3/14/2023 0 Comments Riverdale season 5 episode 1![]() ![]() Does Senior Prom have a low-key ’90s theme? It’s never mentioned, but we do hear a couple of ’90s classics playing: ‘Kiss Me’ by Sixpence None The Richer and ‘Fade Into You’ by Mazzy Star.It doesn’t look as though he’s going to be smiling again any time soon. It’s a reenactment of the Black Hood putting a gun to his head. Riverdale season 5 episode 1 ends with Archie finding a video on his doorstep. Given Hiram’s predilection for protecting his own, Archie better watch his back. Her dad Hiram (Mark Consuelos) walks in just in time to hear that it’s all Archie’s fault. Back home after prom, Ronnie sobs into her mother’s lap. A romantic song he wrote that Ronnie found in his wastepaper bin, then performed at the speakeasy earlier in the episode, was actually inspired by Archie’s brief frisson with Betty. When she tells Archie she wants to defer college so she can spend another year with him in Riverdale, he decides to come clean. Prom also proves disruptive for Archie’s relationship with Ronnie (Camila Mendes). But the Auteur has no intention of lying low and proceeds to disrupt Prom with a new video showing people in Archie gang masks stabbing someone named David: has the Auteur just killed the video store guy?Ĭole Sprouse and Wyatt Nash in ‘Riverdale’ season 5 episode one. This distraction gives the Auteur – or whoever it was – time to get away. They spot someone in an owl mask who might be the Auteur, but before they can get to them, they bump into Jughead’s little sister Jellybean, who’s really much too young to be there. Toni promises to work on her nana, but it doesn’t look good.īefore Prom, Betty and Jughead make it to the underground film club, which is really a rave with x-rated movies playing in every room. ![]() Toni tells Cheryl after prom that her grandmother has forbidden their romance not because they’re gay, but because Cheryl’s ruthless family screwed over Toni’s relatives in the past. Though she and Toni (Vanessa Morgan) get to reign over prom as Riverdale High’s “first ever openly gay Royal family”, their relationship appears to be on the rocks. Credit: NetflixĬheryl has more pressing problems than a dodgy wig. Lili Reinhart’s Betty plays detective in the season five opener. Their fake snuff film starring Cheryl (Madelaine Petsch) in a wig and Reggie (Charles Melton) in a gimp outfit doesn’t convince David, but Betty has an ace up her sleeve: a grimly fascinating home movie of her serial killer dad, the Black Hood, as a kid. In order to gain entry to David’s underground movie club, where they’re convinced they’ll find the Auteur, they’re told to bring him a snuff film – a black market movie where someone is actually killed. The trail of clues leads Jughead and Betty to David (Kett Turton), somewhat sinister manager of the Blue Velvet video store. ![]() But, Jughead wonders, how could the Auteur have possibly known about his story? Honey, which is extra-freaky because Jughead imagined this exact scenario in his short story. The Auteur’s latest masterpiece shows a group of people in Archie gang masks enacting the murder of Mr. The mysterious menace known as “the Auteur” has sent them another creepy video, but this time he’s raised his game. Meanwhile, Jughead (Cole Sprouse) and Betty (Lili Reinhart) are playing detectives. Apa is back as Archie in ‘Riverdale’ season five. The decision goes to KO on points, and though the Naval Academy Commandant tells Archie to “stay in touch”, he appears to have put his seafaring dreams behind him. Archie outlasts KO in a pre-bout fitness contest, but can’t overcome his 50lb weight deficit in the ring. Still unsure of his future, he’s applied to the Naval Academy, but needs to beat Katy Keene’s boyfriend KO Kelly (Zane Holtz) in the boxing ring to secure his place. Oh, and if you’re never heard of a snuff film before, you’ll be well versed by the end of the episode.Īrchie (KJ Apa) spends most of the episode sweating, shirtless, or both – hey, this is Riverdale – but our hero doesn’t have much to smile about. This intricately plotted season premiere includes a high-stakes boxing bout, a prom that doesn’t exactly go to plan, and ancestral beef interfering with the course of true love. Riverdale is back for a fifth season and showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa won’t let us breathe. ![]()
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