The Doghouse: A Riverdale Podcast

CLICK HERE TO FIND US ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER. CW: Discussion of serial killers, stalking, fan harassment, union-busting, true crime, gaslighting, manipulation, gunfire, asphyxiation, trauma. This show didn’t break us with an organ-harvesting cult. Didn’t destroy us with Edgar Evernever launching to heaven in an Evel Knievel rocket. It didn’t even keep us down forever after Archie got mauled b...

CLICK HERE TO FIND US ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER. CW: Discussion of labor exploitation, unions, labor struggles, trauma, poison, alcohol, gambling, serial killers, illness, disease, sibling issues, custody battles, witchcraft, dismemberment, gangs, violence, punching, animal violence, animal torture. If there’s one thing we can respect about Archie Andrews, it’s that he’s a union man from a long...

CLICK HERE TO FIND US ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER. CW: Discussion of murder, grooming, animal danger, abuse, trauma, child custody disputes, patriarchy, hauntings, ghosts, death, gaslighting, removing memories, recovered memories. For the first time we can remember, a haunting is afoot in Riverdale, with ghosts wreaking havoc and maiming workers as Tabitha tries to keep Pop’s safe from Percival’s...

CLICK HERE TO FIND US ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER. CW: Discussion of hauntings, murder, death, grief, poisoning, health issues, fire, grooming, serial killers, trauma, memories, reading minds, lies, deceit. Riverdale is gonna Riverdale as Veronica has to figure out why the poison coursing through her body isn’t hurting her, and needs to dance it out to Britney. More importantly, Archie gets his in...

CLICK HERE TO FIND US ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER. CW: Discussion of grief, death of a loved one, trauma, sexual assault, grooming, sex with a minor, poison, spiders, serial killers, traumatic memories, manipulation, body horror, gore. Things are still a bit quiet but eventful in the humble little town of Riverdale. The whole gang is getting targeted for their past trauma, and that’s a recipe for...

CLICK HERE TO FIND US ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER. CW: Discussion of hearing loss, trauma, custody battles, shame, racism, gangs, cruising, serial killers, dismemberment, grief, gaslighting, abuse, toxic relationships. After an all-timer bonkers episode, this week’s Riverdale reigned things all the way back in by forcing all of our characters inside as a thick, menacing fog rolled in. And while th...

CLICK HERE TO FIND US ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER. CW: Discussion of racism, sundown towns, police abuse, assassination, rioting, police threats, grief, trauma, gun violence, bombs, mourning, non-violent protest, white supremacy, “88”, Nazis, religious icons, Christianity, apocalypse. There are just a few things that happened on this week’s episode. Like Tabitha being caught in a comic-book fable...

CLICK HERE TO FIND US ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER. CW: Discussion of racism, fire, spontaneous combustion, burning, boxing, alcohol, public drunkenness, manipulation, self-harm, death, grief, trauma. This wasn’t really a remarkable episode of television, but it certainly had some trademark ridiculous moments. Such as Cheryl Blossom tapping into her ability to, yes, light fires with the power of he...

CLICK HERE TO FIND US ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER. CW: Discussion of gangs, gang stereotypes, racism, indigenous genocide, racist policing, police raids, child endangerment, immolation, gang warfare, street fighting, arrests, possession, witchcraft, kidnapping, poisoning, attempted murder, custody battles. For a brief moment, we thought this show might be so bad it’s good. Riverdale had stumbled i...

CLICK HERE TO FIND US ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER. CW: Discussion of suicide depicted in episode, homelessness, homeless encampments, murder, child abuse, abuse, assault with a weapon, manipulation, racism, genocide, class warfare. Riverdale appears to have its villain for now, and somehow, despite all the crazy, he’s stealing the show. Anytime a show like this can absolutely nail a character with...

CLICK HERE TO FIND US ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER. CW: Discussion of serial killers, bludgeoning, pain, loss of pain, migraine, possession, loss of hearing, sudden loss of hearing, deafness, dogfighting, murder, dismemberment, false imprisonment, grief, funerals, death. So for a while now we’ve said that it would be great if this ridiculous television show would just go ahead and decide it’s utter...

CLICK HERE TO FIND US ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER. CW: Discussions of child endangerment, gang warfare, gangs, explosions, bombs, deafness, hearing loss, trauma, murder, murder-for-hire, grief, heart attacks, witchcraft, possession, serial killers, assault, blood. To be perfectly honest, we weren’t thrilled to have Riverdale back. We just got done with a weird mini-event and a lot of unanswered qu...

CLICK HERE TO FIND US ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER. CW: Discussions of murder, suicide, dueling, shooting, guns, corpses, poison, strangling, bombs, zombies, undead, sex, making out, explosions, hearing loss. In yet another victory at the absolute jaws of defeat, Riverdale pulled out every possible stop for the 100th episode and ended this arc with one of their best episodes in a long time. It’s no...

CLICK HERE TO FIND US ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER. CW: Discussions of witchcraft, red scare, abuse, witch hunts, homophobia, sex, persecution, false arrest, racism, murder, poison, death. After three episodes of constant shrugging with some wildly weird moments, Riverdale decided to drop this episode, a meandering, pandering mess that tries to retcon Cheryl Freaking Blossom as some historically pe...

CLICK HERE TO FIND US ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER. CW: Discussions of murder, drowning, child abuse, gang violence, pregnancy, hysterical pregnancy, infertility, hauntings, murder-suicide, teacher-student relationships, alcoholism, betrayal, cultural appropriation. We here at The Doghouse are consistently impressed at the writers’ uncanny ability to simply find the worst storyline to follow. There...

CLICK HERE TO FIND US ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER. CW: Discussions of Satan, driving drunk, infidelity, religion, holy relics, vomiting, murder, serial killers, hell, sexual harassment. The first half of this episode was a gigantic train wreck that made zero sense, and that’s saying something. Literally no one is questioning that the LITERAL DEVIL has suddenly shown up? That everyone in town has m...

CLICK HERE TO FIND US ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER. CW: Discussions of murder, cult belief, infertility, fertility issues, colic, sleep deprivation, ritual sacrifice, sex, insects, insect bites. We’re back, but we’re not back to Riverdale this week. Nope, the Archie Creative Writing Class (which is failing, by the way) is here to create a (maybe?) shadow universe where everything is just fine and g...

CLICK HERE TO FIND US ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER. CW: Discussions of indigenous erasure, whitewashing, racism, homophobia, serial killers, torture, gang violence, arson, firebombing, bombs, kidnapping, murder, gambling, sex. Well, that was an awful lot to happen in one single episode, probably too much, if we’re being honest. We saved the town, got Betty her FBI badge, put Jughead where he belong...

CLICK HERE TO FIND US ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER. CW: Discussions of grief, loss of a child, hallucination, abuse, death. This episode was actually very easy to talk about, because at the end of the day, it was just really, really good. I mean, they did so much this whole season to set us up for this episode, and then paid it off, fully. There was care and detail in the staging of Betty and Alice...

CLICK HERE TO FIND US ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER. CW: Discussions of trauma, murder, missing persons, dismemberment, serial killers, “illegitimate” children, cults, religion, fasting, attempted murder, crime, being trapped, suffocation, sex, corpses, death, grief, loss of a child. Wowzers, they really threw everything at this episode, huh? There’s a secret sect of Blossoms murdering people off th...

CLICK HERE TO FIND US ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER. CW: Discussions of trauma, war crimes, grief, loss, PTSD, religion, fanaticism, alcoholism, addiction, serial killers, dissociation, recovery, divorce. Josie’s gone, and things are back to depressing normal. And in most seasons of Riverdale, this is where we’d start shouting at the show to get a move on and wrap up some stories. But this time, the...

CLICK HERE TO FIND US ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER. CW: Discussions of of grief , loss of loved ones, anxiety, birth, racism, sexism. This is not an episode of Riverdale. It’s really a back-door pilot for a new Josie & The Pussycats TV series. And we’re actually cool with that because this is better character development from these writers than we’ve seen in years. In about 5 or 6 minutes they...

CLICK HERE TO FIND US ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER. CW: Discussions of trauma, war, PTSD, war flashbacks, dangerous work conditions, carbon monoxide poisoning, mental health, violence, paranoia, hallucination, kidnapping, torture, murder, suicide, serial killers, psychopaths, rats, alcoholism, addiction. Discussions of trauma, war, PTSD, war flashbacks, dangerous work conditions, carbon monoxide po...

CLICK HERE TO FIND US ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER. CW: Discussions of dogfighting, trauma, war, death in war, PTSD, traumatic flashbacks, hallucinations, serial killers, attempted murder, sex work, criminalization of sex work, financial crimes, alcohol, severe physical violence, homophobia, religion.. Well, well, well, Riverdale decided they were going to drop a surprisingly good episode of televi...

CLICK HERE TO FIND US ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCATCHER. CW: Discussions of physical, mental and emotional abuse, and on our next time on discussion, dogfighting. Also discussions of organized crime, murder, money laundering, drug dealing, grief, loss of a parent, classism, strip mining. OK, so this should have been the season premiere, because wow did our flashback episode not disappoint…at least by Ri...