‘Riverdale’: Mark Consuelos Talks Returning For His Last Hurrah As Hiram Lodge & Embarking On A New Endeavor Co-Hosting With Wife Kelly Ripa
deadline.comSPOILER ALERT! This post contains details from Wednesday’s episode of Riverdale. Hiram Lodge is back to cause chaos in Riverdale.
Mark Consuelos reprised his character as the conniving father of Camila Mendes’ Veronica Lodge during Wednesday night’s episode, titled “The Crucible.” In this iteration of Riverdale, which is set in the 1950s, Hiram is a big-time actor living in Los Angeles who comes to town under the guise that he misses his daughter and wants a taste of the small town life.
But some things never change, and Hiram has an ulterior motive up his sleeve. You see, the country is currently in the midst of the Red Scare and Hiram has found himself the latest target of McCarthyism.
He tells Veronica that, after a very innocent recent trip to Cuba, he’s been flagged as a communist sympathizer and he needs Veronica to lie on his behalf, testifying that she was on the trip and didn’t witness anything nefarious.
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