It has been a critical minute since we final caught up with the gang in Riverdale. Season four didn’t finish how creator and showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa meant as a result of manufacturing shutdown in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, and usually we would be preparing for brand spanking new episodes in a number of brief weeks, however there’s nonetheless a number of extra months earlier than we see Archie (KJ Apa) and the crew formally graduate highschool.
Final season ended three episodes early, with Episode 19, “Killing Mr. Honey,” and disadvantaged us of the upcoming promo and commencement episodes. These will front-end the brand new season, which can premiere in 2021. The excellent news is that manufacturing is beginning to resume so increasingly particulars are popping out about what to anticipate from Season 5. This is every thing we all know to this point…
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The present will return in early 2021: Usually, Riverdale premieres in October, however due to the manufacturing shutdown resulting from COVID-19, The CW has pushed its new season till January 2021. Whereas we do not but have a precise premiere date for Season 5, we do know that Riverdale will stay on Wednesdays at 8/7c and lead into Nancy Drew.
Filming started in September: After a protracted hiatus, Riverdale is again in manufacturing up in Vancouver. Madchen Amick posted her annual first episode of the season desk learn selfie. Whereas everybody was socially distanced and distant for the read-through, TV Information can affirm the forged are again in Vancouver, prepared to start filming beneath the brand new COVID-19 security pointers.
Senior yr will proceed in Season 5. The Season four finale was purported to see Archie (KJ Apa) and his buddies graduate from highschool and plot their futures collectively, however as a result of manufacturing shutdown, Season four ended with a number of senior yr rites of passage that also should be filmed — and we are going to get them in Season 5.
“We’ll do promenade as our season premiere subsequent yr,” Aguirre-Sacasa informed TV Information. “I really like that we’re not short-changing issues like promenade and commencement. We’re saving them to do them subsequent yr.”
A giant time bounce is going on. Madchen Amick revealed to TV Information that Riverdale was “planning on a little bit of a time bounce, after [the teens had] all gone off to varsity and one thing brings them again to the city,” however these plans had been placed on maintain with the abbreviated season.
“We’re speaking about what we are able to do [in the writers’ room],” Aguirre-Sacasa informed TV Information of the now botched time bounce plans. “Normally, time jumps are the very best once they occur in between seasons, however we’re positively speaking about all of our totally different choices.”
Aguirre-Sacasa hinted to TVLine that the plans for the time bounce are nonetheless within the works, although, saying, “What we’re doing is selecting up proper the place we left off for the primary three episodes, after which doing a time bounce… after these three episodes.”
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Meaning we cannot be saying goodbye to FP or Hermione simply but. In February, news dropped that each FP Jones (Skeet Ulrich) and Hermione Lodge (Marisol Nichols) would each lose their sequence common standing in Season 5, which makes numerous sense given the time bounce. Nevertheless, since we’ll nonetheless be within the children’ senior yr when Season 5 kicks off, we are going to get to see each of the adults once more and provides them a correct goodbye.
“Marisol already knew what we had deliberate for Hermione and actually cherished it, and wished to ensure we weren’t going to vary that [in light of the shutdown] — which we weren’t,” Aguirre-Sacasa defined. “Skeet was utterly down…Neither character dies. My hope is that they are part of Riverdale so long as there is a Riverdale. Whilst we speak about tales for Season 5, if Hermione and FP match into these tales, we’re writing them that method and hopefully, we’ll be capable of use them, relying on what different commitments they’ve.”
Jughead and Veronica will discover out about Barchie. Season four had Bughead and Varchie shippers’ heads spinning when Betty (Lii Reinhart) and Archie began getting nearer. They pretended up to now to save lots of Jughead from the Stonewall preppies, however then truly cheated on their vital others in the course of the musical episode. That illicit kiss won’t keep secret for lengthy in Season 5.
“Neither Veronica nor Jughead have came upon about [Betty and Archie in Season 4],” Aguirre-Sacasa stated. “I do not know if it is a spoiler, however I can inform you that they positively will discover out in very other ways. I do not suppose it is the top of the drama, or it is the top of the love quadrangle by any stretch of the creativeness.” The Riverdale ship conflict continues.
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The voyeur has a “private” cause for videotaping everybody. A lingering thriller from Season four is the mysterious voyeur sending disturbing videotapes to everybody on the town. Aguirre-Sacasa says the id of the voyeur shall be revealed in Season 5, and the individual could have a private cause for making the tapes and forcing the teenagers to face all of the trauma they’ve skilled over the previous three years earlier than they transfer on to varsity.
Riverdale returns subsequent season on The CW.