Riverdale has had its fair share of drama for such a small down.
There was the whole murder mystery with Jason Blossom; the Black Hood and the Gargoyle King terrorising the town; the Farm converting basically…well, it seemed like everyone.
Oh, and there was the whole thing with Hiram Lodge basically trying to take over Riverdale.
And it looks like there’s going to be no shortage of drama when the CW series returns to our screens later this year. But just when is Riverdale going to be back on telly?
The new season will start on the CW in North America on Wednesday, October 9. Episodes will arrive on Netflix in Ireland the following day, October 10 – most likely around 8am.
And there’s no doubt that fans are hoping for a resolution to that massive season three cliffhanger when Riverdale does return.
In case you need a refresher of what went down, it all ended with the Fab Four sharing a milkshake toast at Pop’s, promising that their senior year wouldn’t involve them having to solve any murders.
A totally fair wish for their last year of high school – although it’s fairly grim that they’d even have to make that promise.
But then the episode flashed forwarded to their senior year spring break, with a blood-soaked Archie, Betty and Veronica throwing their clothes into a big bonfire.
They promise that they’re never going to speak of “this” again, before Archie throws Jughead’s beanie into the blaze.
The scene left many fans concerned about Jughead’s fate – especially as Riverdale showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa told TVLine that fans should be “very worried” about him.
He also spoke about the central mystery of season four, explaining:
“Every year, we try to explore a different genre, or a different type of pulp or noir trope. This next season, it’s sort of our homage to the novels we read growing up, like Christopher Pike and Lois Duncan, [who wrote] I Know What You Did Last Summer and Killing Mr. Griffin.
“I’m a huge fanatic of Donna Tartt’s novel The Secret History. So we kind of wanted to explore a genre that focused on the school and the students, and that’s what led to the flash-forward.”
