In Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin, the Liars go to Rosewood, the town in the original Pretty Liars show, and then someone references Riverdale. Creator Robert Aguirre-Sacasa confirms the shows exist in the same universe.
On the newest episode of Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin — a spinoff of the 2010 Freeform show — the characters return to Rosewood, the town from the first series. It’s there that the main characters learn that some of the patients from Rosewood’s Radley Sanitarium were “sent to the Sisters of Quiet Mercy over in Riverdale.”
Yes, that Riverdale! The Riverdale that is the center of the CW’s Riverdale, the show that put a nitty-gritty spin on the Archie comics characters. The show that started out as standard murder mystery, but then became serial killers and cults and magical powers and alternate universes, with the most recent season ending with a comet hurtling towards town and catapulting everyone back to the 1950s.
It’s official: iconic teen thriller Pretty Little Liars and iconic teen paranormal-crime-drama-soap-opera-musical(?) Riverdale now share a universe.
To be fair, the connection isn’t so much a deliberate long con as it is executive producer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s little Easter egg that ends up opening a whole box of Peeps (trying to connect two metaphors here, bear with me).
