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Chris Mason is joining Riverdale Season 5. Pic credit: @ImageCollect/Carrie-nelson
Riverdale Season 5 offers fans a major change as it will jump seven years into the future and show the gang as adults.
It is one way to keep the same cast without needing to keep them in school. Deadline also reported that Chris Mason had joined the cast as Chad Gekko, Veronica’s (Camila Mendes) husband.
Chris Mason joins Riverdale Season 5
The news is that Chris Mason has signed on to play Chad Gekko, a “controlling and jealous husband who works on Wall Street.”
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‘Riverdale’ Season 5: Sociopath Betty, Veronica Lodge’s Husband, Bughead, and More Spoilers Riverdale season 5 will offer long-time fans of the show a significant change as it will be jumping seven years into the future.
Archie Andrews, Veronica Lodge, Betty Cooper, and Jughead Jones, the fans favorite characters, will be shown as adults.
After four successful seasons, the gang is finally out of school with new characters and plots on the way.
The Premiere of Veronica Lodge s Husband
Bad news for all Archie and Veronica shippers out there because one of the show s most popular couples will not be together on Riverdale season 5.
Riverdale Adds Broadchurch Alum to Season 5 as Veronica s Husband (?!) TVLine 7/01/2021
Riverdale has cast British actor Chris Mason (
Broadchurch) to play Veronica’s husband in the upcoming Season 5, according to our sister site Deadline.
Mason will play Chad Gekko, a Wall Street banker who is married to Veronica; the CW drama is set to do a time jump of seven years this season. A controlling and jealous alpha male, “Chad is threatened by Veronica’s life in Riverdale, especially her friendship with Archie,” per the official description. Mason will recur starting with Season 5’s fourth episode.
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This means, obviously, that Archie and Veronica aren’t still together when the gang reunites after the seven-year time jump. Season 5 premiering Wednesday, Jan. 20 at 8/7c picks up with the teens still at Riverdale High, going through rites of passage like prom and graduation, but then will jump forward to them as adults, post-college. Things will be d