There was no other way Riverdale could’ve ended than by stirring up a bit of controversy. The teen drama’s spicy interactions have regularly been a resource of competition — from the initial season’s illicit university student-instructor fling to all those unusual incest theories about Cheryl and Jason. And in its remaining episode, Riverdale took a different large swing by revealing its four qualified prospects finished up in a quad connection. Even with the representation, a polyamorous advocacy organization bashed how the display portrayed its 4-way connection, expressing that it lacked required compound.

The Riverdale collection finale was a trippy expertise, as anticipated. In it, a now 86-yr-old Betty traveled again in time to invest a person final day reliving her senior year at Riverdale Significant in the 1950s. As she slowly but surely regained her memories of her remaining yr in superior university, she gleefully recalled that she, Archie, Veronica, and Jughead had spent the entire yr in a polyamorous partnership with each other. The quad romance was a clear reaction to the passionate ship wars that supporters experienced waged in excess of the show’s 7 seasons, with the principal issue remaining which of the ever-switching couples would be “endgame.”

Betty remembered that the polyamorous partnership only lasted a yr before the four enthusiasts went their separate methods just after graduation and have been under no circumstances all alongside one another once more. The demonstrate also did not delve into the particulars of the marriage too a lot, which is a little something that frustrated the polyamory advocacy team Open up.

Brett Chamberlin, the government director of Open up (Business for Polyamory and Moral Non-monogamy), explained to TMZ that Riverdale’s portrayal of a 4-particular person romance was irresponsible and uninformed.

“It’s discouraging that Riverdale utilised its characters’ non-monogamous romance as a ‘shocking twist’ rather than engaging with an genuine portrayal of non-monogamy as simply becoming aspect of people’s identities,” Chamberlin mentioned. “We didn’t see or listen to just about anything about why these characters observe non-monogamy, what it signifies for them, the material of their romantic relationship agreements and conversation methods, or any of the other fundamental motivations and function that makes relationships of any kind function.”

It just feels suitable that Riverdale ended the way it began — with a ton of controversial dating discourse.