Weatherbee strongly recommends for Archie to repeat his junior year, meaning he wont graduate with his friends. He returns to school just in time for the SATs, but too late for him to have enough time to study something for the exams. Getting convicted and sent to juvenile detention for several months, escaping from juvie, and spending at least five weeks hiding from Hiram in a hideout given by Gladys Jones affects Riverdale's golden boy. Starting with the finale of Season 2, where he is unjustly arrested, Archie slowly loses this status, and goes from The Ace to Butt-Monkey between season 3 and 4.By season 3, Archie explains to his mother that he tried music and football, but it wasn't meant to be after all he had went through. Of course, the show deconstructs Archie on a road of how The Ace has fallen. Lampshaded by Veronica in pilot episode: "You play football too? What don't you do?". The Ace: A handsome, athletic, popular and talented singer-song writer.Whatever the out, it’s pretty clear that we’ll see Red return when Riverdale hits screens on Wednesday. His fever-dream hallucinations were reminiscent of the classic lycanthropy movie An American Werewolf in London, and a potential supernatural Hail Mary could be the link to Chilling Adventures of Sabrina that the Archie-verse has been looking for. The audience never saw the bear that attacked Archie, just the massive paw prints and the brutal wounds that it left on him. The latter features Archie’s BFF dealing with a werewolf transformation, and could be an answer to Riverdale‘s cliffhanger conundrum. It became so popular that it spawned the launch of other titles including Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and Jughead: The Hunger. The result was a dark series called Afterlife With Archie which saw Riverdale hit by a zombie apocalypse. Thanks to the strange continuity of the comics, there’s a route the show could go that would lean into the genre storytelling that Aguirre-Sacasa loves so much and would be a change from the last-minute reprieves the series has relied on.ĭuring a line-wide relaunch of Archie Comics in 2013, a horror-themed variant cover led to a conversation between CEO Jon Goldwater and comics creator and lifelong Archie fan - and future Riverdale showrunner - Aguirre-Sacasa. But it also seemed pretty clear that Archie was dead at the end of the last episode, which offers up an opportunity. So, with a history of teasing the loss of major players while always keeping them alive, it’s unlikely that Archie Andrews is gone, especially as Riverdale is an adaptation of the comics named after the all-American boy. Fan favorite Jughead (Cole Sprouse) got the same treatment later in the season after being beaten half to death by a rival gang, offering up another “Is really he dead?” cliffhanger. Fred’s fate was revealed in the premiere of the sophomore season - he survived - but that was after five months of fretting by fans. The first season ended with Luke Perry’s Fred Andrews fighting for his life after being shot during what seemed to be a botched robbery at Pop’s Chock’lit Shop. In fact, Riverdale has a history of almost killing off key characters and leaving their lives and fates hanging in the balance whilst fans despair. Though it would be a bold decision from the writing team and showrunner, it’s far more likely that the move was meant to spark conversation and keep viewers hooked for the next episode. Remarkably, that wasn’t even the most outrageous thing that happened on the episode - that honor probably goes to the lesbian Robin Hood subplot or the nuns who committed mass suicide via cyanide-spiked Kool-Aid - but it did spark the trending hashtag #RIPArchie and saw many shocked that the series had apparently killed off its lead character. This Week in TV: 'Paper Girls,' Sharks, 'Riverdale' Finale
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