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?
Why could we not get girls with high ponytails, leg warmers, boys in dad jeans and Jughead with mountains of pizza?
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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