#riverdale 4x14

[forbescaroline]

TOP 5/10 CHARACTERS PER SHOW (as voted by my followers) ↳ riverdale edition #3. Betty Cooper portrayed by Lili Reinhart

[kjapaluv]

riverdale 4x14

[fictitiousoshine]

Because I actually thought Betty was talking to Jughead here 😭...

[jerepars]

I put it off for so long. But now I’m all caught up. And I hate this show more than ever.

A summary of my live reactions for 4x13:

Donuts for breakfast? No wonder you have nothing of substance in your head.

The morning tryst is fine, but realistically, who shows up at school that early before the bell rings?

“These stonies” ARE YOU KIDDING? Jughead is supposed to be a writer and this is the dialogue the show writers are giving him?

Wait, so is Betty just going to sit there and watch him write?

Ah, yes, Toni Topaz, still losing personality with every passing episode.

Jarhead and Bison. Oh, OKAY.

I told you not to accept that laptop from Bret without question!

The random shot of equipment in the chem lab, like why even bother, as if Archie could pass a science class.

This show has gone so far off the rails I don’t even really know why Veronica is spiraling.

Is it really worth dealing with Stonewall Prep for this shit? Was I ever supposed to believe that any of these people would truly be able to get into an Ivy? Just gtfo of Riverdale. Go to a SUNY campus.

The Betty/Donna diner scene is shot really beautifully, at least.

Ah, yes, Bret, the ultimate creep.

Jughead’s hair looks so much better sticking out of the beanie than completely tucked in.

Aw, a scene with the Bughead background music. Haven’t heard that in a while.

As if the core four could have fun at a Stonewall party. Should have listened to Archie, should have stayed home.

So does Jughead stage his disappearance and death now?

How can Bret be talking like that that when he’s wearing THAT

A summary of my live reactions for 4x14:

Jughead is not allowed to call his own beanie iconic

So three teenagers just walk into their houses at 3 AM in their underwear? This is like a setup for a comedy routine.

“Jughead couldn’t just lend you one of his grungy flannels” LOL see now this is the content we came for

Charles? You would trust Charles with this ploy?

So your boyfriend/friend is “dead” and all signs lead back to you so you’re having an open discussion in the diner?

Man, Penny Peabody and Evelyn Evernever as the ultimate supervillain duo would be so good.

DON’T KILL YOURSELF, ELMO. Who writes this shit?

If Betty is going to be saying incriminating things on the phone, shouldn’t they all be using burner phones?

How can this supposedly squeaky clean FBI agent be so casual about a murder weapon out in the open? This whole subplot is so dumb.

To be fair, Veronica, you ARE running an illegal underground liquor operation.

The stonies have definitely drugged several people.

Donna’s shirt is really nice though.

Jughead’s “body”. Hmm okay.

An oversized Sherpa jacket suits Betty. But the owner ain’t dead.

A summary of my live reactions for 4x15:

Lol Cheryl getting involved in this non-murder coverup would complicate things.

And, what, FP just believes Donna? Pshhh. More scheming.

Here we go with Alice, continuing to be the worst parent on television.

Meanwhile Jughead is chomping down on snacks in the bunker in the woods while writing ten more manuscripts.

Oh, COME ON. Toni and Jughead were BARELY friends. Just common gang members.

!!!!A WILD SWEET PEA APPEARS!!!!

OMG AND BETTY JUST TALKED HIM OUT OF RAGE. GIVE ME SWEETBEE FRIENDSHIP OR GIVE ME (UNSTAGED) DEATH!

Who even cares what else happens when Sweet Pea is here! I just wish there was explanation for where he’s been this whole time!

omg Sweet Pea is the best. Please just write an alternate storyline where he is the star of the show.

We all know super detectives Jones and Cooper planned this out properly, they wouldn’t skimp on the details!

Wait, did Cheryl have the students make a mock beanie for that locker memorial?

Okay…Betty and Archie would probably sell this better if the actors didn’t look grossed out by each other while kissing.

Veronica, on the other hand, is overselling it.

Betty made Juggie a new beanie THIS IS SO KAWAII

Wait, is this really how the writers are setting up Barchie? They’re supposed to catch feelings this way?

Lol solving a murder by milkshake evidence.

A summary of my live reactions for 4x16:

I hope someone got Jughead some Flintstones multivitamins to account for the loss of Vitamin D due to lack of sun!

So basically what you’re telling me is that everyone who matters in Riverdale is in on Jughead’s “death”

This reveal scene in the parlor must be the longest scene in Riverdale history. It’s refreshing to get an episode that isn’t the usual 45 second clips spliced together over 40 minutes.

Three Forsythes in one room!

Interesting that they have to keep saying Tracy True and not refer to Nancy Drew when Nancy Drew is also a show that airs on the CW

As we live and breathe, Jughead Jones walking the halls of Riverdale High.

Lol wait so Jughead went from provisionally accepted to Yale to probably not graduating? I hate this show.

A summary of my live reactions for 4x17:

Cole/Jughead gets the first singing line in the musical? What is this bullshit?

Sweet Pea makes another appearance!! With cutoff sleeves!!

I get that the Salem Witch Trials is on brand for Jughead, but I would have chosen the Trail of Tears essay given the Serpents connection to the Uktena, but no one even remembers that, I’m sure.

SWEET PEA IS PLAYING BASS (I always thought he would be a drummer though)

Wait…they’re just running from room to room in different people’s houses? Just because it’s a musical doesn’t mean you can keep violating the time-space continuum!

Okay, Cole/Jughead singing is the funniest thing to ever happen on this show.

And all this on the musical episode just to set up Barchie?

So after four seasons Betty and Archie are finally supposed to remember why they were so “close” to begin with?

Who thought it would be a good idea to build Betty and Archie up into these thoughtful, concerned, characters and then completely ruin them this way? That’s predictable and so unfair to them.

Cutting back to the pilot and season 1 Betty and Archie and comparing it to now really just underlines why Barchie didn’t become a thing. That should be pretty obvious.

Also, Sweet Pea is not only in the front row, but enamored by this?

A summary of my live reactions for 4x18:

When did Reggie get an accent?

LOL WHAT so are Barchie laying shoulder to shoulder contemplating if they’re going to get it on?

Ugh. Let me guess. Ethel is only appearing in this episode to be villainized. And there go all my SweetE/Swethel dreams.

WHAT DID I JUST SAY.

Oh, NOW, you can’t stop thinking about Betty? Two years too late, Arch.

Cheryl saying something of value for once?? Who are you and what have you done with Cheryl Blossom?

I just want to live in a world where SweetE is canon. Lol what am I saying, canon writing would ruin SweetE.

Someone tell the set designers that it’s poor science practice to leave empty glassware just out on bench tops.

Principal Honey isn’t going to expel them?

Fangs got into a university with a scholarship? Riiiiight.

Okay, so all that Barchie setup for will they or won’t they to settle on they won’t. So basically just a waste of time? Can the writers just stop trying to resurrect that once every season? It’s a minor annoyance that adds nothing.

Yeah, nope, Daddy will never change, Veronica.

[archieism]

LITERALLY NONE OF THEM HAVE REACTED TO THE FACT THAT THEIR FRIEND MIGHT BE ACTUALLY DEAD YET WE’RE 30 MINS IN WHAHHDS

[go-ldy]

Stop talking, Archie. Don't say another word. 

Honestly maybe the best scene this show has ever had.

[varchieforever]

Sneak peek clip Riverdale Episode 4x14 - How to Get Away with Murder (credit: KJ Apa Italia on Twitter)

[bellarketogether]

calling it now

this run of episodes is the book jughead is writing

[blackcinderella1]

Riverdale 4x14 “How To Get Away With Murder” Promo Pics

[notyourbae365]

Don’t mind me, I’ll just be re-watching every happy Bughead episode to recover from the absolute nightmare episode that was How To Get Away With Murder

[stonerbughead]

inside the bodysuits for bughead riverdale 4x14 podcast

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[bodysuitsforbughead]

eat the rich

[luna-lime]

I’m back yet again, after this week’s Riverdale episode. I wrote a similar post like this, but some of my theories changes trough the way and I wanted to share it with you guys. As I stated before, this theory didn’t come fully out of my head, but the details indeed come from me. So, stick around if you like to read theories (in which I am truly not very good). I would like to look back to these posts once season 4 is finished and see, if this time my gut was telling me the truth or if it was just playing games with me. Anyways, let’s get to the story.

As I said, they can’t kill Jughead off since this ain’t Game of Thrones and just… Jughead is the narrator of this show so, come on! It would be a stupid choice on the part of the creators too, since Jughead is fans favorite.

We all know that Jughead got this book contract to write a MYSTERY, I repeat MYSTERY book. Since the beginning of this whole ‘book writing’ storyline, he has been omitting writing the great murder-mystery book. And this is exactly it!

I know, the only true rule in Riverdale is: No death body, not a real death. But we could clearly see Jughead’s body in the morgue. I know they want us to believe he is dead. BUT HA RIVERDALE! I’ve been here long enough to know, so won’t fool me that easily. 

My idea of the book plot changed a little bit from the last episode, since it isn’t Bret (I finally know how his name is spelled, but not like it’s too important for me still, cuz I don’t like him) who is the mastermind. Indeed, it’s our beloved, one and only Donna.

I must say I haven’t found Donna suspicious since the beginning, but now it’s clear she is the mastermind. Or maybe she is half of the mind and the other is still Bret, who I don’t believe shit. He is a shady kid and there isn’t a moment that will possibly change my opinions. Just if he turned on Donna, maybe then I would consider (but kisses to Sean Depner ofc)

My original idea was, that this main character (in this case Jughead) goes to private school where he doesn’t fit in. He wins some sort of contract (the book contract) and this main guy (Bret) doesn’t really like when someone is better than him. He makes him and his girlfriend (Betty) to turn on one another. Bret and his prepy squad kill off Jughead and try to frame Betty with enough evidence. But Betty is smarter than to fall into this trap and she turns the tables on them, in the end convicting them rightfully of murder. This is the original idea (in short) of what the story might be mimicking. As I stated before, things have changes.

My new version is this: The main character gets enrolled to a private prep school. He has a hard time fitting in, and his roommate turns out to be a hell of a douc bag. His roommate is the alpha-omega in this school, always winning, being the best at every class and having this natural authority. While dealing with his egoistic roommate, he finds one friend among those preppy kids. This girl becomes his friend (Donna) and supports him, even if it means the others start to judge her because of her choices. One day, she finds out that the main character has a girlfriend, whom he truly adores and loves. This makes the girl angry and jealous, because she though that maybe, they had something special starting to bloom (I know this wasn’t showcased in the show, but hey, we don’t know if Donna wasn’t feeling like this. Maybe she was, and we will find out later.) Between that, there is a competition in school which might significantly influence the future of the winner. The last two sanding in this competition will be the main character and his roommate. Surprisingly, the main character becomes the winner of this contest. But as much of an egoistic of a person his roommate is, he starts to give him even harder time than before. While that, his relationship with his girlfriend starts to crumble due to less time and more opportunities. His girlfriend starts to feel like she is losing him and that he is getting better than her every day. That’s when Donna realizes, that it wouldn’t be too hard to break this relationship. She makes everyone in her inner circle work with her, against the good of the main character. The main character gets fed up by the situation in the prep school and challenges his roommate to a duel. As everyone expected (IDK if that was part of the plan or no) he chooses Donna, since she is the only friend and person he trusts in that school. She tries to be genuine with him but is still hurt by the fact that there will never be more than friendship between them. Things escalate quickly and the main character starts to lose track of what is happening around him and almost loses the competition prize (his book rights). His roommate is still butt hurt about his loss, so he tries to come up with a plan, how to get in his place and get the contract. It’s clear to all, that he won’t give up on his own and making him also isn’t a choice. So, they have two options, kill him or make him disappear without a trace. Knowing the past psychological problems of his girlfriend, they come up with a plan of framing her of his murder. This way both get satisfaction. His roommate will get the contract and Donna, gets to kill two flies with one hit. She will frame the girl who took her chance of a nice loving relationship and kill the boy who couldn’t reciprocate her feelings. The mastermind behind this would be more likely Donna, since she seems to have everyone under her thumb. And it wouldn’t be the first time she committed a crime of passion. She supposedly had a sexual based relationship with this one teacher from her school. And she blackmailed him into insanity, so rather than dealing with it, he killed himself or was driven to kill himself (still the mystery of Mr. Chipping’s death). At the night of his death, he brings along his best friends, which makes the mystery even better. So, the preppies try to frame his girlfriend and his friends. But what they don’t know is that his girlfriend is a mastermind on her own. They try to gaslight her about what happened that night in the forest, where her boyfriend got missing. She is a smarty thou and doesn’t let them gaslight her easily, even if she has moments of her own doubt. She becomes suspicious about those two and tries to play their game in their own rules. And somehow, she finds a crack in the code and successfully frames them of the murder of her boyfriend, cleaning her and her friends name. So, by the end of the novel, Donna and his roommate confess to killing him one for the contract and two because she was deeply in love with him and she couldn’t bare the though of him not being with her.

I know this is a stretch but seeing Donna and her character development in the last three episodes made me think. As I stated before, we never got the feeling off Donna that she might be feeling something towards Jughead. But this would be a good motive for her to kill him. Because she is this psycho bitch, who isn’t very good at showing emotions and falls in love very easily with everyone who is just a little nice to her.

But at the end, this isn’t something life changing so take it with a pinch of salt. What would be actually funny, is that Jughead would really die and so we all would be here like:

[abigailtopaz]

Watching 4x14

!spoilers (obvi)!

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• them vs speaking on the way home and getting they’re stories straight

• Kevin is a bean, I love him, protect him at all costs

• Betty said “Archie” not “Arch” she MAD mad

• MARY IS A LESBIAN IDC

• “jUsT cAtChiNg uP” oh I’m sure, Mary

• I love Veronica and Hermosa can leave, thanks

• I feel V’s pain wow I just wanna give her a hug

• why does Betty still call him “Mr. Jones” she’s literally living with him just call him FP bruh 😭

• those Stonewall Prep students istg

• Archie protecting Betty 🥺

• but V has a point aha 😗✌🏻

• Even though Betty cries and stuff for me personally she’s still too calm about Jughead being d word

• OMG MARY ANDREWS HAS A GIRLFRIEND I AL LIVING MY BEST LIFE RN

• I AM SO HAPPY PLEASE OMG

• ARCHIE SUPPORTING HIS MUM I AM SO THANKFUL WOW

• BARCHIE SCENE

• Bret being scared of Archie is my new favourite thing

• I love Charles

• BARCHIE WINDOW SCENE IS COMING ISNT IT

• I WAS RIGHT

• but okay betty you creep lmao

• Mary is the best parent idc

• I love Alice and FP and Falice and wow

• FP I LOVE HIM WOW

• Alice being on FP’s side 🥺

• Alice being worried about Jughead I cry

• Betty is convinced her boyfriend is d word and all she does is try to find who did it instead of being actually sad about it I don’t get it

• okay maybe this Hiram and Veronica scene is very soft

• she told him she loves him I cry

• FP being worried, my heart is in pieces

• FP HAS PICS OF BETTY AND ALICE AND HIS KIDS IN HIS OFFICE I CRY

• V’s has the cutest pyjamas

• okay finally Betty is legit showing feelings

• “this white powder” 🤨

• Archie is a mood

• Betty writing all in caps stressed me out 😂

• Donna is the mastermind behind all of it, not Bret

• “Sheriff Jones” JUST SAY FP PLEASE JESUS

• omg the search party scene

• I am legit crying rn

• I can’t take this FP is so sad

• Jeez I hate Hermosa

• and there Betty goes again talking about Jug being d word without any emotion I-

• yeah real great move, Betty. Telling your every move to Donna aha

• okay wow I am so confused and actually excited for next week???????

[archieism]

so basically what we got from this week’s episode was

bi mary

everyone was just pretending to like jughead this entire time

[go-ldy]

I watched 4x14 How to Get Away with Murder again to see how it held up knowing that Jughead was safely tucked away in the bunker. And... it holds up pretty good! Betty and Varchie in retrospect are pretty focused on going after the Preppies and spend very little time actually grieving which, you know, makes sense!

But there are some things that are strange on retrospect:

-Veronica (and Archie to a lesser extent) are both VERY concerned that Betty went into a fugue state and brained her boo with a rock.

-Betty also seems quite concerned about this although her concern is less that dark!Betty emerged and more that Donna said some kind of secret Farm brainwashing/trigger word that could cause her to hurt someone she loved.

-None of this makes sense because couldn’t they... y’know, like... go to the bunker and just ask Jughead what happened? Maybe Jughead was concussed and lost his short-term memory and he doesn’t remember anything after he followed Bret into the woods with the bunny mask (...... a real sentence I just typed). Ergo, he does not remember who brained him with the rock. Ergo, Betty remains a suspect??

-My head canon is that Betty, due to guilt and rage and anger at all of this, refuses to see Jughead after he wakes up from his post-concussion blackout. This is killing them both. But Betty can’t bear to face him until she gets to the bottom of what happened. Every time someone opens the door to the bunker to bring Jughead food or water or medical supplies, he looks up in hope only for his face to fall when he sees Archie or Charles or Veronica. And every time he asks where Betty is, no one can look him in the eye or give him a straight answer other than to say: “Are you sure you don’t remember?”  

-Therefore, it is a huge weight off Betty’s shoulders after Charles hypnotizes her and they find out she was drugged, and NOT in a murderous fugue state. Finally she can see Jughead. In my head, their reunion at this stage is pretty glorious and I feel cheated we did not get to see something like this in canon. 

-If FP was also in on it, why the script that Betty calls FP with to report Jughead is missing (with Charles lingering in the background)? Maybe to create a paper record? Or FP is not yet “in” on it at this point in the timeline?

-LOL @ the idea of Riverdale having a consistent timeline. What am I saying. 

-Betty and FP’s conversation about Jughead’s missing phone is also strange.. is this for Alice’s benefit because she doesn’t know and they still need to keep up the pretense that Jughead being missing? Or is FP still in the dark at this point?

-Certainly by the time Betty and Charles switch the bloody rock with the fake bloody rock, the Jones family must be “in” on it since Jellybean helps Betty with the fake blood. And if not by that point then by the time Betty decides that there has to be a body and it MUST be found by FP, the sheriff, not by the FBI, not by anyone else.