I didn't like how Agent Drake acted regarding her interest in Betty

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So something I didn't like with regards to Agent Drake and her interest in Betty and which I am glad Veronica called her out on, is her pursuit/interest felt kind of pushy and surface level. I mean it's one thing to be interested but another to like pursue/make her interest known while knowing Betty is already seeing someone. Plus the way she confessed in the middle of them doing a serial killer convention to attract a killer that Betty already has trauama with was absolutely not the right time as Veronica noted well and doing so did really just add unnecessary complications to Betty's life. And the other thing I noted is how passive-aggressive/disparaging she acted regarding Archie. Like first of all calling him the "boyfriend" as if he's just like some kind of obstacle and the shade of "this all too much for him" when she asked why he wasn't at day 2 of the con which felt kind of manipulative like trying to sow into Betty's mind he wasn't "right" for her as he can't handle her darkness. Which brings me to her claim of her saying Archie and Betty seem so different and she and Betty have so much in common. First of all she doesn't know anything about Archie as a person nor his relationship with Betty and second her interactions with Betty have only been in regards to work and hunting serial killers and not on a personal level aside from that, so that's not really a strong basis for her to act like she'd be better for Betty than Archie. This ties into the final point that Agent Drake really seemed to view Betty only through the lens of "serial killer hunter" and the darkness that came with it which allowed her to accept those dark parts but not really go above them and see more to that. This was apparent when she asked Betty if her song was about Archie or TBK and in the season six finale where when Betty turned down the job offer she thinks Archie or TBK (notice how she always brings them up together as if again trying to connect Archie with TBK as "bad" for Betty) influenced her and didn't seem to grasp Betty could have made this decision on her own. Veronica was absolutely right to call her out as her attempts to meddle in Betty's relationship based on surface level knowledge was a red flag.

Posted Jul 13, 2026, 4:25 PM UTC

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