According to Comicbook, at the end of season six of The CW series Riverdale, Cheryl Blossom used her enhanced witch powers to stop Bailey’s Comet from destroying the town. Although she was able to save the town and all its inhabitants, it appears it came with an unexpected effect. It seems that when everything had died down, Archie and the gang were somehow transported back to high school but this time in 1955. Now that season seven of the series has started fans are finding out more about how Cheryl’s abilities took on the comet and what is to come this season. Warning spoilers for the series ahead. 

In an exclusive interview with Comicbook, showrunner Roberto Aguire-Sacasa (Supergirl) stated, that this season will hold the biggest challenge Archie and the gang have ever faced and the stakes could not be higher. 

Aguirre-Sacasa said to Comicbook, “I think for us in the writer’s room, I think we believe in our characters. We believe in our characters, and I think we believe in the inherent goodness of our characters. And they’ve gone to dark places, they’ve all gone to dark places. But by the end of season six, we were like, ‘There’s very few characters on our show who haven’t killed at least one person, and many have killed more than one person.’ But I think for us, and especially since it’s our last season, I think we believe in our characters. And I think we believe in our characters doing the right thing, not just for themselves, but for their friends and for their town. So, we did set up that challenge and we did want to position them as young people kind of rebelling against the generation before them and the generations before them, to set Riverdale on a path to being on the right side of history, in storylines very personal and against the much larger canvas of America, if you will, kind of thing. But you’ve hit the nail on the head. That is exactly the stakes of this season. 100 percent.”

He continued to say, “I mean, listen, when we were finishing season six, we looked at … I mean, a lot of this, we looked at stuff, Betty was an FBI agent, and Jughead was a struggling writer and a teacher, and Archie was sort of like a construction worker. And we really looked at … And we were looking at, ‘Okay, well, what would season seven look like if we continued with the kids in their mid to late twenties?’ And Betty becomes a therapist, and Archie sort of is tracking down his uncle’s son and being a father figure. And it was like when we got word, it was like, ‘Okay, we have one more go around with these characters. What are the most special and meaningful stories we can tell with them?’ And that’s kind of how we ended up where we ended up.”

Riverdale airs every Wednesday at 9 p.m. on The CW.