Riverdale Chapters 18 & 19: The Sugarman

Heavy episode this week and a content warning up to that this episode has a fair bit of discussion about sexual assault. We discuss Nick St Clair, the background production for writing Cheryl's plotline, the episode coming out around the Harvey Weinstein allegations & writing well rounded women characters. There's also still plenty of fun as we talk through Alice stepping into her serpent past, the big drag race, Jughead's serpent initiation, Betty's serial killer trials & the weird moves they make with Toni.

We also have a few tangents on the current season of the US version of the Traitors.

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Episode 10 Content warnings: sexual assault, rape, date rape drugs, toxic masculinity, death, murder, physical abuse, emotional abuse, manipulation, drug use

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

• 0:00 Content Warning
• 0:21 Great costumes this week
• 1:40 Cast this week
• 9:10 Chapter 18 recap
• 17:30 Tangent on the Traitors
• 20:46 Chapter 18 recap continued
• 35:26 Chapter 18 discussion
• 56:04 Chapter 19 recap
• 1:09:44 Chapter 19 discussion
• 1:22:14 Plugs