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Season 1 - Archie And Ms. Grundy's Love Affair
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Early in season 1, we find out that Archie Andrews (KJ Apa) isn't the sweet boy we believed him to be. In fact, Archie has embarked on a forbidden, summer romance with his high school music teacher, Ms. Grundy (Sarah Habel); the two quickly are entangled in the murder of Jason Blossom (Trevor Stines).
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Season 1 - Dark Betty Is Unleashed
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Quite the opposite of the girl next door, Betty Cooper (Lili Reinhart) introduces viewers to her alter ego, Dark Betty, in season 1. Starting off with some tense fist-clenching shots, Betty shows off her dark side when she steps out in a black bob and lingerie and nearly drowns fellow student and football player Chuck Clayton (Jordan Calloway) for spreading false rumours about her new friend, Veronica Lodge (Camila Mendes).
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Season 1 - Blossom-Cooper Incest Revelation
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The long-standing maple syrup feud between the Blossoms and the Coopers gets darker when we learn that teenager Polly Cooper (Tiera Skovbye), who is pregnant, is actually a third cousin to her murdered boyfriend Jason Blossom. Turns out murdered great-grandfather Cooper was actually a Blossom.
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Season 1 - FP Jones Gets Arrested
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With the absence of Jughead's mother Gladys and his sister Jellybean, it was shocking to see Jughead's father and the patriarch of the Jones family, FP Jones (Skeet Ulrich), taken away after he was framed for the murder of Jason Blossom. As a consequence, Jughead was left to live with a foster family on the south side of the river, leaving him to get further entangled in the town's dark side.
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Season 1 - Jughead Joins the Serpents
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While many of us felt it was coming this season, it was nonetheless surprising to see Jughead Jones (Cole Sprouse) join the South Side Serpents after numerous attempts were made by his father FP Jones to keep him away from the gang.
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Season 1 - Clifford Blossom Is Jason's Killer
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Arguably the biggest question of season 1: Who killed Jason Blossom? The mysterious answer comes to light when Archie, Betty, and the gang discover a secret tape of Clifford Blossom (Barclay Hope) kidnapping and shooting his son, and leaving FP to clean up the mess.
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Season 1 - Cheryl Plunges Into The River
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Upon learning of her father Clifford's betrayal, nightgown-clad Cheryl Blossom (Madelaine Petsch) plunges deep into the frozen Sweetwater River, where her twin brother Jason's dead body was found. But Archie, joined by Veronica, Jughead and Betty, manages to pull her out.
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Season 1 - Cheryl Burns Down Thornhill
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For a little taste of fire and ice, Cheryl closes season 1 by setting fire to the Blossom family estate, Thornhill, much to her mother's dismay. Addressing the season finale, "Riverdale" executive producer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa told ET, "Cheryl was sort of baptized in the river of ice, and then, like the phoenix, stepped out of the flames, reborn into something even scarier, perhaps, than she was in season 1."
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Season 1 - Fred Andrews Gets Shot
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No one expected this one. As Archie sits down to have breakfast with his father Fred Andrews (Luke Perry) at the end of season 1, a hooded figure with bright, green eyes shoots Mr. Andrews inside Pop's Chock'lit Shoppe. While season 1 leaves viewers guessing whether or not Fred is dead, we find out at the beginning of season 2 that he is alive.
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Season 2 - Betty Uncovers Her Brother
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In season 2, Betty discovers that she has a long-lost brother that her mother had put up for adoption. But once Chic (Hart Denton) moves into the Cooper household, Betty soon learns that her gut feeling was right and he isn't whom her mother thinks he is. In fact, he may have had something to do with the death of her real brother, Charles Smith.
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Season 2 - Alice And Betty Cover Up A Murder
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In a shocking and dark twist of events, we learn that Alice Cooper (Madchen Amick) has killed one of Chic's menacing "friends" after he enters the Cooper household and threatens the family. In the aftermath, Alice's daughter Betty becomes an accomplice and helps discard the body. While Jughead joins Betty to discard the dead man's car.
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Season 2 - Veronica Takes Charge
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In season 2, Veronica Lodge enters the family business and proves no one can mess with her. When her old "friend" Nick St. Clair (Graham Phillips) comes to Riverdale and threatens the well-being of her friends -- including trying to assault Cheryl and kidnap Archie -- Veronica takes matters into her own hands and extorts the St. Clair family for money.
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Season 2 - The Red Circle's Rain-Soaked Brawl
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One of the most memorable fights in the show has to be between Archie's Red Circle and the Southside Serpents one rain-soaked night. Just when Archie looks like he is in trouble, Veronica comes to the rescue by shooting a gun straight into the air, which breaks up the rambunctious fist fight.
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Season 2 - Murder At The 'Carrie' Musical
Even more shocking than the fact that "Riverdale" had a musical episode was the dark, bloody twist at the end. As the students close their performance of "Carrie", poor Midge Klump (Emilija Baranac) appears stabbed to death on stage at the hands of the Black Hood.
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Season 2 - Betty's Serpent Dance
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This Southside moment caused a lot of controversy when teenage Betty did the Serpent dance, stripping down to black lingerie in front of her mother, Jughead, and a dozen grown men. Addressing the already uncomfortable moment, Lili Reinhart told Glamour, "It was supposed to make you feel uncomfortable and hard to watch because you don't want to see Betty go to the dark side like that but she does because she loves Jughead."
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Season 2 - Jughead Slices The Snake Charmer
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When slimy, Southside attorney Penny Peabody (Brit Morgan), also known as the Snake Charmer, threatens his family, Jughead takes matters into his own hands and ambushes Penny in the woods, where he graphically slices off her Serpent tattoo, breaking the one rule of the Serpents: Do not hurt your own.
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Season 2 - Jughead Takes One For The Team
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Jughead left everyone thinking he was dead after sacrificing himself to Penny Peabody and the Ghoulies, winding up bloodied and limp. Anyone remember that emotional moment with FP carrying his son through the trees? But, Jughead was, in fact, still very much alive. Having some fun following the episode, Cole Sprouse tweeted, "Grateful, thank you #riverdale," leaving fans a total wreck.
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Season 2 - Betty Buries Archie Alive
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As Betty and Archie come close to discovering the identity of the Black Hood, a masked figure lures the pair to an empty grave where he forces Betty to bury Archie alive until the police arrive. While he is not the real Black Hood, the man under the mask turns out to be the high school janitor Mr. Svenson.
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Season 2 - The Black Hood Revealed
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The biggest question in season 2: Who is the Black Hood? Through some digging, Betty and the gang discover that the Black Hood is actually Betty's father Hal Cooper (Lochlyn Munro), who went on a murderous rampage through the town. Before getting taken away, Hal creepily explains that sinners should be gotten rid of and it was his father Louis who killed the Conway family after he was blackmailed by Mr. Conway for discovering his grandfather's secret.
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Season 2 - Archie Is Arrested
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Just as things seem to settle in the town, the "Riverdale" season 2 finale sees Archie get arrested for the murder of the young man who robbed Veronica's cabin, just moments after he becomes the new student body president. While viewers will know that Arthur Adams (John Behlmann), the henchman for Hiram Lodge (Mark Consuelos), was responsible for the death, it was still a shocking moment that has left us wondering what will happen next.
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