Riverdale Chapters 16 & 17: The Red Circle

Riverdale is here. The show steps on the accelerator and moves into a new melodramatic gear. We cover Archie’s crusade and the red circle, all the new outside characters, high school gang violence, get annoyed at Betty and Jughead, Hiram loving the chaos, Hermione being hot and cold and ponder what Jughead’s school situation is.

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Episode 9 Content warnings: toxic masculinity, militias, right wing ideology, fascism, gun violence, death, murder, emotional abuse, manipulation, drug use

Theme song: "Beauty Flow" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Chapters

• 0:00 Content Warning
• 0:21 Riverdale starts to get wild
• 2:25 Longer season downsides
• 3:48 Cast this week
• 11:51 Chapter 16 recap
• 24:55 High school memories
• 27:28 Chapter 16 recap continued
• 33:22 Chapter 16 discussion
• 50:33 Chapter 17 recap
• 1:09:03 Chapter 17 discussion
• 1:19:27 Plugs