It's been a while since we last journeyed into the town with pep, likewise known as Riverdale . The CW series is making its long-awaited returning after going on a months-long hiatus following the 5-episode premiere outcome of Season 6, entitled "Rivervale," and nosotros're finally back in the right universe. While the Flavor 5 finale left us with several jaw-dropping cliffhangers, Season half dozen took us into the crazy realm of Rivervale, a parallel universe to Riverdale where all the town members live in a slightly dissimilar, warped world inhabited by witches and magic. With the render of Flavour six fast approaching, let's look dorsum at every crazy affair that happened in Rivervale and look forward to what's to come in the newest episodes of Riverdale.

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Picket the Riverdale Season 6 Episode 6 Trailer

We take left the Rivervale universe for now and have returned to the town with pep. Though Riverdale seems tame compared to its counterpart, the trailer for Flavour half dozen, Episode 6, "Unbelievable," promises that at that place'due south still plenty of drama to be passed around. Picking up where Flavour 5 left off, Cheryl memorably placed a expletive upon Archie, Betty, and Jughead after finding out that their ancestors murdered her own ancestor Abigail Flower in the belatedly 1800s when she refused to give them admission to the Thornhill mines. This curse is still very much live in the trailer for Episode 6, and Cheryl goes so far as to sit down the trio down and inform them what she did. Information technology's highly plausible that Cheryl is taking on the role of the big bad in Riverdale at present that Hiram lodge is gone for practiced, and so look out.

When and Where to Lookout Riverdale Season vi Part two

Not only is Riverdale shaking things upwards in the writers' room with magic and curses looming in the air, simply it's also changing fourth dimension slots. Moving away from Tuesday nights, Flavor vi will render on Sunday, March twenty at 8 p.m. Eastward.T. on The CW. Returning with Episode vi, "Unbelievable," Riverdale will then remain on Sunday nights. If you've fallen backside, at that place's no demand to worry. Seasons i through v of Riverdale are available to stream in their entirety on Netflix and on both The CW app and website. All episodes are also available to purchase on iTunes, Amazon Prime Video, Google Play, and YouTube. The offset five episodes of Season 6 are solely available to stream on The CW, and they can likewise be purchased on iTunes, Amazon Prime Video, Google Play, and YouTube.

Here'southward a "Rivervale" Recap ahead of Riverdale Flavour 6 Episode 6:

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Okay, things are about to go complicated. As fans may call back, the Flavour 5 finale of Riverdale was pretty explosive. Airing all the way dorsum in October 2021, Betty and Archie were getting hot and heavy in the Andrews household when they heard a tick coming from nether the bed. Revealed to exist a bomb set by the now banished Hiram Lodge (Mark Consuelos) as a going-away nowadays, the season ends on a bleak note every bit the timer on the flop counts down to nil. That's the last we heard from Riverdale entering Flavour 6, where a new, even weirder town exists called Rivervale.

Taking on an approach à la The Twilight Zone, Rivervale finds Jughead Jones breaking the 4th wall by narrating every episode every bit he stares direct into the camera dressed in a swanky suit. All the town members wake up in Rivervale with no retentivity of Riverdale always existing, and the town is revealed to be a parallel universe where magical creatures, monsters, and even the devil himself exist.

Memorably, Archie is killed off in the starting time episode of the Rivervale event during a sacrificial ceremony in the wood led past Cheryl that emulates Midsommar , and the four episodes that follow are completely unconcerned with the events that took place in Season 5. In this universe, no bomb has been ready off by Hiram Society, and everyone is going on nigh their lives in ignorant bliss. Veronica Order and Reggie Drape are still the dream team in all their business endeavors, Betty is solving crimes for the FBI, and Jughead and Tabitha are living together.

At the center of Rivervale is an all-powerful Cheryl, who fifty-fifty meets up with swain witch Sabrina Spellman in the highly anticipated crossover event in the fourth episode, "The Witching Hour(s)." Portrayed by Kiernan Shipka in the Netflix original series Chilling Adventures of Sabrina , she arrives from the boondocks of Greendale to assistance Cheryl and the rest of the Blossom clan perform a complicated spell in service of Nana Rose. In this universe, there's no denying that Cheryl has magic in her blood as it'southward always been hinted at in the Riverdale globe, and she fully embraces it thanks to Sabrina's support.

The five-episode event then ends when Jughead becomes aware of this foreign new reality and realizes that he along with the entire town are existing within a parallel universe that is threatening to implode. With the assistance of Ethel Muggs (Shannon Purser) and Dilton Doily (Major Corda), he discovers both worlds tin be at the same time as long as he becomes the story generator for Rivervale. Stating that the opposite of destruction is creation, the Rivervale Jughead comes to the conclusion that every bit long as he never stops writing stories for the town members of Rivervale to enact, it will prevent them from haemorrhage into the Riverdale universe. Nosotros so leave the world of Rivervale behind with an isolated Jughead seated at his desk in the bunker where he'll stay forever at his typewriter in order to save the foreign, parallel universe where nightmares and dreamscapes exist. Bye Rivervale!

At present, after v tumultuous episodes, nosotros leap back into the town of Riverdale. Returning in one case more to the Flavour 5 finale, Betty and Archie are back in Archie's bed moments before the bomb explodes and we one time again hear a tick. And so, in a change of events, Betty gets a panicked call telling her to go out of the house past an anonymous caller. Before nosotros know if they escape in time, the screen quickly jumps to Jughead asleep in Archie's garage at his typewriter where he gets rudely awakened by the flop'south explosion. A whirlwind of chaos and defoliation, that'south where the story ended in December 2021, and we'll (hopefully) finally know what'southward happened after the bomb goes off in addition to who called Betty to warn her when Season half-dozen returns on Dominicus night.

Riverdale Flavor half dozen Cast and Graphic symbol Guide: Who Will Exist Returning?

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The whole gang is getting dorsum together again! KJ Apa, Lili Reinhart, Camila Mendes, and Cole Sprouse are all returning as Archie Andrews, Betty Cooper, Veronica Lodge, and Jughead Jones in Season 6 Part 2. Madeline Petsch of form is too returning as the resident hell-raiser, Cheryl Blossom. The rest of the main bandage is back as well, with Charles Melton starring as Reggie Drape, Vanessa Morgan as Toni Topaz, Casey Cott as Kevin Keller, Drew Ray Tanner equally Fangs Fogarty, Erinn Westbrook as Tabitha Tate, and Mädchen Amick every bit Alice Cooper.

As it was already appear, Mark Consuelos has left The CW series for good and will not exist returning for Flavour vi. Simply that doesn't mean we won't run across the resurrection and render of other various town members. Everything former is new once again, as Hermione Club has seemingly made her triumphant render to Riverdale. Portrayed past actress Marisol Nichols, Hermione is back in the Season six, Episode 6 trailer after moving to the Big Apple tree in Flavour 5 to become a reality TV star. It'due south unclear what function she'll play in the episodes to come, merely rest assured we'll see a female parent-daughter reunion of epic proportions.

Besides returning is a slightly less redeemable parent, who is none other than Hal Cooper. Known as the now-deceased blackness hood serial killer and portrayed by Lochlyn Munro, his former co-star and TV wife Mädchen Amick posted a film to Instagram of them on prepare as the Coopers for Flavor half dozen in March. Grinning in a selfie, Amick wrote in the caption: "Ruh roh… he's dorsum! 😱😘 Alice & Hal's history deepens..." hinting that nosotros may finally get a backstory to the Coopers' complicated and twisted human relationship. It'll be intriguing to run across how Hal will play a role in the pandemonium throughout this season.

What to Await in Riverdale Season 6 Part 2

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Whenever Riverdale is concerned, nothing is fix in stone. Killers can be your father, neighbors tin can exist cult leaders, and witches are merely a town over. That being said, some things seem to be a lock-in for Season 6. Subsequently five torturous seasons for die-hard fans, Barchie is finally a thing. The boy and girl next door, Archie and Betty, are together and stronger than ever. Bold they've survived the bomb nail cheers to the concluding-minute phone telephone call, they'll continue on in their newfound love for each other while Betty works for the FBI and Archie continues on with Andrews Construction. Also, don't forget about the Trash Bag Killer, as he's sure to come back and haunt Betty in terrifying means afterward calling her upwards during the Season 5 finale to let her know he'southward alive and well.

At present to the good stuff. Cheryl is going to exist causing mayhem in Season 6, and she'due south out for vengeance. Thanks to the e'er-flowing fountain of wisdom that is Nana Rose, Cheryl discovered that her ancestor Abigail Blossom was burned at the pale by Archie, Betty, and Jughead's ancestors. Deciding to set up the same curse on them that Abigail did all those years ago in the moments before she was set up on fire, we'll see if the magic from the Rivervale universe transfers over into Riverdale. Never 1 to go quietly into the dark, Cheryl is going to be causing more problems in Riverdale, so everyone better get set up.

And now on to Riverdale power couple Veronica and Reggie, also known as Varchie. In improver to being romantic partners, the end of Flavor 5 constitute the pair making plans to aggrandize their business empire by running a casino in town. There are several roadblocks they must leap through to go there, starting with the newly formed town quango having to approve their plans before they can proceed. Knowing Varchie, they'll have a plan in no fourth dimension to make their dreams come true in a Bonnie and Clyde-similar fashion.

And concluding but certainly not least, Jughead and Tabitha have also moved in together, thereby taking their relationship to the next level (Bughead fans weep). It's all sunshine and roses for Jughead, every bit he's also dorsum to work at Riverdale High School, where he will lead the schoolhouse newspaper in reporting all the major happenings within the town of Riverdale, which nosotros should know by now is no easy task.

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