Cecily and Chanda have reached what feels like an inevitable conclusion. Thank you for letting us into your ears for the past three seasons! ❤️
The Riverdale Rag #028 – Gimme That Tea!
We’re back, y’all! This week Chanda and Cecily are back to discuss the new, darker Archie, who shot H.L., the future of Veggie, and whether Hermione is the King(Queen)Pin of Riverdale.
And special thanks to those of you who wrote in to ask whether we were going to finish recapping Season 3! We’re committed to finishing out the season, even if we have to be committed after the season is over.
See you in two weeks for another Double Digest!
The Riverdale Rag #027 – We See You, Stephen King
This week’s double digest covers Chapter 41: Manhunter, and Chapter 42: The Man In Black. Also, Cecily and Chanda discuss the podcast’s future.
Stray Observations
Say hello to Matt Yang King (Marty Mantle), the newest addition to the Hot Dads of Riverdale
Music Credits
“I Knew a Guy” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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The Riverdale Rag #026 – An Athlete, A Basket Case, A Princess and a Criminal
This week’s double digest covers Chapter 39: The Midnight Club and Chapter 40: The Great Escape.
Stray Observations
- Why does Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa tag all his Riverdale-related Instagram posts with “fish”? 🐟
- We didn’t even touch on Tom Keller and Sierra McCoy’s impending marriage on this episode! Will the show actually show their wedding or will they sneak off in the night?
- When Archie and Betty shared a look after Archie’s escape, was that the beginning of the #Barchie 🤮 OTP that the fandom has been clamouring for?
Music Credits
“I Knew a Guy” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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The Riverdale Rag #025 – Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting
This week Chanda and Cecily discuss Chapter 38: As Above, So Below as well as a deep(ish) dive into The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina that is FULL of spoilers. If your podcast player supports chapters, the Sabrina Spoilers are clearly marked so that you can avoid that section. We edit responsibly because we love you!
Stray Observations
- We now know that Evelyn Evernever isn’t a figment of Betty’s imagination but I’m starting to think that maybe Edgar Evernever is.
– Neither Cecily nor Chanda have ever read The Count of Monte Cristo, but Wikipedia tells us that the story is about a young man who is falsely accused of treason, arrested, and sent to prison, just like Archie Andrews! 😱 - Representation in media is (rightly) on everyone’s mind, but it’s seems that few people have mentioned how Archie Comics’ TV wing casts so many Asian/half-Asian actors in roles that were traditionally written as white.
- RIP Melody and Valerie. We hardly knew ye.
Links
- Victim, Victimizer, ‘Badass Warrior Bitch’: Allison Mack Developed the NXIVM Sex Cult Branding Practice (Jezebel)
- Allison Mack and Me (Elle)
- The Stripe Path: How to Make Your Way Up in NXIVM (CBC Radio)
Music Credits
Intro/Outro – Good Morning by LAKEY INSPIRED · Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported— CC BY-SA 3.0 · Music provided by Music for Creators
The Riverdale Rag #024 – Those Summer Nights
Archie and the gang are back from the hiatus but are faced with Archie’s impending incarceration, Betty’s unexplained seizures, and a new game that’s a real killer. Remember, we’re recording Double Digests this season, so you’ll have a new episode every other week this season.
Stray Observations
- Is there something literally in the water in Riverdale that causes seizures and other weird behaviours? What’s behind the “No Swimming After Labor Day” sign at the swimming hole?
- Are this season’s Big Bad demons or witches?
- Ben Button’s “You’ll fly too” hearkens back to Pennywise the clown and Stephen King’s It.
- Riverdale does its best to make it seem like the pop-culture callbacks that are sprinkled throughout each episode are accidents, but nothing is ever accidental in Riverdale.
Links
The Strange Story Behind Tom Hanks’ Bizarre Dungeons and Dragons Movie
Riverdale Unveils Throwback Looks As Cast Play Their Characters’ Parents
Music Credits
Intro/Outro – Good Morning by LAKEY INSPIRED · Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported— CC BY-SA 3.0 · Music provided by Music for Creators
The Riverdale Rag #023 – Season 3 Preview
It’s Back to School season for Riverdale and for Cecily and Chanda. We quickly bring you up to date on what’s next for everyone’s favourite redhead, his friends, and his beloved jalopy. Plus, there’s casting news, talk of TV reboots and more!
The Riverdale Rag #022 – Revenge and Reconciliation
WE MADE IT!
Join Cecily and Chanda in a victory lap at the end of the marathon that was season 2 of Riverdale. This week we discuss New Charmed vs. Old Charmed, white feminism, broadening the literary canon, CW scheduling shenanigans, Arrow, Supernatural, Hiram’s end game, whether Hal Cooper is a weevil, and yes, what’s next for our Riverdalians next season.
Stray Observations
Hal, is that you?
I’ve been waiting for a girl like you…
Show Notes
Brave New World is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley. Published in 1932, it propounds that economic chaos and unemployment will cause a radical reaction in the form of an international scientific empire that manufactures its citizens in the laboratory on a eugenic basis, without the need for human intercourse.
Set in a future London, it follows the fortunes of the illegitimate son of a senior governor, who has grown up in America, outside the new empire, and who experiences a dramatic culture-clash when he has to live under its rules. The novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation, and classical conditioning.
On publication, the book earned mixed reviews, but is now seen as one of the most significant novels of the 20th century, consistently ranking high in the major literary league-tables. (from Wikipedia)
News
- Chanda recommends the film The Kissing Booth because Molly Ringwald is in it.
- Hayley Law Talks Riverdale, Side Hustles, and More (Elle Canada)
- Holly Marie Combs hopes Charmed reboot is ‘far better than the marketing’ (Entertainment Weekly)
- Rachel True brought receipts
I felt it was kinda crazy Charmed ripped off the The Craft & cut out the black character… https://t.co/bDnNORDQ6z
— Rachel True (@RachelTrue) May 24, 2018
– But says no shade was meant
Super sorry for unintended dragging. My tweet wasn’t at all about craft vs charmed. It was about the absurdity of either of us commenting on remakes. My point is a young fresh Latina cast getting a TV show re Brujas is a sea change to be celebrated not bemoaned #diversity https://t.co/bbxRTgjZsv
— Rachel True (@RachelTrue) May 25, 2018
– Sarah Jeffery Has a Message for ‘Charmed’ Reboot Critics: ‘Let’s Be Kind With Our Opinions’(Just Jared, Jr.)
Music Credits
Intro/Outro – Good Morning by LAKEY INSPIRED · Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported— CC BY-SA 3.0 · Music provided by Music for Creators
The Riverdale Rag #021 – And the Kitchen Sink
Hold on to your letter sweaters, because this was an excellent episode! That’s right, neither Cecily nor Chanda have anything negative to say about this episode. We discuss Cheryl Blossom as the Avenging Angel of Riverdale, whether Cole Sprouse will return next season, The Problem with Hiram Lodge, and Cecily takes a victory lap because she was right about the identity of The Black Hood all along.
Show Notes
Note: The episode was previously titled “The Killing of a Sacred Deer”. That title comes from Yorgos Lanthimos’ and Efthymis Filippou’s 2017 psychological horror film of the same name.
Judgment Night is a 1993 American action thriller film directed by Stephen Hopkins and starring Emilio Estevez, Cuba Gooding Jr., Jeremy Piven and Stephen Dorff as a group of friends on the run from a gang of drug dealers (led by Denis Leary) after they witness a murder. The film was released on DVD on January 20, 2004. (from Wikipedia)
News Items
– Riverdale: B.C.’s Jordan Connor and Drew Ray Tanner vote yearbook titles (Vancouver Sun)
– Cole Sprouse Says Farewell to ‘Riverdale’…?(Elle)
Music Credits
Intro/Outro – Good Morning by LAKEY INSPIRED · Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported— CC BY-SA 3.0 · Music provided by Music for Creators
The Riverdale Rag #020 – Double Digest
Double your pleasure, double your fun with a Double Digest from Cecily and Chanda! This week your hosts discuss “Chapter Thirty-Two: Prisoners” and “Chapter Thirty-Three: Shadow of a Doubt”. In all, they were two solid episodes! Colour us surprised!
Show Notes
Prisoners is a 2013 American thriller film directed by Denis Villeneuve from a screenplay written by Aaron Guzikowski. The film has an ensemble cast including Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Maria Bello, Terrence Howard, Melissa Leo and Paul Dano.[3] It is Villeneuve’s first English-language feature film.
The plot focuses on the abduction of two young girls in Pennsylvania and the subsequent search for the suspected abductor by the police. After police arrest a young suspect and release him, the father of one of the missing girls kidnaps the suspect to interrogate and torture him. The film was a financial and critical success. At the 86th Academy Awards, the film was nominated for Best Cinematography.
Shadow of a Doubt is a 1943 American psychological thriller film noir directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Teresa Wright and Joseph Cotten. Written by Thornton Wilder, Sally Benson, and Alma Reville, the film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Story for Gordon McDonell. In 1991, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress, being deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”.
(both from Wikipedia)
News Items
- Riverdale Promotes Vanessa Morgan and Charles Melton to Series Regulars(TV Line)
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Netflix’s Sabrina Gets a Title (TV Line)
Music Credits
Intro/Outro – Good Morning by LAKEY INSPIRED · Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported— CC BY-SA 3.0 · Music provided by Music for Creators