Network: The CW
Episodes: 137 (hour)
Seasons: Seven
TV show dates: January 26, 2017 — August 23, 2023
Series status: Ended
Performers include: KJ Apa, Lili Reinhart, Camila Mendes, Cole Sprouse, Marisol Nichols, Madelaine Petsch, Ashleigh Murray, Mädchen Amick, Luke Perry, Mark Consuelos, Casey Cott, Skeet Ulrich, Charles Melton, Vanessa Morgan, Drew Ray Tanner, and Erinn Westbrook.
TV show description:
A mystery drama, this TV show is based on characters that appear in the Archie comics series.
As a new school year begins, the town of Riverdale is reeling from the recent, tragic death of high school golden boy Jason Blossom. Nothing feels the same in this quiet town.
Archie Andrews (KJ Apa) is still an all-American teen, but the summer’s events have made him realize that he wants to pursue a music career and not follow in the footsteps of his dad, Fred (Perry). This is despite the sudden end of his forbidden relationship with Riverdale’s young music teacher, Ms. Grundy (Sarah Habel).
Archie has no one to mentor him — certainly not singer Josie McCoy (Murray). She’s only focused on her band, the soon-to-be-world-famous Pussycats. It’s all weighing heavily on Archie’s mind — as is his fractured friendship with budding writer and classmate Jughead Jones (Sprouse).
Meanwhile, girl-next-door Betty Cooper (Reinhart) is anxious to see her crush Archie, after being away all summer. Unfortunately, she’s still not quite ready to reveal her true feelings to him. And Betty’s nerves, which are hardly soothed by her overbearing mother, Alice (Mädchen Amick), aren’t the only thing holding her back.
When a new student, Veronica Lodge (Mendes), arrives in town from New York with her mother Hermione (Nichols), there’s an undeniable spark between Veronica and Archie — even though Veronica doesn’t want to risk her new friendship with Betty by making a play for Archie. Veronica finds a fast friend in Kevin Keller (Cott), who she immediately recognizes as gay.
And then, there’s Cheryl Blossom (Petsch). She’s Riverdale’s Queen Bee and is happy to stir up trouble amongst Archie, Betty, and Veronica. However, Cheryl is keeping secrets of her own. What, exactly, is she hiding about the mysterious death of her twin brother, Jason?
Riverdale may look like a quiet, sleepy town, but there are dangers in the shadows.
Episode #137 — Chapter One Hundred Thirty-Seven: Goodbye, Riverdale
In the present day, 86-year old Betty reads Jughead’s obituary and tells her granddaughter that she wants to see Riverdale one last time. That night, a youthful Jughead appears to her and offers to take her back in time, to the last day of her senior year of high school. She (and the audience) learn what happened to the characters in their lives. She returns to the present and returns to Riverdale, now a ghost town. Betty dies peacefully outside of Pop’s. The series ends with the core four characters reunited at a functional version of Pop’s, hanging out in a booth. They’re together and forever 17 and happy in the afterlife.
First aired: August 23, 2023.
What do you think? Do you like the Riverdale TV show? Do you think it should have ended or been renewed for an eighth season?
Please keep it going
I love it this show
Love this! Keep it going!!
Love it! Can’t wait for each week to pass to see what will happen next. CW better renew it!
I love this show. I think it should be brought back next season. There is so much you can do for this show to keep airing
I love the show. so does my friend at work. I do not want it to go off the air.
Please renew for next season
I really like this show! I’m in my fifties so expected a show based on the comedy books but even with the dark story this has turned out to be so entertaining I look forward to seeing what the next twist will reveal. Please renew for a second season!
Even though I’m a few episodes behind, I think the show deserves a second season!
I love this show
Love this show, don’t ever change a thing, loveee CW❤️
This ain’t the Archie I grew with . I think fans of the comic are going to be disappointed . I was always curious what the Veronica and Betty characters would look like if it came to TV series because they were hot . Maybe CW shouldn’t try so hard to be so diverse and cast people that work for the character ( I’m mixed race ). I would have liked to have seen a Young Megan Fox type to be VERONICA . Makeup on the girls doesn’t pop at all . Betties pasted back pony tail doesn’t flater her… Read more »
Like the show. Good storyline and characters. With all the cop shows on TV, this is a nice change
I like the show i hope it comes back for more
Apart from the fact that none of the characters look like they would be sophomores in high School (more like college) I actually like the mystery aspect of the show I hope it gets renewed
did not like the show. am a fan of Archie since i was six. read in the 70’s and 80’s introduced to my daughter in the 2000. not the Archie i know and love, will not watch anymore. which is a same cause Luke Perry is in it and i loved him from the Beverly Hills DAYS