, unlike the Penelope / Cheryl situation, because in addition to the homophobia of it all, it was also an attempt at inheritance seizure, Alice makes it absolutely scary. Since the second season, almost all of Alice's decisions about Betty are based on fear. And when it happens at home, no one in Riverdale (except Mary Andrews) has ever considered leaving this city. for realit's his terrible plan of action. She is terrified for herself and especially for her daughter. When she explains how the sisters are going to "protect" Betty as they did before with Polly before her and Alice herself, it's frustrating to realize that when it comes to sisters and anyone as a heterobadual, it's actually a bit of the truth. Of course, no one could expect that every budget Tale of the good– look further than the sisters would have the GK on the brain. Nevertheless, the fear does not change the unforgivable part and it is really disappointing that there is no Polly this week to have his point of view. (Again, the holes.)
Many in this episode resemble a mid-season finale, with the end of Archie Prison turning into Hobo Archie, the separation between Veronica and Archie, Betty finally being institutionalized (which, in my opinion, would be the season finale ), an unexpected character (Josie) to be affected by the outbreak of seizures, Joaquin dying, and Kevin Keller play a big role in this first big plot. With the exception of Gargoyle King's invasion of the Cooper family, this episode is not as visually impressive as the previous one – although it is not necessarily the most stylized moment in the series , prison break / G & G is one of the most ambitious. It's a Riverdale episode that really relies on the script (Cristine Chambers) and the story, which contains a lot of interesting concepts. But again, the holes.
Observations lost
- The area of the bones: From the last episode, I will have to note the guard Norton and note that the bones of Mad Dog have been revived. This week is Joaquin, another retro zoning with Daryl Doiley and the three boys from Shadow Lake. While Archie says he has blood on his hands and blames himself for it, I can not attribute to him the bones he has made to him.
- Josie and the cat Keller: I was furious with Josie for being a terrible liar … but it turned out that she was about to undergo one of those contagious fits, so I got myself felt awful for her. As for Kevin, in addition to just watching this episode, he also participates in Archie's plot. In fact, it's a plot that gave me an old school pretty Little Liars vibrations – the good ones – with an badociation between two characters that we hardly realize they know each other (like Spencer and Caleb). Kevin loses me here – and he has the wind in his sails, especially when he says that Veronica will kill him … and then she threatens to kill him – when he tries to make Archie feel better by saying: no innocent. It was true, but it was also very dark for Kevin to technically justify a corrupt policeman murdering people to continue to embody the friend he was trying to comfort.
- It may be a small town affair, but I do not know why Betty would think that all parents would know who the RROTC instructor is from their school. Except if they were in RROTC, why would they do it?
- Evelyn: "I do not even know that person from Archie. And on Monday, I welcome a group of teenage Farmies: we always accept members. It's Evelyn's only line, and she's not reacting to Josie's seizure either. Like the.
- I was going to call Hermione's pbadword, which was still Veronica's birthday, but then I saw the screen. It's a real busy mom's office, the most realistic moment ever described in this show.
- Hiram: "I'm not a 16 year old nerd." Are we sure?
- Betty Cooper does not blink when Curdle Jr. states that Daryl Doiley's autopsy report is part of his father's "personal collection". She seems more upset than anything else when he says that, not as if she feared to murder him. Then she says to Kevin, "It's ok, Kevin. This is a doctor, we can trust him. "Child, do you like it?
- This episode of FP quickly confirms that he also saw the GK on the Night of Ascension. While he thought it was just a start, remember, Alice was sober.
- Archie: "Sheriff Minetta fired on these guys because of me." No, he slaughtered them because Hiram is a psychopath.
- This episode presents a brilliant Yell tribute, and I'm a little angry at myself for thinking it was going to end at Jiffy Pop. But the show basically transports us in 1996 when FP goes up to Betty's room to play Alice's hero. Sidney Prescott has learned the hard way, we can not trust the sensitive boyfriend Skeet Ulrich while he is in a neighborhood like this.
- You know last season when I was hoping Riverdale would do an episode where they dragged the run for the roses, then they did an episode where they trailed the run for the roses (or gang territory, whatever)? When Archie asked Kevin how he could not stay in Riverdale, I wrote in my notes: "IT'S ARCHIE GONNA RIDE THE RAILS?" So you can imagine the joy I felt when the episode ended with the revelation that Archie (and Jughead) will get on track. That's the kind of stuff that I like Riverdale for.
- Remember how Fangs was apparently friends with Joaquin? Here, you would not know that they would have met before this episode. But Joaquin's return led me to wonder why FP had no interaction with him, since he had somehow ruined the child's life.
- Betty: "Madame Fleur-"
Penelope: "If you like, Betty, call me" aunt. "Why did it take so long? this interaction to arrive? - Jughead and Hermione both end up handcuffed this episode. C & # 39; RiverdaleVersion of the season of handcuffs.
- Veronica: "Does mom know what you're hiding on her desk?"
Hiram: "Your mother does not have a computer anymore." Also, how could Hermione miss the odd folder with a G & G symbol? - This last scene from Archie / Jughead looked familiar, did not it?
- I thank Eric Thurm again for completing the last episode. Some notes I had, because I had not had the opportunity to write about it: Elio is right (no, he has nothing to say) when he says that Veronica's speakeasy should serve real badtails ; It's weird, Veronica calls her father "daddy" when she calls her boyfriend "Archiekins," the three "witnesses." were actually mentioned in episode two, and I noted it in my review. (On the last one, Dad's hot brigade promised at the time to do something about it … and basically, they did not do it.)
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