‘Riverdale’ Season 1 Spoilers: Archie’s Mom Returns to Town, Reunites with Andrews Family; ‘80s Film Icon Molly Ringwald Cast in Recurring Role

‘Riverdale’ season 1 is set to feature Archie Andrews’ mother as she returns to town following a family crisis. She is set to reunite with her son Archie and husband Fred. Popular ‘80s actress Molly Ringwald is set to play the recurring role of Mary Andrews.

According to Variety, Ringwald has been cast in a recurring role as Archie’s mother Mary Andrews in the new series. The 48-year old actress is set to play the Andrews matriarch, who returns to her small town to reunite with her son Archie and husband Fred (Luke Perry) as well as friends Hermione and Alice. Mary left Riverdale to pursue her dreams until a family crisis brings her back home.

Ringwald is best known for her work on director John Hughes’ successful films from the 1980s. She starred in ‘The Breakfast Club,’ ‘Pretty in Pink,’ and ‘Sixteen Candles,’ and was a popular teenage icon of her era.

Meanwhile, a new poster for The CW’s upcoming teen drama-thriller television series teased a macabre story hidden underneath Riverdale’s seemingly wholesome façade. The image posted on Collider featured main characters Archie Andrews (K.J. Apa), Veronica Lodge (Camila Mendes), and Betty Cooper (Lili Reinhart) smiling from their seats on a diner booth as their friends Jughead Jones (Cole Sprouse), Cheryl Blossom (Madalaine Petsch), and Josie McCoy (Ashleigh Murray) look through the window.

The image had a tagline that read, “A great place to get away with it all.” Based on the series’ synopsis, it seems that the upcoming series will be a darker and more subversive adaptation of the original Archie comic book series that gained popularity in the 1990s. It will be a murder-mystery following shocking death of Cheryl’s twin brother, Jason Blossom. 

‘Riverdale’ is set to premiere on The CW on January 26, 2017. The pilot episode was written by Archie Comics’ chief creative officer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and is executive produced by Greg Berlanti of the network’s ‘Arrowverse.’ The series is also executive produced by Sarah Schecter and Jon Goldwater.