Riverdale Boss Reveals How the Final Season Almost Went Much Differently (With a Lot More Time Jumps)
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Riverdale spent its final season back in the 1950s, but it almost hopped its way through the rest of the 20th century, too.
“Originally, when we pitched the season,” showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa tells TVLine, “one of the ideas that we pitched was that the first 13 episodes would be in the ’50s, and then starting around Episode 14 or so, we would start moving in time. So Episode 14 would be set in the ’60s, Episode 15 would be set in the ’70s, and then the ’80s, the ’90s… kind of working through to the present day.”
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But “it sort of became clear” that, in terms of the show’s budget, all that time-hopping “was not in the realm” of possibility, the EP notes. Plus, Riverdale had already done “a more elaborate time travel, time-jumping plot” in Season 6, and “the writers and the cast and the crew, we were having such a fun time in the ’50s… We thought we would just continue telling the domestic, personal, romantic coming-of-age stories that we tell, and then move everyone back at the end.”
So while the Riverdale writers did have “much more elaborate and ambitious plans about moving people through time,” ultimately, Aguirre-Sacasa recalls, “when we were getting to it, it just didn’t feel right.”
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