Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4 | Chapter 5 | Chapter 6 | Chapter 7 | Chapter 8 | Chapter 9 | Chapter 10 | Chapter 11 | Chapter 12 | Chapter 13
Chapter 14 | Chapter 15 | Chapter 16 | Chapter 17 | Chapter 18 | Chapter 19 | Chapter 20 | Chapter 21 | Chapter 22 | Chapter 23 | Chapter 24 | Chapter 25 | Chapter 26 | Chapter 27 | Chapter 28 | Chapter 29 | Chapter 30 | Chapter 31 | Chapter 32 | Chapter 33 | Chapter 34 | Chapter 35
Chapter 36 | Chapter 37 | Chapter 38 | Chapter 39 | Chapter 40 | Chapter 41 | Chapter 42 | Chapter 43 | Chapter 44 | Chapter 45 | Chapter 46 | Chapter 47 | Chapter 48 | Chapter 49 | Chapter 50 | Chapter 51 | Chapter 52 | Chapter 53 | Chapter 54 | Chapter 55 | Chapter 56 | Chapter 57
Chapter 58 | Chapter 59 | Chapter 60 | Chapter 61 | Chapter 62 | Chapter 63 | Chapter 64 | Chapter 65 | Chapter 66 | Chapter 67 | Chapter 68 | Chapter 69 | Chapter 70 | Chapter 71 | Chapter 72 | Chapter 73 | Chapter 74 | Chapter 75 | Chapter 76
Chapter 77 | Chapter 78 | Chapter 79 | Chapter 80 | Chapter 81 | Chapter 82 | Chapter 83 | Chapter 84 | Chapter 85 | Chapter 86 | Chapter 87 | Chapter 88 | Chapter 89 | Chapter 90 | Chapter 91 | Chapter 92 | Chapter 93 | Chapter 94 | Chapter 95
Chapter 96 | Chapter 97 | Chapter 98 | Chapter 99 | Chapter 100 | Chapter 101 | Chapter 102 | Chapter 103 | Chapter 104 | Chapter 105 | Chapter 106 | Chapter 107 | Chapter 108 | Chapter 109 | Chapter 110 | Chapter 111 | Chapter 112 | Chapter 113 | Chapter 114 | Chapter 115 | Chapter 116 | Chapter 117
Archie and Betty are alive, but wake up in Rivervale, where Archie thinks the explosion was but a nightmare. He faces off against Cheryl Blossom, who tries to ruin the town's crops. Despite being happy, living with Betty, Archie is unaware that the whole town is plotting to sacrifice him in a ritual to 'secure' future prosperity, spearheaded by Cheryl who bribes his friends to turn against him.
Tropes
- Ambiguous Situation: The entire premiere makes it unsure if this is an alternate universe, a dream, a story of Jughead's or Riverdale under some sort of spell.
- Babies Ever After: Betty reveals that she's pregnant with Archie's child, and in 25 years, he'll be crowned the Maple King, just like his dad.
- Big Eater: Both Archie and Jughead compete against the other in an eating contest, where they both devour somehwere between 100 pancakes. Tabitha tallies the pancake eating competition between Jughead and Archie, which Archie wins by three pancakes, a total of 119.
- Erotic Eating: Before sex, Betty convinces Archie to eat some of the “sin pie” by putting some on her fingers and having him suck them clean. They then have sex on the table.
- Fan Disservice: Archie's shirtless again, only he's tied up and prepared to be killed for a human sacrifice ritual. He awakens tied to a cross with a thorn crown on his head and ruins drawn in blood on his body.
- Mr. Fanservice: It looks like the only reason for the log-cutting competition is for Archie and Reggie to be shirtless.
- Our Hero Is Dead: Archie bites it at the end.
- Shout-Out:
- Jughead's Breaking the Fourth Wall intro is straight out of The Twilight Zone or other anthology horror shows.
- Betty doubles down by telling Archie "no more Twilight Zone marathons."
- The teenage archers who are with Cheryl are seen in uniforms that resemble those worn by the girls attending high school in Tokyo-3 from Neon Genesis Evangelion.
- The ending of Archie being tricked into becoming the sacrifice of a ceremony is inspired by The Wicker Man (1973).
- The episode is a Whole-Plot Reference to Midsommar: a small town cult uses a nature festival to crown a queen, who then allows her boyfriend to be killed in a human sacrifice meant to purify the town of its sins. There are also shout-outs to specific parts of Midsommar:
- Cheryl's girls at the festival, and later the entire town at the sacrifice, wear white robes with colorful embroidery similar to those worn by the cult members in the film.
- Two famous shots from Midsommar are directly recreated: an overhead view of the girls in white robes dancing in concentric circles around the festival's maypole, and Betty lying flat on her back with her legs spread giving the camera a Kubrick Stare. The latter shot even shares the same context of a young woman trying to get the town's future human sacrifice to ritualistically impregnate her.
- At the sacrifice, Betty is wearing a floral headdress and an enormous ballgown covered in flowers, similar to what Dani wears at the end of the film.
- Jughead's Breaking the Fourth Wall intro is straight out of The Twilight Zone or other anthology horror shows.
- Wham Episode: Betty becomes pregnant and Archie dies.
