Back to School! Everything We Know About ‘Riverdale’ Season 4
It’s officially senior year at Riverdale High. Riverdale returns for season 4 in less than two weeks, and according to the showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, the core four’s relationships will be front and center.
“I guess the one thing that could break up the foursome, well, besides death, is something romantic happening. They’re great friends. They’ve been through stuff no other friends have been through,” Sacasa told Us Weekly exclusively at San Diego Comic-Con in July. “It may not seem like it, but I genuinely love these characters and I love this quartet. I want them to be OK. It feels like I put them through the ringer, and I do, but there’s a part of me that always thinks that they’ll survive, they’ll be OK, they’ll win.”
The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina creator added that the season 4 mystery will play out more similar to season 1, calling the plot a “slow burn.”
“The reason for that is so we can tell character stories and friendship stories without the threat of ‘Oh my God, we might get killed tonight,’” Sacasa explained. “So, there are villains, for sure, and in some ways, they’re different from any villains we’ve ever done.”
Riverdale debuted on the CW in January 2017. The show stars K.J. Apa (Archie), Lili Reinhart (Betty), Camila Mendes (Veronica), Cole Sprouse (Jughead), Casey Cott (Kevin) and Madelaine Petsch (Cheryl). During season 3, Ashleigh Murray, who played Josie, exited the series to star on a spinoff titled Katy Keene. The new drama, which stars Lucy Hale, will premiere midseason.
Sprouse told Us in July that the characters will be sticking together as they head into their senior year.
“I think the characters are very much clinging to one another, in their last days of their high school years before their inevitable departure away from one another,” he explained. “So I think they’re hugging tight.”
Scroll through for everything we know about Riverdale season 4:
Riverdale season 4 premieres on the CW Wednesday, October 9, at 8 p.m. ET.
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Perry, who played Archie’s dad, Fred Andrews, died on March 4 after suffering a stroke. He was 52.
Sacasa confirmed at San Diego Comic-Con in July that Perry’s former Beverly Hills, 90210 costar Shannen Doherty will appear in the premiere, which will also serve as a tribute episode to the late actor.
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Sacasa told Us in May that season 4 will include more of the characters at school.
“I say this every year, but we’re going to really, really play the high school franchise. This year we really, really are – 100 percent,” he explained. “We’re really locating things at the school. Archie’s going to be on the football team, Cheryl’s going to be cheerleading, Betty’s going to be at the Blue and Gold. We’re really reinvesting a lot in those franchises.”
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Jughead, however, will be walking different halls.
“Jughead is being whisked away on a scholarship to an incredibly pretentious prep school outside of Riverdale, so he returns on the weekends,” Sprouse told Us. “The prep school is where the central mystery is for this season and is the basis of that flash-forward, and Jughead is sort of integrating himself into an even more pretentious society of people.”
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Sprouse isn’t too worried about the status of his TV relationship with Reinhart’s Betty, though.
“I don’t think [it will impact them] too poorly, at least as it stands right now,” he told Us in July. “I’m sure they’ll play around with it. I don’t think we’ve established that it’s going to be a bad thing.”
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While Jughead and Betty are going strong and Archie and Veronica are back on, Sacasa told Us at the end of season 3 that the series will eventually explore Betty and Archie further.
“I think that that’s one of the dynamics we haven’t played is the idea that Archie and Betty together romantically. I think in a teen show that if we somehow went seven years in that and never saw that, I think it would be a failure,” he admitted. “So ‘maybe’ is what I’ll say.”
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Wyatt Nash will recur on season 4 after it was revealed Charles, an FBI agent,is Betty and Jughead’s real brother. (The gang previously thought the son of Alice Cooper and FP Jones was a man named Chic, played by Hart Denton.)
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Kerr Smith joins the show as the new Riverdale High School principal, Mr. Honey. The Dawson’s Creek alum will make his debut on the second episode of season 4, "Chapter Fifty-Nine: Fast Times at Riverdale High."
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