What happened to each character – and one last crazy relationship turnaround

This included an epic 67 year time warp where Betty (Lili Reinhart) at the age of 86 and discovered that with the death of Jughead (Cole Sprouse), she is the last of the gang still alive. This spurs a return to Riverdale.

This isn’t sci-fi, though, as we’re still stuck in the 1950s continuity that the gang transitioned into with last season’s finale. It’s a fitting nod to the origins of the original Archie Comics. OK, we lied. It’s kind of sci-fi, but that was more in the previous episode.

It’s all very confusing and casual fans just watching the finale needn’t worry about it. But last week Angel Tabitha (Erinn Westbrook) broke down Riverdale We’ve traced the multiverse all these years into the 1950’s timeline, giving the gang their full memories… so it’s kind of a closure to their entire existence.

Like I said, it’s kind of weird and confusing. It goes without saying Riverdale at this point, but ultimately this is the journey of the teenagers going through high school in the 1950’s to their deaths before the present.

Betty reconnects with the angelic Jughead during her journey and is able to remember what has happened to all of her friends since they all graduated and transitioned into adulthood. One of those things was certainly groundbreaking.

Hell, a quad relationship would be groundbreaking and shocking today, let alone in the ’50s or ’60s. And yet Betty remembered vividly that she had a four-way romance with Jughead, Archie (KJ Apa) and Veronica (Camila Mendes) before life separated them.

Regaining her full memories of her whole life naturally helped, leading to a rather unorthodox way of life in the 1950s. That’s definitely a way of saying the four leads have stayed close together!

So what happened to everyone in the end?

Betty Cooper: Betty found her passion and career in writing and published Betty’s Diary, a how-to column and best-selling book, The Teenage Mystique. Eventually she ended up in New York and ran her own magazine there. she says. Betty remained single but adopted a daughter, Carla, who gave birth to granddaughter Alice, who took her to Riverdale.

Jughead Jones: Also never married, Jughead pursued his own literary ambitions in a different direction and founded satire Jughead’s Madhouse Magazine.

Archie Andrews: Archie’s story was a little more down to earth: he moved to California, a nod to his father’s dream of living on the Left Coast. He worked his way there and built what would later become the interstate system. There he had a wife, children and domestic happiness.

Veronica Lodge: Ironically, after Riverdale, Veronica made the transition to television by bonding with Peter Roth, actual former CEO of Warner Bros. TV. She joined the company and eventually became the head of WB, where she won two Oscars on the side.

Kevin Keller & Clay Walker: Kevin (Casey Cottt) and Clay (Karl Walcott) moved to Harlem, where Kevin started his own off-Broadway theater company after studying musical theater writing at NYU. Clay became a professor at Columbia. Both reached old age and died within a few weeks.

Cheryl Blossom & Toni Topaz: Cheryl (Madelaine Petsch) and Tony (Vanessa Morgan) made it work as a couple and took their activism to California. They named their son Dale in reference to their childhood home where Cheryl found success as a painter.

Reggie Mantle: Reggie (Charles Melton) was able to realize his sporting dreams and was drafted by the Lakers. After the death of his parents, he returned to Riverdale and took the position of basketball coach at Riverdale High. He married and had two sons who run the local used car dealership.

Julian Blossom: Unfortunately, the life of Cheryl’s brother Julian (Nicholas Barasch) was not as good as his sister’s. He enlisted in the military right out of high school and died in Vietnam at the age of 28.

Alice Cooper & Polly: Alice (girl amick) pursued her dream of becoming a stewardess after divorcing Hal (Lochlyn Munro), but it was short-lived as she fell in love after helping to land a plane when the pilot was incapacitated. Alice and her new husband traveled the world and for a time left Betty postcards. Polly (Tiera Skovbye) reconciles with her mother and eventually has twins Juniper and Dagwood with Jason Blossom.

Fangs and Mosquitoes: The future was tragic and short for Fangs (Drew Ray Tanner) as he and his band died young in an accident. But it wasn’t before he charted a single, which was enough for Midge’s (Emilija Baranac) parents to let her get married. Royalties from her music, which skyrocketed after her death, helped Midge and his child live well for the rest of their lives.

Sheriff Tom Keller (Martin Cummins) and Frank AndrewsRyan Robbins It has been strongly suggested that they became lovers, with Jughead revealing that they were murdered by a hustler they picked up named Chic (Hart Denton impersonated this character in Season 2, where he pretended to be Betty’s long-lost brother ). Director Weatherbee (Peter James Bryant) And Mrs. Thornton (Frances Flanagan) ended up married.

The fate of some characters was revealed earlier in the season, including the Hollywood star Josie McCoy (Ashleigh Murray), as well as hermione (Mirasol Nichols) And Hiram Lodge (Mark Consuelos). His marriage couldn’t survive Hiram’s infidelity, nor could their hit TV show.

Ethel Muggs (Shannon Purser) and Ben Button (Moses Thiessen) also left Riverdale for Hollywood. We know she got a job, but her story hasn’t been resolved otherwise. Penelope (Nathalie Boltt) and Clifford Blossom (Barclay Hope) have previously been caught and arrested as Russian spies.

Returning to that finale, after reliving a magical high school day with her granddaughter – and the ghost Jughead by her side – the episode ended with Betty dying on the way to Pop’s Diner, which has now been abandoned pops (Alvin Sanders) Death in 1956 after the gang’s breakup.

But then we went back to the 1950s, when young Betty got out of the car to meet up with her friends again and the show’s narrator, Jughead, said his goodbyes one last time.

Fans who can’t get enough and want more revelations should tune in to the expanded version of this finale on streaming platforms.