‘Riverdale’ Recap: Season 3 Finale, ‘Survive the Night’ – TVLine

Warning: The following put up comprises spoilers for Wednesday’s Riverdale finale.

The Riverdale gang is heading into their senior year… but will all of them live on to stare commencement?

Wednesday’s Season 3 finale, which saw Penelope build Archie and his chums by a demented sport of G&G with existence-and-demise stakes, hit us with a barrage of peculiar moments admire arrows from Cheryl’s bow. Standard is alive, and the Gargoyle King! Penelope killed Hal! Alice and Polly “ascended” into thin air at the side of Edgar and the Farmies! But Alice used to be if truth be told working undercover… with Betty’s brother Charles, who’s alive, and an FBI agent! (Charles is Jughead’s brother, too, put in mind… but let’s not consider that an excessive amount of.)

However the ideally suited shocker came final, with Archie, Veronica, Betty and Jughead sharing a milkshake toast at Pop’s and pledging that their senior year obtained’t include fixing any murders. Flash-forward to: spring destroy, with Archie, Betty and Veronica covered in blood and burning their dresses in a huge bonfire in the woods. They reveal never to narrate of this yet again (no matter “this” is)… and Jughead is nowhere to be seen. Actually, Archie throws his buddy’s signature beanie on the fire. Whaaaat?!?

Naturally, we had just a few million questions after that finale, so TVLine reached out to Riverdale showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, who shed some light on the finale’s many mysteries. Read on for his rationalization of that Jughead-less cliffhanger, Cheryl’s unnatural bond with her dumb brother Jason — and if we can express Archie and Veronica are in actuality wait on together yet again.

TVLINE | We salvage that milkshake toast, with the crowd vowing no more abolish mysteries. But then we flash-forward to spring destroy, and one thing awful has clearly took arena, and Jughead is conspicuously missing. How terrified would possibly perhaps perhaps presumably serene we be about Jughead?

Very terrified. [Laughs] Very terrified.

TVLINE | Is what led as much as that moment in the woods the huge thriller of Season 4?


Yeah, entirely. Yearly, we try to stumble on a decided vogue, or a decided form of pulp or noir trope. This subsequent season, it’s form of our homage to the novels we be taught increasing up, admire Christopher Pike and Lois Duncan, [who wrote] I Know What You Did Final Summer season and Killing Mr. Griffin. I’m an infinite fanatic of Donna Tartt’s original The Secret Historical past. So we form of desired to search out a mode that excited by the college and the college students, and that’s what ended in the flash-forward.

TVLINE | We furthermore saw Standard come wait on as the Gargoyle King, posing as Jason. Did you repeatedly draw to bring him wait on?


Yeah, since we never saw his physique… [Laughs] We were form of beholden to bringing Standard wait on. But we all in actuality cherished that personality, and cherished that actor. We were correct determining what the ideally suited contrivance to bring him wait on used to be. It’s comic: [Hart Denton, who plays Chic] saved announcing, “Are you in actuality going to bring me wait on?” And I was admire, “Yeah, wait, it’s a couple more episodes!” And we bought him in at the very discontinuance.

TVLINE | Betty’s dad Hal is dumb now… or is he? Can we believe that somebody is ever in actuality dumb on this point to?


It’s an ideally suited question! I repeatedly express, “You never know for staunch.” But I discontinuance mediate that Hal is at final, in actuality, in actuality dumb.

TVLINE | Betty furthermore lost her mom Alice when she vanished into thin air at the side of Edgar and The Farm. Will we be unraveling that thriller subsequent season as successfully — presumably with the wait on of Charles?


Completely. I would express we’ve slightly much performed out the story of The Farm. The one story serene left to express is, Betty and Charles and Jughead favor to extract Alice from wherever The Farm is holed up in. In deliver that’s one thing we’re going to deal with early on in the season.

TVLINE | Cheryl bought faraway from The Farm, but now she has Jason’s dumb physique propped up at dwelling, Psycho-vogue. Has she long gone entirely off the deep discontinuance?


Certain and no. We were speaking about this in the [writers’] room. Cheryl is a personality who will repeatedly be outlined by the shortcoming of her brother, and her savor for her brother… and that’s why she so readily joined The Farm. Any individual allowed her to be wait on fervent with her brother. We in actuality understanding that at the discontinuance of the season, would Cheryl straight build him wait on in the floor and express goodbye to him yet again? Maybe not. Maybe she would lengthen that as much as that you would possibly perhaps presumably consider. Is it loopy? Certain, it’s loopy. Attain I mediate Jason is chatting with her the manner Mrs. Bates talked to Norman? No, I discontinuance not mediate that.

TVLINE | Besides your total existence-and-demise stuff, we saw Archie and Veronica reconcile. Is it safe to affirm they’re a fats-on couple yet again?

I… can’t express that definitively.

TVLINE | Hiram did salvage thrown into penal advanced, on the opposite hand it’s actually a penitentiary of his luxuriate in making, alongside with his name on it. So is he serene a force to be reckoned with?


Completely. In a irregular contrivance, Hiram is the king in his castle now. He’s in his arena in his energy, so I don’t mediate we’ve heard the final of him.

(For Aguirre-Sacasa’s rationalization for why Riverdale didn’t deal with Luke Perry’s demise in Season 3, click on right here.)

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