S5E4

Chapter Eighty: Purgatorio

Riverdale · 2021-02-10 · 43 min

FLICKFEEL

from 32 comments

COMMUNITY

—

nobody yet

YOURS

—

…

what happens

After spending seven years away from Riverdale, Archie returns to find the town is now under Hiram Lodge's grip and on the verge of becoming a ghost town. When Toni catches him up on what's been going on, Archie reaches out to the rest of the gang to return home.

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 32 comments — 5 said when.

The number holds — it is read from every comment. The shape is not settled: only 5 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

“had to pause and laugh for a good minute when they introduced veronica and her husband sitting at opposite ends of a comically long table celebrating their anniversary. the absolute lack of subtlety there.....they literally wasted 0 seconds letting us know the state of veronica's marriage”
iamthemartinipolice▲ 172about 0–10% inread it ↗
“the episode was actually surprisingly good. Like near s1 level good, loved the whole vibe.”
▲ 86about 0–100% inread it ↗
“I miss when he was a shadowy figure that we never actually met, back in Season 1. Since then, he's done nothing but oscillate between "my poor sick dad who actually means well for Veronica" and "heartless bastard." It's such a tiring, never-ending plot arc”
SendEldritchHorrors▲ 85about 0–20% inread it ↗

who made it

directed: Steven A. Adelson
written: Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

guest cast

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

Marisol Nichols as Hermione Lodge
Ese Atawo as Dr. Starling
Jayce Barreiro as Vinny the Bookie
Anna Diaz as Yvonne
Jeremy Lacombe as Josh MacGregor
TTina Rahimi as Young Victim
Jeremy Jones as Debt Collector #1
D

rate this episode