Riverdale’s showrunnerRoberto Aguirre-Sacasahas revealed new details about his original idea for the final season of the show, which finished airing earlier this year on The CW after seven installments.
It’s been a wild and weird ride, butRiverdalehas finally come to an end under its own terms. Based on the popularArchie Comicscharacters, The CW’s teen series premiered in 2017, trying to take advantage of the legacy of shows likePretty Little Liars, which mixed school drama with elements of mystery and even horror. But as the episodes passed,Riverdalebecame much more, including other plots related to the supernatural, such as its sister seriesChilling Adventures of Sabrina, and also time travel, something that was key in the outcome of the show’s final season.
Starring KJ Apa as Archie Andrews, Lili Reinhart as Betty Cooper, Cole Sprouse Jughead Jones, Camila Mendes as Veronica Lodge and Madelaine Petsch as Cheryl Blossom,Riverdalequickly became a hit, even when the final seasons were heavily criticized for mixing so many elements until it somewhat lost the original essence. But it looks like it could have gone even further.
In an interview withTVLine, showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa revealed that his original plans for the final season were much more ambitious than what was ultimately seen on screen:
“Originally, when we pitched the season, one of the ideas that we pitched was that the first 13 episodes would be in the ’50s, and then starting around Episode 14 or so, we would start moving in time. So Episode 14 would be set in the ’60s, Episode 15 would be set in the ’70s, and then the ’80s, the ’90s… kind of working through to the present day. It sort of became clear [that] was not in the realm. [We had already done] a more elaborate time travel, time-jumping plot. The writers and the cast and the crew, we were having such a fun time in the ’50s… We thought we would just continue telling the domestic, personal, romantic coming-of-age stories that we tell, and then move everyone back at the end.”
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How Riverdale Actually Ended
At the end of the sixth installment, all ofRiverdaleand its inhabitants are transported to the 1950s, and only Jughead seems to remember the modern world. Since no one remembers their previous lives, the series restarts several stories, taking the young people back to school, and starting a love triangle again between Archie, Veronica and Betty. But in order to save the multiverse, the whole town must stay in the past.
The series ends with everyone remaining in the 50s, but with their memories of their previous lives restored. The story then travels to the present, where an 86-year-old Betty is shown as the only survivor of the main group, and Jughead’s angel visits her to experience one last day at school together, wherethe fate of all the charactersin the series is revealed, showing what happened to them during all the years that have passed.
