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With its mixture of sex, drugs, murder and wig rooms (Yesa room full of toupees!
Jugheads crown!).
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For every nostalgic thing, hes got something so contemporary and adult and scary.
Adds Aguirre-Sacasa, I think its kind of caught between the dark and the light ofArchie.
Riverdalestarted out much, much lighter.
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It just got crazy, remembersRiverdaleEP Sarah Schechter, who originally worked on the movie version.
There were, like, time portals.
At one point one of my bosses said, What about Louis C.K.
I called Roberto and said, Dont shut the deal.
Says Berlanti, ItsArchie, so people needed to know, Why is it still for today?
The answer was an old-fashioned killing.
When we added the murder-mystery element to season 1, the show unlocked creatively for me, remembers Aguirre-Sacasa.
He admits that his playing with a beloved franchise initially freaked out some fans.
As people watch more and more episodes, theyre much more accepting and excited by it, he says.
There will always be a hardcore contingency that doesnt like anything that we change.
But then there are those changes that become social-media gold, like the romantic pairing of Jughead and Betty.
The odd couple became a fan favorite, garnering their own shipper fan group called, naturally, Bugheads.
We were also working against Jugheads asexuality.
(Ratings for season 1 were respectable, averaging 1.7 million viewers per ep.)
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