For us, Betty being on the inside of the trailer, seeing Jughead put on that Serpents jacket, is sort of the same moment. You know, we love our homages on Riverdale, and the last beat for us is kind of like that moment at the end of the first Godfather movie, when Diane Keaton is looking at Michael Corleone, Al Pacino, in his study, being surrounded by his mafia family and they’re all there kissing the ring. Is he going to be headed down a dark path next season? It was a little worrisome to see Jughead ultimately embracing his father’s legacy, the Southside Serpents, both for Betty and the viewers. RELATED: Mark Consuelos Joins Season 2 of 'Riverdale' as Veronica's Father I think that’s where a lot of Veronica’s conflict is going to reside in season two. In the finale, we see drawing a line with Hermione, you know, she calls her mother “Lady Macbeth.” So the idea is, is it going to be Veronica against both of her parents next season? One of the classic dynamics from the comic books is that Veronica’s father, Hiram Lodge, has historically always hated Archie… With Veronica getting in deeper with Archie, and her father’s arrival imminent, I think we’re gonna both honor that classic trope, and then subvert it as well. So that was something that we wanted to, to get Archie to that place, of course at a terrible cost. So it’s going to be a really different Archie for season two. For Archie, he is the hero of our show, but before he gets to that heroic journey, it’s going to be a journey more of revenge, and a journey of darkness and violence begetting violence. That really set those two characters on their hero’s journey. The way we’re thinking of what happens in Pop’s in the last moments of the finale is really the equivalent of Bruce Wayne seeing his parents gunned down in Crime Alley, or Peter Parker learning that his beloved Uncle Ben was shot by a robber. That puts Archie in a very different place for season two. He’s sort of made his peace with everything, he walks into the bathroom at Pop’s, but when he comes back out, his world is completely shattered, because he sees his greatest fear literally happen before his eyes, which is his beloved father is gunned down in front of him. He’s saying to Veronica, “I want to be for you what Jughead is for Betty,” and he finally fulfills his destiny as a hero and saves Cheryl Blossom ( Madelaine Petsch)… and his friendships with Betty and Jughead are in a good place. About halfway through the finale, he’s in a really good place.

The biggest thing, probably, is where Archie ends up.

Double shot of love finale