RIVERDALE "WHEN A STRANGER CALLS" REVIEW
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Hey everyone, we are back with a brand new recap and review of Riverdale season 2, episode 5. So spoilers ahead for this intense episode, let's recap.
The episode picks up straight after last week, where Betty got a call from the Black Hood tells Betty that he is doing everything for her. The Blach Hood then goes on to say that he knows where Polly is and that if Betty tells anyone about this conversation, he will kill her because she is not innocent. The next day, Betty walks with Archie to school and she tells her that the Black Hood contacted her last night. Archie freaks out, Betty tells him that he can not tell anyone because the Black Hood knows where Polly is.
Meanwhile, the Lodges' are expecting are expecting some guest who might invest in some of their Riverdale properties, one of which including Veronica's old friend, Nick. Down at the South-Side, Jughead finds some of the South-side high serpents planning to place a bomb. Jughead tries to talk them out of it, but they ignore him.Toni tells Jughead that without his father, FP, the Serpents want to go all out war on the North side of Riverdale. At Riverdale high, Veronica talks to friends about her friend, Nick coming to Riverdale for a trip. Meanwhile, at the South-Side, Jughead puts on his father's jacket and he goes to the bar, where he asks some Serpents if he can join.
At the Cooper house, Betty and Archie are waiting for a call from the Black Hood. The lollipop song plays on Betty's phone which is the ringtone she has for the Black Hood calls. Betty picks up the phone and answers it. The Black Hood tells Betty that he sent her an article on her computer, and she must publish the article to show her loyalty to the Black Hood, or else Polly gets killed from the Black Hood. The call ends, and Betty and Archie open up the laptop to find an image of an old newspaper, on that paper is a story on a young Alice Copper being arrested as the South-side serpent.
At the South-Side Jughead starts his first trail into being a Serpent, which is taking care of the Serpent dog, named Hotdog. At school, Betty tells Archie she is reluctant to share the post of her mother. When Betty gets home she is greeted by Sheriff Keller and her mother, Alice. Keller tells the Coopers that the letters that they got from the Black Hood have different handwriting. Alice then goes on to hint that Betty created a letter from the Black Hood, upset at her mother's claims, Betty decides to go publish the old newspaper of her as a Serpent.
On the other side of Riverdale, Jughead is being tested by Toni on the South-Side serpents values. Jughead tells Toni that he only joined the Serpents to try to keep the peace between the North and South. Jughead goes to the bar for his second trail to become a Serpent, he has to say the Serpent code of conduct, and then he takes out a knife from a cage with a rattlesnake. After getting bit, Jughead succeeds his second phase of becoming a serpent. At Pops, Alice discovers that Betty revealed that she was a Serpent on the newspaper. Alice goes home and has an argument with Betty, and Betty tells Alice maybe it was "justice", which Alice and Hal disagree with.
Meanwhile at the Lodge house. Archie meets Veronica's old friend, Nick, with the two getting off to a shaky start. At the Copper house, Betty gets a call from the Black Hood, who tells Betty she can ask him a question. Betty asks the Black Hood "would I recognize you?", which the Black Hood replies "yes". betty starts freaking out. The Black Hood tells Betty that she needs to cut off all ties with Veronica Lodge, or else Polly will get killed. Betty asks how the Black Hood would know, which the Black Hood replies, he will always know.
The next morning, Jughead meets with Betty at Pops, and they both want to get out of Riverdale. At school, Nick shows up and invites Veronica, Kevin, the Pussy Cats, Reggie, Cheryl, Archie and Betty to a party. Outside of the room, Archie asks Betty if she got a call from the Black Hood, but Betty says she did not. Later that night at the party, everyone is having a good time, but Betty looks like she saw a ghost. Nick offers everyone some Jingle Jangle, which Veronica takes. Archie says "no" at first, but after getting a little jealous of the way Nick acting in front of Veronica, he decides to have some. Veronica starts talking and then Betty stops her and tells her that no one thinks of her as a friend and that she is the same old brat that she was a year ago before she moved to Riverdale. After a few more harsh comments, Betty walks out with Veronica in tears.
At the South-Side, Toni warns Jughead how tough the third trail is, but Jughead is determined to be a Serpent. Back at the party, Veronica is still upset Betty was mean to her. Nick then tries to flirt with Veronica and gets a little too touchy. Veronica then slaps Nick for harassing her and leaves.
At a bench on the side of the street, Betty gets a call from the Black Hood, he tells her that she was successful in breaking off her relationship with Veronica, and now she needs to break off her relationship with Jughead. The call ends with betty crying. The next day at school, Archie asks Betty what happened with last night. She comes clean to Archie and tells him that the Black Hood told her to break off her friendship with Veronica. She then tells Archie that she has to do the same with Jughead, so she asks him to do so.
Meanwhile, the Lodges are holding an event to celebrate them building buildings on the South-Side of Riverdale. At the event, Hal shows up and he tells Hiram that Alice took a break because of what happened in the paper, but then Alice shows up in a skimpy dress and greets everyone not giving a care about what people think of her.
Archies goes to visit Jughead at the South-Side where he tells Betty wants to break up. Jughead is confused, and then the Serpents come over for Jughead's third trial to be a Serpent. Archie gets furious that his friend is becoming a Serpent and says that it is a good thing Betty is leaving him.
At the event, Nick meets Cheryl and drops a pill in her drink. Later at the event, Veronica performs with the Pussycats, "out Tonight" While the music plays, we see Jughead go through his third trial, which is him getting punched by each Serpent, which makes him bleed on the ground.
While performing, Veronica sees Nick take a light-headed Cheryl home. We then cut to Nick putting Cheryl on his bed, Veronica and the Pussycats show up and stop Nick from raping Cheryl by beating the crap out of him, knocking Nick out.
We cut back to Jughead on the ground, he is helped up by the Serpents and awarded his jacket and the position as a Serpent. Back with Betty, she gets a call from the Black Hood, and he tells her that she did a good job. The Black Hood tells Betty to go to a house where she will discover the identity of the Black Hood. Betty races over to the house where she finds a gift in the house. The Black Hood tells her (over the phone) to open the gift and put on the hood. Betty does as the Black Hood says, she looks in a mirror and is wearing the Black Hood. The Black Hood tells her that he did this to show Betty that they are one in the same. Betty hears a noise, takes off the hood and runs out of the house emotionally traumatized.
Betty gets a call from Archie to tell her to come over. Betty does and she finds Archie, Veronica, and the Pussycats comforting Cheryl over what nearly happened. At Jughead's house, he is finally a Serpent, Toni comes over to congratulate him and she asks him about Betty and if she knows. Jughead says they broke up, and he kisses Toni.
The episode ends back at Betty's house, she is listing down clues as to who the Black Hood is. She then gets a call from the Black Hoos who confronts her that she told Archie about the calls. He says he will kill Polly if she does not give the Black Hood the name of a person to murder. Betty is panicking and quickly names Nick, the guy who nearly raped Cheryl.
What this episode did well was build up suspense. It was intense seeing what the Black Hood would ask for next, and how Betty would go about handling it. I was interested in what the Black Hood would make Betty do in the episode. There were some great charcter arcs in the episode with Veronica and Jughead as well. But if I do have to speculate on the Black Hood's identity, I would say it is Hal Cooper. It may be someone else, there could be multiple Black Hood's, it is hard to tell at this point.
Lily Reinhart was amazing in the episode as Betty Cooper. The way she portrayed the character in this emotional torment was great, and something that was great to see from the charcter. I am super excited for the arc the charcter is heading in this episode, and how she will be affected, but more importantly how she affects everyone else with her actions.
The rest of the cast in the episode was great, we had KJ Apa (Archie Andrews), Cole Sprouse (Jughead), Madchen Amick (Alice Cooper), Lochlyn Munro (Hal Cooper), Camila Mendes (Veronica Lodge), Madelaine Petsch (Cheryl Blossom), Vanessa Morgan (Toni Topaz),
Marisol Nichols (Hermione Lodge), Mark Consuelos (Hiram Lodge), Graham Phillips (Nik St.Clair), Ashleigh Murray (Josie McCoy), Haly Law (Valerie Brown), Asha Bromfield (Melody Valentine), Cassey Cott (Kevin Keller), and Luke Perry (Fred Andrews).
Overall, this episode of Riverdale was such a great episode filled with intense storylines ranging from a series of different characters. I will give this episode of Riverdale a 9 out of 10. Please comment below your thoughts on the episode down in the comments below, and who do you think is the Black Hood? As always thanks for reading, take care.
Meanwhile, the Lodges' are expecting are expecting some guest who might invest in some of their Riverdale properties, one of which including Veronica's old friend, Nick. Down at the South-Side, Jughead finds some of the South-side high serpents planning to place a bomb. Jughead tries to talk them out of it, but they ignore him.Toni tells Jughead that without his father, FP, the Serpents want to go all out war on the North side of Riverdale. At Riverdale high, Veronica talks to friends about her friend, Nick coming to Riverdale for a trip. Meanwhile, at the South-Side, Jughead puts on his father's jacket and he goes to the bar, where he asks some Serpents if he can join.
At the Cooper house, Betty and Archie are waiting for a call from the Black Hood. The lollipop song plays on Betty's phone which is the ringtone she has for the Black Hood calls. Betty picks up the phone and answers it. The Black Hood tells Betty that he sent her an article on her computer, and she must publish the article to show her loyalty to the Black Hood, or else Polly gets killed from the Black Hood. The call ends, and Betty and Archie open up the laptop to find an image of an old newspaper, on that paper is a story on a young Alice Copper being arrested as the South-side serpent.
At the South-Side Jughead starts his first trail into being a Serpent, which is taking care of the Serpent dog, named Hotdog. At school, Betty tells Archie she is reluctant to share the post of her mother. When Betty gets home she is greeted by Sheriff Keller and her mother, Alice. Keller tells the Coopers that the letters that they got from the Black Hood have different handwriting. Alice then goes on to hint that Betty created a letter from the Black Hood, upset at her mother's claims, Betty decides to go publish the old newspaper of her as a Serpent.
On the other side of Riverdale, Jughead is being tested by Toni on the South-Side serpents values. Jughead tells Toni that he only joined the Serpents to try to keep the peace between the North and South. Jughead goes to the bar for his second trail to become a Serpent, he has to say the Serpent code of conduct, and then he takes out a knife from a cage with a rattlesnake. After getting bit, Jughead succeeds his second phase of becoming a serpent. At Pops, Alice discovers that Betty revealed that she was a Serpent on the newspaper. Alice goes home and has an argument with Betty, and Betty tells Alice maybe it was "justice", which Alice and Hal disagree with.
Meanwhile at the Lodge house. Archie meets Veronica's old friend, Nick, with the two getting off to a shaky start. At the Copper house, Betty gets a call from the Black Hood, who tells Betty she can ask him a question. Betty asks the Black Hood "would I recognize you?", which the Black Hood replies "yes". betty starts freaking out. The Black Hood tells Betty that she needs to cut off all ties with Veronica Lodge, or else Polly will get killed. Betty asks how the Black Hood would know, which the Black Hood replies, he will always know.
The next morning, Jughead meets with Betty at Pops, and they both want to get out of Riverdale. At school, Nick shows up and invites Veronica, Kevin, the Pussy Cats, Reggie, Cheryl, Archie and Betty to a party. Outside of the room, Archie asks Betty if she got a call from the Black Hood, but Betty says she did not. Later that night at the party, everyone is having a good time, but Betty looks like she saw a ghost. Nick offers everyone some Jingle Jangle, which Veronica takes. Archie says "no" at first, but after getting a little jealous of the way Nick acting in front of Veronica, he decides to have some. Veronica starts talking and then Betty stops her and tells her that no one thinks of her as a friend and that she is the same old brat that she was a year ago before she moved to Riverdale. After a few more harsh comments, Betty walks out with Veronica in tears.
At the South-Side, Toni warns Jughead how tough the third trail is, but Jughead is determined to be a Serpent. Back at the party, Veronica is still upset Betty was mean to her. Nick then tries to flirt with Veronica and gets a little too touchy. Veronica then slaps Nick for harassing her and leaves.
At a bench on the side of the street, Betty gets a call from the Black Hood, he tells her that she was successful in breaking off her relationship with Veronica, and now she needs to break off her relationship with Jughead. The call ends with betty crying. The next day at school, Archie asks Betty what happened with last night. She comes clean to Archie and tells him that the Black Hood told her to break off her friendship with Veronica. She then tells Archie that she has to do the same with Jughead, so she asks him to do so.
Meanwhile, the Lodges are holding an event to celebrate them building buildings on the South-Side of Riverdale. At the event, Hal shows up and he tells Hiram that Alice took a break because of what happened in the paper, but then Alice shows up in a skimpy dress and greets everyone not giving a care about what people think of her.
Archies goes to visit Jughead at the South-Side where he tells Betty wants to break up. Jughead is confused, and then the Serpents come over for Jughead's third trial to be a Serpent. Archie gets furious that his friend is becoming a Serpent and says that it is a good thing Betty is leaving him.
At the event, Nick meets Cheryl and drops a pill in her drink. Later at the event, Veronica performs with the Pussycats, "out Tonight" While the music plays, we see Jughead go through his third trial, which is him getting punched by each Serpent, which makes him bleed on the ground.
While performing, Veronica sees Nick take a light-headed Cheryl home. We then cut to Nick putting Cheryl on his bed, Veronica and the Pussycats show up and stop Nick from raping Cheryl by beating the crap out of him, knocking Nick out.
We cut back to Jughead on the ground, he is helped up by the Serpents and awarded his jacket and the position as a Serpent. Back with Betty, she gets a call from the Black Hood, and he tells her that she did a good job. The Black Hood tells Betty to go to a house where she will discover the identity of the Black Hood. Betty races over to the house where she finds a gift in the house. The Black Hood tells her (over the phone) to open the gift and put on the hood. Betty does as the Black Hood says, she looks in a mirror and is wearing the Black Hood. The Black Hood tells her that he did this to show Betty that they are one in the same. Betty hears a noise, takes off the hood and runs out of the house emotionally traumatized.
Betty gets a call from Archie to tell her to come over. Betty does and she finds Archie, Veronica, and the Pussycats comforting Cheryl over what nearly happened. At Jughead's house, he is finally a Serpent, Toni comes over to congratulate him and she asks him about Betty and if she knows. Jughead says they broke up, and he kisses Toni.
The episode ends back at Betty's house, she is listing down clues as to who the Black Hood is. She then gets a call from the Black Hoos who confronts her that she told Archie about the calls. He says he will kill Polly if she does not give the Black Hood the name of a person to murder. Betty is panicking and quickly names Nick, the guy who nearly raped Cheryl.
What this episode did well was build up suspense. It was intense seeing what the Black Hood would ask for next, and how Betty would go about handling it. I was interested in what the Black Hood would make Betty do in the episode. There were some great charcter arcs in the episode with Veronica and Jughead as well. But if I do have to speculate on the Black Hood's identity, I would say it is Hal Cooper. It may be someone else, there could be multiple Black Hood's, it is hard to tell at this point.
Lily Reinhart was amazing in the episode as Betty Cooper. The way she portrayed the character in this emotional torment was great, and something that was great to see from the charcter. I am super excited for the arc the charcter is heading in this episode, and how she will be affected, but more importantly how she affects everyone else with her actions.
The rest of the cast in the episode was great, we had KJ Apa (Archie Andrews), Cole Sprouse (Jughead), Madchen Amick (Alice Cooper), Lochlyn Munro (Hal Cooper), Camila Mendes (Veronica Lodge), Madelaine Petsch (Cheryl Blossom), Vanessa Morgan (Toni Topaz),
Marisol Nichols (Hermione Lodge), Mark Consuelos (Hiram Lodge), Graham Phillips (Nik St.Clair), Ashleigh Murray (Josie McCoy), Haly Law (Valerie Brown), Asha Bromfield (Melody Valentine), Cassey Cott (Kevin Keller), and Luke Perry (Fred Andrews).
Overall, this episode of Riverdale was such a great episode filled with intense storylines ranging from a series of different characters. I will give this episode of Riverdale a 9 out of 10. Please comment below your thoughts on the episode down in the comments below, and who do you think is the Black Hood? As always thanks for reading, take care.
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