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S7E20
Chapter One Hundred Thirty-Seven: Goodbye, Riverdale
Riverdale · 2023-08-23 · 50 min
FLICKFEEL
60
from 64 comments
COMMUNITY
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nobody yet
YOURS
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what happens
Back in the present day and longing for her former life in Riverdale, 86-year-old Betty turns to a special friend to help her relive her last day of senior year with her friends as they were, their memories restored.
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
4
how good a time it was
MEANINGFUL
77
how much it moved you
Read from 64 comments — 57 said when.
💀 flatline — One note, start to finish. Hard going most of the way through. In the last stretch it was tender and painful at the same time, which is the state people mean by being moved.
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
💀 flatline — one note, start to finish
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
“Twenty seconds in to the episode and everyone is dead, solid start”
MyNeighborToto▲ 77about 0–1% inread it ↗
“more satisfying endings”
diamondsourforever▲ 77about 75–100% inread it ↗
“I was all emotional and tearing up”
antisocialclub__▲ 64about 75–100% inread it ↗
“then they suddenly introduced the "quad" and I died laughing”
antisocialclub__▲ 64about 75–100% inread it ↗
who made it
- directed
- Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
- written
- Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
guest cast
Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.
Charles Melton as Reggie Mantle
Trevor Stines as Jason Blossom
Luvia Petersen as Brooke- DDaniel Yang as Dilton Doiley
Moses Thiessen as Ben Button
Peter Bryant as Waldo Weatherbee
Molly Ringwald as Mary Andrews