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This Epic 'Riverdale' Theory Will Help You Understand That Confusing Black Hood Reveal


SPOILERS AHEAD!

Hello, and welcome to another edition of Riverdale Fan Theories, Particularly and Especially Those Having to Do With the Black Hood. During last week’s mid-season finale (see our recap, if you’re so inclined), we finally found out who it was. It was not Sheriff Keller. It was not Hiram Lodge. It was not Hal Cooper. It was also not Betty’s long-lost brother or Kevin or a mercenary for Archie’s mom, Mary Andrews, which pretty much leaves it to be a random character like a janitor. And, hey-oh, it turns out it was the janitor, Svenson. So that was disappointing—at first. Because as it turns out, it might not be him after all.

As some fans on Twitter pointed out, it is only the mid-season finale: Why would they expose the Black Hood and wrap a major plot line so early?

“There’s no way Svenson is the real Black Hood. My theory is, the REAL Black Hood wanted Svenson to die the same way his sin was made — by killing the wrong man,” proclaims user @iiClockworkii. “Also, this is only the mid season finale, it’s only halfway over. There’s no way.”

If you recall, Svenson was the sole survivor of the Riverdale Reaper murders. When a group of townspeople asked him who the Reaper was, he identified the wrong person—and that innocent guy was killed. It seems the same thing might be happening with Svenson. He was accused of being the Black Hood and was killed—but he might be innocent. Might be.

So next up is the excellent and very valid point raised by @mallorydui, who writes that the Black Hood is someone who wanted Svenson to experience what the innocent man whom Svenson wrongly blamed for a crime had to go through. Karma, y’all.

The “frame-Svenson” theory gained further ground on the Twitter as well…

…with some adding that Archie is the key to knowing who the Black Hood is—after all, he saw the Hood’s eyes the night his father was shot.

If these users are right—and in a show with this many twists and turns, we’re not putting a very weird fake-reveal behind the showrunners—fan theory season isn’t over yet. Which is great, because that’s kind of what we live for with this show.

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New 'Riverdale' Trailer Has Your First Look at Betty's Brother


This week’s midseason finale of Riverdale left us with several questions: Is that creepy janitor really the Black Hood? Will Veronica find out about Archie and Betty’s kiss? Will Cheryl Blossom fulfill her destiny and become queen of the North Side? (OK, I made that last one up, but it’s true: Cheryl Blossom deserves the world.) One mystery that’s been lagging for several episodes, though, is the identity of Betty’s long-lost brother. We learned about him in the first season finale, but the details were sparse. Who is he? What does he look like? And when the hell will we actually meet him?

Well, this new trailer for the next episode, which airs January 17, has the answers. It looks like we’ll learn more about Chic, the only Cooper son, the second Riverdale returns next year. In the last few seconds of this teaser, Mama Alice says she wants to meet her son. And in the next frame, we see him: He’s tall, blond, and very cute.

Chic is played by Hart Denton, a newcomer you might recognize from the Toni Collette film Fun Mom Dinner. Lili Reinhart has posted photos and videos of them goofing off on set, but this is the first time we’ve seen him in an official Riverdale capacity.

Check out the trailer for yourself, below:

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If you remember from season one, Hal Cooper found out Alice was pregnant the night they were elected homecoming king and queen. Hal wanted her to have an abortion; she refused, and instead checked herself into Sisters of Quiet Mercy, where she gave birth to Chic and gave him up for adoption.

Knowing Riverdale, though, there’s probably way more to the story—and we won’t have to wait long to find it out.

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Even Lili Reinhart Thinks the Black Hood Mystery Isn't Totally Solved Yet on 'Riverdale'


Tonight’s Riverdale‘s mid-season finale may not have been as clear cut as Sheriff Keller would like you to believe—so stop reading now if you haven’t seen the episode yet. Spoilers ahead…

If you were let down by the “reveal” that the school janitor, Mr. Svenson (a.k.a. Joseph Conway), is the Black Hood, then we have some good news: It may not be him. So if you thought that the whole scene on the bridge didn’t seem right, you’re not alone. After all, why would a character who was introduced only a few episodes ago end up being the man responsible for terrorizing Riverdale and Greendale? And what was up with that last scene, when Betty burned all evidence of the Black Hood except for her own hooded mask?

Lili Reinhart understands why you’d be confused. In fact, she wasn’t even sold on the idea that Svenson was the Black Hood when she read the script. “I don’t think the mystery is completely solved just yet,” she tells us. “There are a lot of questions behind the motive.” We had a lot of questions for Lili as well, who was more than gracious to explain everything—well, almost. Read on.

Spill it, Lili! I don’t know what to think after that last scene.

Lili Reinhart: [Laughs] There are a lot of cliffhangers. Even at the end of the episode, things don’t really feel resolved. Things don’t feel right. At least for me watching it, you don’t feel like the mystery was solved; like, there’s still some deep, dark, unspoken mystery going on—and that’s intriguing. There are a lot of questions.

Exactly. You think, “Is it really Svenson, or is there more to the Black Hood mystery?” Because what motive would Svenson have for shooting Fred Andrews?

Lili: Right. If you’re thinking about why Svenson would do that, it would be because he just has a vendetta against the town. I mean, one must have a really big grudge on Fred. I mean, Fred wasn’t necessarily doing anything wrong [when he had a thing with Hermione]. He wasn’t with his wife anymore. I think there are a lot of questions behind the motive, and that’s what makes you question whether that was really the Black Hood or not.

When did you find out who the Black Hood was? And when you did find out—at least up until this episode—were you surprised?

Lili: I found out when I got the script. Obviously, Svenson wasn’t even a character [on Riverdale] until episode seven, so you didn’t even know who this person was [until then]. So there was no way you could have predicted that. But even shooting the episode…I do think that Svenson wasn’t really the Black Hood, and that the situation is not really over. I think there’s much more to it, whatever it may be. I don’t think the Black Hood mystery is completely solved just yet.

Interesting.

Lili: I’ve seen so many theories of who people think it is, but I honestly don’t know! I don’t think the mystery has been solved yet.

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There’s so much to unpack in every episode that you need a flow chart. Is it hard to keep track of every development?

Lili: Well, to me it’s kind of easier because I’m mostly focused on Betty’s storyline. Betty doesn’t really know what’s going on with Hiram and the Lodges, for instance. So in my mind, it helps to not focus too much on storylines outside of Betty. If she doesn’t know, I don’t necessarily want to know either. I don’t want that to infiltrate through my acting with any of the other characters and have knowledge my character doesn’t. I have to remind myself, “Oh, Betty doesn’t even know about that.” Sometimes it’s OK to be a little left in the dark and to focus on my stuff rather than everyone else’s. We all read the scripts when we have our table reads, but when I go back and read again I focus on my part and let the others slip out of my mind to be more focused and in tune with what Betty has going on.

As an actor, was it difficult to be in such a traumatic headspace most of the time? Or was this a dream episode to do?

Lili: It’s kind of parallel to episode five for me, where I’m dealing with the phone calls from the Black Hood and having to break up with Jughead and break things off with Veronica as well. The mid-season finale was a very intense episode to shoot, especially the big ending sequence with the chase and everything. During one of the first nights we were running on some grass, and I stepped in a pile of dirt and completely fell on my face. It was actually quite hilarious. It hurt, but when I fall it’s hysterical. I was embarrassed, but it was fun. We shot the buried coffin scene until 4 A.M. one night, and I remember it just started to rain, too, and was really gross and muddy out. But actually, I had a really good time. I got splinters all over my hands from wiping the dirt off the coffin, but it was so fun to do that because it was so different. And with the running stuff, I was surprised by my stamina and how much I was able to run. But then you see K.J. rocketing past me!

I actually was kind of was annoyed by that! Did we really have to see Archie surpass Betty? She’s a badass!

Lili: No, K.J. is a super human. He can run really fast. And I can run really fast—and I was running really fast—but then compared to K.J. I look like I’m going pretty slowly and am a wimp. K.J. is just extraordinarily fast. I’m not slow. [Laughs] So I want that on the record! But it was just such a fun episode in that regard—and also that it was Christmas-themed. I just think it’s a pretty fantastic mid-season finale.

We have to talk about that kiss with Archie in the car. I actually like them together, but fans are very much obsessed with Bughead. Are you prepared for how they will react after this episode?

Lili: [Laughs] I feel like there’s going to be a freak out, but I think they’re going to try and calm themselves down by saying it wasn’t really romantic and was kind of in the heat of the moment. Like, it wasn’t pre-meditated. It wasn’t really a romance that was building necessarily; it was just something that happened really quickly, and I think that’s what is going to keep the Bughead fans at ease. They’re going to be like, “OK, I don’t really know if there’s a romance here. I think it was just a spur of the moment action.” But there are people who do enjoy Betty and Archie together and are excited to see that relationship, so I’m happy for them. [At the same time,] I’m also kind of sad for the Bughead fans because they see this other coupling that they don’t like coming together. It kind of scares them because their “ship” that they love is being torn apart. But you know, it’s a drama on the CW. The characters are 16, so there’s gonna be back-and-forth all over the place all the time. I don’t think any one “ship”—like a Bughead, or a Barchie, or Varchie fans—should give up hope at any time because you never know.

Should we assume that Cheryl saw Archie and Betty kiss before they drove away from her house, and she will probably be the one who exposes their romantic moment?

Lili: Yeah, I think it’s safe to say that Cheryl saw them kiss. Knowing Cheryl, she is going to have that knowledge and keep it in her back pocket if and when she wants to use it against them.



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'Riverdale' Season 2 Episode 9 Recap: The Black Hood Is Finally Unmasked


Love triangles, family fights, and an unmasked Black Hood—tonight’s Riverdale episode was a doozy. Here’s what went down (spoilers ahead):

We open with Archie and Jughead looking sad at Pop’s Chock’lit Shoppe, talking about how they’ve royally screwed things up with Veronica and Betty. Apparently, Kevin’s having a Secret Santa party, which Jughead sarcastically says is a “great” idea. Two minutes in and I’m already losing my patience with him. Like, stop being a Grinch and insulting one of the best characters on the show! You don’t have the range! Your name is Jughead!

Meanwhile, Betty has a straight-up terrifying nightmare about the Black Hood that’s very Twin Peaks meets Black Christmas.

Over at Perfect Cheryl’s house, Penelope Blossom goes on some morbid rant about how they’re poor and not putting something in Jason’s stocking this year for Christmas because he’s dead. Yikes. I mean, I’m relieved Cheryl’s back to having her own storyline as opposed to playing second fiddle to Kevin, Josie, etc. She is the shining star of this ridiculous show, and it’s high time for the writers to realize it. Later in the episode, she blows a bunch of money on Christmas decorations and tells her mom that she should pay for them by getting a job with the Lodges. She’s an absolute queen.

We’re back to Archie (this show jumps fast), who is incredulous at his dad’s $86,000 hospital bill. He’s probably going to start an inane Red Circle-adjacent group to raise money, TBH.

Ugh, and now the Jughead subplot I don’t care about: He has an idea about how he and F.P. can deal with their Penny Peabody issue—remember, F.P. took over Jughead’s debt to her—but F.P. doesn’t want to hear it. He’s funneling drugs with the Serpents like it’s NBD and tells Jughead to “go to school.” I mean, all of these kids should go to school.

Cut to Secret Santa: Archie got Betty some sentimental gift, and it’s clear Veronica’s feeling some type of way about it. B and A have a chat in the hallway and realize that Mr. Svenson, the creepy janitor who we thought was the Black Hood last week, is gone from the school. Betty and Jughead then have a confrontation about their issues, but nothing’s resolved. Betty says it’s her choice to join the Serpents and be at risk even if it worries Jughead, which is true. They exchange presents but don’t open them, so stay tuned for that nonsense.

Archie and Veronica have a conversation, too. She gives him a watch, and he blabs about how his dad owes $86,000 to the hospital. The Lodges are definitely going to pay this off… (Well, maybe not. Veronica quasi asks her dad, Hiram, about this, and he flips.)

Later, Archie and Betty put on their detective hats and go to Svenson’s house to see if he’s actually there. They think the Black Hood killed him, which is so GD extreme but not far-fetched for this show. Unsurprisingly, Svenson doesn’t answer the door—BUT THE BLACK HOOD DOES SEND BETTY A SEVERED FINGER. Who’s finger is it?! What the hell?! I’m repulsed and horrified.

Update: The finger seems to belong to Svenson, the janitor, per a note left by the Black Hood. The Black Hood then calls Betty and says that Svenson—whose real name is Joseph Conway, the sole survivor of the Riverdale Reaper murders—has lost a lot of blood. The only way to save him is for Archie and Betty to “exhume the past” and determine where the “cardinal sin” of the town was committed. Like, what the fuck is even happening at this point? The crux of this Black Hood case is on the shoulders of this random janitor?!

To learn more about Svenson/Joseph Conway, Archie and Betty go to the Sisters of Quiet Mercy, the convent where he lived before getting adopted. They find out that when he was young, Svenson/Joseph Conway identified the wrong person as the Riverdale Reaper; a group of citizens took matters into their own hands and killed the man he accused, who turned out to be innocent. That was the cardinal sin. The nuns don’t remember the people who murdered this innocent dude, but they say one of them, a woman, had white hair with a cherry-red stripe (a.k.a Cheryl Blossom’s grandmother, Nana Rose). Dun, dun, duuun!

Before we learn more about that, though, Jughead and F.P. have a stupid fight about the Serpent’s drug cartel business. Penny Peabody really has this gang by the throat, man. F.P. straight-up says that whatever she wants, she’ll get—no matter how many Serpents it takes. This is all ridiculously, tragically dull. Jughead says the solution to this situation is to murder Penny Peabody. Again, extreme, but he gets the other Serpents to agree to it. They kidnap Penny, literally cut off her Serpent tattoo, and drive her out of Riverdale. F.P.’s pissed about it.

Meanwhile, Veronica discovers that her parents bought Pop’s Chock’lit Shoppe and lied to her face about it. She uses this as an incentive to pay for Fred Andrews’ medical expenses with Hermione’s credit card…without her knowledge. They have a big family blowout, and the truth about the Lodges comes out. But we don’t know what that “truth” is—not yet.

This Black Hood nonsense is really getting out of hand. Nana Rose tells Archie and Betty the man Conway accused of being the Riverdale Reaper was buried alive. Betty’s grandfather was allegedly one of the people who did it—and there’s photographic proof. Betty starts freaking out about how the Black Hood is targeting her because of this connection. Archie says tonight’s the night they unmask the Black Hood and end things, and this tense conversation concludes with Archie and Betty kissing. Um, WHAT?! In what world do you go from hysterics to making out in point-five seconds? I’m done.

Archie and Betty find the location of where the man accused of being the Riverdale Reaper was buried and go to it. They think Conway/Svenson could be there, too. They dig up an empty coffin, and that’s when the IRL Black Hood shows up with a gun. He orders Archie to get into the coffin and for Betty to shut it…and bury him alive. But the sound of police sirens startles the Black Hood: Betty hits him over the head with a shovel, unburies Archie, and they run away. But the Black Hood is gone! They start chasing after him and confront him with a gun to his head. Sexy Sheriff Keller comes in at just the right time, shoots the Black Hood, and unmasks him: It’s Svenson/Conway, the janitor. This is the most disappointing reveal of all time.

Now, it’s happy Christmas time. Blah. Penelope Blossom’s hooking up with some random dude. Betty got Jughead the “typewriter of champions,” which means his pretentious prose will rage on for another season. Jughead got Betty some dumb book. Archie got Veronica a locket with their faces on it. Cute. They later kiss, and Veronica finally says, “I love you,” but little does she know Archie and Betty were making out, like, five seconds ago. Someone anonymously snaps photos of them kissing, though, so that’s probably going to be a thing when the season returns.

Betty burns all her Black Hood research while wearing a twinkly Christmas sweater. But, weirdly, she doesn’t burn her Black Hood, and it’s implied all this murderous drama “isn’t over.”

Parting thoughts: I officially don’t care about the Black Hood. Happy holidays, people!

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Lili Reinhart Says Betty's 'Riverdale' Dance Was Supposed to 'Make You Uncomfortable'


One of the most talked-about moments from last week’s Riverdale episode was Betty’s (Lili Reinhart) seductive dance for her South Side Serpent initiation. It was a perplexing scene, to say the least, given its context: Betty didn’t get completely naked, but she did sing “Mad World” from Donnie Darko as she danced around a pole in black lingerie…while her mother, her boyfriend, and dozens of grown men (including Jughead’s father) watched.

It’s obvious why this gave many Riverdale fans pause. After all, she’s only 16 years old and this wasn’t exactly her choice: She only danced to get in with the South Side Serpents, Jughead’s gang, because she thought joining them would make her and Jug closer—even though he’s expressed, several times, that she should stay far away from the group.

Understandably, Twitter quickly blew up with reactions, with many viewers declaring the scene was forced and downright uncomfortable:

But Reinhart says that was exactly the point. “I didn’t think it was going to receive as much backlash as it did,” Reinhart tells Glamour. “People were very caught up with the fact that Betty is 16 and she’s dancing around all these men, but that’s the point. That scene was supposed to make you uncomfortable because you’re watching this girl do something completely out of her comfort zone for the man that she loves. You’re watching her make a personal sacrifice, and that is the most important takeaway.”

Reinhart continued: “It was supposed to make you feel uncomfortable and hard to watch because you don’t want to see Betty go to the dark side like that, but she does because she loves Jughead. It only makes it harder to watch when they break up at the end of the episode because you know that she laid it all out on the line for him. He’s trying to protect her from that darkness, but she wants to be part of it.”

So, yes, it seems Betty was pushed and pulled and pressured into doing that dance. Reinhart, however, says she had complete control and autonomy over it from an actor’s standpoint. She worked in tandem with showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa to make sure the scene felt right for Betty—and comfortable for her. (That’s comforting, given the recent wave of actresses who have come forward and talked about feeling pressured to take off their clothes or appear sexier onscreen.)

“We totally talked about it ahead of time,” Reinhart said. “It was kind of an ongoing situation. The first draft that I got didn’t feel right to me, so I called Roberto and was like, ‘I think this should happen. This is how it should be.’ We worked it out. It was all very well-thought-out and not spontaneous. It was planned and premeditated, so I was a part of it from the beginning. I wasn’t surprised.”

Reinhart even choreographed Betty’s movements herself. “It was not easy. It was very intimidating,” she says. “They offered me a pole dancing lesson, like the workout classes girls do, but I was like, ‘No, I don’t think that’s necessary because Betty wouldn’t know how to pole dance. I just want to go in there and feel it out.’ During lunch, before we shot the scene, I was in the set by myself just playing around a little bit and came up with some really simple choreography.”

So what will this breakup mean for Betty and Jughead in the midseason finale? Tune in tonight at 8 P.M. on The CW to find out.

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Betty's Ponytail on 'Riverdale' Has a Secret Meaning Behind It


Whether you’re a casual Riverdale watcher, only know it from the ads, or have your own web of theories about what’s going down, one thing’s obvious: This isn’t the bright, happy town from the comic books. The first season was more of a one-to-one comparison, but as we’ve gotten deeper into the second season, things have taken a turn for the Twin Peaks eerie. And it turns out, a clue about that darkness has been hiding in plain sight this whole time—in Betty’s ponytail, of all places.

As if the constant fog (and death) weren’t enough of a tell, Lili Reinhart exclusively told Glamour that we should keep an eye on Betty’s hair this season. True, we’ve been doing that already. With her always shiny (thanks to this $3 mask), always buttery blond hair, it’s hard to look away. But according to Reinhart, there’s more than it seems to how Betty wears her hair. “When it comes to having her hair down or lower, like a lower pony, it’s usually reflective of her mental state,” Reinhart says. So as Betty’s hair has descended this season, it’s meant bad news for Betty, and potentially what’s to come.

We shouldn’t read too much into her top knots, Reinhart says (apparently Betty just shoves her hair up when she just wants it out of the way—real), but all of Betty’s other looks are pretty loaded. Take when the Black Hood started contacting her, Reinhart says: “In episode five, it was important to me that by the end of the episode, Betty’s hair was completely down, just because that perky girl next door façade was gone and faded and hollowed out. That’s why I had a low pony and a low bun in that episode, because she wasn’t putting in any effort into her appearance. She obviously had bigger fish to fry in the moment.” Handling a murderer will do that to you.

And if you’ve noticed Betty taking a turn for the dark(er) this season, her hair also holds some secrets about how far she’ll go. “Definitely as Betty evolves, and whatever she’s going through in her personal life, it’s seen on her hair. The ponytail is looser this season and not as slicked back and tight,” Reinhart says. The shift comes through in other ways, too: “In her makeup the latter half of the season, she gets a little darker, a little more made up. I think maybe that’s to compensate her breakup with Jug, or her trying to figure out her own sexuality and why that she did the (seductive) dance [in front of Jughead].”

Probably no one can identify with throwing on a black wig and torturing a boy in a hot tub, but Reinhart’s explanation for Betty’s beauty moves is pretty relatable (figuring yourself out, too much black eyeliner-relatable). As Reinhart says, Betty’s trying to figure out “who she is, and what she’s made of. And it’s kind of like [we’re] showing that with the way that she looks, it’s fun and interesting. Not too many people pick up on it, but it’s something that we’re doing behind the scenes intentionally.”

And for fans who love a theme, Reinhart says that they’ve been building to this switch since season one. “I had to battle with Roberto, our show runner, because I’d be like, ‘Can Betty have her hair down for this scene? Or maybe half-up?’ People on Twitter would ask that too, but I was like, ‘Just be patient! I’m fighting for it!'” Reinhart says. “But when Betty does have her hair down, there’s more significance behind it.”

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