have given us everything from serial killers and cheerleaders to floating babies and sexy cult leaders. It\u2019s been a lot, but in the best way possible.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nFor those who gave up around the time a certain Gargoyle King showed up, know that season 6 was perhaps the show\u2019s most unhinged yet.<\/span><\/p>\nWith newly developed superpowers, the gang tried their best to stop an evil sorcerer from destroying their town with a comet magically pulled from the sky. Tabitha, who\u2019s now become a time-travelling angel, pulled everyone back to the year 1955 so they could make Riverdale, and therefore the world, a better place \u2013 one where the events that led to this apocalypse could never happen.<\/span><\/p>\nWith their memories of the old world wiped, our faves channelled the original Archie Comics this show is inspired by with a wholesome, yet still extremely sexy, final season that led up to the penultimate episode where Tabitha returned \u2014 but with a twist.<\/span><\/p>\nThe former high-schooler-turned-angel revealed that her mission was successful, but none of the gang would be able to return to 2023. They\u2019d still remember it though, or at least the good times \u2013 because Tabitha got them all to binge watch Riverdale. Yep, they watched Riverdale on Riverdale.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nYou can\u2019t make this stuff up, except, you can, and we\u2019re grateful that the writers did. No other show would ever dare go quite as far as Riverdale did in those six years. People can make fun of the show all they want, but everyone involved was fully aware of how wild things were getting, and in that respect, Riverdale is truly a camp masterpiece, one that people will undoubtedly come to appreciate more in years to come.\u00a0<\/span><\/p> But how can anyone possibly wrap up all this beautiful madness in just one more hour? No matter how much you love or hate, or love to<\/em> hate this show, we guarantee that no one could have predicted quite how Chapter One-Hundred Thirty-Seven would come to an end.<\/span><\/p>\nRiverdale\u2019s final episode explained<\/b><\/h2>\n
67 years have passed since the previous episode. We now find ourselves with Betty at the age of 86, who is living with her granddaughter Alice (aw). Jughead\u2019s obituary has appeared in today\u2019s newspaper, which means Betty is the last of the old gang to survive.<\/span><\/p>\nWith her memory fading, she asks Alice to take her back to Riverdale one last time before she forgets everything completely. Alice agrees, but that night Angel Jughead (more on that later) appears and offers to take her back to one day of her choosing. Betty goes with the day everyone picked up their yearbooks because she was sick with mumps and off school, so she missed everything.<\/span><\/p>\nBack in the past, Betty sees Archie discuss the future with his mum. He plans to join a construction crew set to build highways all across America because this will hopefully inspire his writing. Mary gives him her blessing knowing full well that once Archie sees the Pacific Ocean, this three-month detour will become a whole new life for him.<\/span><\/p>\nWith her yearbook in hand, Betty asks Fangs and Midge to sign their names first, and it\u2019s here that we discover Fangs is gearing up for a summer tour off the back of his first hit single. With the approval of Midge\u2019s parents, the pair are also planning their wedding now.<\/span><\/p>\nDuring her last lunch at school with Kevin and Clay, it\u2019s revealed that Betty is now in a \u201cquad\u201d-style relationship with Archie, Jughead and Veronica. With their memories restored, they realise that all four of them had love for each other, so why choose one person to be with when they could all enjoy their final year at school together? It\u2019s a bold move, especially given how obsessed the fandom is with shipping various combinations of the four leads, but this way the show gets to have its cake and eat it too, much like the characters themselves.<\/span><\/p>