Riverdale, like many exhibits, can be ending this season prematurely after manufacturing was shut down as a result of unfold of the novel coronavirus. The ultimate episode that accomplished filming, Season four Episode 19, airs Wednesday and can function the Season four finale. It is particular not solely as a result of it’s the (new) finale, however it was additionally directed by one among Riverdale‘s personal — Madchen Amick.
After directing just a few music movies and award-winning shorts, Amick makes her tv directorial debut with “Killing Mr. Honey” — an episode that performs out a number of revenge fantasies for the core 4 and their mates when coping with the principal they blame for ruining their senior yr. Apparently, Mr. Honey (Kerr Smith) is basically in for it within the upcoming episode.
“Poor Principal honey obtained the worst of [it], however Kerr Smith, the actor, was so nice and he actually loved doing every little thing,” Amick advised TV Information. “He liked it. So he made it very straightforward to torture him.”
After all, directing her first episode of TV got here with unprecedented challenges for Amick, who was about to begin her final day of enhancing the episode when manufacturing shut down.
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“That positively was a problem as a result of that is your final day sharpening little issues up, and I’d have liked to have been within the room with the editor to simply tweak all that little stuff however we dealt with it,” she defined. “We obtained it performed.”
Although the season will finish early with just a few extra unfastened ends than anticipated, Amick did promise that Episode 19 will nonetheless be an enormous cliffhanger to maintain followers excited for Season 5. Regardless that it isn’t ideally suited to have needed to lower manufacturing quick, Amick says the episode works as a finale with out having to vary the DNA of what she and the solid and crew shot in Vancouver earlier than the worldwide pandemic.
“I positively really feel very honored that we will kind of wrap up and finish on this episode. Sadly, it is given that it’s — that is very unlucky. I feel what’s good is that the episode did not have to vary an excessive amount of,” she stated. “It simply coincidentally ended up serving as a extremely good cliffhanger for the season. So, I am glad we had been in a position to maintain the episode intact from what we went into it planning on doing.”
The Riverdale Season four finale airs Wednesday at 8/7c on The CW.
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