Riverdale

Riverdale is a 2017 CW teen mystery drama, based on characters from the Archie Comics.

Plot
RIVERDALE 's first season revolves around the mysterious murder of Jason Blossom. He was initially believed to have died by drowning in the Sweetwater River, but when Jason's body is finally found, with an obvious gunshot wound to his forehead, the case will be reopened as murder. A schoolmate of Jason's, Archie Andrews is tormented by not knowing whether or not to go public with the fact that the morning of Jason's disappearance, he heard a gunshot, because it could bring out his relationship with music teacher Geraldine Grundy.

Archie is also the object of the attention of his neighbor Betty Cooper, whose sister Polly was having a troubled relationship with Jason. Furthermore, upon arrival in the city of the splendid Veronica Lodge, a high society girl who fell from grace after her father's arrest, a strong mutual attraction immediately springs up between her and Archie. Meanwhile, Jughead Jones, once Archie's best friend, has to live like a homeless man not wanting to live with a gang leader and alcoholic father.

Jason's twin sister Cheryl reacts to the death of her beloved brother, tightening her grip on high school and open warfare is immediately between her and Veronica. It will be this group of teenagers to reveal the chilling truth behind Jason's death, becoming adults ahead of time.

The second season of RIVERDALE picked up moments after Season One's finale, with Fred Andrews (Luke Perry) shot by a mysterious assailant in a black hood - and his son Archie (KJ Apa) racing to save his father's life. No one was safe from The Black Hood's wrath... except for Betty (Lili Reinheart), whose speech at the town's Jubilee "inspired" the Black Hood and made her the object of his murderous obsession. All of our gang teamed up to stop the Black Hood, including Jughead Jones (Cole Sprouse), who also acclimated to a new school and endured a trial-by-fire to become a full-fledged member of his father's gang, the infamous Southside Serpents - even as FP Jones (Skeet Ulrich) struggled to get back on the straight and narrow. As Archie and Betty wrestled with the "darkness" the Black Hood had revealed in them, Veronica Lodge (Camila Mendes) agreed to help her father Hiram (Mark Consuelos) and mother Hermoine (Marisol Nichols) with the "family business," which pulled her and Archie into a dangerous world of mobsters and criminals. Even star-to-be Josie McCoy (Ashleigh Murray) was drawn into the Lodge's political machinations.

Meanwhile, Queen Bee Cheryl Blossom (Madelaine Petsch) was locked in a power-struggle with her mother Penelope (guest star Nathalie Boltt), and found an unlikely ally in Toni Topaz (Vanessa Morgan), a Southside Serpent, who had recently transferred to Riverdale High. Furthermore, Betty and Alice's (Madchen Amick) lives were turned upside-down when Betty's long-lost brother Chic (guest star Hart Denton) moved into the Cooper house. With tensions between the North and Southside at an all-time high - stoked by Hiram Lodge with the help of Reggie Mantle (Charles Melton), and intensified with the Black Hood's unexpected re-emergence - a civil war seemed imminent. And, indeed, after a brief respite during which everyone came together to put on "CARRIE the Musical," directed by Kevin Keller (Casey Cott), Season Two built to a riot that brought out the worst (and best) of Riverdale and its citizens, and culminated in the shocking arrest of one of our main characters.

In season 3 of RIVERDALE Archie (KJ Apa), is framed by Hiram Lodge (Mark Consuelos) for murder. Meanwhile, a mysterious RPG, Gryphons & Gargoyles, begins to pass from hand to hand among the city's teenagers, causing unexplained suicides and bringing to light a dark secret dating back years before, guarded by the parents of the protagonists since adolescence. . Hiram Lodge continues with his shady drug dealings that will plunge the city into extremely dangerous situations, while a cult known as "The Farm" mysteriously expands into the city, recruiting as many inhabitants as possible, including numerous main characters.

In season 4 of RIVERDALE Archie (KJ Apa) and his friends are preparing to attend their last year of high school but things do not go well for Archie starting from the death of his father Fred (Luke Perry); Jughead (Cole Sprouse) becomes a student at Stonewall Prep, a school that has an excellent writing class, but his classmates begin to bully him and he finds himself entangled in a series of disturbing mysteries, while strange videotapes begin to be sent to city residents.

In Season 5 of RIVERDALE we witness the protagonists' graduation and they all take different paths Archie (KJ Apa) enlists in the army, Jughead (Cole Sprouse) dedicates himself to a career as a writer in New York; Betty (Lili Reinhart) becomes an FBI recruit at Quantico, while Veronica (Camila Mendes) leads a comfortable life in New York where she is married to Chadwick Gekko (Chris Mason). Seven years later Archie returns to Riverdale, and discovering that Hiram Lodge (Mark Consuelo) is turning it into a ghost town, he once again gathers his friends to stop him.

In Season 6 of RIVERDALE, the gang discovers they have acquired superpowers and must soon learn to use them to save the city from the mysterious Percival Pickens (Chris O'Shea), himself gifted with supernatural abilities.

Characters

 * MAINDALE
 * Archie Andrews
 * Betty Cooper
 * Veronica Lodge
 * Jughead Jones
 * Cheryl Blossom
 * Josie McCoy
 * Kevin Keller
 * Reggie Mantle
 * Toni Topaz
 * Tabitha Tate
 * Fangs Fogarty


 * RECURRINGDALE
 * Ethel Muggs
 * Dilton Doiley
 * Midge Klump
 * Polly Cooper
 * Jason Blossom
 * Valerie Brown
 * Melody Valentine
 * Chuck Clayton
 * Moose Mason
 * Joaquin DeSantos
 * Sweet Pea


 * PARENTDALE
 * Fred Andrews
 * Mary Maiden
 * Alice Smith
 * Hal Cooper
 * Hermione Gomez
 * Hiram Lodge
 * FP Jones
 * Gladys Jones
 * Penelope Blossom
 * Clifford Blossom
 * Sierra Samuels
 * Myles McCoy
 * Tom Keller
 * Marty Mantle
 * Melinda Mantle

Fandom

 * FAN FICTION
 * Riverdale tag on FanFiction.net
 * Riverdale tag on FanFiction.net


 * IG


 * TUMBLR


 * TWITTER


 * WIKIS

Trivia

 * KJ Apa (Archie Andrews), Lili Reinhart (Betty Cooper) and Casey Cott (Kevin Keller) ship Barchie
 * Camila Mendes (Veronica Lodge) ships Varchie and Bughead
 * KJ Apa, Casey Cott and Madelaine Petsch (Cheryl Blossom) previous shipped Joavin, up until the character of Joaquin’s death in season 3
 * Lili Reinhart previously shipped Bughead, until the shortly before the characters’ breakup in season 5


 * in Riverdale: Formulaic Tropes, Bad Boys Edition (WOMEN WRITE ABOUT COMICS • FEBRUARY 2017)