“Riverdale” Season 1 Spoilers: Is Betty Bipolar? Doyle’s Secret Might Expose Archie-Ms Grundy Affair; Football Team’s Playbook Expose May Have "Serious Consequences"

Things are getting more intense in “Riverdale” Season 1. In Episode 3 titled “Body Double”, the story continues about Cheryl Blossom’s admission (Madelaine Petsch) about the extent of her involvement in her brother Jason’s disappearance. She tried to clear allegations that she has something to do with Jason’s death, and said what she only did was faking Jason’s death so her brother can escape Riverdale and dissuade anyone who wants to follow him, Paste Magazine said in a recap.

Later on in the episode, Jughead (Cole Sprouse), who is officially working on a series of investigative articles regarding Jason’s death under a Betty-led (Lili Reinhart) Blue and Gold, has pressured Dilton (Major Curda) into confessing another secret: he spotted Ms Grundy’s (Sarah Habel) car at Sweetriver the day Jason disappeared. Although Archie (KJ Apa) left Ms Grundy out in his confession to the authorities, it is most likely that the affair will be revealed in the following episodes to come.

Meanwhile, the Betty and Veronica (Camila Mendes) dynamic was formidable in this episode, thanks to the disgraced heiress falling victim to a slut-shaming ritual by Riverdale High's most eligible bachelor Chuck Clayton (Jordan Calloway), Mashable said in a recap. This story arc was a delight for female fans (thanks to the female empowerment theme) and even diehard “Stranger Things” addicts (Shannon Purser, who played Barb in the series, is playing fellow slut-shaming victim Ethel Muggs in The CW drama).

But the most intriguing in this story arc is Betty’s transformation as a goody two shoes kid to a sexy, dangerous vamp, even by Veronica’s standards. After Ethel revealed that Chuck and his gang in the football team keeps a “playbook” that tallies scores of girls they have slut-shamed, Betty, Veronica, and their co-conspirators went and find the playbook. The discovery of the playbook then led Betty to devise a fake-sexy swimming session to humiliate Chuck, Entertainment Weekly said.

The session though, confirmed some suspicions that there’s something wrong with Betty in the head. At the session, she arrived in a black wig, sexy lingerie, and a demeanor that appears to be un-Betty. She almost harmed Chuck, even calling him Jason and demanding him to apologize for hurting her dear sister Polly. Before the session, Betty had a rather weird moment with her mom, of which Marc Snetiker for EW deduces that the blonde babe is legit bipolar.

“The girls have won: Chuck is shamed in the newspaper and cut from the football team (an action that Jughead says will have “terrible consequences for the weeks to come”). However, Veronica is more concerned about Betty’s brief lapse of identity, and even more distressingly, Betty doesn’t seem to remember becoming another person,” he posits.