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Riverdale – Season 3, Episode 5 Chapter Forty: The Great Escape

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Riverdale – Season 3, Episode 5

Chapter Forty: The Great Escape

Aired Nov 14, 2018

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Mystery & Thriller

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After weeks go by with no contact from Archie, Veronica plots to break him out of juvenile detention; when Betty learns that Jughead has taken their investigation a step too far, she finds herself in a race against the clock to save him.

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"The Great Escape" breaks free with big action and thrills that thicken the plot.

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Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

Autostraddle

11/16/2018

The pacing and tension of "The Great Escape" works very well, an immersive experience that mimics the way some characters have been pulled into the game.

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Eric Thurm

AV Club

11/15/2018

B-

The big action set piece, which cross-cuts between the G&G game Jughead is leading for the Serpents and the prison break Veronica is leading for Archie, is genuinely cool and fun.

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Molly Fitzpatrick

New York Magazine/Vulture

11/15/2018

3/5

Riverdale is at its best, or at least its most memorable, when it feels like I am watching a stranger's very specific preferred flavor of porn.

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Stephanie Archer

Film Inquiry

12/01/2018

As G&G sinks its teeth into its willing players, so too does it to the unwilling town of Riverdale - proving itself a game beyond pieces and dice.

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Dustin Rowles

Pajiba

11/20/2018

After last week's fairly well-grounded flashback episode, this week's episode begins to lose the thread.

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Jennifer Lind-Westbrook

Tell-Tale TV

11/16/2018

3.5/5

Riverdale Season 3 Episode 5 swiftly moves multiple storylines forward while introducing some promising new ones

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Synopsis

After weeks go by with no contact from Archie, Veronica plots to break him out of juvenile detention; when Betty learns that Jughead has taken their investigation a step too far, she finds herself in a race against the clock to save him.

Director: Pamela Romanowsky
Executive Producer: Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, Jon Goldwater
Screenwriter: Greg Murray, Ace Hasan
Network: The CW
Rating: TV-14 (L|S|V)
Genre: Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date: Nov 14, 2018