Chapter Eight: The Outsiders
AV Club: A-
Episode seven was the best episode yet. Cole Sprouse (GhostWriter24) killed it. Tightened up and kept the plots all focused and interconnected (easily done with the cast together a lot of the time). Fred is acting like a normal person, being reasonable for his family and supporting Jughead.
Archie was still an idiot in this episode, but he was so with
the very best of intentions. He acted with barely any thought, but it's because he saw Jughead needed him. AV Club review goes over it better.
Hermione... flip flopping on how good she is. I think she's a flawed but good person caught in a pretty bad marriage, but if she turned out to be secretly evil that probably wouldn't surprise me either. Veronica going partying was fun, and it was a nice touch that they did that scene sweaty, but it seemed to be the most meaningless thread. It's weird seeing Veronica be so mature in most respects but completely unable to understand her mother's actions or that her father is clearly the big bad of season two.
Madchen Amick is so good at being bad. Polly and Jason's murder stuff is good. Cheryl legit shook at Jason getting Polly pregnant. She did right by the baby in the end.
Also someone else definitely has to die before the killer is found, right? That's how these murder mysteries go. Someone comes close. They get whacked.
Show is at it's best when these kids are put in fucked up situations and help each other through them.