Warning: This post contains spoilers from the season 6 finale ofRiverdale.
We did NOT see that coming.
And with an invisible forcefield around the town, no one could escape.
KJ Apa and Lili Reinhart on ‘Riverdale’.Michael Courtney/The CW
No one knew if their plan would work, and in the end, it sort of did?
Riverdale survived the comet, but it’s not exactly the Riverdale we know anymore.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: This is a huge twist!
Where did the idea for this time jump of sorts come from?
ROBERTO AGUIRRE-SACASA:It came from a couple of places.
But we’ve done that.
They were in high school for four-plus years.
It would feel like a repeat.
So we were in a conundrum.
We get to see what we’re going to recreate, what we’re going to reinvent.
So are we resetting some love triangles?
But is all of that reset now?
So we can tell those first time stories the first kiss, the first crush, the first heartbreak.
It’s a little bit more of a blank slate.
What that implies is where it goes, nobody knows yet.
It never felt right for Betty to be saved by one of the guys on the show.
That’s not who she is.
It felt like it had to be Betty’s decision and not just a response.
That’s how we got to that.
It had to be that.
What was it like to shoot the 1950s stuff?
We shot the 1950s stuff on the last day, and it just felt so right.
This is what we need!"
This interview has been edited and condensed for length and clarity.
