RIVERDALE Full Series Recap | Season 1-7 Ending Explained

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The Riverdale series finale just aired! So relive the entire Riverdale series now! Seasons 1-7!
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While navigating the troubled waters of sex, romance, school and family, teen Archie and his gang become entangled in a dark Riverdale mystery.
Riverdale stars KJ Apa as Archie Andrews, Lili Reinhart as Betty Cooper, Camila Mendes as Veronica Lodge, Cole Sprouse as Jughead Jones, Marisol Nichols as Hermione Lodge, Madelaine Petsch as Cheryl Blossom, Ashleigh Murray as Josie McCoy, Mädchen Amick as Alice Cooper, Luke Perry as Fred Andrews, Mark Consuelos as Hiram Lodge, Casey Cott as Kevin Keller, Skeet Ulrich as F. P. Jones, Charles Melton as Reggie Mantle, Vanessa Morgan as Toni Topaz, Drew Ray Tanner as Fangs Fogarty, Erinn Westbrook as Tabitha Tate.
This is a recap of some of the biggest and best moments from the entire Riverdale series, including Riverdale season 1-7. This video includes all of your favorite moments, including Riverdale musical episodes, Archie and Betty kiss, Archie and Veronica kiss, Jughead and Betty kiss, Jughead and Veronica kiss, Betty and Veronica kiss, Cheryl and Toni, Archie versus Hiram, Hiram's death, Fred's death, the Gargoyle King, the Black Hood, Percival Pickens, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, the 1950s, the series finale ending, and more! This video includes massive spoilers for the series finale ending and more!
Timestamps:
00:00 Season 1
04:46 Season 2
09:16 Season 3
14:22 Season 4
18:15 Season 5
23:39 Season 6
27:29 Season 7
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[@MrWii000]

The reason I watched Riverdale was for the return of Cole Sprouse (from “The Suite Life of Zack and Cody”). I watched the first two seasons with my parents, but we gave up halfway through Season 3.

[@thepubknight6144]

I never knew this was the Archie comic show live action...that's very cool Very faithful to the comics actually Glad they had Jughead's love of hamburgers in it too Rip Luke Perry

[@ClaireWritesSometimes]

You know, when described like this, seasons 1-4 actually manage to sound cohesive, if incredibly melodramatic and ridiculous. And then season 6 rolls around and suddenly there's superpowers and merging supernatural universes and it's like "theeeeeere it is".

[@HannahM-xd6tx]

Yeah I stopped watching after season four so I had no idea how completely bonkers it got until recently

[@darthjam1536]

@@HannahM-xd6txright, I watched season 2 and stopped. Hearing it ended, I went to see how it ended and then realized I did the right thing to stop watching💀

[@ryuhlee]

season 1-3 especially was actually so good

[@UndergroundHound]

Yea actually watching seasons 1-4 didn't make them seem super cohesive. The plot was often lost or forgotten about. Like one scene Veronica declares to her dad that she is fighting against him, the next she asks him for help.

[@carly4749]

I feel like at some point the authors just started looking up riverdale fan ficitons and tried to figure out how they could fit every single one of them into the series

[@Destined4Greatness.]

I doubt anybody who wrote a fan faction was this brain dead to write whatever Riverdale put on the show lmao or maybe they wrote good fan fictions and Riverdale’s writers just ruined it

[@withjust-a-bite1396]

@@Destined4Greatness. dude… Don’t underestimate what some people will whip up and then post publicly as fanfiction because there’s some stuff out there… That either is absolutely bat shit amazing or makes you wonder if that person would be the poster child for a lobotomy.

[@miraculous_buggabu]

Nahhhhh YOU GUYS NEVER READ ANY OF THE COMICS??? ? Cus in the comics it explains well that Sabrina is part of the universe and there are so many diverse comics in the Riverdale world that leads up to them going back in time cus Riverdale comics where made in the late 1940's so it makes sense that they all died in the early 2000's the OG creator who made the comics is dead so they made it up to his expectations

[@lupitamustdie]

Watching the first two minutes allows me to remember that this show wasn’t batshit insane in the beginning. I remember watching the first 2 seasons and thinking it was a decent show.

[@lupitamustdie]

Okay 15 minutes in and I’m lost

[@mylifessoboring3404]

S1 S2 are watchable, S3 gets confusing but after this its like huh?

[@ninaddemaio]

i watched all the seasons since it was just s1 that was out. it gets very confusing only s1 really makes sense. i kinda just got lost on what was happening but i still kept watching 😂

[@lupitamustdie]

@kiwibunns idc about the archie comics lol I’m taking about riverdale as a show

[@m3vm3]

@@mylifessoboring3404yea they seem great season 1 was down to earth. Because riverdale had this CW/MTV supernatural vibe tho I dropped when I realized it was a normal teen drama. Now that I hear it has supernatural elements I’m thinking of watching.

[@darthjam1536]

Season 1- the mysterious death of Jason changed our town forever Season 7- the two universes must be separated

[@Webhead731]

It's so ridiculous I love it so much lmao

[@mjc8248]

Thanks for struggling through this. You saved me multiple hours of my life. I only made it to the boxing match in season 3 and now i know i didn't miss anything. Even watching the recap was so cringe i barely made it.

[@HannahM-xd6tx]

Yeah I stopped watching after season 4. Glad I didn’t miss anything worthwhile

[@Thepumpkinheadchannel]

Same I made it to season three and decided to watch the full recap. Glad I didn't attempt to finish the entire show

[@jowrites]

I concur.

[@mrfalloutlore5973]

Same

[@OgFoolery]

I wish I was that smart, my ass forced myself to watch the 5th season. Then most of the 6th. Show fell off hard.

[@ashleytupper6049]

15 minutes in and this already feels like such a fever dream of a show. AND WE HAVEN’T EVEN GOTTEN TO THE PART WITH WITCHES AND MAGIC 😅

[@youcantbeatk7006]

I mean, witches and magic aren't too much of a stretch when Sabrina crossovers are far from new for Archie.

[@Nicol3c87]

At this part now and I’m cackling bc what am I listening too?! I absolutely love it! lol

[@stacey2567]

I love that everything in the first 4 seasons sounds relatively normal and then it just goes completely unhinged in season 5

[@99brendanallen]

Yeah first two season were great… third was okay. Season 4 I stopped watching almost halfway through.

[@Mothafckajoness]

And thats exactly why I liked this show so much at first. It seemed so grounded! Then season 5 came and it all went to shit

[@sofiaguzman7780]

How could you just say ALL OF THAT with a straight voice, I could never get through most of it without bursting into laughter...

[@gerryfegan3608]

The suffering you went through to create this recap is unimaginable

[@hollykulp5048]

I'm pretty sure that the writers just sit around with a bag of drugs and laptops and whoever finishes the bag first gets their script printed.

[@meganlee7445]

That's a completely accurate assumption

[@francescozenocchini4428]

If Jughead could do it who said that the writers of this f*ck up show could do it👍

[@prakritigupta3956]

To validate your thought, just think about all the antagonist and cult names. Omgoodness

[@jessedavidson98]

😂😂😂😂

[@ElR1517]

Every season seemed extraordinarily stranger than the last, but wow season 6 really came in swinging for the fences

[@OphelieH27]

thank you for your sacrifice lmao I laughed out loud soooo many times from the sheer absurdity of this show, especially season 6 but seriously, how many murders this show has, like????? I'm so glad I passed on Riverdale, omfg

[@ra1659]

dont be glad!! it was a fun watch!

[@jjohnson3579]

@@ra1659are you fucking high did you watch the video?

[@burcuerdogan7022]

People keep getting murdered and came back alive and the original killers actually never arrested before someone else got arrested 😂😂such a shit show last seasons

[@wilhelmina3433]

I fell in love with Riverdale in season 1-2 but I also really liked season 3-4. All I can say is that from 5-7 the show just never felt the same and even If I watched it I missed "my" Riverdale and why I fell in love with the show. It was just too much and all over the place in genre and story wise and sometimes just weird, and thats coming from someone who thought 3-4 was fine still!! Im so sad it did end like this because it could have been so much better. It had potential. But with that said, It will still have a special place in my heart.

[@itachilove15]

I watched up to season 5 and then they lost me. When they started adding magic I was super confused. I watched it because I was just curious to see how absurd the storylines could get. But wow 😂😅

[@Nocturne22]

I have never seen a show escalate so much in insanity. It doesn't matter if it's absolutely terrible, Riverdale is truly an iconic series

[@user-ts9sq1qi1b]

I have seen many crazy show but they started as crazy shows, but this started as normal natural teen drama then cults, magic, time travel, superpowers to top it all THE MULTIVERSE. Its like taking gosip girl + vamire diaries + doctor who + marbel cinematic universe = RIVERDALE😂😂😂😂

[@n543576]

Ok good, the comments have reassured me its not just me who's ABSOLUTELY confused at WTF is going on. These recap videos are all very detailed and i know you're good at summarizing series seeing as you did so well with Lost. Its just this show is batshit as fuck

[@kishanKumarRout]

Salute to those men and women who watched this show from beginning to end.... They must have gone through a lot..

[@anim3vi3w]

One more season and thanos was appearing,I swear

[@dazzlemusic12]

🤣🤣

[@xEllyx]

I don't know what I just watched but it just kept getting crazier lol

[@thesolidestsnake]

Its crazy how people treated this show like it at one point wanted to be serious. This shit went so hard

[@blaqpirate]

Thank you for this video, as a watcher who struggled but stayed with this series, I'm glad to watch a series recap as a pallet cleanser after that underwhelming series finale!!!

[@fbiagent2119]

the first season recap and last season recap sound like two completely different shows 😭😭💀

[@ivanburden4658]

Oden's beard, you deserve a medal for watching all this madness.

[@Slayyyaphine]

i dropped this shit after the time skip 💀but hearing that hiram planted a bomb under archies bad like its a looney tunes cartoon then blowing up the town was the icing on the cake. i'd rather watch teen wolf season 6 then anything after season 2 of riverdale

[@roadmandarkii7890]

shit mid asf

[@zero1188]

Dropped at season 4. Wished i would of kept watching. I love the bat shlt crazy stuff. If riverdale start off like that, it would of been better lmao

[@SonicProdigy55]

I can’t believe described all of this with a serious voice. You sir are amazing. ❤️

[@Nicol3c87]

18:11 “oh yeah.” Then proceeds to say an unhinged statement! EXCUSE ME?! 😂😂

[@Spongepri7]

Thank you for doing this!! This recap saved me so much time (Sorry that you had to sit through this entire show tho)

[@phatkiddre]

Off the rails is an understatement

[@thepop-culturediscussion6495]

I had heard Riverdale was insane but I didn’t realise it went full multiverse and time travel. This show is on some serious crack. Haha thank you for recapping it, so I never have to watch it.

[@hmm8184]

Thank you for making this concise AND putting time stamps in it! You rock!

[@islandgyal3730]

Wow! A recap channel with a real human, no AI voice!!!!! 😄😁🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@abigailmachado7707]

I was already confused, but then season 6 recap started and my brain short circuited

[@flipian86]

I can’t believe I was into this show for the first 4 seasons… I’m so embarrassed

[@kingv-man8149]

Ikr! It’s much more fun in the later seasons

[@jazzbado8181]

This a sign of maturity

[@Jason.cbr1000rr]

Whats so bad without..I like it as it's wholesome that the shows has families into the story, beats dynasty. Is it cos its cringe somewhat? Lol

[@xEllyx]

I really appreciate this! I never planned nor will ever watch this show but I wanted to know what it was about

[@SmallWinch]

Me too. Now I know it was a catalog of seriously attractive people, costumes and nothing else.

[@bryanmeynardmayran5780]

omfg thank hods u made this im rlly lodt wstching this series so i’ll just watch recaps. thank uuu

[@ACSR17]

I'm very glad that I dropped it before finishing the second episode. And I haven't watched the other half of the recap yet.

[@ganonk79]

I love these videos. I get to know the full plot of shows that I’ve heard of but know I’ll never get around to watching.

[@mariosolis4337]

I had heard this show went really off the rails but wow i never imagined how much off the rails after watching this lol

[@Aced234]

i kept thinking, surely it couldn't get worse.... 😂😂😂 wtf happened after season one

[@catherinewentz9775]

I’ve been waiting for someone to make a recap of riverdale for so long, sorry for your suffering!

[@jaymegonzales818]

damn season 1 is the most normal thing to ever happen in riverdale

[@zoharamitai8719]

Thank you for this amazing summery

[@nee7178]

thanks for suffering thru this. I stopped at season 5. Thanks for the recap. this multiverse stuff is crazy!!! it def went off the rails in season 6.

[@suphz]

What a rollercoaster of emotions. Lol Thank you for recap btw. You are doing God's work

[@Btsalien07]

The way it became completely unhinged from s5💀

[@clerbie]

im so glad you did this for us. i stopped at the beginning of season 5 and that was a struggle to get to! but what the actual is season 6 and 7?! glad i never had to watch them

[@SamIsSain]

This show started out so good in the first few seasons

[@nicolejohnsongj]

I stopped at season 6 at the beginning of episode 2 to come find a recap to see if this was going to get any better. I should have stopped at the beginning of season 5 but I’m thankful this video saved me from wasting any more time.

[@ParisCycling]

Thank you that was very entertaining!

[@roniroo]

I thought this would clear things up, and while it did, I still have so many questions.

[@MsNikkibuzz]

I’m so glad this show is done. The plot was really lost after season 2.

[@francisnitsch-jones5908]

id heard that this show was, how to put it... interesting, but oh boy was I not prepared for this.

[@dylanthebest55]

wtf happened, season 1 and 2 were so good

[@mjc8248]

I kinda quit paying attention after aeason 2. I made it to the boxing match in season 3. They went so far off the tracks after season 2 I just couldn't get into it.

[@ubermaster1]

Genuine answer: They started to lean really hard into the actual Archie comics for content, not realizing that the reason why a lot of adaptation take liberties in what they adapt, is because sometimes it doesn't translate well into live-action. No joke, the whole alternate realities thing, is ripped straight from the comics, but it works there cause well, its a comic, logic goes out the window there.

[@nonames3347]

Because they only had those seasons written out. After that they pulled the rest from their asses

[@rafasanmartin3963]

i stopped watching riverdale in s4 and wow everything that came afterwards was insane

[@TheDarkKnightyy]

Thank you for this

[@tiaraAm]

21:36 it's obviously not funny but that was a crazy transition from the crazy Cheryl plotline to the realistic harm of drug and alcohol abuse in Jughead's plot

[@Hessarian]

I feel like a need a recap for this recap… this show is wild bahahaha

[@v.ortice]

WHAT A RECAP!!!!!

[@JH-jw7pu]

I was with ya until the start of season 4 and then everything went crazy from there

[@flaca.b602]

THANK YOU 🙏

[@jesserivera2043]

This show seems a lot less unhinged the way you describe it! Lol I might actually give it a try, but I wouldn't have too much faith in it according to what I'm hearing about the show

[@noelia1620]

WHEN YOU STARTED TALKING ABOUT TIME TRAVEL I STARTED DYINGGGGGG OHMMGGHGHHGG

[@AJ-xx3su]

May God bless you for powering through this.

[@evody-jr1821]

This recap was supposed to be almost an hour long but I respect the man who made this since he skipped all the batshit crazy details 😂 and trust me he did us a favor 😅

[@angelvanzant]

I love this show so much

[@munchkin6408]

This show is a fever dream 😂 and I’m bout to go watch it

[@ItsDevonny]

Even tho Riverdale went haywire, it still felt kindof comforting and sad to see them say goodbye to eachother and reminisce over the old riverdale and the years we spent watching them coming to a end, it made me cry and i dont cry

[@akmedo]

Think that’s called Stockholm syndrome

[@ItsDevonny]

@@akmedo lol bro, this was hella funny

[@dolphinattack55]

I love this show! I could have done without the rivervale season, but im sad its gone :(

[@jgbcreations9368]

No joke, no lie, I LOVED Riverdale and the fact that it went so bonkers from start to finish made it fun TV. At least for me.

[@sophie-emma]

You’ve saved all of us multiple days and hours of watching this shit so thank you for your service.

[@labyrinth123]

dropped the show at mid season 2 but im gonna pick it up again now cause it's bat shit crazy and i hope it'll be fun to watch

[@cameliaciobanu9428]

Thank you.

[@AverageJo]

The ending definitely gives Lost vibes… anyone else think that? thanks for doing this video! I only watched season 1 :)

[@shadhinov]

This makes GOT last season look Oscar worthy

[@tahuaroa]

wow, id never watched this show but it looks great.

[@asiahdingle5824]

This was a very good show up to a point. Thank you for the recap I couldn't watch that slow crash and burn. The ending was so disappointing

[@reidgelding7909]

I'm just glad they stood true to the Archie comics I grew up with...

[@mtawali13]

Time travel, russian spies, multiverse, and the devil!! Whats not in this series 😂😂😂😂

[@prakritigupta3956]

Common sense. That's the only thing missing

[@gamelove5549]

haha @@prakritigupta3956

[@thisisntahandle]

I stopped after 2.5 season so thx for this

[@KosmicJr100]

Honestly, get some friends together, get drunk and put this on. The laughs and memories will be ridiculous, just like this show was :) Deuces Riverdale.

[@Trent66485]

Ayo what?😭

[@Maren.2002]

Season 1 was so fun to watch :)

[@zakarypembleton9666]

I watched this with no knowledge of Riverdale and while sleep deprived, and I feel like I just came back from an acid trip

[@rizziee]

i stumbled upon this video because i only watched season 1 and.. WHAT. SO MUCH IS HAPPENING.

[@Anthony0482]

Okay i was thinking of starting this show and im glad i didnt cause when you got season 2 kinda checked out from the video and just used it as background noise

[@journeysands2622]

I never watched this past the first 2 episodes because I couldn't reconcile the series with the Archie comics I read when I was younger. This recap just solidifies my opinion!

[@user-gn6pv5vg9i]

Yoo that ending though

[@burcuerdogan7022]

Omg i stopped watching around season 4 and wanted so continue now to see how it ends. Thanks for the video. Saved me lots of bullshit 😅

[@natalie_rose2861]

18:09 I'm sorry... WHAT NOW???! 😆 no context...?

[@zippynick10]

I don’t think I’ve said wtf more time in a row then while listening to this

[@semira197]

This show is a huge fever dream

[@mplindustries4987]

Brain exploded thank god I watched this

[@samroberts82]

I’ll miss Riverdale. Season one was the best. I admit it started getting too convoluted during the gargoyle king mess and all the Hiram shenanigans. I really did enjoy season 6 and 7 tho. Seasons 3-5 was a snoozefest.

[@user-is9of]

7 was trying to be Wayyy too woke and was so boring

[@choosehappy9224]

From what I've gathered, there seems to be lots of groups formed in the show. And that they've opened lots of their own businesses, like the casino and FBI building etc. Some common patterns.

[@MYZS]

Thank god I dropped this at episode 2

[@AEC2110]

nooo sesaon 1 and 2 are really good but after that it kinda went downhill

[@madisonmelton3624]

why is season 7 so chaotic

[@aviiletters]

Once he started recapping season 6-7 my brain started hurting

[@mylifessoboring3404]

Season 4 is wild