Riverdale- Cheryl welcomes Jason corpses
Even amid steep competition, the Blossoms are far and away the most twisted family in all of Riverdale. (Their main competition, the Coopers, are actually related to them.) Their family home, Thornhill, is a scary gothic mansion, and their business, selling maple syrup, is more bloodthirsty than you could ever imagine. The weirdo behavior goes back generations (there’s a whole clan of Blossom bastard cast-offs living outside of town who terrorize outsiders while dressed as moth men). However, this generation is plenty whacked out: As we already mentioned, Penelope was adopted by the Blossoms and raised to be a child bride for Clifford (Barclay Hope), who killed his own son Jason (Trevor Stines) to preserve his drug business. After Clifford killed himself, his twin brother Claudius showed up, had an affair with Penelope, and helped her force Cheryl into conversion therapy and take over the drug smuggling biz before his own untimely death.
Cheryl tries to chart a new course for the Blossoms, but she’s often hampered by their legacy and her grief for her twin brother. For a time, she keeps Jason’s corpse around the house and talks to it; later she starts a supernatural cult dedicated to worshiping him. The house is also haunted by not one but two creepy dolls, one that contains the soul of her ancestor Abigail who was burned as a witch hundreds of years ago, and one that is supposedly the manifestation of the triplet she consumed in the womb. (Julian, the erstwhile triplet, returns as a Real Boy in the upcoming seventh season!) Not to mention Nana Blossom (Barbara Wallace), always hovering around making ominous proclamations and doling out positively macabre family history. Riverdale wouldn’t be half so interesting without the Blossoms and their freakish ways.