Riverdale could have been even weirder
The CW’s Riverdale is shaping up to be one of the strangest new shows of 2017, blending good-old all-American Archie comics with a lot of good old all-American sex and murder. Still, the Twin Peaks-quoting teen soap—which debuts on January 26—could have been even stranger, according to creator (and Archie chief creative officer) Robert Aguirre-Sacasa. During a panel at the TCA winter previews today, Aguirre-Sacasa listed some of the plot ideas that he had to fend off from at least one presumably well-meaning (and unnamed) entertainment executive during the show’s creation: