Riverdale Recap: Everything "Purgatorio" Revealed About the Time Jump It's officially a new era for The CW's Riverdale, as the series has now jumped seven years forward into the future. The time jump has been teased for the better part of last year, after the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the original timetable of it happening, which has left quite a lot of fans with preconceived notions and theories about exactly what it would bring. This week, audiences finally got their answer with the debut of "Chapter Eighty: Purgatorio", the fourth episode of the show's fifth season. The episode picked back up on the lives of Riverdale High's young adults in some truly unexpected ways, bringing new jobs, new relationships, and a slew of new problems for them to solve.