Things that pose a threat to consume and destroy the human brain: (1) zombies; (2) the CW’s Riverdale; (3) a spinoff Riverdale about zombies. Disney+ is developing Afterlife With Archie, an apocalyptic hourlong drama written and produced by the same duo behind Riverdale and Netflix’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Greg Berlanti, per Deadline.
If you think that a zombie show about Archie, Jughead, Betty, Veronica, and the gang sounds random, you must be new here. For one, Afterlife With Archie will be based on an actual run of horror-themed Archie comic books written by Aguirre-Sacasa in 2013 and ’14. Furthermore, a zombie apocalypse wouldn’t even scratch the surface of weirdest things to happen in the fictional town of Riverdale. For example, a brief list of stuff far spookier than zombies that happened over the course of the show’s seven-season run:
Cult kidnappings, an organ-harvesting ring, ritualistic human sacrifice, a mass murderer called “The Black Hood,” a “Gargoyle King,” a “Mothman,” literally Satan, something called “the serial-killer gene,” a possessed doll containing the spirit of a triplet consumed in the womb, a twincest relationship featuring a rotting corpse, a juvenile-prison fight club, underage-tickle-fetish porn, Veronica developing pheromone-venom that kills her lovers, a Biblical plague upon the town’s firstborn, and musical numbers.
TV just hasn’t been the same since Riverdale went off the air in 2023. Disney+ can’t dig up that grave fast enough.
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Afterlife With Archie absolutely wants to eat your brain.
