Spoilers forward for Episode 17 of Riverdale Season 7, referred to as “A Completely different Sort of Cat.”
The weeks are counting down till the ultimate credit roll on Riverdale within the 2023 TV schedule, and the story continues to be set within the ’50s with characters having no recollections of their lives earlier than the comet from the Season 6 finale. Episodes of Season 7 have not felt significantly cohesive with the jumps from story to story, and even relationship to relationship; after the occasions of “A Completely different Sort of Cat,” I am questioning if the present is definitely constructing as much as a finale or these episodes have actually been as standalone as they appear.
“A Completely different Sort of Cat” was really one of many extra enjoyable episodes of Season 7 for me, with Ashleigh Murray returning to her former present to reprise her function as Josie McCoy, though Josie is a film star within the ’50s timeline and never the singer that she was within the short-lived Katy Keene spinoff. The assorted threads of the Josie storyline stood out, and I additionally liked seeing Betty, Cheryl, and Toni working collectively…
However I undoubtedly did not want Archie reciting a poem to Miss Grundy, of all folks, or the reminder that teenage Archie and Reggie visited an grownup escort within the earlier episode. Not even Fangs‘ rendition of “Nice Balls of Fireplace” was distracting sufficient for me to miss that! I do not even know what to make of Jughead and Veronica, on condition that Season 7 has picked up and dropped pairings fairly incessantly.
All of that is to exhibit how Riverdale‘s closing season hasn’t been probably the most cohesive, and “A Completely different Sort of Cat” is a fairly nice instance of some enjoyable moments damaged up by some weird moments with a fairly closed ending that does not appear to be setting something up. I have been hoping that the present is utilizing these seemingly random episodes to drop dots that may join by the tip of the penultimate episode, however that appears more and more unlikely.
I may go together with the bonkers twists when there was the sense that possibly they had been accumulating to one thing (and/or a part of a musical episode); now they only really feel form of bonkers with no bigger function, particularly because it’s unlikely that the present will return to the current for any vital period of time. Solid member Mädchen Amick acknowledged again in June that the present would not get out of the Nineteen Fifties, and The CW’s spoilery episode description for the sequence finale beneath (by way of TVLine) simply confuses what we all know in regards to the episode. Have a look, in case you do not thoughts the spoilers!
Again in current day and eager for her former life in Riverdale, 86-year-old Betty turns to a particular good friend to assist her relive her final day of senior 12 months along with her mates as they had been, their recollections restored.
Are we going to see Lili Reinhart in old-age make-up to painting 86-year-old Betty Cooper? What life in Riverdale is she eager for? Is the final day of senior 12 months she’s reliving going to be from her senior 12 months within the ’50s, or senior 12 months of early Season 5? We clearly should not rule out time jumps, and the outline for the finale – referred to as “Goodbye, Riverdale” – would not do something to make me assume that the earlier nineteen episodes of the ultimate season had been actually main anyplace.
That is to not say that the ultimate episodes of the sequence will not be enjoyable, and I may very well be totally flawed. Perhaps Riverdale will reveal that each one of those seemingly standalone episodes had been actually constructing to one thing all alongside, and we simply could not see it earlier than the ultimate items had been in place. No less than we can’t have an excessive amount of longer to attend to seek out out! The sequence finale of Riverdale airs on Wednesday, August 23 at 9 p.m. ET on The CW. If all this time within the ’50s has made you miss the sooner days of Riverdale, you could find the primary six seasons streaming with a Netflix subscription.
