S5E8

Chapter Eighty-Four: Lock & Key

Riverdale · 2021-03-17 · 43 min

FLICKFEEL

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from 23 comments

COMMUNITY

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nobody yet

YOURS

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what happens

A big announcement forces everyone to take stock of their current lives. Cheryl sets a risky plan in motion after learning some surprising news about Toni. Jughead tries to make sense of a strange encounter he had. Kevin and Fangs make a big decision about their future together.

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 23 comments — 6 said when.

Not enough to put a number on. The shape below is drawn from what there is, with the widest uncertainty band we use — it is the start of an answer, not one.

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.
tension rail: how much was still unresolved
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.

Reddit23 read

“Can't even have half a season before going back to the same shit we've had for 5 seasons already”
dindane▲ 77about 0–50% inread it ↗
“This whole episode sucked”
Odd-Vanilla-▲ 70about 0–100% inread it ↗
“when you know shits about to go down”
JauntyLurker▲ 51about 75–100% inread it ↗
“when I saw that first barchie hookup I was like woah, I think I’m a barchie fan all of a sudden!”
Greeneyedgal13▲ 48about 0–15% inread it ↗

who made it

directed: Rachel Talalay
written: Arabella Anderson

guest cast

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

Ben Sullivan as Rick
Neemish Parekh as Attendee #1
Bentley Storteboom as Dogwood
Adeline Rudolph as Minerva Marble
Chris Mason as Chadwick 'Chad' Gekko
Sommer Carbuccia as Eric Jackson
Lucy Hale as Katy Keene
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