RIVERDALE SEASON 5
Archie, Betty + Jughead 7 Years In The Future
Riverdale High’s best will take a huge leap into the future, as many changes have affected the hit CW show.
Season five of Riverdale has been highly-anticipated since the pandemic hit North America. With the crew working in Vancouver, the outbreak of COVID-19 abruptly shut down tapings of what was to be the end of Season four.
In a late-August interview with Jimmy Fallon, Lili Reinhart confirmed that the cast would return to work shortly. They will shoot the remaining episodes of season four and all of the next season. Season five will jump ahead seven years and the teen heartthrobs will be grown up.
Mark Consuelos, who plays Hiram Lodge on the show, went into detail on Sirius XM about what will come for the fifth season: “Season five is graduation and then they’re going to jump-cut seven years after a few episodes,” said Consuelos. By passing different college and early adulthood milestones, many people will take more refined adult roles in different situations and relationships.
With Skeet Ulrich and Marisol Nichols reportedly leaving the show, it is interesting to analyze different plot lines in their absence.
Also noted is the since-defunct spin-off show, Katy Keene taking place years following the events of Riverdale’s first four seasons. So one may imagine that this push to the future was already the plan. After all, you can’t keep these bands of misfits stuck in high school for too long, can you?
From steamy-hot scenes to opening boxing gyms to liquor companies, all while uncovering the area’s many crimes, adulthood was already at Riverdale’s doorstep. The series that once had high school as a backdrop, in recent seasons, it has been just a footnote. As their youth handcuffed the group from exploring new ideas, without thinking: “they’re doing what? Aren’t they 17?”
Now, the cast has a new purpose, and come launch, the possibilities will be endless.
