Chapter 100: "The Jughead Paradox"

We can’t keep letting them get away with this, can we?

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CONTENT WARNING: Discussions of murder, suicide, dueling, shooting, guns, corpses, poison, strangling, bombs, zombies, undead, sex, making out, explosions, hearing loss.

In yet another victory at the absolute jaws of defeat, Riverdale pulled out every possible stop for the 100th episode and ended this arc with one of their best episodes in a long time. It’s not just the return of all our lost characters, or the perfection of the Reggies and their pettiness. It’s the fact that they proved they can take a storyline, tie it into the show as a whole, and really drill down into something amazing, entertaining, and a little bit tantalizing for our second half of the season. Which makes it all the worse that they wasted our time with this mini-arc, because none of the rest of these episodes served any purpose to our end result this week. This could have been a masterful event that threaded a wild ride through a spin on the town with Pop’s, but instead it just left us mad at their laziness in the writer’s room. Head on up to the great Pop’s Chock-Lit Shoppe in the sky as we discuss “Chapter 100: The Jughead Paradox” this week on The Doghouse.

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