'Riverdale' Finale: How Stars Lili Reinhart, Camila Mendes, KJ Apa & More Feel About Series Ending

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has told a lot of wild stories involving time travel, multiple universes, supernatural forces and more generally surreal weirdness than one might expect from a teen drama on The CW.However, when the long-running series came to a close on Wednesday, the show wrapped everything up with a somber, emotionally powerful and surprisingly heartfelt story in which essentially everyone died.

Or, more accurately, everyone was already dead when the finale began.Essentially, the show kicked off in the present day with an 86-year-old Betty Cooper (Lili Reinhart) sitting at home, where she reads in the newspaper that Jughead Jones (Cole Sprouse) had died at the age of 84.Soon, however, she gets a visit from Angel Jughead, who magically transports her back in time to the 1950s, to Betty's last day of senior year in high school, which she originally missed because she was sick at the time.Strolling around her old high school, Angel Jughead gives Betty the chance to get closure with all of her old friends, and details the sometimes wonderful, sometimes tragic lives of everyone she'd been friends with back in the day.Through the use of Jughead's omnipotent divine narration, fans got to find out the life stories of all the characters they'd followed throughout the series, and the emotionally charged finale came to a close with Betty's peaceful death — after which, as an angel, a youthful Betty meets with all her friends in the afterlife, which just so happens to be a classic-looking Pop's Diner in all it's glory.In celebration of 's series finale, ET is looking back at recent interviews with the cast, regarding the show coming to a close and how they feel about wrapping up the wild storylines.