History Series / NoGoodNick

''No Good Nick'' is a Creator/{{Netflix}} original {{Dramedy}} {{Sitcom}} centering on Nicole "Nick" Franzelli, a teenage ConArtist who claimed to be a LongLostRelative whose parents recently died to insert herself into an upper-class family, The Thompsons. The mother Liz (Creator/MelissaJoanHart) runs an Italian restaurant and father Ed (Creator/SeanAstin) works at a loan company, while their children Jeremy and Molly are high school aged. Nicks' real goals are to use their connections to scam them out of money. However, she finds herself growing increasingly attached to them as she spends more time in their home.

** She was able to steal a bunch of expensive wine from Liz's restaurant by switching the labels with cheap wine. Unfortunately, the value of wine is almost entirely in the label itself, so she just ended up with a bunch blank wine bottles with functionally no commercial value.

* RealityEnsues: Nick developed a clever plan to steal a bunch of expensive wine from Liz's restaurant by switching the labels with cheap wine. Unfortunately, the value of wine is almost entirely in the label itself, so she just ended up with a bunch blank wine bottles with functionally no commercial value.

* BookEnds: The first episode shows Nick as trying to drug the family so Sam and Dorothy could ransack their home, but pulls back claiming to be doing a larger con. The end of part two [[spoiler: Nick pretends to drug them and they pretend to be knocked unconscious so that Sam and Dorothy will enter the house. Once inside, the family wakes up and the police arrive]].

* HeelRealization: Since the show runs on GreyAndGrayMorality, the only difference between the good and bad characters is that the good ones eventually realize that they're the villains in someone else's story, and show genuine regret and growth from this realization.

* BecomingTheMask: Nick scheme against the Thompsons was entirely motivated by revenge, but being part of a loving family ''who think they took in an orphan'', making them act extra kind to her, she can't help but appreciate having a sister and brother with parents who are HappilyMarried.

** Eric is very protective of Jeremy and has trouble remaining impartian during the poker tournament [[spoiler: we later see them kissing.]]

* PrecisionFStrike: Despite the subject matter the show as a whole is not too dissimilar in the type of dialogue and conversations you would see in a Creator/DisneyChannel sitcom. But one episode Nick comes across Todd practicing to play a particular role and asks "What the hell are you doing?"

* GrayingMorality: The show initially seems to have a ver clear morality, with the Thompsons being a kind and loving family and Nick a villain trying to steal from them. We soon learn that Nick is being pressured into it by her father, and that she genuinely cares about the Thompsons. However, the morality gets maximum grey in ''The Italian Job'', where we learn that [[spoiler: The Thompsons are far from innocent, and the Franzellis are completely justified in blaming them for the unfair ruin of their livelihood, even if they're still wrong in wanting revenge.]]

* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: Defied. One of the main themes of the StoryArc is that people outside of yourself and yours also matter and whatever bad thing you do to them, even if it is to help your loved ones, is wrong and has consequences. Nick's actions are treated as maybe clever. but never okay, and it's revealed that the Thompsons have done some shady things without realizing how immoral it was.

After the WhamShot at the end of "The Pigeon Drop" reveals that the guy Nick gave money to [[spoiler: isn't really a defense attorney]], the ColdOpen of the next episode has her father tell her that the lawyer took his case. [[spoiler: This is an early indicator that her father has been lying to her about what the money is for.]]

** Tony. While he's right about the Thompsons [[spoiler: unfairly and underhandedly running his restaurant out of business.]] The fact that he's [[spoiler: In deep debt with the mob and in prison]] is a result of his own bad choices.

* WhamLine: "We do love her" Said by Ed as he reveals that [[spoiler: he was only pretending to be knocked out]].

* SeriesContinuityError: One episode has Dorothy bribe a social services employee to back up her false identity by offering her a bottle of Costa Nord wine from Nick's wine robbery in "The Pig In A Poke." However, without the label, there should have been no way to prove that the wine was really Costa Nord (making it worthless as a bribe). This was explicitly why the wine robbery failed in the first place.

* PercussiveTherapy: The "Feel your feels" station made by Ed (patent pending) to help Molly let out her frustration by destroying old stuff with a bat, Liz also benefits fromit.

* BecomingTheMask: Nick scheme against the Thompsons was entirely motivated by revenge but being part of a loving family ''who think they took in an orphan'' make them act extra kind to her, and she can't help but appreciate having a sister and brother with parents who are HappilyMarried.

* {{Deconstruction}}: Of the "family first" aesop. Done in as brutal and ruthless a way as can be done in a children's show. The characters do whatever it takes for their families, which is often underhanded and results in the suffering of innocents. It's most notorious when mobsters, arguably the only characters without any redeeming qualities, justify their actions by saying they just have to do it for the (crime) family.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Eric is very protective of Jeremy and has trouble remaining impartian during the poker tournament [[spoiler: we later see them kissing.]]

* HeelRealization: Since the show runs on GreyAndGrayMorality, the only difference between the good and bad characters is that the good one eventually realize that they're the villain in someone else's story, and show genuine regret and growth from this realization.
* HiddenDepths: For a small time, barely competent crook with a BA in sports administration, Todd is a surprisingly good therapist.

* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: Exploited by Nick in the costume dance. She pressures Jeremy into letting the volunteer squad fine people with insensitive or offensive costumes, then she finds a way to interpret ''every'' costume as insensitive or offensive, such as fining a ninja for cultural appropriation, or a vampire for being insensitive to haemophiliacs.

* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: Defied. One of the main themes of the StoryArc is that people outside of yourself and yours also matter and whatever bad thing you do to them, even if it is to help your loved ones, is wrong and has consequences. Nick's actions are treated as maybe clever but never okay, and it's revealed that the Thompsons have done some shady things without realizing how immoral it was.

* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: Nick figures out that Will [[spoiler: is a spy for Sam and Dorothy because he makes a remark about "the juice" not being "worth the squeeze" a phrase they particularly like to use]].

* {{Deconstruction}} : Of the "family first" aesop. Done in as brutal and ruthless a way as can be done in a children's show. The characters do whatever it takes for their families, which is often underhanded and results in the suffering of innocents. It's most notorious when mobsters, arguably the only characters without any redeeming qualities, justify their actions by saying they just have to do it for the (crime) family.

* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: Defied. One of the main themes of the StoryArc is that people outside of yourself and yours also matter and whatever bad thing you do to them, even if it is to help your loved ones, is wrong and has consequences.

* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: Nick figures out that Will [[spoiler: is a spy for Sam and Dorothy because he makes a remark about "squeezing out all the juice," a phrase they particularly like to use]].

** Sam is a big burly guy who functions as a sort of assistant/bodyguard for Jeremy, he initially seems to be DumbMuscle, but through the series he's shown to be a skilled spy, a sensitive reader, a perceptive listener and ultimately a ConsummateProfessional.

* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: Exploited by Nick, the Thompsons are too sympathetic to her story to question it too deeply.

* WhamEpisode: "The Italian Job" revealed why Nick wanted revenge against the Thompsons and how her father ended up in jail, which put a different spin on the Thompsons and Nick's situation.
* WhamLine: "We do love her" Said by Ed as he reveals that [[spoiler: he was only pretending to be knocked out]]

* BecomingTheMask: Nick scheme against the Thompsons was entirely motivated by revenge but being part of a loving family ''who think they took in an orphan'' make them act extra kind to her, and she can't help but appreciate having a sister, brother and parents who are HappilyMarried.