Might be interesting …

[aadler]

I hear there’s a new show, Riverdale, a darker or semi-subversive take on the old Archie characters and venue. Haven’t watched it yet, but I really enjoyed the 2015 re-imagining of the Archie universe, so I’ll probably check it out as soon as I have some time off.

One thing I did see, though: a comment, somewhere, that this new show reminded someone of nothing so much as the Vampire Diaries. Never seen a single episode of that (or wanted to, because I’m just not interested), but the comment is certainly suggestive.

Funny how it never occurred to me before, but ‘Riverdale’ has the same cadence (and same number of syllables, and same number of letters) as ‘Sunnydale’ …

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[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Any story about a school where weird things happen will probably draw on the Sunnydale vibe, it's gone into the common psyche to the point that the Veronica Mars movie and the Dr. Who spin-off Class have both included lines about the school being built on a Hellmouth without bothering to explain it.

[aadler]

So far the ‘new take’ is intriguing and entertaining, but I can’t figure where the Vampire Diaries comparison came from. I may have misunderstood what I saw, or it may be that the styles of the two shows are similar even with really different subject matter.