S5E3

Chapter Seventy-Nine: Graduation

Riverdale · 2021-02-03 · 43 min

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from 37 comments

COMMUNITY

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what happens

With Graduation Day around the corner, the gang consider their next steps beyond Riverdale High. Archie learns whether he will be able to graduate with his classmates. FP makes a difficult decision about his and Jellybean's future.

how it went

Left to right is this episode — its opening to its closing minutes. This is the one span the comments were always describing.

FUN

how good a time it was

MEANINGFUL

how much it moved you

Read from 37 comments — 18 said when.

The number holds — it is read from every comment. The shape is not settled: only 18 said when something happened, and below 20 the same evidence split in half draws two different pictures. Drawn faint for that reason.

Not enough people said when to name this shape. The line is what the evidence draws, not a finding.

Hover the curveDrag across the curve to see what people said at any point.

height: how intense it got, 0–100
gold above: how tender it felt. violet below — what it cost. Thick on both at once means it was doing both.
grey haze: how sure we are — wider means fewer people described it

openingending

what people actually wrote

Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.

Reddit24 read

“Riverdale has had consistently good season finales. The emotional moments, the goodbyes, graduation, flashbacks, everything was really well done.”
▲ 186about 75–100% inread it ↗
“FP's ending was a huge win for his character, he's come such a long way. Sad to see him go but at least they wrote him off in a good way.”
▲ 186about 75–100% inread it ↗
“Penelope popping out of the bushes like that Kim Kardashian meme killed me”
▲ 131about 50–50% inread it ↗
“much like all finales of this show, it was superb. The writers always save the best for last every season. Perfect blend of nostalgia, friendship, family, angst, sadness, and loneliness.”

who made it

directed: Gabriel Correa
written: Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

guest cast

Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.

Skeet Ulrich as FP Jones
Marisol Nichols as Hermione Lodge
Doreen Calderon as Nana Topaz
Gaston Morrison as Bus Driver
Klarc Jerome Wilson as Officer Bradshaw
CChris Cannon as Dr. Beaker
Jordan Robinson as Toby

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