A part of that is figuring how that is actually going to work. It does feel that if you’re going to introduce that character, the rules of the world change.
We’ve got this universe where it is dark and there is crime, but there’s no supernatural. I’d love to introduce her,” Aguirre-Sacasa says with elevated energy. But like Archie, she still assumes a winsome attitude maneuvering a maze of scheming adults and finicky co-eds. Starring in the Robert Hack-drawn comic The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, the budding enchantress assumes a darker, far more satanic narrative than her G-rated early comics or ’90s ABC sitcom. Aguirre-Sacasa has even been penning the adventures of one speculative addition for the past three years: Sabrina the Teenage Witch. There’s always going to be humor and aspirational friendship elements.”Īctresses Madelaine Petsch and Ashleigh Murray (Josie)Īnd the group hinted at what new friends may join the gang. “Even in episode one, when the stakes are so high and everyone’s waiting to learn as Fred’s life hangs in the balance…there’s that great scene with and Betty talking about what’s going on with her and Jughead. “But I will say this,” Aguirre-Sacasa continued.
Played with icy vulnerability by Madelaine Petsch, the character’s brother suffered a Laura Palmer-esque death, fueling the biggest questions of the series: Who killed him? Why? And was there incest between the siblings? (Answers: her heroin-slinging father, who also committed suicide after being discovered/Because he didn’t want to sling heroin/Probably?) The majority of the despair, though, revolved around mean girl Cheryl Blossom. Besides the looming fate of Fred Andrews (Perry’s listed as an actor in 13 episodes of Season Two, so do your own math), Jughead was ousted to the seedy Southside of Riverdale where a drug-running gang, The Serpents, took him into their coils. Making the show darker would require an inspired sense of sadism. So it does get darker.”Īctors Cole Sprouse (Jughead) and KJ Apa (Archie)
“We have a very strong crime and noir element that’s a little bit more dangerous than Season One. “We had a murder mystery in Season One,” Aguirre-Sacasa explained. Mendes specifically referred to upcoming trauma that will wreak havoc on both her character and her relationship with Betty actress Lili Reinhart foreshadows that she’ll be “vulnerable” after “circumstances break her.” By the end of roundtable, each actor had a similar prediction for their character aside from a second episode flashback that sees the cast channeling their idyllic, ’50s forebears, all the denizens of Riverdale seem to be heading toward (another) personal apocalypse. It’s coming from a place of love and protection. “It’s heartbreaking watching that conflict unfold. ( Spoiler: the season concluded with Archie’s Dad, Fred-a DILF-ish Luke Perry-receiving a gunshot to the gut.) “It’s sad and hopeless,” lamented Camila Mendes, who plays reformed socialite Veronica Lodge. In anticipation of its second season, Paste sat down with the cast and Aguirre-Sacasa during a roundtable at San Diego Comic-Con and asked if these poor kids could catch a break after enduring a flaming carwreck of melodrama and hormones last season. Or, to quote Paste’s own Mary Houlihan, “It’s very good, and it’s also bad, and you’re gonna love it.”Īctresses Lili Reinhart (Betty) and Camila Mendes (Veronica) Laying in the middle of a Venn diagram between high school soap opera and neo-noir, the 12-episode season set up a murder mystery that also slid incest, drug trafficking and statutory rape into the recipe. Last January, the showrunner and Chief Creative Officer debuted Riverdale, a CW drama that cast a Lynchian shadow over the property.
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In 2014, Aguirre-Sacasa tossed Archie and his Riverdale peers into a gauntlet of zombies and eldritch horror in Afterlife with Archie-a gruesome 2014 comic released in tandem with a line-wide relaunch of all things Archie, including series for quirky BFF Jughead and, later, Betty and Veronica.īut Aguirre-Sacasa was far from finished putting these sterling co-eds through the existential ringer. But one of the career goals of producer, playwright and comic scribe Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa is to escort the redhead ’50s icon to the gates of hell-literally. For 76 years, the greatest crisis every-teen Archie Andrews faced was navigating a love triangle between a gorgeous blonde girl-next-door and a gorgeous brunette socialite.
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