Say what you like about Riverdale, but this show really knows how to move between genres. In this episode of two-handers, the show delivers on several emotional sweet spots. Ryan and Chloe discuss.

Riverdale is d e l i v e r i ng. We take a left turn into sorcery and dig into the characters' trauma, with a dark, bookish twist.

It's the musical episode? Sorta not really, but it is a fine bit of plot that bring Betty, Cheryl, and Unions to the spotlight

This penultimate penultimate sees our stakes shoot through the roof with seven plagues upon this wicked little town.

Percival explains it all, and Surprise! He's settler colonialism and catholic guilt in a trenchcoat. Jughead and Tabitha see things. Real stakes, higher than we've seen since Midge Klump? A penultimate tour de force that ties the whole season together.