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Archie and the gang come back to a much darker world

Sugar, sugar: Archie (Apa), Veronica (Mendes), Jughead (Sprouse) and Betty (Reinhart) reborn on the CW

COMIC BOOKS TEND TO HAVE A VIVID color palette. But the people tasked with adapting them for the screen are, ever more frequently, choosing darkness. Marvel’s Avengers are currently at war with one another; on Netflix, Luke Cage and Jessica Jones tell stories of disaffection and trauma; and the most recent Superman film depicted the Übermensch’s death.

What about Archie Andrews? The teen star of the Archie comics series, known over the past 75 years for its sunny lack of guile, comes to TV with the CW’s new

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