Archie Andrews. Archie got hot over the summer while working for his father’s construction company. And while his dad wants him to take over the family business, Archie has his own dreams. He spent the summer writing his own songs and he’s serious about getting into music. When he approaches Josie (of the Pussycats) for help, she turns him down. And while that’s a big setback, he has over avenues to pursue. One is the school’s music teacher, Miss Grundy. Of course, that situation isn’t as black and white as you would think, because it’s soon revealed that Archie was actually engaged in a secret relationship with Miss Grundy over the summer (although she seems determined to avoid him now — probably in order to avoid a scandal). But that’s not the only secret Archie is keeping — it turns out that he and Miss Grundy might know more about Jason’s death than they’re letting on.
Miss Gruny isn’t the only messed up relationship in Archie’s life, however. In the comics Archie and Jughead are BFFs, but things are very different in RIVERDALE and it’s going to be a long time before we understand why these two former friends are not that close anymore. During our visit to the RIVERDALE set, star KJ Apa teased that “There’s obviously something happened between the two of the them, [but] it hasn’t yet been established what that was. I don’t even know yet, but I’m guessing it was something that was really bad. They still haven’t completely gotten over it, it’s episode seven [that we’re filming] and we still haven’t completely gotten over it, so when that comes out it’s going to be massive.”
Another “frenemy” for Archie is Josie, the leader of Josie and the Pussycats. Archie approaches her for some musical collaboration and she shuts him down. “Archie and Josie have kind of a weird relationship where, I feel like Archie really admires her, and really respects her in a musical way. He wants to work with her a lot, and still in episode seven, he is still really wanting to work with the Pussycats, but Josie won’t have a bar of it. She doesn’t think I’m good at all.”