Jughead’s life as a serpent was originally never meant to be (Picture: CW/Netflix)

***WARNING: Contains season two spoilers for Riverdale***

The Riverdale that we’ve come to know and love is a really dark, dark place – and extremely unreliable when it comes to being able to predict what happens next.

As it turns out, the cast are being kept on their toes off of the screen too, and scenes have been shot and cut that could have completely changed the direction the show was going.

Lochlyn Munro, who plays Betty’s dad Hal in the Netflix/CW favourite, has revealed that there were a number of things that changed from episode-to-episode – including the identity of last season’s Big Bad, the Black Hood.


The Black Hood was tormenting the town for months (Picture: The CW)

Speaking exclusively to Metro.co.uk, Lochlyn explained: ‘Yeah, lots of things have changed. I remember shooting the very last episode of the first season, and a scene was cut out of the final episode where we invited Jughead to come live with us at the Cooper house. Well, that scene was cut out because they decided to make Jughead a Serpent.



‘So that whole storyline was different. A whole bunch of things changed where they feel the direction of the show was going, or where the CW network wanted the direction of the show to go.

‘There’s just so many variables, you know?’

Instead of having the troubled Jughead take on family life in the white-picket fence lifestyle the Coopers pretend to have, Jughead (Cole Sprouse) went down the road of rebellion just like his dad.

Hal, played by Lochlyn Munro, was revealed to have a twisted dark side (Picture: Netflix)

A season later, he’s now King of the South Side Serpent gang – with once ultimate girl-next-door Betty Cooper as his queen. We don’t think Hal would be too happy about that.

Hal Cooper left his family in turmoil at the end of season two when it was revealed that he was actually the Black Hood – a serial killer terrorising the town, and in particular his daughter, Betty.

But shortly after the big reveal was made, Lochlyn revealed that he only found out the identity of the masked murderer himself the day his confession was shot.

Riverdale season three is getting dark as it gets ready for return (Picture: Netflix)

He explained ‘I didn’t get any information on me becoming the Black Hood, I just became the Black Hood, so I just played Hal as the Black Hood.

‘I wish I could give you some real juicy tidbits on my backstory and how I became him and all that, but I honestly don’t know how I became him so…I just became him.’

‘You know, the only thing I didn’t like about being bestowed the Black Hood – it’s that I knew it was going to segregate me from everything the town does now,’ he added.

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‘When I found out I was playing the Black Hood, I have a feeling now like, this would be such a cool character to play, but I don’t know how much I’m going to play it.

‘That was the only downfall of being the Black Hood, but at least it’s got some depth.’



Riverdale season three starts 12 October on Netflix.

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