Riverdale boss admits "we're definitely in a time paradox" after jumping seven years into the future

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"I think it would have been less jarring if we'd had the organic season break," showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa says of this week's time jump. "But yes...the show's timeless so that's what we're hanging on to, to be honest. Like yes if you if you really, if you really analyze it it's like we're either in 2028, or we've been seven years in the past...there's a discrepancy there for sure." ALSO: Aguirre-Sacasa: "We wanted our kids in their mid-20s to be closer to the age they are in real life."