XOXO Riverdale
By XOXO Riverdale
XOXO RiverdaleDec 14, 2021
XOXO: The Series Finale Roundtable T or F Extravaganza
Kate and Louie get in the final word on the entire series of Riverdale! But they're not doing it alone. They're joined by Frank Garcia Hejl (Mas Mejor) and Dana Wickens (Off Book: The Improvised Musical podcast) for some true or false.
Then! A rousing round table with our pals Bethany Boles (Story Pirates), Kevin Gillian (Geeks Out!), KJ (Supernatural Opinions Podcast), Jenna Palme (this friggin' podcast), and Alex Zalben (Riverdale After Dark) to bring us back across the Sweetwater River!
We have loved recapping for y'all week after week. Please keep in touch, and thank you for choosing XOXO Riverdale for all your Maple Liquer needs!
Edited by Angley Mercado
Theme song by Louie Aranowitz
Ch 137 - Goodbye Riverdale w/ Special Guest Sadie Dupuis (Speedy Ortiz, Sad 13)
All good things must come to an end, even recap fan podcasts. In this, the PENULTIMATE episode of XOXO Riverdale (this is our last recap, but we've got something fun planned for next week) Kate and Louie cover the final episode of our beloved Riverdale.
Also! Louie interviews Riverdale megafan, Speedy Ortiz songwriter, guitarist and singer Sadie Dupuis. Their new album, Rabit Rabit comes out Sept 1st.
Also: here's the link to Louie's interview with the Today Show!
Ch 136 - Golden Age of Television
As the ol' gang from Pop's starts to wrap it up, so do your intrepid podcast hosts Kate and Louie. Join them as they watch the episode in which our pals watch themselves in a meta act of inward facing meta-ness.
Edited by Angley Mercado
Theme song by Louie Aranowitz
Ch 135 - For a Better Tomorrow!
Duck and cover into this totally atomic, episode of Riverdale with Kate and Louie!
Edited by Angley Mercado
Theme Song by Louie Aranowitz
Ch 134 A Different Kind of Cat
Will Josie's triumphant return to Riverdale be a smashing success or a box-office flop? Listen to this episode to find out!
Edited by Angley Mercado
Theme Song by Louie Aranowitz
Ch 133 - Stag
Kate and Louie discuss one of their all-time favorite Riverdale episodes, the delightful Stag. Archie X Reggie 4Eva!
Theme song by Louie Aronowitz
Edited by Angley Mercado
Ch 132 - Miss Teen Riverdale
Kate and Louie get into this special beauty pageant episode of Riverdale but spend almost as much time going on about the Barbie movie.
Edited by Angley Mercado
Theme song by Louie Aranowitz
Ch 131 - Archie the Musical w/ special guest Jenna Palme
Louie and his savvy bud, guest co-host, Jenna Palme finally answer the question: what direction is Archie gonna go in? Left or Right? Can Archie make up his mind???
Edited by Angley Mercado
Theme song by Louie Aranowitz
Ch 130 - The Crucible
The red menace comes to Riverdale! And Hiram returns!
Theme Song by Louie Aranowitz
Edited by Angley Mercado
Ch 129 - After the Fall
Reggie, Archie, unseen basketball games!
Edited by Angley Mercado
Theme song by Louie Aronowitz
Ch 128 - Halloween II
Get ready for a real Ghost Show of an episode!
Here's Louie's playlist to spin at your next Halloween Hootenanny! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4BUTNuakU5QAq3aNJv5VFb?si=e4327a417fc54a2c
Edited by Angley Mercado
Theme song by Louie Aranowitz
Ch 127 - American Graffiti
Here's a frightening question: will you ever love anything as much as Archie loves his car in this episode?
Edited by Angley Mercado
Theme Song by Louie Aronowitz
Ch 126 - Betty & Veronica Double Digest
Louie and Kate are SEEING DOUBLE in this latest episode!
Edited by Angely Mercado
Theme Song by Louie Aranowitz
Ch 125 - Hoop Dreams
We're pretty excited to rant and rave about our new fave Riverdale character Farm Reggie!
Edited by Angley Mercado
Theme Song by Louie Aronowitz
Ch 124 - Dirty Dancing
Hey kids! Here's a BRAND NEW DANCE to watch and learn, it's called The Twirl! Edited by Angley Mercado
Theme Song by Louie Aronowitz
Ch 123 - Peep Show
Kate and Louie talk about high school jobs, the writers strike, and how this episode of Riverdale was pretty sexay?
Edited by Angley Mercado
Theme song by Louie Aronowitz
Ch 122 - Tales in a Jugular Vein
Greetings, guys and GHOULS, it's time for another SCARE-LARIOUS Riverdale DECAP SPOOKCAST!
Edited by Angley Mercado
Theme song by Louie Aronowitz
Ch 121 - Love and Marriage
This is what happens when you're just not allowed to be gay, people!
Edited by Angley Mercado
Theme song by Louie Aronowitz
Chapter 120 - Sex Education
Get down with the weird and wonderful sexy jungle dance sequence with Kate and Louie!
Edited by Angley Mercado
Theme Song by Louie Aronowitz
Chapter One Hundred Nineteen: Skip, Hop and Thump!
This episode is NOT Sponcon... unlike a particular Riverdale cast member's baby announcement?!?
Edited by Angley Mercado
Theme song by Louie Aronowitz
Chapter One Hundred Eighteen: Don't Worry Darling
The Riverdale recap podcast that DGAF is BACK FOR OUR FINAL SEASON BABY! Kate and Louie get into if they'd like to become teenagers in the 1950s, then get into Scream 6, Yosemite Sam doing Jughead, and OF COURSE the FINAL SEASON PREMIERE of Riverdale! --
Edited by Angley Mercado
Theme song by Louie Aronowitz
Chapter One Hundred Seventeen: Night of the Comet
It's the last episode of season six and the last day Riverdale will exist...forever? Kate and Louie discuss the end of the season as we know it and they feel fine.
Chapter One Hundred Sixteen: The Stand
Kate and Louie create a circle of punches and thwap that naughty Percival Pickens a few times on the nose in this episode covering the penultimate chapter of Season Six of Riverdale!
Edited by Angley Mercado
Theme Song by Louie Aronowitz
Chapter One Hundred Fourteen & Fifteen - The Witches of Riverdale & Return to Rivervale!
This week, it's a two-for-one! First, Kate and Louie get witchy with Sabrina's second guest appearance, and then travel the multiverse with the high-concept Return to Rivervale!
Edited by Angley Mercado
Theme song by Louie Aronowitz
Chapter One Hundred Thirteen - Biblical w/ special guest Kevin Gilligan!
Geeks Out! VP Kevin Gilligan joins us as we get wrathful, vengeful, plague-full and biblical on this week's absolutely engulfed-in-flames Riverdale episode!
Edited by Angley Mercado
Theme song by Louie Aronowitz
Chapter One Hundred Twelve: American Psychos
A special musical episode of Riverdale that isn't totally insane and instead only somewhat insane? What a concept!
Edited by Angley Mercado
Theme Song by Louie Aronowitz
Chapter One Hundred Eleven: Blue Collar
Hey - Kate and Louie are PRO UNION! Just in case you were worried.
Edited by Angley Mercado
Theme Song by Louie Aronowitz
Chapter One Hundred and Ten: Things that Go Bump in the Night
You came to the right place if you want Kate and Louie's hot takes on Riverdale's cancelation announcement! Plus, they cover the very spooky-ookie Chapter One Hundred and Ten!
Edited by Angley Mercado
Theme Song by Louie Aronowitz
Chapter One Hundred and Nine: Venomous
Baby can't you see, we're poddin'?
Riverdale is back, and it's not ploddin'
Kate's dangerous, Louie's ballin...
(do do doo do loo dee doo dee doo...)
Edited by Angely Mercado
Theme Song by Louie Aronowitz
Chapter One Hundred Eight: Ex Libris
What library books do you have overdue? Would you be willing to trade in your Delillo for collateral???
Edited by Angely Mercado
Theme Song by Louie Aronowitz
Chapter One Hundred Seven: In the Fog
Kate and Louie come out of the fog and who is waiting there for them??? MOOSE!! <>
Edited by Angley Mercado
Theme Song by Louie Aronowitz
Chapter One Hundred and Six: Angels in America
Kate and Louie time-jump through episode 106 because they're both chronokenetic er whatever. Also, we had some listener feedback that we address!
Edited by Angley Mercado
Theme song by Louie Aronowitz
Chapter One Hundred and Five: Folk Heroes
Kate and Louie cover season 5's "Folk Heroes" - was it larger than life, or mythically overexaggerated? Plus! Who from the Riverdale cast was at Coachella!
Edited by Angley Mercado
Theme song by Louie Aronowitz
Chapter One Hundred and Four: The Serpent Queen's Gambit - with special guest Jenna Palme!
Kate and Louie are joined by XOXO's new EPISODE live tweeter Jenna Palme to mainly talk about how disappointing Kevin Keller was in this episode. Kevin, go to your room. Catch Jenna's live tweets at @XOXORiverPOD!
Edited by Angley Mercado
Theme Song by Louie Aranowitz
Chapter One Hundered and Three: The Town
Kate and Louie give their take on the exposé that exposed very little, the scammers, the wise guys, the Riverdale.
Edited by Angely Mercado
Theme Song by Louie Aronowitz
Chapter One Hundred and Two: Death at a Funeral
Ronnie says goodbye to her papa while Jughead says hello to his awesome new superpower - drawing straight lines!
Edited by Angely Mercado
Theme song by Louie Aronowitz
Chapter One Hundred and One: Unbelievable
We're back and so is Riverdale! Do you like the totally bananas direction it's taking? Do we? Could Jughead be getting more of a bad deal out of the explosion??
Edited by Angely Mercado
Theme Song by Louie Aronowitz
Ch. 100 - The Jughead Paradox
The hundredth episode of our favorite absolutely bananas TV show is here! Don't worry, Kate and Louie were pretty confused by this one too.
Edited by Angely Mercado
Theme Song by Louie Aronowitz
Chapter Nintey Nine - The Witching Hour(s)
What even IS time? A Construct? A concrete reality doomed to repeat in an infinite loop? An excuse to put Kiernan Shipka in a cool outfit?
Edited by Angely Mercado
Theme Song by Louie Aronowitz
Chapter Nintey Eight - Mr. Cypher
WHO IS MR. CYPHER? Is he a cool, sexy new character in Rivervale? Is he very tricky? Is the logic around how he operates very muddy? The answers to all of these questions are YES! Also, he's literally Satan OK byeeee...
Edited by Angely Mercado
Theme song by Louie Aronowitz
Chapter 97: Ghost Stories
Where did all those empty bottles of scotch come from???
Edited by Angely Mercado
Theme Song by Louie Aronowitz
Chapter 96: Welcome to Rivervale
You were wondering what Katvie and Lovie's takes on the premiere of seavon sivvvxxx of Rivervale would be! Well, now you can vind out!
Edited by Anvely Mervado
Theme song by Lovie Aranovivvvvv
Chapter 95: Riverdale (RIP?)
We'll be alright. Get out of here! Can't you see we don't want you anymore? Is this the end of the line for the Core Four? Are we all in on magic now? Do any of these people understand how jobs work? Can we finally say goodbye to at least one villain? Listen to Kate and Louie attempt to answer even a single question.
Chapter Ninety-Four: Next to Normal
It's another musical episode of our favorite show with regular musical numbers, so Kate and Louie break it down for you. How does this one compare to musical episodes of the past? Is it actually a good episode of Riverdale? What does a good episode of Riverdale consist of any more?
Theme song by Louie Aranowitz
Edited by Angely Mercado
Chapter Ninety-Three: Dance of Death
Kate and Louie are aided by the ghosts of fallen soldiers as they move the heavens and earth in this episode of the pod!
Edited by Angely Mercado
Theme Song by Louie Aranowitz
Chapter Ninety-Two: Band of Brothers
Happy 100th episode of XOXO Riverdale, and thanks for sticking with us! After Kate and Louie (the Queens of the Bees) take a wild trip down a very sticky memory lane, they confront the dead soldiers in the room and tackle this week's episode!
Edited by Angely Mercado
Theme song by Louie Aranowitz
Chapter Ninety-One: Return of the Pussycats
The pussycats have returned indeed and Kate and Louie were here for it! They get into which songs worked, which didn’t, and the debut of a very important character!
Plus, if you want to learn more about the plight of Roberto Aguirre Sacasa’s father Roberto please visit: https://deadline.com/2021/09/riverdale-cast-support-roberto-aguirre-sacasa-father-treason-charge-nicaragua-1234828636/
#FreeFrancisco #SOSNicaragua
Edited by Angely Mercado
Theme Song by Louie Aranowitz
Chapter Ninety - The Night Gallery w/ special guest Katie Pearlman
As one should when looking at a gallery of strange paintings, one must consider many points of view. That's why Kate and Louie are joined by Louie's MOM Katie Pearlman to discuss this week's episode, The Night Gallery!
Edited by Angely Mercado
Theme Song by Louie Aronowitz
Chapter Eighty-Nine: Reservoir Dogs
Hey! Remember the 2000 Piper Perabo vehicle Coyote Ugly? Well, Kate and Louie remember it pretty much as well as you.
Edited by Angely Mercado
Theme song by Louie Aronowitz
Chaper Eighty-Eight: Citizen Lodge
What do Kate and Louie do with an actual GOOD episode of Riverdale? Now is your chance to find out as they dive into Citizen Lodge the way that Vito Alto dives into a plate of spaghetti marinara!
Edited by Angely Mercado
Theme song by Louie Aronowitz