2016’s Next Victim? Archie! New Show With Gang Premiers in 2017
Did the gang really have to be made darker, instead of the feel-good comic characters everyone remembers?
And 2016 has another victim – Archie and the Gang.
Yes, Archie Comics has gotten its own TV show, Riverdale, that will air in 2017. But don’t get excited just yet. It’s a much darker rendition of the show, not the feel-good comic characters of our childhood.
There’s blood, there’s a dead body and there’s a red-haired dame, in a town that looks more like a part of Twilight than where the gang grew up.
Given that it comes from the makers of Gossip Girl and Vampire Diaries, the intense gazes and abs can be half-heartedly justified but then, WHY did this show have to be created this way?
A show reminiscent of the 80s and 90s would’ve struck a nostalgic chord with the millennials, much more than glamorous Abercrombie & Fitch-esque teens ever will.
While it may be too late for them to listen to the concerns of this disgruntled writer, a shout into the void even, the hope lives on that somewhere a TV exec will take notice and create the Archie-show we really deserve.
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