Sex.,” is the real modern twist of the series. Actually, it’s not even “most likely” - the supernatural elements in “Nancy Drew” are 100% real. The Claw is where we meet the other characters that Nancy is stuck with by circumstance: George (Leah Lewis), Nancy’s wrong side of the tracks manager who’s held a grudge against Nancy since high school Ace (Alex Saxon), the spaced-out stoner dishwasher and Bess (Maddison Jaizani), the sheltered rich girl-turned-waitress “taking a gap year from life in the city.” While Nancy is quick to note that they’re not friends, they’re all brought together once they become suspects in the murder of Tiffany Hudson, wife of Horseshoe Bay’s shady rich summer resident, Ryan Hudson (Riley Smith).īut it’s not just the murder of Tiffany Hudson that Nancy (and the team, who insist on making it a team) has to solve there’s also the 2000 murder of Lucy “Dead Lucy” Sable, Horseshoe Bay’s “most infamous Sea Queen,” who is most likely haunting Nancy and the entire town. That tragedy leads to Nancy giving up her hobby of being a teen detective, as well as her focus on her schoolwork - so when we meet Nancy a year later, she’s a townie (in Horseshoe Bay, Maine) still living at home with her father Carson Drew (Scott Wolf), having meaningless sex with a mechanic named Ned “Nick” Nickerson (Tunji Kasim), and working as a waitress as a local diner called The Claw. Developed by producing duo Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage (“The O.C.,” “Gossip Girl,” “Runaways,” “Looking For Alaska”) and Noga Landau (“The Magicians”), Nancy Drew stars Kennedy McMann as the titular Nancy, now 18 years old and in a bad place in her life following the death of her mom (Sara Canning). Which is perhaps the most important thing to realize before diving into the new series. 'French Dispatch' and 'Last Night in Soho' Start to Lift Stagnant Specialty Box Office 'Hanna' Season 3 Review: The Story of a Young Super-Assassin Ends Like It Startedīest True Crime Shows on Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Max 'The Beatles: Get Back' Review: A Riveting, Playful Look at the Band's Final Days While “Nancy Drew” certainly has a darker, more mature twist than it’s source material, it’s nowhere near the same ballpark as “Riverdale.”
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And “Riverdale” is going into its fourth season of camp and full-blown insanity while “Nancy Drew” is just about to get its sea legs, taking place in a small fishing town that, while full of superstitions and ghost stories, still resembles a reality that looks like our own in a way “Riverdale” never has and has never attempted.
Because while there are literal ghosts and supernatural elements at play in Nancy Drew - unlike in “Riverdale,” which constantly teases the possibility of the supernatural but pulls away, in favor of somehow even more absurd options - based on the first two episodes which were available for review, it’s far more grounded in reality than “Riverdale” ever was. Dark reimaginings of the squeakiest of clean, youth-oriented stories make perfect sense working together to the common goal of ratings success.īut the pairing of “Riverdale” and “Nancy Drew” is also a potentially dangerous choice, specifically when it comes to the presentation of the latter. So the pairing of “Riverdale” and the new mysterious show on the block “ Nancy Drew” - aka “Nancy Drew Who Fucks” - is arguably a brilliant choice for the network, a no-brainer. The CW is currently most well-known for two things: Greg Berlanti’s supreme network dominance in the form of DC Comics superhero shows and “Riverdale.” The latter, also known as “Hot Archie Who Fucks,” has been a runaway hit for the network, with its powers (in terms of viewership and in finding middle-aged men to fight Archie Andrews) only growing stronger every time a new season hits Netflix after the broadcast airing.
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