In the Mood for Chaos: A Riverdale Roasting and Recap Podcast inthemoodforchaos

Hello all, we’ve managed to extract ourselves from the 5-and-a-half feet of snow that dropped on us over the winter, and now that Miranda can open her back door and Evelyn can walk instead of wade through snowdrifts...it’s time:

At last, the first musical episode of Riverdale is upon us, and the question of the hour is, simply: Why?

Why is Carrie a musical at all? Why was Riverdale a musical at all? Why was Carrie: The Musical chosen to be said musical - other than Roberto’s weird Stephen King kink (Stephen Kink, if you will)? Why choose it if you don’t show the two really important scenes? Why is a student directing the school musical? Why is there a drama department, auditorium, costumes, lights, and sets but no drama teacher?

Why is everyone encouraging Jughead to be even more insufferable? Why is Alice in her daughter’s school musical? Why is Chuck back? Why is Sheriff Dad wandering around the dressing rooms unattended? Why is Archie such a bonehead? Why is Hal back? Why is Casey Cott (Kevin) not singing when he’s the only cast member trained in musical theatre? Why is Cheryl the perfect Carrie? Why does the Black Hood - surprise, he’s back - care about ANY of this?

And WHY is there a GIANT CHICKEN COSTUME!?!?!

We have no answers. Only despair.

Thank you, listeners, for your patience, as Evelyn finally gets her wish: She’s made Miranda watch her first full episode of Riverdale

***Note: Due to a different recording location and set-up, there are two background noises that we’ve done our best to minimize, but are present for the first portion of the podcast nonetheless. One is the ambient background menu music, and the other is Evelyn’s adorable cat trying to eat dinner. Our apologies.***




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Content Warnings:

Alcoholism (brief mention)
Emotional abuse/manipulation
Fatphobia
Murder
Pedophilia (brief mention)
Religious trauma

Music: ’Imps’ by Mark Revell

The Endless Torment of Cheryl Blossom, or as it’s more widely known: Riverdale continues to astound our intrepid hosts by finding new avenues of trauma to explore. This week, it’s conversion therapy. If that is understandably not something you want to engage with, listener discretion is advised.

Expanding on last week’s thesis that Nana Rose Cannot And Will Not be stopped; this episode she enacts a geriatric Mission Impossible-esque stunt to help the only 3 people in town who care about her grandaughter rescue said grandaughter. 

Meanwhile, in a land of lower stakes, the campaign for student body president is still going on, as well as the parallel campaign for mayorship of the town, and it’s difficult to determine which to care about less. At least one involves Fred.

Jughead spouts off more insufferable garbage, Betty wants a tattoo, Veronica might be Catwoman, Kevin goes :O, Molly Ringwald continues to rule, and God help us all: Archie has a plan. 

According to Evelyn, she is straight-up ”here to make your life worse” and later gets in a devastating roast in on Miranda; who, at one point, has to stand up and pace from sheer seething anger, but not before getting briefly possessed by Reggie.
Hanging over it all, the looming threat of the first musical episode darkens the horizon, promising that if it’s chaos we want, we ain’t seen nothin’ yet...




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Content Warnings:

Blackmail/extortion
Conversion Therapy
Emotional abuse/manipulation
Gaslighting
Homophobia
Religious trauma (Catholic)
Transphobia

Music: ’Imps’ by Mark Revell

This week, it‘s all about elections in Riverdale! Couldn‘t tell you why, but there sure are at least 2 happening. Rivetting. 

Hermione vies for Mayorhood as Veronica acts out by running for student body president - if only to fuel her obsession with smooching, Reggie comes up with an excellent campaign slogan, Hal is NOT the father, Betty gets threatening again, and don‘t even WORRY about it: We have yet another egregious Glee! comparison.

Our two hosts have this and more to contend with as Miranda calculates how long she has to skip town, Evelyn introduces us to the new character who occasionally possesses her body: The Duke of Scotchtape, and both are ecstatic with a long-overdue reaming out of Archie.
Oh, and can anyone tell them who Bravo‘s Andy Cohen is, or why they should care?




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Content Warnings:

Abortion
Conversion Therapy (brief mention)
Emotional Abuse/Manipulation
Gaslighting
Homophobia
Sexual Harassment (brief mention)

Music: ‘Imps‘ by Mark Revell

Have your hand near the volume controls because there‘s schlock in this episode that prompts multiple screams of primal rage.

This week: Old family drama continues apace over at the Cooper‘s, new family drama starts at the Blossom‘s, and general ”family” drama unfolds at the Lodge‘s. Basically, everyone‘s making plans and all of them are stupid.

Betty recruits Kevin with dubious intent (what else), Jughead meets an informant, Chic might have scurvy, Hiram unveils his grand insipid design, and it turns out we haven‘t seen the last of Clifford...sort of.

Evelyn continues to weather both the mounting insanity of Riverdale and the mounting insanity of Miranda with glee, giving valuable insight into the nature of upsetting pop-up ads; Miranda - when not screaming - discusses her tiny racoon hands, and they both learn a little something about gay chat-room slang. 

Also, Roberto? We get it, okay? You like Stephen King. We get it. We really get it. 




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Content Warnings:

Abortion
Drugs/drug usage
Classism
Emotional abuse/manipulation
Homophobia
Incest
Murder
Stigmatism of sex work
Suicide (brief mention)




Music: ‘Imps‘ by Mark Revell

It‘s a weird one, this week. Not crazy. But weird. An important distinction. There are actually some - dare we say - interesting developments. It‘s just that none of them happen to the main four characters. Honestly, we‘ll take it. 

The gang heads up to Veronica‘s family lakehouse for a fun little weekend vacation that Is Definitely Not Motivated By Hiram‘s Ulterior Motives. At All. The vibes switch between the two extremes of profoundly uncomfortable, and agonizingly horny. Archie remains oblivious, Betty packed her wig, Jughead doesn‘t know how phones work, and (Robo)Veronica wants to kiss everyone.

Meanwhile, back in Riverdale: Kevin makes an honest-to-goodness friend!!! With Josie! They both act far more maturely than their respective parents. Cheryl makes a friend too...or maybe...even more than a friend? We hope so. And, Chic eats cereal to assert dominance. 

Miranda is left reeling less by plot than by the reveal of Sheriff Dad‘s first name, Evelyn thought this episode ”happened later” assuring everyone there‘s a moment in it of truly baffling cringe, and both have to contend with the existence of Riverdale Monopoly. 




Programming Note: Due to the annual horrendous weather descending upon the city, as well as the upcoming holidays, we‘ll be releasing an episode every two weeks while we batten down the hatches for winter.




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Content Warnings:

Classism
Eating disorder (Anorexia, brief mention)
Emotional Abuse/manipulation
Gun violence
Home Invasion
Homophobia
Murder
PTSD
Sexual Assault (brief mention)




Music: ‘Imps‘ by Mark Revell

Well, folks, the Cooper fam is really in it now. You could argue they were before because you‘re right, they were; but now the stakes are Even Higher with the extemporaneous murder of ‘The Shady Guy‘ who came to see Chic.

Betty is, funnily enough, not doing so well with having to dispose of a body and on top of that, has to deal with learning that her dad and Penelope are...in Love?!?!? Ew???

Archie tries to ghost the FBI, Jughead chooses another stupid hill to die on, Veronica seems to think she deserves a Nobel Peace Prize, and Cheryl is up to her old tricks...by which we mean hitherto-unseen tricks of sitting alone in the dark, and archery.

In other news: Evelyn really loves carrots and she‘s going to show you how much. She also shares some of the notes taken by her cat via walking across the keyboard. Miranda, meanwhile, might need to get her eyes checked because it takes approximately 7 years for her to parse a screencap.
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Content Warnings:

Audible chewing 
Drugs/drug usage
Emetophobia
Emotional abuse/manipulation
Incest
Gun violence
Murder
Stigmatization of sex work




Music: ‘Imps‘ by Mark Revell