

However, he still allows Archie to participate in the graduation ceremony and asks him to record a song for the event. Weatherbee, the principal, tells Archie Andrews that he will be unable to graduate and will have to retake his senior year of high school.

A time capsule buried in 1945 is opened and one of the items is a photograph of four seniors taken right before the four were deployed to war. On their last day at Riverdale High School, the seniors reminisce over their yearbooks and reflect on the time they've spent at the school. While Jellybean's brother Jughead says he wants to come with them, FP rebuffs him and tells him to focus on college, as he had recently been accepted to the University of Iowa. He also resigns as sheriff of Riverdale and says he will be staying with her in Toledo.

In its initial broadcast, it was watched by 0.557 million viewers.įollowing the revelation in the previous episode that Jellybean Jones was the person creating the mysterious videotapes that had been showing up around Riverdale, her father FP decides to take her back to live with her mom in Toledo, Ohio. The episode received overwhelmingly positive reviews, with several reviewers noting the emotional impact of the graduation and the grounded nature of the episode compared to other episodes of the series. The plot revolves around the main high school student characters of the show graduating from high school and moving on with their lives outside of the titular town of Riverdale. It originally aired on The CW in the United States on February 3, 2021. The episode was written by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and directed by Gabriel Correa.
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" Chapter Seventy-Nine: Graduation" is the third episode of the fifth season of the American television series Riverdale. Several of the main characters during their high school graduation
