Riverdale Season 4 Premiere: 7 Ups & 0 Downs From 'Chapter Fifty-Eight: In Memoriam'

5. Jughead's Monologue

In an episode full of emotionally-charged dialogue, you wouldn't think that the cold hard facts could make an equally huge impact. But that right there is why they do: Because you're not expecting it.

Jughead's monologue was a powerful piece that reflected on the life of Fred Andrews (both pre-Riverdale and during it), giving us one last chance to learn some new information about the beloved character while also reflect on what we already knew - all the time acknowledging that it was impossible to sum up the life of a man who had done and given so much.

What made it so moving was that even such an emotionally-removed fact-driven monologue only highlighted the kind of man that Fred (and, by extension, Luke) was. And Jughead was the perfect character to narrate it because, writing talents aside, he's always been there, quietly watching life in a reserved and removed way. He knows the facts because he's seen it all, learned it all, and it was those facts that moved him, the readers, and us to tears.