Riverdale Recap Season 3 Premiere Episode 1: "Labor Day"

Welcome to Riverdale, the small town with a big heart and surely the largest number of perilous murders in the country! Our friends Archie, Jughead, Betty and Veronica spent the summer before their first year in the regional production of Inherit the wind this is the trial of the young Mr. Andrews for the murder of Cassidy Bullock: Everyone is sweaty and languid, and the bow ties, apparently, are a fad.

Not without conviction, the prosecutor points out that Archie has listed "his founder, a masked group of vigils," not one, but twice, on his resume, not to mention the incidents in which he threatened Sweet Pea under the threat of a gunshot or beat Nick St. Clair broken legs. Archie's lawyer, who is also at his mother's house, who happens to be also Molly Ringwald, in case you've forgotten, offers a defense that basically boils down to this: he's a nice boy! (OK, and there's also the fact that there's no murder weapon, mobile, or witness.) Have we thought carefully about the possibility that an owl has done it? The judge ordered that the jury still deliberating be sequestered during the long weekend of Labor Day.

A few stands from where Dilton Doiley and Ben play a Dungeons & DragonS-esque at Pop, the Scooby Gang sips a rainbow of milkshakes and discusses the latest efforts to erase Archie's name, until the accused declares that he is not in the mood. he prefers not to spend what could be his last free weekend looking for evidence that might not be. exist even.

Anyway, we have some shopping to do. FP gives Archie an "Honorary Serpent" tattoo to help her camouflage herself in juvie among other gang members. (Is this ink real?) I have no idea, I'm not a dermatologist.) In Pembroke, Veronica remains furious with Hiram for accusing her boyfriend of murder, which is right. It is too late for her to testify about her father's criminal actions. With the help of Josie, she tries to manipulate the old-fashioned jury in the hotel where the jurors were sequestered – but Sheriff Manetta discovers her first, disguised as a uniform maid (Veronica is in uniform, that is, not the sheriff).

Fangs (which I had momentarily forgotten was finally do not died last season) reports that the Ghoulies removed the mascot of the Hot Dog snake during Riot Night and still hold the prisoner puppy. "No snake left behind" applies even, and perhaps most importantly, when the snake in question is a dog, as confusing as it may seem, biologically. The queen of the snake Betty insists on participating in a rescue mission on the enemy's grass. While Jughead frees Hot Dog from his chains, the spotlights go on and Penny, the Ghoulies, and their usual baseball bats with pics appear to greet him. Penny asks for Jughead's jacket, if only for technical reasons: can they really be the South side Snakes if the Southside belongs to the Ghoulies now? Before the situation degenerates, the unmistakable MVP of the Snakes, Cheryl, takes out her bow and arrows and starts firing. We may be on the brink of another war between Snakes and Ghoulies, but at least they saved the dog!

His father, the serial killer, is finally behind bars, though Betty's home life remains frightening. Alice has clearly been brainwashed by Polly and the likely negative forces of The Farm and her boss, Edgar, as evidenced by the fact that she now wears fluid shawls and prepares oolong milk tea. . Betty finds her mother about to throw her diaries into the fire, on the grounds that her daughter's past is "breaking it". Betty does not want any part of their "Heaven's Gate Commons" for pregnant runaways and serial murder wives, but I certainly do. The prestigious Netflix docuseries sells itself. A pharmacy call causes Alice and Polly to discover that Betty has falsified her Adderall prescriptions with a fictional doctor (her name is Dr. Glass because Betty is a proud graduate of the Jan Brady School of Improvisation). Does Betty really need some quality time to resolve her papal problems of unprecedented scale with a therapist who actually exists and who would not likely tolerate drug abuse? ? Without a doubt! Is Edgar and its pharmaceutical embargo the solution? I will say no, although I will gladly take a cup of oolong milk tea, please.

Archie, who is naturally shirtless, takes Betty, Jughead and Veronica for a final quick drive to the Sweetwater swim hole in his repaired old car. Under a graffiti viaduct, they undress and dive (they all seemed to know that this was happening in advance, so why not wear a swimsuit?), Canoodling in the water and also on land. Since everyone is already very excited, here is a brief update of Riverdale's hottest romances: Cheryl and Toni have just returned from a motorcycle trip around the country, Sweet Pea and Josie are ( perhaps) in the process of wrapping up a summer adventure, and Kevin and Moose have entered into a virginity pact with an expiration date for Halloween.

Archie tries unsuccessfully to break with Pity with Veronica, who has none; Jughead tries unsuccessfully to convince Archie to escape to Canada. He may be innocent, but Archie feels sufficiently "guilty" of leaving Cassidy alone with Andre and being allowed to be handled so cleverly by Hiram Lodge. In addition, he is less upset by the prospect of being "stung" than not graduating with his friends, which is nice, even if it is short-sighted.

The next morning, Dilton burst into Jughead's caravan, criticized by the fact that his "stupid role-playing game" and that of Ben turned out to be much more than that, and about a mysterious, sinister, just enough far from True detective season 1 not to ring also True detective figure of season 1 entitled "The King of Freight". But Jughead must go to court, where the jury finally renders its verdict: they are deadlocked six to six. It is a trial in error.

The prosecutor proposes a plea agreement: As an alternative to prison, Archie can serve a prison sentence plus two years in juvenile detention. Against the best judgment of everyone, he is quick to accept this, blatantly ignoring the advice of Mom-Lawyer in the hope of avoiding new troubles to his family. The audience room is stunned. He will be immediately returned to Leopold and Loeb's juvenile detention center (I shout).

Hiram explains to Veronica that he did not do it to punish Archie, but to punish her for betraying her family. "You have no more girls," she told him. Nor is there any lost love between ex-rogue Hiram member and the excellent Riverdale Hot Dads Brigade – Fred Andrews, Tom Keller and FP Jones, and notably not Hal Cooper, who at again, is in jail for being a serial killer – who are determined to seek justice for Archie.

Jughead arrives home to find Dilton gone but a roll of wrapped graphic paper leaves behind him. On one side, there is a drawing of a nightmare creature of skeletal cow; on the other hand, a hand-drawn map that seems (according to the wall of Jughead's murder, now a permanent part of the caravan's decor) says Fox Forest.

There is a massive, real version of this scary cattle skull totem. At his feet are the remains of a dark ceremony, with chalices, burning candles and deliberately arranged bones in a form that is not quite a pentagram. Dilton and Ben unconscious, dressed only in underwear, are prostrate before the creature with runes dug in the back. Ben moved, green moss gushing out of his mouth, and although I would like to know exactly what will look like the Jughead 911 call describing all this, we will have to wait until next week to find out.

Betty is also about to have fun before Halloween. She arrives at home to find the lights off. In the backyard, a circle of people, including his mother and sister, dressed in white, stands around a fire. Alice and Polly hold the twins over the flames, then let them go, but the babies float above the danger.

Betty faints, convulsing on the floor as Alice rushes to her aid. This seems like the perfect time to remind you that Sabrina's icy adventures falls on Netflix later this month.