Riverdale Season 3 Finale: 8 Ups & 3 Downs From 'Survive The Night'

2. Hiram Lodge: The Revenge

If there is one storyline that Riverdale needed even less than the bewildering return of the Black Hood, it's a Hiram Lodge revenge plot. But, according to the finale, that's exactly what the show's about to get as, from behind bars, the mafia boss plotted his daughter's downfall. Yawn.

It's not that the character of Hiram isn't entertaining because, in small doses, he's fine. The problem is that the one-dimensional caricature version of him doesn't belong in the show anymore. In fact, he never really did.

Hiram's arrival at the beginning of Season 2 forced the characters of Riverdale to grow up too soon, which was one of the major factors in its sharp decline in standard. Suddenly, Archie Andrews was no longer that naive kid who found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time as he had transformed into a wannabe tough guy who got dragged into adult affairs and revenge schemes as he attempted to impress his new boss.

Do we really have to go through all of that again? The writers had just started unearthing some new territory with the character as he was genuinely heartbroken to discover that his wife attempted to have him killed. It showed viewers a new side to him and promised to take him in a new, interesting direction. Why abandon that to recycle old storylines?

Also, are we really supposed to believe that after the FBI finally managed to pin something on him, he would end up in his own prison (the Lodge Penitentiary)? Really?