It’s a sin pie with all of the town’s sins baked inside of it. Though he doesn’t know it, the pie Cheryl hands him is special. Betty wins, making her the harvest queen while Archie gets the consolation prize of a pie. Archie has no idea why but through greeting Tangs, participating in an eating contest with Jughead, and going head-to-head with Reggie in a log sawing competition, there’s something off about everyone.īetty told Archie she’d use the festival as a cover to snoop around at Thorn Hill but when she returns to Archie’s side, it’s to go against him in an axe throwing event. Typically, however, the episode bounces on past that plot point, so file that information away for later.Īt the harvest festival Cheryl puts on, everyone is acting weird. The initials sown into that doll, ‘RB,’ likely belong to Nana Rose. Their dolls looked exactly like the one left behind in a cold case involving a drifter fifty years prior. Predictably, it led her back to Thorn Hill thanks to the dolls Cheryl and her girls left behind in the area Archie intended to plant the town’s saplings. who says she’s the fifth healthy young women he’s seen recently who has the same problem.įor the majority of the episode, Betty had been investigating the sacrificed deer case. She doesn’t have viable eggs which is a curious case for Dr. Though she and Archie agreed that marriage isn’t for them, they do want to start a family. Trouble in paradise for Veggie due to Reggie’s insecurity about Archie? Cheryl has a plan! Need a way to move beyond Frank’s mercenary past that got his family killed, Alice? Cheryl knows what to do!Įven Betty gets dragged into Cheryl’s plotting. She says the same to Toni when she finds her out in the woods about to leave Baby Anthony for the night in a desperate bid to see if the old Serpents trick will cure her son of colic.įor each couple that has a problem Cheryl has the answer. When Tabitha comes to Cheryl about her apartment being infested with bugs and possibly haunted, Cheryl says she’ll fix the problem for Jabitha as long as they do exactly what she tells them to do. All it takes is her being the solution to everyone’s problems. She and Archie clash over the town buying saplings to replace the maple syrup revenue they lost due to her secession and her maple groves being barren.Ĭheryl promises Archie that’ll it will be over his dead body that she returns to Rivervale, and she makes good on that promise. Last season, she seceded from Riverdale and it looks like that remains true in Rivervale as well.
True to form, it’s connected back to Cheryl who now has a gaggle of girls following her everywhere thanks to the home and school she established on Thorn Hill’s grounds. However, it’s just as weird as the town we knew.įor instance, Betty gets a call from Kevin letting her know that a deer has been ritually sacrificed on an altar in the woods. The town with pep has now become a figment of Archie’s subconscious imagination, and Rivervale–the town you’ll never want to leave–is the real deal. The bomb Hiram left under Archie’s bed in the season 5 finale was only part of a nightmare and so was Riverdale. When Archie wakes up we’re immediately let in on the conceit of the “Rivervale” event. And last, though certainly not least, Barchie are asleep in bed.
Alice is trying unsuccessfully to seduce Frank. Veggie are power coupling their way through deal closures and exercise. Tangs are dealing with a colicky Baby Anthony. Jughead, trussed up in a suit and speaking like a 60 minutes host, took us on a morning stroll through the relationships we ended season 5 on for a bit of an update. Here’s what went down in the season opener! What happened on Riverdale season 6, episode 1 “Welcome to Rivervale”? Whether that’s because of the spell Cheryl cast at the end of season 5 is unclear, but it’s obvious something isn’t quite right with the town. Don’t let the name change fool you, we’re still dealing with the characters we know and love, but somehow they’ve been dropped into an alternate universe.