But Veronica sure has! And she’s fully back in it after her brief rejection of the family ways last ep, trying to prove herself by taking a huge project on (and also hoping to do it all above board). Maybe this is realistic! I wouldn’t know I’ve never been part of a crime family. One of my favorite details of the alternate universe that Riverdale surely exists in is the fact that prominent mob families trust their teen children to help them run multi-million-dollar businesses and also do their crimes for them.

Let’s start with Veronica, who’s expected to meet with a revolving door of business boys, sharp-featured but ultimately indistinguishable teen boys who have been sent by their families to try to court the Lodges into new (likely less-than-legal) ventures like a sporting arena and a casino and a canned meat empire? Here’s a fun drinking game for this episode: Chug an entire milkshake every time someone says “make your bones.” The Autostraddle Encyclopedia of Lesbian Cinemaĭespite being another pretty dark episode of Riverdale- especially when it comes to Betty’s traumatic arc - “Shadow Of A Doubt” is sprinkled with some little fun (and gay) gems, like when Veronica says, without hesitating for even a moment, that her favorite boxer is “Michelle Rodriguez in Girlfight” and Joaquin returns to reveal he’s living in San Junipero.īut the men of Riverdale drag everyone down into the darkness with their toxic masculinity that, in the end, is literally deadly.LGBTQ Television Guide: What To Watch Now.

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