We ultimately found out who killed Jason Blossom last nighttime . Of of course , why he was murdered is still up in the air and a whole new closed book popped up . But none of that match the episode ’s openhanded reveal , which snatch the crown of weirdness from any other contender . And , in this show , that ’s some badly stiff competition .
There was never a chance that F.P. Jones ( Skeet Ulrich ) , Jughead ’s dad , was the genuine cause of death of Jason Blossom . And if you had to pick someone to be responsible , you ’d trap it on one of the wonderfully bananas Blossoms , good ? Either Clifford ( Barclay Hope ) or Penelope ( Nathalie Bolt ) seemed creepy-crawly enough that they ’d kill their son , although Veronica ’s ( Camila Mendes ) imprisoned dad Hiram , a bitter foe of the Blossoms , was also a candidate to have hired someone to do the unclean body of work .
We spend way too much time with the gothic horror that is the Blossom family — or , as Alice Cooper ( Mädchen Amick ) describes it , “ the witching hour at Thornhill”—this week for the solution to dwell anywhere else . For a bit , Cliff was being comparatively reasonable and Penelope was acting unhinged , so it looked like it could be her .
Then Cheryl ( Madelaine Petsch ) asks her mother what it was that made Jason run away . If Clifford did n’t wish about his kinship with Polly Cooper ( Tiera Skovbye ) , then possibly it was a big closed book about the family ’s maple sirup business organisation ? And that ’s when Penelope grabs her girl Cheryl and drags her out to a barn ( ? ? ? ) near the house filled with maple syrup and yells , “ There it is . There is the sticky , dark , dirty the true . Maple sirup . Drown in it , why do n’t you ? ”
This , at the time , made even less sense than common for Riverdale . ( And it still kind of does n’t . ) Because once the kids see footage of Clifford kill Jason and turn it over to the fuzz , Cliff ’s ascertain hang by a noose in the b and there are huge amount of drugs in the maple syrup barrels . Did Penelope mean the drugs when she had her breakdown ? The Blossoms are so screwed up , she could have just been losing it . Also , oh no , is the local economy of Riverdale in trouble because of a fall in the maple syrup market ? Is that why Cliff turned to running drugs ? Will it ever hold back being funny that everyone on this show do by maple syrup with mortal sincerity ?
So , at the remainder of the installment another Blossom is numb — now poor Cheryl ’s lost her comrade and her father — and Jughead ’s dada is clear .
And yet , the dear and weird disclosure of the Nox had to do with maple sirup . Betty ’s daddy Hal Cooper ( Lochlyn Munro ) cabbage back into his own home to be see by his wife with her gun ( what the hell , Alice ? ) , where he explain to Betty and Alice that the grounds the Coopers and the Blossoms loathe each other is n’t just stage business , it ’s ancestry . Betty ’s great - grandfather , who , remember , was swindled out of his portion of the maple syrup stage business and killed by Cheryl ’s bang-up - grandpa , was actually a flush . They were brothers .
( Also , everyone tell “ grandpappy ” with the same gravitas that they say “ maple syrup ” and I have no melodic theme how the mould makes it through any of this . )
So the Coopers picked their name to separate their branch from the Blossom family tree . alas for Polly , genetic science do n’t change with disaffection , so Polly and Jason ’s family relationship was a form of incest . And since the Blossoms are a Victorian repulsion story of a syndicate , that revelation lead the Coopers to go get Polly back tout cortege ( prior to Cliff ’s suspension ) .
Of naturally , the Blossoms are full - on weird about this , too . Penelope ’s got the same view on it that the ancient Egyptians had , say that “ Nothing could be more strictly Blossom ” than Polly and Jason ’s babies . Cliff say to spare him the “ midway - class morality ” because it was n’t like they were brother and baby , just distant cousins . ( Bad luck for Cheryl ; her class ’s willing to condone incest , but not enough for what she distinctly want . )
I recall the elder Blossoms were just attempt to remove the idea that either of them would kill Jason , but they went over the top . Actually , I call back Cliff was doing that ; I think Penelope was fully on board with a Blossom - Blossom hybrid child . She is clearly missing a bunch of screws and it sucks for Cheryl that this is her only remaining family member right now . I ’m predicting Cheryl moving in with the Coopers in season two . She clearly can not stay with Penelope .
The dying of Cliff and the continued subject of Hiram Lodge will probably take up much of the finale next week , since this sequence feel like it closed out the major drive cistron for the season . So no doubt the last episode has a big old twist and cliffhanger in it .
Most of this installment was about the kids figuring out the adult , which mean it was a lot less about them than it was their reactions to their parent ’ various complex plans and insane actions . Betty ’s “ I ’m a Blossom ” boldness sums it up :
Hopefully , the time of year finis re - centre everything on the kids .
Random Shout - Out : Kevin ’s Serpent boyfriend take a bus toSan Junipero , the title of and emplacement featured in the unspoiled episode of the cult - preferred show Black Mirror ’s most recent season . Which is an interesting shout - out and leave behind me with all variety of questions about how the Riverdale and Black Mirror universe interact .
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