Fans have known for over a year that Riverdale would end with Season 7, with actor KJ Apa, who plays Archie Andrews, promising fans in May 2022 that they would go out with a "bang." The show's finale, "Goodbye Riverdale," will air on August 23, and looks forward to 86-year-old Betty Cooper (played by Lili Reinhart) "turning to a special friend to help her relive her past." Time,” a final nostalgic trip. On the last day of senior year, she's with her friends and their memories come back," according to the CW's description. That also includes, of course, Veronica Lodge (Camila Mendes) and Jagger Hyde Jones (Cole Sprouse).
When the cancellation was announced last May, CW boss Mark Pedowitz explained to Deadline that he felt Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's take on the Archie comic series was "iconic." "Sex" (which premiered in January 2017) had come to an end and "seven years was the right time" to wrap up the story, Pedowitz said at the time: "I firmly believe that the long-running series should be given a proper spin. Farewell. “We had a long conversation with Roberto (Aguirre-Sacasa) yesterday and he was very excited about the decision. We're going to treat this show the way it deserves to be treated. It's an iconic pop culture star and we want to make sure it develops in the right way. "
Aguirre-Sacasa, who wrote the show's final episode, later told Decider that he and the writing team didn't want the show to "completely fail" in season seven. "We don't want to tell stories about, you know. "Betty is a therapist working with people, Archie is trying to be an adoptive father to his uncle's long-lost son, Tabitha runs Pop's franchises across the country, " He elaborated. "We just want to go back to high school, but we don't want to repeat what we did. "
In exit interviews with Vulture, the cast of Riverdale reflected on their journey and the series finale. "We're all very happy that we've been working steadily for seven years. I can speak for all of us when I say: We'll never do 100-plus episodes again," Reinhart said, while also noting some of the challenges they've faced challenge.
"I think it's important to acknowledge that our show gets a lot of ridicule," she added, referencing the many " Riverdale Cringe" videos online. "People see out-of-context clips and think, what? I thought this was about teenagers. That's what we thought in season one. But it's really hard to feel like you're the butt of a joke. We all want to be actors; We're passionate about what we do, so it's difficult when the absurdity of our show becomes the focus of what the hell is going on when we read the table. Roberto laughs at things because he understands the absurdity and roughness of it.”
The main cast of "Riverdale" season 7 also includes Madeleine Page (Cheryl Blossom), Casey Cott (Kevin Keller), Vanessa Morgan (Tony Topaz), Charles · Melton (Reggie Mantle), Drew Rae Tanner (Fangs Fogarty), Erin Westbrook (Tabitha Tate) and Madchen Amick (Alice Cooper).
Apa is one of them, and he's already looking to the future. "I still have a lot to learn about myself. I spent a lot of pivotal years on the show and had to go through a lot of big changes, and the show was the only truly consistent thing in my life," he told Vulture. "I mean, I've had red hair for the past seven years... I wanted to get back a part of my identity that I didn't really feel connected to." His most recent post- Riverdale What to expect? "No red hair."
