Too much soap opera again, with Jughead's monologue telling us that he knows way too much about Archie and Veronica's private lives. Not that they're keeping it particularly private themselves while at school, of course. Still, I really don't want to know how Jughead knows the specifics of what he knows, so I'll just assume that he's a creepy voyeur and leave it at that. And things were only made worse by the fact that, this time around, the soap opera silliness also included having Betty act both stupid and trashy (at the same time) in the process in some monumentally misguided attempt to make herself a part of Jughead's new-ish life. And they found time to slip in a little bit more of Cheryl's developing obsession with Josie for good measure, as well. On the mystery side of things, we learn that what appeared to be clumsy attempts at misdirection on the part of the writers in the past when it came to the high school janitor were just that: clumsy attempts. In short, we got a lot of bad soap opera combined with nothing in the way of advancement on the mystery front (beyond being able to take the janitor out of consideration, which was already pretty obvious). Next week is the Fall finale. I can only hope that things rebound in a big way because this was just a terrible episode.
Review by Jim G.BlockedParentSpoilers2017-12-08T09:06:30Z
Too much soap opera again, with Jughead's monologue telling us that he knows way too much about Archie and Veronica's private lives. Not that they're keeping it particularly private themselves while at school, of course. Still, I really don't want to know how Jughead knows the specifics of what he knows, so I'll just assume that he's a creepy voyeur and leave it at that. And things were only made worse by the fact that, this time around, the soap opera silliness also included having Betty act both stupid and trashy (at the same time) in the process in some monumentally misguided attempt to make herself a part of Jughead's new-ish life. And they found time to slip in a little bit more of Cheryl's developing obsession with Josie for good measure, as well. On the mystery side of things, we learn that what appeared to be clumsy attempts at misdirection on the part of the writers in the past when it came to the high school janitor were just that: clumsy attempts. In short, we got a lot of bad soap opera combined with nothing in the way of advancement on the mystery front (beyond being able to take the janitor out of consideration, which was already pretty obvious). Next week is the Fall finale. I can only hope that things rebound in a big way because this was just a terrible episode.