The plucky youths of Riverdale reckon with the “death” of one of their own
Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Wednesday, February 19. All times are Eastern.
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Riverdale (The CW, 8 p.m.): Throughout its fourth season (and really beginning at the end of its third), Riverdale has been slowly working to convince us all of one thing: that Jughead Jones (Cole Sprouse) is no more. Pore Jug is daid, pore Jug Jones is daid.
Except he’s totally not, right? Odds are we won’t get any definitive answers in this week’s episode, but “How To Get Away With Murder” seems likely to shed at least a little light.
Here’s Charles Bramesco on last week’s episode, the similarly ominously named “The Ides Of March”:
“Chapter Seventy” finally knots the flash-forwards to the main progression of the plot, showing us how the fateful night of Jughead’s cannot-possibly-be-a-murder played out—with one crucial elision. We see everyone convene at the “A Midsummer Night’s Dream had a baby with Euphoria” party, we see Archie and Veronica scamper off to go bang one out in the woods and then return, we see Betty confront evidently skilled hypnotist Donna in the woods, and we see Jughead go into the woods to search for the two of them. Then, we see a dazed Betty standing over a bloodied Jughead, rock in hand. If it really was as simple as Donna hypnotizing Betty into bashing Jughead’s brains in, as the conclusion suggests, then they’d have shown us that much. As the matter stands, something else must have happened, which leaves the mystery advanced without a solution.