Riverdale is a show about Archie Andrews and his friends. Life in Riverdale seems perfect, but wait- there’s more. Mystery, drama and teenage angst unfold as they deal with love and dark secrets. Classic Archie Comics characters get a darker twist. Secrets unravel, murders get solved and complex relationships emerge. Expect surprises at every corner. This series keeps you guessing with romance, suspense and even some catchy musical bits. It’s a wild ride!

Meet the Riverdale villains

Alice Cooper

Alice is the town crusader with a smile that can slice — she runs the paper like a general and will both comfort you and publicly shame you in the same breath. Protective to the point of obsession over her kids, but also weirdly theatrical about it (think scarves and dramatic headlines and a tendency to declaim things in coffee shops). She loves rules in theory and breaks them with relish in practice, which is both terrifying and oddly admirable. Kind of a neat-freak but her desk is a chaotic shrine to clippings, family photos, and at least three different pens she insists are “lucky.”

Dorian Gray

Dorian is the kind of ancient, gorgeous menace you can’t look away from — charming, poisonous, and apparently immune to consequences (okay maybe not literally, but he sure acts like it). He collects people the way some people collect art — messy, possessive, and with a taste for very dramatic entrances. Soft-spoken one minute and cruelly curious the next; also, he might keep a ridiculous old portrait in a locked room because of course he would. Kind of loves small luxuries (tea at midnight? yes) and also ruins lives for fun, which is either artistic or monstrous depending on your moral compass.

Hiram Lodge

Hiram is capitalism with a tailored suit and a smile that hides a sawed-off grin — mob boss meets corporate tycoon, relentless and smooth and terrifyingly strategic. He adores power and control; he’ll build a skyscraper, fund a charity, and quietly ruin your restaurant all before lunch. He’s somehow both a doting (in his own way) family man and the kind of person who has contingency plans for contingency plans — also inexplicably collects vintage jazz records, which is cute? in a creepy way.

Hal Cooper

Hal is the small-town man who keeps surprising you with how dark he can get — part charm, part chemical instability, part hypocrisy, and all kinds of anxious energy. He can be oddly tender and totally unhinged in the same hour, which makes him unpredictable and honestly a little scary to watch. He believes in order but lives in chaos, likes routines but breaks them when it suits him (or when panic hits), and has a way of apologizing that sounds suspiciously like a new plan. Not someone you want to meet in a dim hallway, even if he brings you cookies.

Penelope Blossom

Penelope is poison wrapped in linen — proper, poised, constantly perfumed, and somehow always three steps ahead of whatever mess you thought you could make of your life. She runs her family like a ritual and can be as sweet as a pie one moment and chillingly cold the next; she bakes, yes, and also keeps receipts for favors and threats. Secretive to the bone, loves folklore and superstitions (deeply devoted to weird rituals) and also has the unnerving habit of humming lullabies while plotting. She’s both elegant and ruthless — like velvet gloves over iron claws.

Geraldine Grundy

Geraldine (Mrs. Grundy) has that soft-teacher voice that sneaks up on you and then, plot twist, she’s way more complicated — flirtatious, guarded, and with a knack for being in the wrong place at the right time. She’s textbook sugar-and-venom: comforting teenage angst at school and then… not exactly safe in private. Plays the mentor role but carries secrets like little scrapbooks, and yes, sometimes she’s doing things that make you squint and go “wait what?” Also she plays guitar sometimes? Very oddly musical for someone with so many secrets.

Chic Cooper

Chic is chaos personified with a grin that says “trust me” even when you really, really shouldn’t — flashy, unreliable, and low-key dangerous because he’s convincing and bold. He can be charming, manipulative, broken, repentant, and then terrifying again, often within a single monologue — it’s exhausting but oddly compelling. Loves dramatic entrances, Bible verses, and pulling on people’s sympathies like it’s a hobby; also has small soft spots (weirdly into seashells? maybe) that make him human in a messy way. You never fully know which Chic you’ll get today, and that unpredictability is his signature.

Rose Blossom

Rose is the ghost of a town’s secrets — elegant, manipulative, and hauntingly devoted to image and lineage; she’s the sort of matriarch who makes you feel small while sipping tea. She mothered hard, schemed harder, and cultivated a kind of poisonous glamour that stays with you (and also leaves a weird scent of violet perfume in rooms she frequented). Friendly at parties, icy in decisions, and prone to dramatic family mythology—also she might have kept an odd collection of fabric swatches and tragic lullabies, which is both eerie and oddly specific.