Great description by Ella Kemp: The Riverdale TV series based on the Archie Comics characters is what Twin Peaks would be "if passionate fan-fiction-writing teenagers reigned in the boardroom." (Riverdale season 2 episode 1 review: If Twin Peaks was written by teenagers Independent 10/14/2017)
Yes, that's a compliment!
It helps with that effect that actors from both Twin Peaks and Beverly Hills are included. Mädchen Amick's character "Alice Cooper" (?!) is kind of nasty but not nearly as much of a mess as Shelly Briggs in "Twin Peaks Season 3." Luke Perry (Dylan the hunk in "90210") gets to be Archie' Andrews father. (Who knew that the Archie crew had parents?)
Robin Givins (Cheryl Harwood in the 2013 "90210") is the shady town mayor.
The Archie Comics company used to have some kind of purity clause that nothing steamier than very light G-rated stuff could be done with the characters, or something to that effect. Fortunately, they seem to have gotten beyond that. So now they can do making out in the shower scenes, murderous psychopathic villains, and David Lynch-ish lines like, "The man, his goal was something else, darker. It was like the Angel of Death had come to Riverdale."
This series is another reminder why decades-old comic book characters can still make money on live-action programming today. Generations of people got to know the characters through comic books. And when you have characters that have been around as long as Superman (1939), Batman (1939), or Archie (1941), there are thousands of ready-made plots, story lines, and supporting characters that can be mined for film versions.
Riverdale Season 2 Comic-Con Trailer 07/22/2017:
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