Warning: Spoilers ahead. Let’s get a show of hands — who else cannot get enough of Riverdale? The CW series quickly became everyone’s obsession after it aired in January 2017, and now — seven seasons later — fans are still hooked! Well, the final season came to an end in August 2023, so we decided to take a walk down memory lane and relive some of the show’s craziest story lines over the years.
Let’s be real, Riverdale is unlike any other show on TV, and we’re seriously obsessed with it. But the fan-favorite series is chock full of plot twists that are sometimes out of this world. For example, the time Betty Cooper’s dad ended up being a literal serial killer. What about the time there was an actual murder during Riverdale High’s musical production? Or that one time a cult came into down and was harvesting organs. Yep, we’d say those were wild! But don’t worry there are more where those came from.
While some fans are sad about the wild story lines coming to an end, so are the stars. The final season was announced in May 2022, and the cast has spoken out since then. KJ Apa, for one, opened up about his many years playing Archie.
“I’m sad to be saying goodbye to Riverdale next season, to our sets, to our crew, to our producers, to our CW family, but I can speak for everyone, for Cami [Mendes], Cole [Sprouse], Lili [Reinhart] and the rest of our cast that we are so grateful for everyone’s support,” the actor said during the CW Upfronts at the time. “To the fans, without the fans, none of this would be possible.”
The actor added, “I can’t say I’d miss dyeing my hair every week, I’m looking forward to being myself again, but I promise you guys, this last season, we are going to end it with a bang, and we can’t wait to share it with you.”
Lili joked that she “stopped asking questions” about the show following season 3 — especially with those crazy plot lines.
“We’ve always been based off of a comic book and had these ties to almost weird supernatural events and, and just crazy, not very grounded situations. And you know, the point where we’re at now in season 6, we’ve come a long way. Our characters have superpowers so,” she shared on SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagle Show in August 2022. “You gotta take Riverdale for what it is. And I think when you, when you stop trying to really make sense of it is when you can just enjoy the craziness for what it is. And that’s the whole point.”
Scroll through our gallery for a breakdown of Riverdale‘s craziest plot lines over the years.
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