Prepare to be even more baffled by Riverdale in gloriously gaga final season trailer
Archie (KJ Apa) and the gang are back (in time) in a new trailer for Riverdale's seventh and final season, premiering March 29 on the CW
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It’s almost time to pack up and move out of Riverdale, but not before one last beautifully bonkers adventure with Archie (KJ Apa) and the gang. The final season of the beloved CW series premieres on March 29, 2023 (in an episode perfectly and hilariously titled “Don’t Worry Darling”), but unfortunately for Jughead (Cole Sprouse), the town is trapped in the year 1955.
For anyone who may be confused: Yes, Riverdale is typically set in the present day. But (spoiler alert), last season a multiversal splintering resulted in the town’s residents developing supernatural powers in order to battle the immortal evil wizard Percival Pickens (Chris O’Shea), who, upon his defeat, magically re-directed a comet to crash into the town, a plot thwarted at the last minute by the combined force of all the friends’ superpowers bestowed upon Cheryl Blossom (Madelaine Petsch), who destroyed the incoming projectile but in doing so transported the town and its residents back to the twentieth century and somehow reverted our adult heroes back into teenagers. Does that clear things up for you?
In the new trailer, Jughead—the only person who remembers life B.C. (before the comet)—tries to convince his friends that things are amiss. “We need to get back 67 years ago. But in the future,” he tries to explain to his skeptical comrades. Unfortunately, Archie and co. are too busy enjoying their reinstated youth, not to mention the fabulous ’50s aesthetic. There are poodle skirts! Big bouffant hairdos! Jughead’s comics-accurate crown! Riverdale’s back, and it’s more Riverdale than ever.
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and his team of writers have never been afraid to take a big swing, and this reverse time jump is the perfect opportunity to totally reset Riverdale’s established dynamics. Betty (Lili Reinhart) is after Kevin (Casey Cott), who is gay. Archie is getting married (!) to Cheryl, who is also gay. Veronica (Camila Mendes) is a “celebrity from Hollywood,” and she’s also making out with Jughead, for some reason. It’s complete anarchy, and as usual, it’s delicious.
The reset is also an opportunity to bring back characters we haven’t seen in a while, like Ethel Muggs (Shannon Purser), who appears covered in blood. Then there’s Julian Blossom (Nicholas Barasch), Cheryl’s twin brother. Not her original twin brother Jason, whose murder was the inciting incident for Riverdale as a series, but the heretofore unseen triplet that Cheryl supposedly consumed in utero and previously haunted the Blossom mansion in the form of a creepy doll. We don’t see much of him in the trailer, but according to TVLine Julian is “your classic high school red-headed bully”: “Handsome, athletic, and cocky, he always gets his way, but in the rare times he doesn’t—like with Veronica—he makes life miserable for everyone around him. He often butts heads with his twin sister, but is also an antagonist to all of our teen characters, most especially Archie.”
Juggling the supernatural with the mundane? That’s just another average day in Riverdale, the murder capital of the world. The seventh and final season promises to be a typically wild ride. Start placing your bets now as to what this year’s retro time travel musical episode will be!
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It’s not perfectly accurate to say we haven’t seen Ethel in a while, considering her alternate-universe super-scientist self was aware of the multiversal bleeding and, if I remember right, she’s currently trapped in the bunker with Rivervale Jughead while he Alan Wake’s the fabric of the multiverse together.
I love that I’m talking about the character below. Riverdale is the most television show that’s ever existed.
This season sounds even more insaner than usual for Riverdale. Riverdale you crazy bastard. I guess that seems appropriate
Go home, Riverdale, you’re drunk.
I had no idea this was still on, let alone had been on for seven seasons!Never seen one episode, and in the back of my mind I’d think, yeah, I should check it out, sounds fun. But. SEVEN SEASONS??[If someone tells me it’s not worth it, thank you, because it would save me some time. Which I would only use to watch other shows because I have no life.]
You have to have some level of appreciation for batshittery to appreciate Riverdale. It’s like babysitting a drunk friend – often irritating, but occasionally they’ll say the most absolutely absurd thing you’ve ever heard, and you’ll be making jokes about it for years to come.
My favorite is the demonic D&D game that makes players kill themselves, quietly supporting by a gaggle of evil nuns and an organ-harvesting cult called “the Farm” – the leader of which tries to escape via old-timey 1950s pulp sci-fi rocket while dressed as Evel Knievel.
My favorite thing is Veronica gaining the superpower of having all her bodily fluids be poison, which causes her to murder a guy with her pussy.Speaking of Veronica, I wonder if someone on the writing team has a grudge against Camila Mendes or if she’s secretly a huge asshole on set because she gets the worst storylines since like season 4. Like, Archie gets PTSD from the war and fights Blackwater mercenaries, Cheryl starts a lesbian cult, Betty is kidnapped by a serial killer who is probably her serial killer father pretending to be a different serial killer, Jughead goes on an acid trip and gets kidnapped by a homeless man known as the Rat King and Veronica… opens a jewelry store, a rum company and then a casino, failing at all of those ventures miserably.
“My favorite thing is Veronica gaining the superpower of having all her bodily fluids be poison, which causes her to murder a guy with her pussy.”Please tell me you’re not making this up. Apparently I got bored after the first season but I kept hearing how batshit crazy it got and watching that trailer made me realize I need to know next to nothing and it’ll be a fun ride regardless of not knowing anything about seasons 2-6.
The first season was quite good, then things got worse for a little bit, but they eventually realized that the best course of action was to turn everything up to full insanity all the time, and god damn was it successful the last few seasons.
One thing I have appreciated about Riverdale is that they do seem to keep a consistent story. Much like Once Upon a Time. So if someone found out that they’re secret cousins with someone? Still applies seasons later. Did someone start up a maple rum business that was taken over by their father? Yes, that maple rum business still exists. And given how far off the rails the show has gone and how much story has happened over the years keeping all this shit straight has to be someone’s dedicated job. Not to say they’ve been 100% perfect, but floating babies aside, it’s much closer than many other bonkers shows have been.
I’ve only seen the first 2.5 seasons, but I really enjoyed them, the more insane the better imo. There’s just so many shows and movies I want to watch I never feel like I have time for it. If there’s ever another pandemic or I get laid off or something, I’m for sure binging the whole show.
I am stunned that HBO didn’t buy Aguirre-Sacasa’s True Blood reboot. If this where his “Archie comics, but brooding and sexy” take went, imagine where he could take that kind of high-camp trash.
This show is so wild I wouldn’t rule out another Serpent Dance before all is said and done!
Riverdale is a truly awful show: a terrible adaptation of its source material and regularly one of the dumbest, most offensive, shallow TV series I’ve ever seen, one with absolutely 0 respect towards its actors and the viewers.I love it so, so much. It’s the best hatewatch I’ve ever seen because it’s never not boring, never not entertaining and it’s always batshit insane. Last season had someone try and go back in time to save MLK and it was treated with the exact amount of tact and taste you’d expect from the show, which is to say I’ve seen porn who handled sensitive topics better.
It’s been appointment viewing for several years now and while I’m glad that the cast can finally move on, I am very sad to see it go.
I enjoy Riverdale for it’s totally bonkers storylines, but I can recognize that a lot of the time it’s a straight up soap opera. Except with far, far better lighting, color, and set design. So apparently the only thing stopping me from being interested in soaps is cinematography.
I watched 5 mins when it debuted. #notmyArchie