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Riverdale: Season 1, Episode 1: The River's Edge:

I started watching Riverdale one year after its release and by the time the first couple of seconds of the first episode started and the first mystery was unravelled I fell in love with the show. I came back from school every day very excited just to start watching the show so  I could catch up on all the episodes. The choice of characters, plot, setting and scenery was absolutely perfect. The whole show in general caught my eye straight away.

 !!SPOILER ALERT!!

 (If you still have not seen season 1, episode 1 then do NOT continue reading!)

 Summary:

When the episode starts with a new high school year it made me for some reason relate to the show. Of course a new student (Veronica Lodge) joined the pack of Betty Cooper, Archie Andrews, Kevin Keller and Jughead Jones. She immediately became best friends with Betty but before all these new friendships occurred, a brand new mystery was revealed, changing the town and all the people within; the mystery being: The blossom's family famous son Jason Blossom dies!

He and his sister (Cheryl Blossom or Cheryl Bombshell) go to Sweetwater River as he has a huge secret (revealed in different episode) and he wants to go away. Later on gun shots are fired and rumours are spreading that Jason Blossom got shot on the 4th July. His family devastated. Everyone talking about it. But no one knowing who the killer might be...

Now going back to Veronica Lodge. Everyone knew who she was the second she came into Riverdale high as her father (Hiram Lodge) is in jail/prison. Her mother Hermione Lodge not so pleased with the fact that the town is not as luxurious as their previous location being New York. Of course Hermione would think that. On the other hand, Veronica use to be a in a nice way, a bitch, but apparently she had come to Riverdale to start over and be nice. Let's see how that goes.

Betty Cooper. A perfect student, a perfect daughter and a perfect sister. Crushing on the fit, ginger boy Archie Andrews. Her mom of course all against that and is not cool with allowing Betty and Archie to hang out. So when Archie and Betty meet up at the most iconic place in Riverdale;  Pops, all of a sudden Veronica Lodge walks in introducing herself to both Archie and Betty. Archie eyes out Veronica and let's say he is a bit in love, but Betty is definitely not at all happy with the fact that a new girl might steal Archie from her even though she is meant to give Veronica a tour of the school the next day.

Archie Andrews. Looks like the dreamy guy any girl would want but he has the deepest secret being: having sex with his music teacher Ms. Grundy before summer. His passion for music expands after summer too so he ask Ms. Grundy. She denies because guess what. They both went together to Sweetwater River on the 4th of July and heard a gunshot, not saying anything about the event. When, oh yeah: Jason Blossom died on the 4th of July by a gun. So does that mean Archie Andrews and Geraldine Grundy have evidence from the murder? But why aren't they saying anything. I mean Archie does but no surprise Geraldine doesn't want to get into trouble. And that is why I hated her from the beginning. :)

Cheryl 'Bombshell' introduces herself to Veronica and offers joining the River Vixens. She didn't offer Betty it because last time she tried out, she was called 'fat'. How unfair Cheryl 'Bombshell'. But Veronica being Betty's 'best friend' says that Betty and herself will do it together and they do but Cheryl puts them down so Veronica wanting them both on the team kisses Betty. Cheryl then says that lesbian kissing is not a thing and puts Veronica on the team and not Betty because Betty's dear sister (Polly) being in a mental hospital went out with her brother Jason Blossom. Dark Betty then comes in and digs her fingernails into her and. Poor Betty.. :( Veronica is upset and doesn't like it so she compromises Cheryl and then both girls are on the team.

Whereas there is Archie who is trying out for the football team and gets Jason's old t-shirt. Isn't that just creepy? Then the new members of the River Vixens ask Archie to go to the back-to-school semi-formal dance with them and he agrees.

That same evening at the Cooper household, Betty comes back from school in her new cheerleading outfit and her mom (Alice Cooper) is furious that she is on the team where that spoilt snob Cheryl is the captain. Now you may think why does Alice hate Cheryl so much? Well that is because her brother Jason hurt Polly and that's why she is now in a mental hospital.

At the Andrews residence Archie's father (Fred Andrews) confronts his son after getting a call from Coach Clayton saying that he was being forced to work for the family business. Archie did lie to Coach Clayton as he didn't want to hurt his dad because the truth is Archie does not want to be working for the family business and he wants to do things such as football and music. Wow Archie did you do music because of the affair you had with Ms. Grundy?

The night of the dance has come and as Veronica goes off somewhere, Archie and Betty are left together but then Archie see's his love: Geraldine Grundy! and he leaves too. After a short while, Archie returns to Betty and they start to slow dance. She turns over to Veronica and Kevin who are making her ask Archie if he feels the same as Betty does to him. Unfortunately, when she does ask him, Archie says that he only likes Betty as a best friend and that is it. The music stops and they pull away from each other. Awkward!

After the party everyone goes to Cheryl's house (Thornhill) and they play a game she likes to call "Seven minutes in heaven" where she spins the bottle and that person has to go into the closet with another certain person, it being Archie. The bottle lands on Veronica but she refuses to go so the rules are if the person doesn't go the host does. Btw Betty is there and she has a huge crush on Archie. So Veronica and Archie go into the closet and are asking each other questions. Veronica is asking if Archie had ever had any feelings for her which he says no. At the end they end up kissing and go out of the closet. But hold up: Betty is gone. Cheryl says she had fled so they look for her.

Archie goes to Betty's house and tells her that he never felt anything for her before and that apparently he is not good enough for her, really Archie, or is it because you just love Geraldine (which I still hate). This hurts Betty badly and she goes back inside, crying.

On the other hand, our favourite gay person Kevin is roaming around the woods by Sweetwater River with Moose. While planning to skinny dip they go near the edge and OMG. There lays Jason's Blossoms body corpse with a bullet hole in his head. So this means he maybe didn't get shot on the 4th July? because his body is found after? who knows...

 My Opinion:

When I watched episode one, I was quite cautious as I never liked scary/ creepy stuff so I did ask my cousin if there is any scenes like that, she did say Jason's body is shown which when I watched the show at the time I did look away but now I don't mind it. When the show starts and it shows Cheryl and Jason at Sweetwater River I was like quite confused because I remember thinking was it her boyfriend? And then when I saw her crying because Jason was dead I felt quite sorry for her and yeah I did know it was her brother then. My favourite part of the show was when Jughead was shown because I recognised him from the show Suite Life as he played Cody and I use to love that show when I was younger. I started laughing so hard and I was actually glad he was there. Not gonna lie, I did start having a crush on him and to this day I still do so thanks Riverdale!

When I saw Barchie together I was really happy but when it got revealed that Archie and his teacher had an affair I did in fact immediately hate Ms. Grundy. I kept on making fun of her name and everything. I just really hated her... Sorry to all the people who love Ms. Grundy (if there actually is anyone).

So yeah I actually now have fell in love with Riverdale and I loved the first episode! Thank you to my cousin who actually  introduced me to it. I'm glad you did! bye x