Cheryl Blossom’s Doll Brother Will Be Human in Riverdale’s Final Season

Riverdale may be coming to an finish, however don’t worry, followers of CW-affiliated chaos and whoopee caps: in case you thought the present would possibly someway get much less batshit in its last season, you’re in luck. Also, there was already time-journey concerned, how did you assume they have been gonna tone it down?

Deadline has phrase that the CW has solid two new common stars for the Archie Comics adaptation/wild fever dream’s seventh and last season, which can see our heroes get up again in highschool after the bananas occasions of the final season, apart from the truth that it’s now 1955. Karl Walcott will play Clay Walker, described as a “teen renaissance man” who “is very open-minded in his art and his sexuality,” and identical to his namesake within the authentic comics, the place he’s the eventual husband of Kevin Keller, he’ll have “an impactful friendship” with Casey Cott’s model of the character.

The second little bit of casting is a little more out-there. Hadestown’s Nicholas Barasch will be part of the common solid this season as Julien Blossom, Cheryl and Jason’s brother. Who, up up to now within the sequence, has been a creepy doll.

Julien—in doll type—appeared all through Riverdale’s fourth season, wherein Cheryl, satisfied her home is haunted by Jason’s ghost (he died in season one, keep in mind when that was the bizarre factor in regards to the present?), conducts a séance and finds that the spirit could possibly be Julien, the third triplet of their mom’s being pregnant, however was seemingly absorbed by Cheryl within the womb in a case of dual resorption. Their mom, distressed by the lack of her third little one, raised Cheryl and Jason alongside a horrifying doll she pretended was Julien. Long story brief, it seems that Cheryl did not soak up Julien after she takes a chimeric DNA check that ends in a adverse, and the thriller of Julien’s ghost or even when Julien was ever truly actual is left up within the air… till now! Because now he’s an actual boy!

And a proper asshole, apparently. “He’s preppy, rich, and extremely entitled. Handsome, athletic, and cocky, he always gets his way, but in the rare times he doesn’t—like with Veronica—he makes life miserable for everyone around him,” the character description supplied to Deadline reads. “He often butts heads with his twin sister, but is also an antagonist to all of our teen characters, most especially Archie.”

Is ‘50s school bully Julien Blossom the big bad of Riverdale’s last season? Will he staff up with the doll someway? Will this present proceed to be pants-on-its-head doolally proper as much as the very finish? We’ll discover out subsequent yr, presumably.

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