Gotta carry this scream queen again!
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Issues that pose a risk to devour and destroy the human mind: (1) zombies; (2) the CW’s Riverdale; (3) a derivative Riverdale about zombies. Disney+ is creating Afterlife With Archie, an apocalyptic hourlong drama written and produced by the identical duo behind Riverdale and Netflix’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Greg Berlanti, per Deadline.
In case you suppose {that a} zombie present about Archie, Jughead, Betty, Veronica, and the gang sounds random, you should be new right here. For one, Afterlife With Archie can be based mostly on an precise run of horror-themed Archie comedian books written by Aguirre-Sacasa in 2013 and ’14. Moreover, a zombie apocalypse wouldn’t even scratch the floor of weirdest issues to occur within the fictional city of Riverdale. For instance, a short checklist of stuff far spookier than zombies that occurred over the course of the present’s seven-season run:
Cult kidnappings, an organ-harvesting ring, ritualistic human sacrifice, a mass assassin known as “The Black Hood,” a “Gargoyle King,” a “Mothman,” actually Devil, one thing known as “the serial-killer gene,” a possessed doll containing the spirit of a triplet consumed within the womb, a twincest relationship that includes a rotting corpse, a juvenile-prison battle membership, underage-tickle-fetish porn, Veronica creating pheromone-venom that kills her lovers, a Biblical plague upon the city’s firstborn, and musical numbers.
TV simply hasn’t been the identical since Riverdale went off the air in 2023. Disney+ can’t dig up that grave quick sufficient.