Just saw To Riverdale and Back Again for the first time and really enjoyed it.  Although you can't expect everyone to duplicate the looks of the comic characters, most...especially Archie...were decent enough stand-ins for their four-color selves.  The guy who played Jughead was a darned inspired choice.  Less impressed with Reggie and Mr. Lodge, but that's as may be.

Betty does come thru as the one girl Archie could love, although I think he's still fighting it...heck, we know he is!  And the actress playing Veronica was the hottest choice around.  Still, though Ronnie comes off personality-wise as a good enough version, there's something still missing in Betty.  Spunk.  She'd be a darned good teacher and writer but she's got a truckload of guts and initiative, I think, and I don't see much of that in her version.  But she did break my heart in the library scene with Archie, and the motel room scene was classic screwball comedy.

So yeah, I enjoyed this one.  3 1/2 out of 5 stars.  Make of it what you will.  I'd rather see a series based on this one.  And maybe someday they will.

Sam Whipple was also a main actor on the sci-fi series, "7 Days".

I liked the casting of Reggie.

As someone else mentioned, the woman that played Archie's fiance was more like Veronica than the actor that actually played Veronica.

Christopher Rich (Archie) was on "Reba", I believe (though I never watched the series).

I can't believe they got Mark Snow to do the music.  The guy behind the X-Files' creepily appropriate atmosphiric sounds did Archie.

jughead and his kid.... when they were rapping, i think i cried. that was awful.

yes, i was born in 1980. i lived in that era, through the 90s and so on. i'm not saying that i hate rap music. i'm saying... they (jughead and the son) shouldn't rap. but again, i get that in the context that jughead was trying to be 'cool'. i think it was sweet that he was trying to get close with his son.