This article is about the 2017 American TV series in light of Archie Comics. For the made up town of the very name that the series is set in, see Riverdale (Archie Comics). For different purposes in regards to its elective title in season 6, see Rivervale.
Riverdale is an American TV series in view of the characters of Archie Comics. The series was adjusted for the CW by Archie Comics’ boss innovative official Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, and is delivered by Warner Brothers. TV and CBS Studios, in relationship with Berlanti Creations and Archie Comics. Considered as an element film transformation for Warner Brothers. Pictures, the thought was reconsidered as a TV series for Fox. In 2015, improvement on the venture moved to The CW, where the series was requested for a pilot. Recording occurred in Vancouver, English Columbia.
The series highlighted a troupe cast in light of the characters of Archie Comics, with KJ Apa in the job of Archie Andrews, Lili Reinhart as Betty Cooper, Camila Mendes as Veronica Hotel, and Cole Sprouse as Jughead Jones, the series’ storyteller. After a teen is killed inside the town of Riverdale, this gathering of youngsters attempt to unwind the wrongs prowling inside the town.
Riverdale debuted on January 26, 2017, to positive audits all through its initial not many seasons, albeit ensuing seasons were reprimanded for the composition, course, and absence of reasonable storylines. The series ran for seven seasons until August 23, 2023.
Riverdale Cast and characters
Fundamental article: Rundown of Riverdale characters
Madelaine Petsch, Cole Sprouse, Lili Reinhart, Camila Mendes, and KJ Apa at the Riverdale board at 2017 San Diego Comic-Con
KJ Apa as Archie Andrews: A previous secondary school football player who has an enthusiasm for music. He is a previous sergeant in the military and is presently a JROTC teacher at his old secondary school. He is profoundly associated with shielding his local area from any risk. He is youth dearest companions with Betty Cooper as they are nearby neighbors and dearest companions with Jughead Jones.[1] He dated Veronica Cabin in secondary school; in any case, the two separation after he kisses and composes a tune for Betty. Afterward, he starts a relationship with Betty whom he proposes to in the season six finale.
Lili Reinhart as Betty Cooper: A savvy lady who is closest companions with Archie, who she has a keen interest in. She becomes companions with Veronica Cabin when she moves to town. In secondary school, she dates Jughead who she runs the school paper with. She parts ways with Jughead prior to moving to school. She turns into a FBI specialist and works from Riverdale. She cuts off up in a friendship with Archie and becomes drawn in to him in the season 6 finale. During the series finale, it is uncovered that she never wedded yet taken on a girl as a single parent.
Camila Mendes as Veronica Cabin: A previous “it young lady” of Manhattan, she moves to Riverdale toward the start of the series bearing in mind the end goal of improving as an individual after she is compelled to consider her life, because of the unexpected detainment of her dad. She is demonstrated to be aggressive to the limit with a powerful urge to prevail while at the same time attempting to stay uncorrupted and humble. She dates Archie during secondary school and Reggie too when Archie is in juvie. After a period bounce in season five, she had a very effective vocation on Money Road that she needed to surrender subsequent to stalling out in a harmful relationship with her oppressive spouse whom she separates later on. She is later Reggie’s better half once more — they separate in season 6.
Cole Sprouse as Jughead Jones: A rationally slanted oddball who is Archie’s best friend[2] and Betty’s ex. He was the previous head of the Southside Snakes pack. He is presently a distributed essayist, English educator, and a counselor at the Blue and Gold secondary school paper and is battling with liquor abuse. He is dating Tabitha Tate and can guess thoughts following the blast at Archie’s home. Sprouse likewise depicts an other Jughead who safeguards the Riverdale and Rivervale timetables from combining.
Marisol Nichols as Hermione Hotel (née Gomez[3]) (seasons 1-5; visitor, seasons 6-7): Veronica’s mom, who got back to Riverdale with her girl following the detainment of her significant other Hiram Lodge.[4] She is currently a reality star on Genuine Housewives of New York in the wake of leaving Hiram. She cared deeply about Fred as a youngster and again when she got back to Riverdale.
Madelaine Petsch as Cheryl Bloom: A rich, damaged, and at times manipulative lady who was a cohort of Archie and his companions. She dated Toni during high school.[5] Cheryl emerged as a lesbian in season two and dated Toni, until they separated in light of her disliking family.[6] She is currently the proprietor of Bloom Maple Homesteads, residing with her Nana and the cheerleading mentor at the secondary school.
Ashleigh Murray as Josie McCoy (seasons 1-4; visitor, seasons 5 and 7): The lead vocalist of Josie and the Pussycats and a previous cohort of Archie, whom she momentarily dates, and his companions. She leaves toward the finish of season 3 to seek after her music, however she momentarily returns in the season 4 debut for Archie’s dad’s burial service; this permitted Murray’s personality to join Katy Keene, the third side project in the Riverdale universe.[7] She is presently a multi-platinum whiz.
Mädchen Amick as Alice Cooper (née Smith): Betty and Polly’s mom, who was the manager of the nearby paper.[8] She is currently a correspondent for the Riverdale news and is bringing up Polly’s twin youngsters following Polly’s homicide in season 5, she is likewise demonstrated to be less harmful having made up for herself. Preceding his leaving in season 5, she was involved with FP Jones.
Luke Perry as Fred Andrews (seasons 1-3): Archie’s dad, who possessed a development organization. He was enamored with Veronica’s mom as a young person and momentarily reunites with her when she gets back to Riverdale. He passes on toward the beginning of season 4 in a fender bender because of Perry’s genuine death.[9]
Mark Consuelos as Hiram Hotel (conceived Jaime Luna[3]) (seasons 2-5; visitor, seasons 6-7):[10] Veronica’s dad, who was as of late imprisoned for criminal operations. In season 2 he moves to Riverdale, proceeding with his criminal operations and hoodlum ways.[11] He was subsequently killed in season 6 when Veronica requested a hit on him.
Casey Cott as Kevin Keller (seasons 2-7; repeating season 1): A transparently gay previous Riverdale secondary school understudy who is companions with Archie, Betty, Veronica and Jughead and is the child of Riverdale’s sheriff.[12] He gets back to Riverdale turning into an educator after not making it in Broadway in New York and forsakes the child he wanted to have with Toni and Teeth. He later documents for sole care over child Anthony at last surrendering this to make harmony. He reunites with his secondary school beau Moose in season 6.
Skeet Ulrich as F. P. Jones (seasons 2-5; repeating season 1): Jughead’s previously alienated father and the previous head of the Southside Snakes, a pack of lawbreakers that live and work on the edges of Riverdale.[13][14][15] He was once the sheriff yet passed on Riverdale to return Jughead’s sister Jellybean to Toledo to her mom. Preceding his leaving, he was involved with Alice Cooper.
Charles Melton as Reggie Mantle (seasons 3-7; repeating season 2): Archie’s long-term companion and opponent, a previous football player at Riverdale High and town trickster who has dyslexia.[16][17][18] He is currently the proprietor of his family’s vehicle sales center and the secondary school football trainer as well as Veronica’s beau. Reggie was initially played by Ross Steward in the principal season, who passed on the series because of his responsibilities to recording 13 Motivations behind Why. Head servant returned as a form of Reggie from an imaginary world in “Part 100: The Jughead Mystery” from season six. Reggie and Veronica separate in season 6 following the launch of their club. In the season 6 finale he takes sole responsibility for club.
Vanessa Morgan as Toni Topaz (seasons 3-7; repeating season 2): A sexually unbiased individual from the Southside Snakes, who is dearest companions with Jughead in the subsequent season. She was involved with Cheryl.[18] She is currently the head of the Southside Snakes, the secondary school life mentor and is bringing up a child with her sweetheart and later spouse Teeth in the wake of consenting to be a substitute for himself as well as his previous on and off again beau Kevin. In season 7, set during the 1950s she is dating Cheryl once more.
Drew Beam Leather expert as Teeth Fogarty (seasons 5-7; repeating season 2-4): an individual from the Southside Snakes and Kevin’s previous here and there again boyfriend.[19] He is a driver and has a child with Toni after Kevin said a final farewell to him. He and Toni wed halfway season 6.
Erinn Westbrook as Tabitha Tate (seasons 5-7×01, unique visitor 7×02 onwards): Pop Tate’s granddaughter and Jughead’s old flame.
Riverdale Episodes
| Season | Episodes | Originally aired | Rank | Average viewers (in millions) |
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| First aired | Last aired | |||||
| 1 | 13 | January 26, 2017 | May 11, 2017 | 154 | 1.69[20] | |
| 2 | 22 | October 11, 2017 | May 16, 2018 | 173 | 2.12[21] | |
| 3 | 22 | October 10, 2018 | May 15, 2019 | 166 | 1.74[22] | |
| 4 | 19 | October 9, 2019 | May 6, 2020 | 122 | 1.35[23] | |
| 5 | 19 | January 20, 2021 | October 6, 2021 | 145 | 1.01[24] | |
| 6 | 22 | November 16, 2021 | July 31, 2022 | 133 | 0.46[25] | |
| 7 | 20 | March 29, 2023 | August 23, 2023 | 129 | 0.39[26] | |
Riverdale Production
Development
Warner Brothers. started improvement on an Archie include movie in 2013, after a pitch from essayist Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and chief Jason Moore that would have put Archie’s group into a youngster satire include movie in the John Hughes tradition.[27] The team carried the undertaking to Warner Brothers., where a VP suggested an all the more high-idea heading including time travel or interdimensional entryways, proposing Louis C. K. to depict a more seasoned Archie.[28] Dan Lin and Roy Lee became makers on the venture, which in the end slowed down as needs moved at the studio towards bigger tentpole movies, and was rethought as a TV series.[27] The series Riverdale was being developed at Fox, with the organization arrival the undertaking in 2014 with a content arrangement in addition to penalty.[29] Nonetheless, Fox didn’t proceed with the task. In 2015, the show’s improvement was moved to the CW,[30] which authoritatively requested a pilot on January 29, 2016.[31] On Walk 7, 2017, The CW declared that the series had been restored briefly season.[32] On April 2, 2018, The CW recharged the series for a third season, which debuted October 10, 2018.[33][34] On January 31, 2019, The CW reestablished the series for a fourth season, that was wanted to comprise of 22 episodes.[35][36][37] Nonetheless, season four got abbreviated to 19 episodes rather on the grounds that creation was suspended on Walk 11, 2020, as an immediate consequence of the Covid pandemic.[38] Just 19 of the 22 arranged episodes of the fourth season were finished before the Covid pandemic.[39][40] The fourth season debuted on October 9, 2019.[41]
“Part 49: Fire Stroll with Me” was quick to be devoted to Luke Perry, who passed on two days before the episode aired.[42][43]
On January 7, 2020, the series was reestablished for a fifth season, which started a year after the fact on January 20, 2021.[44][45][46]
On February 3, 2021, the series was reestablished for a 6th season which was parted into two sections, and it debuted on November 16, 2021.[47][48][49] On Walk 22, 2022, The CW recharged the series for a seventh season.[50] On May 19, 2022, it was declared that the series will be finishing up with its impending seventh season, which debuted on Walk 29, 2023. The series finale broadcasted on August 23, 2023
Casting of Riverdale
On February 9, 2016, Lili Reinhart and Cole Sprouse were given a role as Betty Cooper and Jughead Jones, respectively.[53] Lili Reinhart nearly didn’t land the job after her video-based tryout, yet subsequent to moving to LA and going to face to face projecting, she figured out how to get decided to play Betty Cooper.[54] On February 24, 2016, KJ Apa was given a role as Archie Andrews following a four-month overall ability search. Apa was one of the last to try out and handled the job only days after the fact. Likewise that day, Ashleigh Murray was given a role as Josie McCoy, the lead vocalist for the well known band Josie and the Pussycats,[55] and Luke Perry and Madelaine Petsch were additionally added as Fred Andrews, Archie’s dad, and Cheryl Bloom, respectively.[56][57] Two days after the fact, Camila Mendes was given a role as Veronica Hotel denoting her most memorable acting job in a TV show.[58]
In Walk 2016, Marisol Nichols and Mädchen Amick joined the cast as Hermione Hotel and Alice Cooper, Veronica and Betty’s moms, respectively.[59][60] A couple of days after the fact, Ross Head servant, Daniel Yang and Cody Kearsley were projected in the jobs Reggie Mantle, Dilton Doiley and Moose Bricklayer, respectively.[61] The last entertainer to join the pilot was Casey Cott as Kevin Keller, the principal straightforwardly gay person in Archie Comics history.[62]
In April 2017, Imprint Consuelos endorsed on for the second season to play Veronica Hotel’s dad, Hiram Lodge.[63] The job was in second situation to his current job on Pitch, however the scratch-off of that series was reported on May 1, 2017.[64] The following month, Charles Melton was cast to assume control over the job of Reggie from Ross Head servant in season 2, because of his status as a series normal on 13 Reasons Why.[17] Casey Cott, who played Kevin Keller, was elevated to a series regular.[65] In July 2017, Genuine Blood star Brit Morgan was projected in the repetitive job of Penny Peabody, a lawyer the Southside Snakes bring in the event of any spats with the law.[66] In August 2017, Graham Phillips had been cast to play Scratch St. Clair, Veronica’s ex from New York.[67][68]
In Walk 2018, Andy Cohen showed up in the sixteenth episode of the second season as himself. In the series, he and Hermione are companions. He recently offered her a job as a cast part on The Genuine Housewives of New York City; be that as it may, Hermione turned down the proposal to keep things hidden for the Cabin family.[69] In May 2018, Charles Melton and Vanessa Morgan, who play Reggie Mantle and Toni Topaz, separately, would both be elevated to series regulars in the third season.[70] When of New York Comic Con 2018, Gina Gershon and Trinity Likins, separately, had been given a role as Gladys Jones and Jellybean “J. B.” Jones for the third season.[71]
In November 2018, Kelly Ripa, the spouse of Imprint Consuelos, who depicts Hiram Hotel, was projected for a visitor job as Hiram’s mistress.[72] Michael Consuelos, Kelly and Imprint’s child, was cast to make a visitor appearance in a flashback episode as a more youthful Hiram.[73] In October 2019, Ryan Robbins was given a role as Fred Andrews’ more seasoned sibling, Honest Andrews, who showed up during the fourth season.[74]
On February 23, 2020, it was declared that both Ulrich and Nichols would leave the series.[75][76] Notwithstanding, in June 2020, Nichols uncovered that in the wake of having a meaningful conversation with showrunner Sacasa, she would remain on for season five.[77] In September 2020, it was reported that Erinn Westbrook would join the show as another standard person named Tabitha Tate, the granddaughter of Pop Tate, who shows up in the neighborhood to run her granddad’s malt shop and establishment from it.[78] In January 2021, Chris Bricklayer was projected in a common job for the fifth season as Chad Gekko, Veronica’s Money Road husband.[79] In December 2021, Chris O’Shea joined the cast in a repetitive job as Percival Pickens for the 6th season.[80] In May 2022, Caroline Day joined the cast in a common job as Heather for the 6th season.[81] On December 20, 2022, Nicholas Barasch and Karl Walcott were projected in repeating capacities with regards to the seventh season
Homages to other films and television shows
A few commentators have noticed that the series’ episode titles are frequently taken straightforwardly or marginally modified from the titles of more established films.[103][104] For instance, De Elizabeth of High schooler Vogue brings up that Riverdale’s pilot episode was named “Stream’s Edge” after the 1986 film of a similar name, and the season finale takes its name from 1997’s The Sweet Hereafter.[105] Chief maker Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa takes note of that this is a purposeful decision, to indicate what will occur in that episode.[105] References to the imaginary setting of the Dark Mirror episode “San Junipero” should be visible in season one as well as heard among exchange in season two and three.[106]
Moreover, Katie-Kouise Smith of Popbuzz noticed that the initial credits for Riverdale reflect those of the Twin Pinnacles TV series, and are expected as a tribute to that series’ co-maker, David Lynch.[88]
