‘Riverdale’ ending: the time-jump and characters’ futures explained

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The time has finally come to say goodbye to Riverdale. And with the final episode on Wednesday night came a MAJOR twist about the love square between beloved characters’ Betty Cooper, Veronica Lodge, Jughead Jones, and Archie Andrews.

Warning: This article contains juicy spoilers about the “Riverdale” finale.

Riverdale came to a conclusion after seven seasons on Wednesday (August 23), and the series finale left a subset of fans missing one element – a kiss between co-stars KJ Apa and Cole Sprouse.

posted on X, formerly known as Twitter. That fan is correct: “Riverdale,” which is based on the Archie comics and began as a show about small-town teens in high school, did, in fact, end with the reveal that Archie (KJ Apa), Jughead (Cole Sprouse), Betty (Lili Reinhart) and Veronica (Camila Mendes) were in a four-way polyamorous relationship in which they were all dating each other.

Over the course of seven seasons, “Riverdale” has told a lot of wild stories involving time travel, multiple universes, supernatural forces and more generally surreal weirdness than one might expect from a teen drama on The CW.

has told a lot of wild stories involving time travel, multiple universes, supernatural forces and more generally surreal weirdness than one might expect from a teen drama on The CW.However, when the long-running series came to a close on Wednesday, the show wrapped everything up with a somber, emotionally powerful and surprisingly heartfelt story in which essentially everyone died. Or, more accurately, everyone was already dead when the finale began.Essentially, the show kicked off in the present day with an 86-year-old Betty Cooper (Lili Reinhart) sitting at home, where she reads in the newspaper that Jughead Jones (Cole Sprouse) had died at the age of 84.Soon, however, she gets a visit from Angel Jughead, who magically transports her back in time to the 1950s, to Betty's last day of senior year in high school, which she originally missed because she was sick at the time.Strolling around her old high school, Angel Jughead gives Betty the chance to get closure with all of her old friends, and details the sometimes wonderful, sometimes tragic lives of everyone she'd been friends with back in the day.Through the use of Jughead's omnipotent divine narration, fans got to find out the life stories of all the characters they'd followed throughout the series, and the emotionally charged finale came to a close with Betty's peaceful death — after which, as an angel, a youthful Betty meets with all her friends in the afterlife, which just so happens to be a classic-looking Pop's Diner in all it's glory.In celebration of 's series finale, ET is looking back at recent interviews with the cast, regarding the show coming to a close and how they feel about wrapping up the wild storylines.

CW’ series ended this week after seven seasons after premiering in 2017 and quickly becoming famous for its off-the-wall plotlines. Even though it featured familiar characters like Archie (KJ Apa), Jughead (Cole Sprouse), Betty (Lili Reinhart), Veronica (Camila Mendes) and Cheryl Blossom (Madelaine Petsch), “Riverdale” has never been your grandfather’s Archie comics.