The Endless Torment of Cheryl Blossom, or as it’s more widely known: Riverdale continues to astound our intrepid hosts by finding new avenues of trauma to explore. This week, it’s conversion therapy. If that is understandably not something you want to engage with, listener discretion is advised. Expanding on last week’s thesis that Nana Rose Cannot And Will Not be stopped; this episode she enacts a geriatric Mission Impossible-esque stunt to help the only 3 people in town who care about her grandaughter rescue said grandaughter.  Meanwhile, in a land of lower stakes, the campaign for student body president is still going on, as well as the parallel campaign for mayorship of the town, and it’s difficult to determine which to care about less. At least one involves Fred. Jughead spouts off more insufferable garbage, Betty wants a tattoo, Veronica might be Catwoman, Kevin goes :O, Molly Ringwald continues to rule, and God help us all: Archie has a plan.  According to Evelyn, she is straight-up ”here to make your life worse” and later gets in a devastating roast in on Miranda; who, at one point, has to stand up and pace from sheer seething anger, but not before getting briefly possessed by Reggie. Hanging over it all, the looming threat of the first musical episode darkens the horizon, promising that if it’s chaos we want, we ain’t seen nothin’ yet... Screencaps & other fun stuff can be found on our Twitter: https://twitter.com/moodforchaospod  Content Warnings: Blackmail/extortion Conversion Therapy Emotional abuse/manipulation Gaslighting Homophobia Religious trauma (Catholic) Transphobia Music: ’Imps’ by Mark Revell