Download Riverdale Season 1, Episode 1-3 below.. First a little recap…..
As a lifelong casual Archie peruser but general aspirant, I will approach Riverdale — The CW’s juicy new thriller set in the colorful universe of Archie Comics — with only the facts and mythos that the series itself presents, save for a light dip into online Archie lore whenever the situation truly demands it. (For instance, you better believe I had to double-check that two deuteragonists here were, in fact, named Hiram and Hermione, a bold naming choice that should have J.K. Rowling rowling in her multi-billion-dollar grave.)
If you’re an Archie amateur like myself, you ought to know the core characters: Archie, Veronica, Betty, and Jughead. Knowing their names is fundamental to anyone with a passing knowledge of pop culture, but I assume this foursome of friends has probably never had to deal with the drama Riverdale sets up in its pulpy first hour: Murder. Embezzlement. Statutory rape. A black-tie dance the first week of school.
Luckily, we have JUGHEAD JONES to fill us in. He’s our noir-adjacent narrator who’s busy writing a novel about the goings-on of what seems to have been a very busy summer in Riverdale. This Jughead isn’t the happy-go-lucky best friend of Archie that we know, but rather, a loner on the depressed side of a mysteriously dramatic rift with his former best friend. Nowadays, Jughead seems to be the omniscient eyes and ears of the town, posting up at Pop’s to glean what he can about the behavior of the town following the news that rocked Riverdale that summer: The death of Jason Blossom, the male half of a pair of creepy, elegantly dressed, possibly incestuous ginger twins.
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