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* AdaptationalJobChange:
** In the books, Laura Hardy is simply a stay-at-home mom in the older books published during the years in which this series is set; even in the more recent books that do give her careers outside the home, said jobs so far have been a research librarian (''Undercover Brothers'') and a real estate agent (''Adventures''). In this series, she's a journalist/investigative reporter.
** Similarly, Gertrude/Trudy Hardy was never shown having a job in any of the book series, and lives with her brother Fenton and his family. Here, she lives alone (until the boys come to stay with her) in the house she and Fenton grew up in with their parents (thus needing some sort of income) and is a painter who displays and sells her artwork in galleries.
** In the books, Laura Hardy is simply a stay-at-home mom in the older books published during the years in which this series is set; even in the more recent books that do give her careers outside the home, said jobs so far have been a research librarian (''Undercover Brothers'') and a real estate agent (''Adventures''). In this series, she's a journalist/investigative reporter.
** Similarly, Gertrude/Trudy Hardy was never shown having a job in any of the book series, and lives with her brother Fenton and his family. Here, she lives alone (until the boys come to stay with her) in the house she and Fenton grew up in with their parents (thus needing some sort of income) and is a painter who displays and sells her artwork in galleries.
** A minor one, but Frank's full name is "Francis" in this series, and Gloria often calls him this in a similar fashion to how she often calls Joe "Joseph". In all book series so far, Frank actually is his full name, not a nickname.
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* FriendOnTheForce: Jessie Hooper for the Hardys and friends; justified because she's Biff's mom.
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* FriendOnTheForce: FriendOnTheForce:
** Jessie Hooper for the Hardys and friends; justified because she's Biff'smom.mom.
** Sam Peterson, Fenton's former partner, serves as a source of information (such as running background checks) for Fenton and later for the boys as well.
** Jessie Hooper for the Hardys and friends; justified because she's Biff's
** Sam Peterson, Fenton's former partner, serves as a source of information (such as running background checks) for Fenton and later for the boys as well.
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** He starts as an AntiHero who pays Joe and Biff to help him a couple of times, rescues Joe from the Tall Man, tries to warn the boys off the case for their own safety.
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** He starts as an AntiHero who pays Joe and Biff to help him a couple of times, rescues Joe from the Tall Man, and tries to warn the boys off the case for their own safety.
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* MoralityPet: Joe seems to become this to JB Cox, despite JB claiming to only be out for himself. When he realizes that Joe has taken the piece of the Eye with him to the fair and the Tall Man knows that he has it, JB catches up to them JustInTime to stop the Tall Man from killing him and pulls a YouShallNotPass to give Joe a chance to get away. He later warns Joe and Frank to stay away from the case so they don't get hurt, and when he takes Joe hostage against Gloria, insists that he'd never actually hurt him. [[spoiler:When Gloria hires him to steal Joe's piece of the Eye and bring it to her, Frank reams him out over betraying Joe, and despite JB insisting that he's a thief and they shouldn't have trusted him, does seem to genuinely feel bad about it. The season ends with a voiceover of a note that he wrote to Joe, declaring that JB owes him a favor as repayment for stealing the Eye piece and tells Joe to contact him if he ever needs something stolen for any reason.]]
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* MoralityPet: MoralityPet:
** Frank and Joe to their grandmother, Gloria. She straight-up admits to Trudy that she wasn't a good mother and wants to be a better grandmother, and though she doesn't always go about it in the best way, she sincerely loves her grandsons and doesn't want to see any harm come to them. [[spoiler:When she's arrested at the end of the season for her role in the Bridgeport conspiracy--after all of them learned that her butler Stefan killed Laura--she's heard apologizing to them for everything she's done and all the problems she's caused.]]
** Joe seems to become this to JB Cox, despite JB claiming to only be out for himself. When he realizes that Joe has taken the piece of the Eye with him to the fair and the Tall Man knows that he has it, JB catches up to them JustInTime to stop the Tall Man from killing him and pulls a YouShallNotPass to give Joe a chance to get away. He later warns Joe and Frank to stay away from the case so they don't get hurt, and when he takes Joe hostage against Gloria, insists that he'd never actually hurt him. [[spoiler:When Gloria hires him to steal Joe's piece of the Eye and bring it to her, Frank reams him out over betraying Joe, and despite JB insisting that he's a thief and they shouldn't have trusted him, does seem to genuinely feel bad about it. The season ends with a voiceover of a note that he wrote to Joe, declaring that JB owes him a favor as repayment for stealing the Eye piece and tells Joe to contact him if he ever needs something stolen for any reason.]]
** Frank and Joe to their grandmother, Gloria. She straight-up admits to Trudy that she wasn't a good mother and wants to be a better grandmother, and though she doesn't always go about it in the best way, she sincerely loves her grandsons and doesn't want to see any harm come to them. [[spoiler:When she's arrested at the end of the season for her role in the Bridgeport conspiracy--after all of them learned that her butler Stefan killed Laura--she's heard apologizing to them for everything she's done and all the problems she's caused.]]
** Joe seems to become this to JB Cox, despite JB claiming to only be out for himself. When he realizes that Joe has taken the piece of the Eye with him to the fair and the Tall Man knows that he has it, JB catches up to them JustInTime to stop the Tall Man from killing him and pulls a YouShallNotPass to give Joe a chance to get away. He later warns Joe and Frank to stay away from the case so they don't get hurt, and when he takes Joe hostage against Gloria, insists that he'd never actually hurt him. [[spoiler:When Gloria hires him to steal Joe's piece of the Eye and bring it to her, Frank reams him out over betraying Joe, and despite JB insisting that he's a thief and they shouldn't have trusted him, does seem to genuinely feel bad about it. The season ends with a voiceover of a note that he wrote to Joe, declaring that JB owes him a favor as repayment for stealing the Eye piece and tells Joe to contact him if he ever needs something stolen for any reason.]]
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* PetTheDog:
** Gloria Estabrook can hardly be called a good person, but she truly does love her family:
*** She wants to be a better grandmother to the boys than she was a mother to Laura, and while some of her efforts to do so are certainly a bit misguided, she clearly does care about them, looks out for their safety, and is nicer to them than she is to most other people.
*** She also makes a real effort to mend the fences with Trudy Hardy, with whom she's never gotten along, likely out of sincere regret at losing Laura. She has tea with Trudy (which Gloria suggested) and offers to talk to some friends at art galleries in the city about displaying and selling some of Trudy's artwork.
*** Additionally, Gloria has been tutoring Callie Shaw for quite some time to get high enough grades to be able to enter Rosegrave Prep, a prestigious prep school founded by her father George, and offers to sponsor her tuition since Callie and her dad would never be able to afford it.
** JB Cox is pretty blunt that he's not exactly an amazing guy and claims to be OnlyInItForTheMoney, but he's genuinely impressed with Joe's intelligence and takes a liking to him. Despite his fear of the Tall Man, who already tried to kill him once, when JB realizes he's going after Joe to get the artifact back, he follows them to the carnival for the sole purpose of protecting Joe from the Tall Man and risks his life fighting the latter so Joe can get away safely.
** Gloria Estabrook can hardly be called a good person, but she truly does love her family:
*** She wants to be a better grandmother to the boys than she was a mother to Laura, and while some of her efforts to do so are certainly a bit misguided, she clearly does care about them, looks out for their safety, and is nicer to them than she is to most other people.
*** She also makes a real effort to mend the fences with Trudy Hardy, with whom she's never gotten along, likely out of sincere regret at losing Laura. She has tea with Trudy (which Gloria suggested) and offers to talk to some friends at art galleries in the city about displaying and selling some of Trudy's artwork.
*** Additionally, Gloria has been tutoring Callie Shaw for quite some time to get high enough grades to be able to enter Rosegrave Prep, a prestigious prep school founded by her father George, and offers to sponsor her tuition since Callie and her dad would never be able to afford it.
** JB Cox is pretty blunt that he's not exactly an amazing guy and claims to be OnlyInItForTheMoney, but he's genuinely impressed with Joe's intelligence and takes a liking to him. Despite his fear of the Tall Man, who already tried to kill him once, when JB realizes he's going after Joe to get the artifact back, he follows them to the carnival for the sole purpose of protecting Joe from the Tall Man and risks his life fighting the latter so Joe can get away safely.
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* TheTeam: The fifth episode solidifies the main kids--Frank and Joe Hardy, Chet Morton, Callie Shaw, Biff Hooper, and Phil Cohen--as a six-person team working to unearth the conspiracy in Bridgeport and learn what Laura Hardy knew about it and who killed her.
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* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Downplayed with JB Cox, who is a primarily self-motivated thief-for-hire throughout who nonetheless sympathizes with the Hardy Boys for their mother's murder:
** He starts as an AntiHero who pays Joe and Biff to help him a couple of times, rescues Joe from the Tall Man, tries to warn the boys off the case for their own safety.
** He becomes more akin to an AntiVillain later when he uses Joe as a hostage against Gloria (though he does promise not to actually hurt him), briefly goes on a PowerHigh when he gets his hands on one of the pieces of the Eye and considers stealing and assembling them all, and steals Joe's piece for Gloria when she pays him to do so.
** He ultimately goes back to being more of an AntiHero by the end: he realizes that trying to assemble all of the pieces is a bad idea and gives up on this plan, and sincerely feels bad about betraying Joe by stealing his piece. To make up for this, JB sends him a letter at the end of the season promising that Joe can call in a favor with him if he ever needs anything stolen.
** He starts as an AntiHero who pays Joe and Biff to help him a couple of times, rescues Joe from the Tall Man, tries to warn the boys off the case for their own safety.
** He becomes more akin to an AntiVillain later when he uses Joe as a hostage against Gloria (though he does promise not to actually hurt him), briefly goes on a PowerHigh when he gets his hands on one of the pieces of the Eye and considers stealing and assembling them all, and steals Joe's piece for Gloria when she pays him to do so.
** He ultimately goes back to being more of an AntiHero by the end: he realizes that trying to assemble all of the pieces is a bad idea and gives up on this plan, and sincerely feels bad about betraying Joe by stealing his piece. To make up for this, JB sends him a letter at the end of the season promising that Joe can call in a favor with him if he ever needs anything stolen.
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* ObnoxiousInLaws: Gloria Estabrook to her son-in-law Fenton Hardy, whom she even acknowledges has never liked her because Laura also didn't like her. Trudy, despite Gloria not technically being an in-law of ''hers'', actually regards her as this even more than Fenton does, as she states that Gloria has never been nice to her, Fenton, or their parents.
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* CaughtOnTape: Kanika Khan, in exchange for her nephew and Fenton Hardy not pressing charges against her for her actions, gets Gloria Estabrook to confess [[spoiler:to having Sergei Nabokav murdered while secretly recording it on tape and gives them the recording, which is the evidence they need to bring Gloria down]].
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* MoralityPet: Joe seems to become this to JB Cox, despite JB claiming to only be out for himself. When he realizes that Joe has taken the piece of the Eye with him to the fair and the Tall Man knows that he has it, JB catches up to them JustInTime to stop the Tall Man from killing him and pulls a YouShallNotPass to give Joe a chance to get away. He later warns Joe and Frank to stay away from the case so they don't get hurt, and when he takes Joe hostage against Gloria, insists that he'd never actually hurt him. [[spoiler:When Gloria hires him to steal the Nabokav piece of the Eye from Joe and bring it to her, Frank reams him out over betraying Joe, and despite JB insisting that he's a thief and they shouldn't have trusted him, does seem to genuinely feel bad about it. The season ends with a voiceover of a note that he wrote to Joe, declaring that JB owes him a favor as repayment for stealing the Eye piece and tells Joe to contact him if he ever needs something stolen for any reason.]]
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* MoralityPet: Joe seems to become this to JB Cox, despite JB claiming to only be out for himself. When he realizes that Joe has taken the piece of the Eye with him to the fair and the Tall Man knows that he has it, JB catches up to them JustInTime to stop the Tall Man from killing him and pulls a YouShallNotPass to give Joe a chance to get away. He later warns Joe and Frank to stay away from the case so they don't get hurt, and when he takes Joe hostage against Gloria, insists that he'd never actually hurt him. [[spoiler:When Gloria hires him to steal the Nabokav Joe's piece of the Eye from Joe and bring it to her, Frank reams him out over betraying Joe, and despite JB insisting that he's a thief and they shouldn't have trusted him, does seem to genuinely feel bad about it. The season ends with a voiceover of a note that he wrote to Joe, declaring that JB owes him a favor as repayment for stealing the Eye piece and tells Joe to contact him if he ever needs something stolen for any reason.]]
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* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler:Stacy undergoes this when Frank realizes she's just as bad as the people she's working against (namely, the Estabrooks and the Khans) and refuses to work with her, eventually kidnapping Callie to try to force the Hardys to hand over the Estabrook piece of The Eye. She then undergoes this further once she finds out they tricked her and handed over a fake.]]
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* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler:Stacy undergoes this when Frank realizes she's just as bad as the people she's working against (namely, the Estabrooks and the Khans) and refuses to work with her, eventually kidnapping Callie to try to force the Hardys to hand over the Estabrook their piece of The Eye. She then undergoes this further once she finds out they tricked her and handed over a fake.]]]]
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Once Kanika Khan gives Fenton [[spoiler:Gloria's recorded murder confession]] as evidence, she decides to leave Bridgeport and wash her hands of the Eye conspiracy altogether.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Once Kanika Khan gives Fenton [[spoiler:Gloria's recorded murder confession]] as evidence, she decides to leave Bridgeport and wash her hands of the Eye conspiracy altogether.
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* YouHaveFailedMe: After the Tall Man repeatedly fails to get back the piece of the Eye that Joe has, the mysterious woman over the phone tries to fire him, but he insists on continuing to try to get it back. [[spoiler:When he once again tries to attack the Hardys and they again escape from him, he starts to pursue them, only to be fatally struck by a car by Stacy Baker when he runs into the road in front of her. At first, it appears to be an accident, but with the later reveal that Stacy is Anastasia Nabokav and was the woman he spoke to on the phone, it's clear she hit and killed him on purpose to get him out of the way after he failed once again.]]
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* YouHaveFailedMe: After the Tall Man repeatedly fails to get back the piece of the Eye that Joe has, the mysterious woman over the phone tries to fire him, but he insists on continuing to try to get it back. [[spoiler:When When he once again tries to attack the Hardys and they again escape from him, he starts to pursue them, only to be fatally struck by a car by Stacy Baker when he runs into the road in front of her. At [[spoiler:At first, it appears to be an accident, but with the later reveal that Stacy is Anastasia Nabokav and was the woman he spoke to on the phone, it's clear she hit and killed him on purpose to get him out of the way after he failed once again.]]
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* TheFakeCutie: [[spoiler:Stacy Baker, the new girl who inadvertently saves Frank and Joe by accidentally hitting the Tall Man with her car, seems to be a sweet GirlNextDoor type who develops a crush on Frank after he helps her avoid trouble with the police. It's eventually revealed that she's really Anastasia Nabokav, who came to Bridgeport after her father was murdered and his piece of the Eye was stolen to try to get information from the Hardys (whom she knows have the Eye piece now), and that her running into the Tall Man was far from an accident. Frank figures out that she's more than she seems when she starts being too obvious about pumping him for info, and once he confronts her and she tells him her true identity, she drops the act, gradually becoming more and more unhinged as the series reaches its climax and the Hardys refuse to cooperate with her.]]
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* TheFakeCutie: [[spoiler:Stacy Baker, the new girl who inadvertently saves Frank and Joe by accidentally hitting the Tall Man with her car, seems to be a sweet GirlNextDoor type who develops a crush on Frank after he helps her avoid trouble with the police. It's eventually revealed that she's really Anastasia Nabokav, who came to Bridgeport after her father was murdered and his piece of the Eye was stolen to try to get information from the Hardys (whom she knows have the Eye piece now), and that her running into over the Tall Man was far from an accident. Frank figures out that she's more than she seems when she starts being too obvious about pumping him for info, and once he confronts her and she tells him her true identity, she drops the act, gradually becoming more and more unhinged as the series reaches its climax and the Hardys refuse to cooperate with her.]]
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* TheHeavy: The Tall Man, the huge assassin who pursues the Hardys several times to steal their piece of the Eye and is acting on behalf of a mysterious woman, acts as this for the first half of the season, until he's killed off by Stacy hitting him with her car accidentally [[spoiler:or not]].
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* TheHeavy: The Tall Man, the huge assassin who pursues the Hardys several times to steal their piece of the Eye and is acting working on behalf of a mysterious woman, woman [[spoiler:(Anastasia Nabokav)]], acts as this for the first half of the season, until he's killed off by Stacy hitting him with her car accidentally [[spoiler:or not]].
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* HostageForMacGuffin: [[spoiler:Stacy and her minions kidnap Callie and demand that Frank and Joe turn over the Estabrook's piece of The Eye (the only one Stacy doesn't have yet) in exchange for her safe return. The gang is able to get around this by giving them the fake that Joe made several episodes earlier and tricking them into believing it's the real thing long enough to escape with Callie.]]
* TheIngenue: Stacy Baker. [[spoiler:Until we learn she's really Anastasia Nabokav, a FemmeFatale who was [[TheVamp deliberately invoking this]] to try to get Frank to fall for her so she could information from him about the conspiracy going on in Bridgeport. He eventually sees through her when she plays this up a little ''too'' much, to the point of giving him bad vibes making him realize that she's too good to be true.]]
* TheIngenue: Stacy Baker. [[spoiler:Until we learn she's really Anastasia Nabokav, a FemmeFatale who was [[TheVamp deliberately invoking this]] to try to get Frank to fall for her so she could information from him about the conspiracy going on in Bridgeport. He eventually sees through her when she plays this up a little ''too'' much, to the point of giving him bad vibes making him realize that she's too good to be true.]]
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* HostageForMacGuffin: [[spoiler:Stacy and her minions kidnap Callie and demand that Frank and Joe turn over the Estabrook's their piece of The Eye (the only one Stacy doesn't have yet) in exchange for her safe return. The gang is able to get around this by giving them the fake that Joe made several episodes earlier and tricking them into believing it's the real thing long enough to escape with Callie.]]
* TheIngenue: Stacy Baker. [[spoiler:Until we learn she's really Anastasia Nabokav, a FemmeFatale who was [[TheVamp deliberately invoking this]] totry to get Frank to fall for her so she could information get info from him about the conspiracy going on in Bridgeport. He eventually sees through her when she plays this up a little ''too'' much, to the point of giving him bad vibes and making him realize that she's too good to be true.]]
* TheIngenue: Stacy Baker. [[spoiler:Until we learn she's really Anastasia Nabokav, a FemmeFatale who was [[TheVamp deliberately invoking this]] to
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* DistressedDude: Since Joe is just a small pre-teen boy in this adaptation, he's pretty prone to this. Over the course of the first season, he gets taken hostage twice, is targeted/chased/cornered by an assassin and forced to flee for his life (sometimes with Frank or with Biff as well), and falls down a mine shaft (also with Biff) and needs his brother and the other kids to find them.
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* DistressedDude: Since Joe is just a small pre-teen boy in this adaptation, he's pretty prone to this. Over the course of the first season, he gets taken hostage twice, is targeted/chased/cornered by an assassin and forced to flee for his life on several occasions (sometimes with Frank or with Biff as well), and falls down a mine shaft (also with Biff) and needs his brother and the other kids to find them.
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** All of the kids, but especially Joe and Biff, who are only 12 or 13 and yet frequently wander around town, in the woods, and/or at night on their own, and also frequently talk to strangers and get into trouble. It's somewhat understandable since the first half of the season takes place in summer while school isn't in session, and Frank, Callie, and Chet are at least of driving age. Even so, this still continues during the second half once the school day is done.
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** All of the kids, but especially Joe and Biff, who are only 12 or 13 and yet frequently often wander around town, in the woods, and/or at night on their own, and also frequently talk to strangers and get into trouble. It's somewhat understandable since the first half of the season takes place in summer while school isn't in session, and Frank, Callie, and Chet are at least of driving age. Even so, this still continues during the second half once the school day is done.
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* TheHeavy: The Tall Man, the huge assassin who pursues the Hardys several times to steal their piece of the eye and is acting on behalf of a mysterious woman, acts as this for the first half of the season, until he's killed off by Stacy hitting him with her car accidentally [[spoiler:or not]].
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* TheHeavy: The Tall Man, the huge assassin who pursues the Hardys several times to steal their piece of the eye Eye and is acting on behalf of a mysterious woman, acts as this for the first half of the season, until he's killed off by Stacy hitting him with her car accidentally [[spoiler:or not]].
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* DamselInDistress: [[spoiler:Callie becomes this for part of the season finale when she's kidnapped by Stacy as a HostageForMacGuffin. She gets back at Stacy later by fighting and beating her up in the climax.]]
* DistressedDude: Since Joe is just a small pre-teen boy in this adaptation, he's pretty prone to this. Over the course of the first season, he gets taken hostage twice, is targeted/chased/cornered by an assassin and forced to flee for his life (sometimes with Frank or with Biff as well), and falls down a mine shaft (also with Biff) and needs his brother and the other kids to find them.
* TheHeavy: The Tall Man, the huge assassin who pursues the Hardys several times to steal their piece of the eye and is acting on behalf of a mysterious woman, acts as this for the first half of the season, until he's killed off by Stacy hitting him with her car accidentally [[spoiler:or not]].
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** Fenton unquestionably loves his sons, and has them stay in Bridgeport with Trudy over the summer with their safety in mind while he goes off to investigate his wife's death and get closure for all of them. This also means that he's leaving his two sons, still freshly grieving for their mom, behind at a time when they really need their dad the most, to go on a dangerous mission that could easily get him killed and leave them orphaned altogether. When he returns to Bridgeport near the end of the season, is dismayed to discover that the boys have been getting into danger while he was gone by looking into their mom's death, and asks Trudy why she hasn't stopped them from doing so, Trudy even points this out to him, asking him what else he expected to happen when he left the boys behind despite then needing answers just as much as he does.
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** Fenton unquestionably loves his sons, and has them stay in Bridgeport with Trudy over the summer with their safety in mind while he goes off to investigate his wife's death and get closure for all of them. This also means that he's leaving his two sons, still freshly grieving for their mom, behind at a time when they really need their dad the most, to go on a dangerous mission that could easily get him killed and leave them orphaned altogether. When he returns to Bridgeport near the end of the season, is dismayed to discover that the boys have been getting into danger while he was gone by looking into their mom's death, and asks Trudy why she hasn't stopped them from doing so, Trudy even points this out to him, asking him what else he expected to happen when he left the boys behind despite then them needing answers just as much as he does.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Ern, an important supporting character in the first couple of episodes as the SoleSurvivor of the ship that the Tall Man blew up, skips town with his girlfriend to escape from the Tall Man and is never mentioned again for the rest of the season.
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* TheButlerDidIt: [[spoiler:The season finale at last [[TheReveal reveals who killed Laura Hardy]]: it was Stefan, Gloria's butler, who did it to protect her reputation after Laura visited her and vowed to expose the Estabrook family secrets. Notably, this was ''not'' at all on Gloria's orders; Stefan acted on his own, and she is sincerely shocked and suitably upset and appalled when she learns this.]]
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* MoralityPet: Joe seems to become this to JB Cox, despite JB claiming to only be out for himself. When he realizes that Joe has taken the piece of the Eye with him to the fair and the Tall Man knows that he has it, JB catches up to them JustInTime to stop the Tall Man from killing him and pulls a YouShallNotPass to give Joe a chance to get away. He later warns Joe and Frank to stay away from the case so they don't get hurt. [[spoiler:When Gloria hires him to steal the Nabokav piece of the Eye from Joe and bring it to her, Frank reams him out over betraying Joe, and despite JB insisting that he's a thief and they shouldn't have trusted him, does seem to genuinely feel bad about it. The season ends with a voiceover of a note that he wrote to Joe, declaring that JB owes him a favor as repayment for stealing the Eye piece and tells Joe to contact him if he ever needs something stolen for any reason.]]
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* MoralityPet: Joe seems to become this to JB Cox, despite JB claiming to only be out for himself. When he realizes that Joe has taken the piece of the Eye with him to the fair and the Tall Man knows that he has it, JB catches up to them JustInTime to stop the Tall Man from killing him and pulls a YouShallNotPass to give Joe a chance to get away. He later warns Joe and Frank to stay away from the case so they don't get hurt.hurt, and when he takes Joe hostage against Gloria, insists that he'd never actually hurt him. [[spoiler:When Gloria hires him to steal the Nabokav piece of the Eye from Joe and bring it to her, Frank reams him out over betraying Joe, and despite JB insisting that he's a thief and they shouldn't have trusted him, does seem to genuinely feel bad about it. The season ends with a voiceover of a note that he wrote to Joe, declaring that JB owes him a favor as repayment for stealing the Eye piece and tells Joe to contact him if he ever needs something stolen for any reason.]]
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* SketchySuccessor: Inverted; [[spoiler:the quite-sketchy Gloria seems to choose straight-arrow Frank as her successor to the also-sketchy family legacy. Frank doesn't actually want any part of it, but plays along to gain Gloria's trust and find out what she's up to.]]
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* DaddysGirl: Callie seems to be this, especially since [[MissingMom her mom isn't in the picture]]. She's apparently close enough to her dad that one reason she's a bit unsure about her college plans is because she'll have to leave him behind.
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* DaddysGirl: Callie Shaw seems to be this, one, especially since [[MissingMom her mom isn't in the picture]]. She's apparently close enough to her dad that one reason she's a bit unsure about her college plans is because she'll have to leave him behind.
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* LocalHangout: Wilt's cafe. The gang meets there many times throughout the season, and Frank even gets a part-time job there for the summer as a coffee barista. Wilt also becomes an ally to the boys, telling them about gossip he's heard from around time and even hiding them in the back of the store when corrupt Bridgeport police officers are looking for them.
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* LocalHangout: Wilt's cafe. The gang meets there many times throughout the season, and Frank even gets a part-time job there for the summer as a coffee barista. Wilt also becomes an ally to the boys, telling them about gossip he's heard from around time town and in his store, and even hiding them in the back of the store when corrupt Bridgeport police officers are looking for them.
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* DaddysGirl: Callie seems to be this, especially since [[MissingMom her mom isn't in the picture]]. She's apparently close enough to her dad that one reason she's a bit unsure about her college plans is because she'll have to leave him behind.
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* EvilIsNotAToy: [[spoiler:When JB gets his hands on one of the pieces of the Eye, he gets a major PowerHigh from the good luck that it brings, and decides to try to assemble the whole thing and have even better luck, breaking into Stacy's house to steal the piece that she has. He gets badly beaten up by her Co-Dragons for his trouble, who also steal the piece that he has (giving Stacy two of them and leaving the Hardys' piece as the only one she still needs). This snaps JB out of it and he doesn't make the same mistake again when Gloria hires him to steal the third piece from Joe, turning it over without any visible temptation of double-crossing her to keep it for himself.]]
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* EvilIsNotAToy: [[spoiler:When JB gets his hands on one of the pieces of the Eye, he gets a major PowerHigh from the good luck that it brings, and decides to try to assemble the whole thing and have even better luck, breaking into Stacy's house to steal the piece that she has. He gets badly beaten up by her Co-Dragons CoDragons for his trouble, who also steal the piece that he has (giving Stacy two of them and leaving the Hardys' piece as the only one she still needs). This snaps JB out of it and he doesn't make the same mistake again when Gloria hires him to steal the third piece from Joe, turning it over without any visible temptation of double-crossing her to keep it for himself.]]
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* MaidenAunt: Aunt Gertrude was the TropeCodifier from the books, so it's unsurprising that she's this here too, though she seems to be significantly younger than her book counterpart.
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* MaidenAunt: Aunt Gertrude was the TropeCodifier from the books, so it's unsurprising that she's Aunt Trudy is this here too, though she seems to be significantly younger than her book counterpart.
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** Callie bonds with Frank over the fact that she, too, doesn't have a mom (though it sounds like her mom just left instead of passing away). She's apparently quite close with her dad because of it, and one reason she's a bit unsure about her college plans is the thought that she'll have to leave him behind.
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** Callie bonds with Frank over the fact that she, too, doesn't have a mom (though it sounds like her mom just left instead of passing away). She's apparently quite close with her dad because of it, and one reason she's a bit unsure about her college plans is the thought that she'll have to leave him behind.
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** Chet and Callie are dating in this series [[spoiler:until they break up in episode 10 due to Callie's growing feelings for Frank]]. They never had any such relationship in the books, where Callie has always been either Frank's girlfriend or just a platonic friend of everyone in the group.
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** Chet and Callie Shaw are dating in this series [[spoiler:until they break up in episode 10 due to Callie's growing feelings for Frank]]. They never had any such relationship in the books, where Callie has always been either Frank's girlfriend or just a platonic friend of everyone in the group.
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* DeathByAdaptation: The series kicks off by killing off the boy's mother, Laura Hardy, in the premiere, while she has remained alive and well in all of the book series to date. Interestingly, this isn't the first TV series to have done so; ''Series/TheHardyBoysNancyDrewMysteries'' series of the 70's did this as well.
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* DeathByAdaptation: The series kicks off by killing off the boy's boys' mother, Laura Hardy, in the premiere, while she has remained alive and well in all of the book series to date. Interestingly, this isn't the first TV series to have done so; ''Series/TheHardyBoysNancyDrewMysteries'' series of the 70's did this as well.
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** Phil Cohen in the books is one of the Hardy's quieter, calmer friends, and acts as [[TheSmartGuy the group's computer whiz]] in several of the more modern series. Here, he's a hyperactive ExtravertedNerd {{Keet}} who serves as the series' resident PluckyComicRelief and MomentKiller.
** Chet loses his PluckyComicRelief, BigEater, and FatBestFriend traits from the books, all of which are given to Phil instead. Chet, in turn, is a more serious character, and is a LovableJock who hopes to get an athletic scholarship to college.
** Chet loses his PluckyComicRelief, BigEater, and FatBestFriend traits from the books, all of which are given to Phil instead. Chet, in turn, is a more serious character, and is a LovableJock who hopes to get an athletic scholarship to college.
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** Phil Cohen in the books is one of the Hardy's Hardys' quieter, calmer friends, and acts as [[TheSmartGuy the group's computer whiz]] in several of the more modern series. Here, he's a hyperactive ExtravertedNerd {{Keet}} who serves as the series' resident PluckyComicRelief and MomentKiller.
** Chet Morton loses his PluckyComicRelief, BigEater, and FatBestFriend traits from the books, all of which are given to Phil instead. Chet, in turn, is a more serious character, and is a LovableJock who hopes to get an athletic scholarship to college.
** Chet Morton loses his PluckyComicRelief, BigEater, and FatBestFriend traits from the books, all of which are given to Phil instead. Chet, in turn, is a more serious character, and is a LovableJock who hopes to get an athletic scholarship to college.
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* AdultFear: All over the place.
** For Fenton: Your beloved wife is murdered, which also leaves your two sons without a mother. You leave them in your sister's care for safekeeping while you go investigate her death, only to return months later and learn that your sons have been investigating and getting into trouble without you, and are now chin-deep in the conspiracy you were trying to keep them out of.
** Similarly, Aunt Trudy has this after the cops bring one of her nephews home and she finds out that both of them have been sneaking around getting into trouble when she's supposed to be responsible for them.
** Everybody, but especially Trudy, Jessie, and Gloria, gets this when Joe and Biff, who were last seen together at school, still haven't come home by nightfall and no one has any idea where they are. And then they eventually learn that the two were wandering around the woods in the dark, fell down a mine shaft, and don't know how to get out.
** For Fenton: Your beloved wife is murdered, which also leaves your two sons without a mother. You leave them in your sister's care for safekeeping while you go investigate her death, only to return months later and learn that your sons have been investigating and getting into trouble without you, and are now chin-deep in the conspiracy you were trying to keep them out of.
** Similarly, Aunt Trudy has this after the cops bring one of her nephews home and she finds out that both of them have been sneaking around getting into trouble when she's supposed to be responsible for them.
** Everybody, but especially Trudy, Jessie, and Gloria, gets this when Joe and Biff, who were last seen together at school, still haven't come home by nightfall and no one has any idea where they are. And then they eventually learn that the two were wandering around the woods in the dark, fell down a mine shaft, and don't know how to get out.
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* AmateurSleuth: Frank has a knack for detective work.
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** Frank towards Joe, definitely; even moreso than usual in this series considering the larger age gap between them.
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** Frank towards Joe, definitely; even moreso than usual in this series considering the larger age gap between them. It comes out the most when Joe is briefly taken hostage by Ern, when the Tall Man is after Joe to try to get his piece of the Eye, and when Joe and Biff go missing due to falling down a mine shaft.
** For that matter, Chet and Callie also seem to develop this for Joe (and seem to have it for Biff and Phil already, too, to a lesser extent). At the time that Joe and Biff go missing, things are awkward between Frank, Callie, and Chet due to the latter two breaking up and Stacy's interference, but Chet and Callie both immediately put that aside to help find Joe and Biff and get them home safely.
** JB Cox also seems to develop this for Joe, going out of his way to save him from the Tall Man upon learning that he's in danger despite claiming to only be looking out for himself.
** For that matter, Chet and Callie also seem to develop this for Joe (and seem to have it for Biff and Phil already, too, to a lesser extent). At the time that Joe and Biff go missing, things are awkward between Frank, Callie, and Chet due to the latter two breaking up and Stacy's interference, but Chet and Callie both immediately put that aside to help find Joe and Biff and get them home safely.
** JB Cox also seems to develop this for Joe, going out of his way to save him from the Tall Man upon learning that he's in danger despite claiming to only be looking out for himself.
* ChekhovsBoomerang: Joe makes a fake copy of the piece of the Eye to trick the Tall Man into taking the wrong one when they confront him, though he ends up with both of them still in his possession. [[spoiler:In the season finale, Stacy kidnaps Callie and demands the piece if they want her back alive, but by then, Gloria has the piece after hiring JB to steal it from the boys for her, and it's unlikely they'll be able to get it back in time to exchange it for Callie. Joe then remembers that they still have the fake, and they rig it up well enough to convince Stacy's mooks that it's real for the time they need to get Callie back.]]
* TheFakeCutie: [[spoiler:Stacy Baker, the new girl who inadvertently saves Frank and Joe by accidentally hitting the Tall Man with her car, seems to be a sweet GirlNextDoor type who develops a crush on Frank after he helps her avoid trouble with the police. It's eventually revealed that she's really Anastasia Nabokav, who came to Bridgeport after her father was murdered and his piece of the Eye was stolen to try to get information from the Hardys (whom she knows have the Eye piece now), and that her running into the Tall Man was far from an accident. Frank figures out that she's more than she seems when she starts being too obvious about pumping him for info, and once he confronts her and she tells him her true identity, she drops the act, gradually becoming more and more unhinged as the series reaches its climax and the Hardys refuse to cooperate with her.]]
* TheIngenue: Stacy Baker. [[spoiler:Until we learn she's really Anastasia Nabokav, a FemmeFatale who was [[TheVamp deliberately invoking this]] to try to get Frank to fall for her so she could information from him about the conspiracy going on in Bridgeport. He eventually sees through her when she plays this up a little ''too'' much, to the point of giving him bad vibes making him realize that she's too good to be true.]]
* LocalHangout: Wilt's cafe. The gang meets there many times throughout the season, and Frank even gets a part-time job there for the summer as a coffee barista. Wilt also becomes an ally to the boys, telling them about gossip he's heard from around time and even hiding them in the back of the store when corrupt Bridgeport police officers are looking for them.
* LoveDodecahedron: Callie is dating Chet and Frank is dating Emma, but Frank and Callie are growing increasingly attracted to each other. Then Emma breaks up with Frank over the phone. Then new girl Stacy Baker comes to town and develops a huge crush on Frank, and Frank seems to appreciate it, which makes Callie jealous (in addition to being genuinely suspicious of Stacy), which in turn makes Chet jealous, eventually resulting in Chet forcing Callie to recognize her feelings for Frank and breaking up with her and leaving Frank feeling awkwardly in the middle. [[spoiler:Then Frank realizes that Callie was right and Stacy was faking her feelings for him, and confronts her at Wilt's, only for her to kiss him at one point to try to persuade him to work with her; he rebuffs her, but Callie happened to see this (unbeknownst to either of them) and gets the wrong idea. Before she has a chance to properly work things out with Frank, Stacy kidnaps her to use as a HostageForMacGuffin. It's only resolved at the end of the season finale when Callie and Frank finally become the OfficialCouple and share TheBigDamnKiss.]] Then there's Joe and Biff, who seem to have a budding ToyShip going on in their own corner.
* LocalHangout: Wilt's cafe. The gang meets there many times throughout the season, and Frank even gets a part-time job there for the summer as a coffee barista. Wilt also becomes an ally to the boys, telling them about gossip he's heard from around time and even hiding them in the back of the store when corrupt Bridgeport police officers are looking for them.
* LoveDodecahedron: Callie is dating Chet and Frank is dating Emma, but Frank and Callie are growing increasingly attracted to each other. Then Emma breaks up with Frank over the phone. Then new girl Stacy Baker comes to town and develops a huge crush on Frank, and Frank seems to appreciate it, which makes Callie jealous (in addition to being genuinely suspicious of Stacy), which in turn makes Chet jealous, eventually resulting in Chet forcing Callie to recognize her feelings for Frank and breaking up with her and leaving Frank feeling awkwardly in the middle. [[spoiler:Then Frank realizes that Callie was right and Stacy was faking her feelings for him, and confronts her at Wilt's, only for her to kiss him at one point to try to persuade him to work with her; he rebuffs her, but Callie happened to see this (unbeknownst to either of them) and gets the wrong idea. Before she has a chance to properly work things out with Frank, Stacy kidnaps her to use as a HostageForMacGuffin. It's only resolved at the end of the season finale when Callie and Frank finally become the OfficialCouple and share TheBigDamnKiss.]] Then there's Joe and Biff, who seem to have a budding ToyShip going on in their own corner.
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* RaceLift: Since the books were originally written almost a hundred years ago, there wasn't much in the way of racial diversity in the boys' main friend group, who are all white in the books. This series does a better job of diversifying its main cast: Chet is African-American, Callie is Afro-Latina, and Biff and her mother are Asian-American.
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* RaceLift: Since the books were originally written almost a hundred years ago, there wasn't much in the way of racial diversity in the boys' main friend group, who are all white in the books. This series does a better job of diversifying its main cast: Chet is African-American, Callie is Afro-Latina, AmbiguouslyBrown (possibly mixed-race), and Biff and her mother are Asian-American.
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* CrusadingWidower: Fenton becomes this after his wife Laura, the love of his life, is killed in a car crash that is likely not an accident, leaving his sons with his sister for the summer so he can investigate her death. Trudy eventually calls him out on it; see ParentsAsPeople.
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* EvilIsNotAToy:
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* EvilIsNotAToy:EvilIsNotAToy: [[spoiler:When JB gets his hands on one of the pieces of the Eye, he gets a major PowerHigh from the good luck that it brings, and decides to try to assemble the whole thing and have even better luck, breaking into Stacy's house to steal the piece that she has. He gets badly beaten up by her Co-Dragons for his trouble, who also steal the piece that he has (giving Stacy two of them and leaving the Hardys' piece as the only one she still needs). This snaps JB out of it and he doesn't make the same mistake again when Gloria hires him to steal the third piece from Joe, turning it over without any visible temptation of double-crossing her to keep it for himself.]]
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* HeterosexualLifePartners:HeterosexualLifePartners: Trudy Hardy and Jessie Hooper are close friends, frequently confiding in each other and working together to keep their kids safe while doing some investigating of their own. When Trudy learns the town's dark secrets from the boys and what they've been up to and is forced to keep it a secret from Jessie for a brief time, it puts a strain on their friendship, with Jessie being visibly and audibly upset that Trudy is hiding something from her and Trudy clearly feeling guilty about not being able to tell her. She takes the first chance she gets to let Jessie in on the secret and enlist her help.
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** This series takes place sometime in the 80's, and its "The Hardy Boys" series logo is identical to the logo for ''Literature/TheHardyBoys Casefiles'', a popular spinoff book series from the original that was written from the late 80's to the late 90's.
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** This series takes place sometime in the 80's, and its "The Hardy Boys" series logo is identical to the logo for ''Literature/TheHardyBoys Casefiles'', a popular spinoff book series from the original that was written from the late 80's to the late 90's. The pose that Frank and Joe are standing in on the series image, meanwhile, complete with pointing a flashlight at the viewer, resembles the boys' logo from the ''Undercover Brothers'' series.
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** Gloria did genuinely love Laura and was truly devastated by her death[[spoiler:, and also used her considerable influence to keep her safe. She's also power-hungry, and had a very strained relationship with Laura due to the latter's disgust of the family legacy that Gloria perpetuates.]]
** Fenton unquestionably loves his sons, and has them stay in Bridgeport with Trudy over the summer with their safety in mind while he goes off to investigate his wife's death and get closure for all of them. This also means that he's leaving his two sons, still freshly grieving for their mom, behind at a time when they really need their dad the most, to go on a dangerous mission that could easily get him killed and leave them orphaned altogether. When he returns to Bridgeport near the end of the season, is dismayed to discover that the boys have been getting into danger while he was gone by looking into their mom's death, and asks Trudy why she hasn't stopped them from doing so, Trudy even points this out to him, asking him what else he expected to happen when he left the boys behind despite then needing answers just as much as he does.
** Gloria did genuinely love Laura and was truly devastated by her death[[spoiler:, and also used her considerable influence to keep her safe. She's also power-hungry, and had a very strained relationship with Laura due to the latter's disgust of the family legacy that Gloria perpetuates.]]
** Fenton unquestionably loves his sons, and has them stay in Bridgeport with Trudy over the summer with their safety in mind while he goes off to investigate his wife's death and get closure for all of them. This also means that he's leaving his two sons, still freshly grieving for their mom, behind at a time when they really need their dad the most, to go on a dangerous mission that could easily get him killed and leave them orphaned altogether. When he returns to Bridgeport near the end of the season, is dismayed to discover that the boys have been getting into danger while he was gone by looking into their mom's death, and asks Trudy why she hasn't stopped them from doing so, Trudy even points this out to him, asking him what else he expected to happen when he left the boys behind despite then needing answers just as much as he does.
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** Frank is a milder example, going from 18 to
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** Aunt Trudy also seems to be much younger here. In the books, she's Fenton's older sister and is most likely in her fifties somewhere, while here, she's almost certainly meant to be younger than Fenton and is probably in her thirties.[[note]](For comparison, her actress, Bea Santos, was 30 at the time the first season was released; meanwhile, Fenton's actor, James Tupper, was 55.)[[/note]]
** Aunt Trudy also seems to be much younger here. In the books, she's Fenton's older sister and is most likely in her fifties somewhere, while here, she's almost certainly meant to be younger than Fenton and is probably in her thirties.[[note]](For comparison, her actress, Bea Santos, was 30 at the time the first season was released; meanwhile, Fenton's actor, James Tupper, was 55.)[[/note]]
* DismantledMacGuffin: The Eye, which was broken into three pieces centuries ago, each kept by one of the three families who found it. The [[BigBadEnsemble numerous villains of the series]] are trying to take all the pieces for themselves to reassemble it, with the Hardys and their friends getting caught up in it all after Joe inadvertently comes into possession of one of the pieces.
* EvilIsNotAToy:
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* MaidenAunt: Aunt Gertrude was the TropeCodifier from the books, so it's unsurprising that she's this here too, though she seems to be significantly younger than her book counterpart.
* MoralityPet: Joe seems to become this to JB Cox, despite JB claiming to only be out for himself. When he realizes that Joe has taken the piece of the Eye with him to the fair and the Tall Man knows that he has it, JB catches up to them JustInTime to stop the Tall Man from killing him and pulls a YouShallNotPass to give Joe a chance to get away. He later warns Joe and Frank to stay away from the case so they don't get hurt. [[spoiler:When Gloria hires him to steal the Nabokav piece of the Eye from Joe and bring it to her, Frank reams him out over betraying Joe, and despite JB insisting that he's a thief and they shouldn't have trusted him, does seem to genuinely feel bad about it. The season ends with a voiceover of a note that he wrote to Joe, declaring that JB owes him a favor as repayment for stealing the Eye piece and tells Joe to contact him if he ever needs something stolen for any reason.]]
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* TheUnfavorite: A non-siblings variation. [[spoiler:George Estabrook did love his daughter Gloria, but he recognized that she was as power-hungry as his partners and outright told her that she would never be his heir, instead planning to pass on his inheritance to her daughter and his granddaughter Laura, who shared his disgust of and desire to distance themselves from the family legacy. Gloria's jealousy at being passed over led to her alerting George's partners of his plan when he tried to run away with his piece of the Eye, resulting in them murdering him and Gloria becoming his successor instead.]]
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* TheUnfavorite: A non-siblings variation. [[spoiler:George Estabrook did love his daughter Gloria, but he recognized that she was as power-hungry as his partners and outright told her that she would never be his heir, instead planning to pass on his inheritance to her daughter and his granddaughter Laura, who shared his disgust of and desire to distance themselves from the family legacy. Gloria's jealousy at being passed over led to her alerting George's partners of his plan when he tried to run away with his piece of the Eye, resulting in them murdering him and Gloria becoming his successor instead.]]
* YouHaveFailedMe: After the Tall Man repeatedly fails to get back the piece of the Eye that Joe has, the mysterious woman over the phone tries to fire him, but he insists on continuing to try to get it back. [[spoiler:When he once again tries to attack the Hardys and they again escape from him, he starts to pursue them, only to be fatally struck by a car by Stacy Baker when he runs into the road in front of her. At first, it appears to be an accident, but with the later reveal that Stacy is Anastasia Nabokav and was the woman he spoke to on the phone, it's clear she hit and killed him on purpose to get him out of the way after he failed once again.]]
* YouHaveFailedMe: After the Tall Man repeatedly fails to get back the piece of the Eye that Joe has, the mysterious woman over the phone tries to fire him, but he insists on continuing to try to get it back. [[spoiler:When he once again tries to attack the Hardys and they again escape from him, he starts to pursue them, only to be fatally struck by a car by Stacy Baker when he runs into the road in front of her. At first, it appears to be an accident, but with the later reveal that Stacy is Anastasia Nabokav and was the woman he spoke to on the phone, it's clear she hit and killed him on purpose to get him out of the way after he failed once again.]]
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* AncientArtifact: The Eye, which has the power to influence the world and make events happen. The three families who claimed it[[spoiler:--the Estabrooks, the Khans, and the Nabokavs--]]broke it into three pieces and each took one of them to make sure that its power could never be abused, and passed the pieces down through their families for generations. Each piece by itself is far less powerful, but still brings very good luck to the holder, as Joe discovers. [[spoiler:In the backstory, the latest Estabrook patriarch at the time, George, came to believe that NoManShouldHaveThisPower and wanted to destroy the pieces, but the other two family heads, Ahmed Khan and Sergei Nabokav, disagreed and had him killed, allowing his daughter Gloria (who shared their feelings on the matter) to take over the family.]]
* NoManShouldHaveThisPower: What George Estabrook came to believe about the Eye when his partners wanted to reassemble it. [[spoiler:He planned to make sure his piece was lost forever so it could never be fully reassembled. His power-hungry partners disagreed, and this led to his death.]]
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* ThickerThanWater: [[spoiler:Gloria and Laura had an ''extremely'' tumultuous relationship, to the point that Laura wanted nothing more to do with her family's legacy and disowned her mother, and Gloria warned her that this would mean she would no longer be able to use her influence to keep Laura safe. But when she finds out that her butler, Stefan, was the one who murdered Laura and he claims he did it for her, Gloria is genuinely horrified and makes it clear that she ''never'' wanted him to do this; however much they may not have gotten along, Laura was still her daughter, and Gloria still loved her and never wanted her to die.]]
* TownWithADarkSecret: Bridgeport is certainlythis.this.
* TheUnfavorite: A non-siblings variation. [[spoiler:George Estabrook did love his daughter Gloria, but he recognized that she was as power-hungry as his partners and outright told her that she would never be his heir, instead planning to pass on his inheritance to her daughter and his granddaughter Laura, who shared his disgust of and desire to distance themselves from the family legacy. Gloria's jealousy at being passed over led to her alerting George's partners of his plan when he tried to run away with his piece of the Eye, resulting in them murdering him and Gloria becoming his successor instead.]]
* TownWithADarkSecret: Bridgeport is certainly
* TheUnfavorite: A non-siblings variation. [[spoiler:George Estabrook did love his daughter Gloria, but he recognized that she was as power-hungry as his partners and outright told her that she would never be his heir, instead planning to pass on his inheritance to her daughter and his granddaughter Laura, who shared his disgust of and desire to distance themselves from the family legacy. Gloria's jealousy at being passed over led to her alerting George's partners of his plan when he tried to run away with his piece of the Eye, resulting in them murdering him and Gloria becoming his successor instead.]]
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* DisposableLoveInterest: Frank has a girlfriend from his hometown named Emma at the beginning of the series, but she breaks up with him over the phone at the beginning of the fourth episode when he admits he has no idea when he's coming back from Bridgeport, clearing the way for Frank to grow closer to Callie.
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* FreeRangeChildren:
** All of the kids, but especially Joe and Biff, who are only 12 or 13 and yet frequently wander around town, in the woods, and/or at night on their own, and also frequently talk to strangers and get into trouble. It's somewhat understandable since the first half of the season takes place in summer while school isn't in session, and Frank, Callie, and Chet are at least of driving age. Even so, this still continues during the second half once the school day is done.
** It also gets deconstructed more and more as the season goes on. Fenton Hardy isn't around to properly parent Frank and Joe because he's off elsewhere investigating their mom's murder, and they're frustrated at being left behind and attempt to do their own sleuthing rather than just sit around and do nothing. Aunt Trudy, their guardian while Fenton is away, eventually has to put her foot down about it after the boys [[RealityEnsues end up in trouble a few too many times because of it]]. Joe and Biff wandering in the woods alone at night to investigate leads to both of them falling down a mine shaft, while no one else has any idea where they've gone.
** All of the kids, but especially Joe and Biff, who are only 12 or 13 and yet frequently wander around town, in the woods, and/or at night on their own, and also frequently talk to strangers and get into trouble. It's somewhat understandable since the first half of the season takes place in summer while school isn't in session, and Frank, Callie, and Chet are at least of driving age. Even so, this still continues during the second half once the school day is done.
** It also gets deconstructed more and more as the season goes on. Fenton Hardy isn't around to properly parent Frank and Joe because he's off elsewhere investigating their mom's murder, and they're frustrated at being left behind and attempt to do their own sleuthing rather than just sit around and do nothing. Aunt Trudy, their guardian while Fenton is away, eventually has to put her foot down about it after the boys [[RealityEnsues end up in trouble a few too many times because of it]]. Joe and Biff wandering in the woods alone at night to investigate leads to both of them falling down a mine shaft, while no one else has any idea where they've gone.
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* HostageForMacGuffin: [[spoiler:Stacy and her minions kidnap Callie and demand that Frank and Joe turn over the Estabrook's piece of The Eye (the only one Stacy doesn't have yet) in exchange for her safe return. The gang is able to get around this by giving them the fake that Joe made several episodes earlier and tricking them into believing it's the real thing long enough to escape with Callie.]]
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** The boys' Aunt Gertrude goes by "Aunt Trudy", which is also the name she uses in the two most recent book series, ''Undercover Brothers'' and ''Adventures''.
** Frank and Callie have a budding romance throughout the season, culminating in a BigDamnKiss in the season finale. The two of them are in a relationship in the original book series and ''Casefiles'' spinoff.
** Frank and Callie have a budding romance throughout the season, culminating in a BigDamnKiss in the season finale. The two of them are in a relationship in the original book series and ''Casefiles'' spinoff.
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* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler:Stacy undergoes this when Frank realizes she's just as bad as the people she's working against (namely, the Estabrooks and the Khans) and refuses to work with her, eventually kidnapping Callie to try to force the Hardys to hand over the Estabrook piece of The Eye. She then undergoes this further once she finds out they tricked her and handed over a fake.]]
* ShipTease
** Frank and Callie get steadily mounting heaps of it as the season goes on. Chet, Callie's boyfriend, notices, and is increasingly unhappy about it, eventually breaking up with Callie because he knows she'd rather be with Frank, even if she hasn't admitted it to herself yet.
** Joe and Biff get several moments of this too, and it's hinted several times that Biff [[PuppyLove has a crush on Joe]]. It's a ToyShip due to their young age.
** [[spoiler:Stacy purposely tries to invoke this with Frank, partially to make Callie jealous but more to get information from him, but Frank eventually catches on.]]
* ShipTease
** Frank and Callie get steadily mounting heaps of it as the season goes on. Chet, Callie's boyfriend, notices, and is increasingly unhappy about it, eventually breaking up with Callie because he knows she'd rather be with Frank, even if she hasn't admitted it to herself yet.
** Joe and Biff get several moments of this too, and it's hinted several times that Biff [[PuppyLove has a crush on Joe]]. It's a ToyShip due to their young age.
** [[spoiler:Stacy purposely tries to invoke this with Frank, partially to make Callie jealous but more to get information from him, but Frank eventually catches on.]]
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** Phil Cohen in the books is one of the Hardy's quieter, calmer friends, and acts as [[TheSmartGuy the group's computer whiz]] in several of the more modern series. Here, he's a hyperactive ExtrovertedNerd {{Keet}} who serves as the series' resident PluckyComicRelief and MomentKiller.
* Chet loses his PluckyComicRelief, BigEater, and FatBestFriend traits from the books, all of which are given to Phil instead. Chet, in turn, is a more serious character, and is a LovableJock who hopes to get an athletic scholarship to college.
* Chet loses his PluckyComicRelief, BigEater, and FatBestFriend traits from the books, all of which are given to Phil instead. Chet, in turn, is a more serious character, and is a LovableJock who hopes to get an athletic scholarship to college.
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** Phil Cohen in the books is one of the Hardy's quieter, calmer friends, and acts as [[TheSmartGuy the group's computer whiz]] in several of the more modern series. Here, he's a hyperactive ExtrovertedNerd ExtravertedNerd {{Keet}} who serves as the series' resident PluckyComicRelief and MomentKiller.
* ** Chet loses his PluckyComicRelief, BigEater, and FatBestFriend traits from the books, all of which are given to Phil instead. Chet, in turn, is a more serious character, and is a LovableJock who hopes to get an athletic scholarship to college.college.
* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul:
** In the books, the Hardys have lived in Bayport their whole life, and are well-respected citizens of the town. They've also been friends with their "chums" for years, being ChildhoodFriends with Chet in particular. Here, they've visited Bridgeport before since it ''is'' where Fenton and Laura are originally from and where Trudy still lives, but the boys in particular don't know anyone there nearly as well.
** Chet and Callie are dating in this series [[spoiler:until they break up in episode 10 due to Callie's growing feelings for Frank]]. They never had any such relationship in the books, where Callie has always been either Frank's girlfriend or just a platonic friend of everyone in the group.
* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul:
** In the books, the Hardys have lived in Bayport their whole life, and are well-respected citizens of the town. They've also been friends with their "chums" for years, being ChildhoodFriends with Chet in particular. Here, they've visited Bridgeport before since it ''is'' where Fenton and Laura are originally from and where Trudy still lives, but the boys in particular don't know anyone there nearly as well.
** Chet and Callie are dating in this series [[spoiler:until they break up in episode 10 due to Callie's growing feelings for Frank]]. They never had any such relationship in the books, where Callie has always been either Frank's girlfriend or just a platonic friend of everyone in the group.
* DisappearedDad: Biff's dad, which is why she's so close to her mom, Jessie.
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* GenderFlipGenderFlip: Biff Hooper, who is one of the Hardy Boys' male chums from the books, and whose real name is Allen; here, she's changed to a girl and is Joe's best friend, and Biff is a nickname for "Elizabeth".
* MissingMom:
** Laura becomes this to Frank and Joe once she dies in the first episode.
** Callie bonds with Frank over the fact that she, too, doesn't have a mom (though it sounds like her mom just left instead of passing away). She's apparently quite close with her dad because of it, and one reason she's a bit unsure about her college plans is the thought that she'll have to leave him behind.
* MissingMom:
** Laura becomes this to Frank and Joe once she dies in the first episode.
** Callie bonds with Frank over the fact that she, too, doesn't have a mom (though it sounds like her mom just left instead of passing away). She's apparently quite close with her dad because of it, and one reason she's a bit unsure about her college plans is the thought that she'll have to leave him behind.
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* RaceLift: Since the books were originally written almost a hundred years ago, there wasn't much in the way of racial diversity in the boys' main friend group, who are all white in the books. This series does a better job of diversifying its main cast: Chet is African-American, Callie is Afro-Latina, and Biff and her mother are Asian-American.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler:Chief Ezra Collig is a GrumpyBear in some of the book series, but also always a ReasonableAuthorityFigure and honest cop who acts as a FriendOnTheForce for the boys. Here, he turns out to be in on the corruption going on in the town and is secretly working for Gloria. He gets arrested and removed from his position at the end of the season.]]
* AdaptationNameChange:
** The name of the town changes from Bayport to Bridgeport.
** In the books, Biff's real name is Allen, and he chose his nickname after an uncle he admires. Thanks to getting a GenderFlip here, "Biff" is instead short for "Elizabeth".
* AdaptationPersonalityChange:
** Phil Cohen in the books is one of the Hardy's quieter, calmer friends, and acts as [[TheSmartGuy the group's computer whiz]] in several of the more modern series. Here, he's a hyperactive ExtrovertedNerd {{Keet}} who serves as the series' resident PluckyComicRelief and MomentKiller.
* Chet loses his PluckyComicRelief, BigEater, and FatBestFriend traits from the books, all of which are given to Phil instead. Chet, in turn, is a more serious character, and is a LovableJock who hopes to get an athletic scholarship to college.
* AdaptationNameChange:
** The name of the town changes from Bayport to Bridgeport.
** In the books, Biff's real name is Allen, and he chose his nickname after an uncle he admires. Thanks to getting a GenderFlip here, "Biff" is instead short for "Elizabeth".
* AdaptationPersonalityChange:
** Phil Cohen in the books is one of the Hardy's quieter, calmer friends, and acts as [[TheSmartGuy the group's computer whiz]] in several of the more modern series. Here, he's a hyperactive ExtrovertedNerd {{Keet}} who serves as the series' resident PluckyComicRelief and MomentKiller.
* Chet loses his PluckyComicRelief, BigEater, and FatBestFriend traits from the books, all of which are given to Phil instead. Chet, in turn, is a more serious character, and is a LovableJock who hopes to get an athletic scholarship to college.
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** Iola Morton, who is Joe's girlfriend and Chet's younger sister in the books, is also absent, and Chet doesn't mention having any siblings.
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** Iola Morton,who is Joe's girlfriend and Chet's younger sister in the books, is also absent, and absent. Chet doesn't mention having any siblings.siblings, and Joe instead gets ShipTease with the [[GenderFlip gender-flipped]] Biff.
** Con Riley, the Hardys' most prominent FriendOnTheForce, is instead essentially replaced by Jessie Hooper.
** Iola Morton,
** Con Riley, the Hardys' most prominent FriendOnTheForce, is instead essentially replaced by Jessie Hooper.
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** Frank is a milder example, going from 18 to
** Frank is a milder example, going from 18 to
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* CanonForeigner: The vast majority of the supporting cast is this, which is justified since most of the victims, suspects, and side characters were different in every book anyway. The most prominent example, though, is Laura's mother Gloria Estabrook and the whole Estabrook family's shady past and dealings. In the books, we see practically nothing of Laura's relatives, and she's pretty much a regular woman and mother and certainly doesn't come from any such background.
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* CanonForeigner: The vast majority of the supporting cast is this, which is justified since most of the victims, suspects, and side characters were different in every book anyway. The most There are a couple of prominent example, though, is examples, though:
** Laura's mother GloriaEstabrook Estabrook, and the whole Estabrook family's shady past and dealings. dealings in general. In the books, we see practically nothing of Laura's relatives, and she's pretty much a regular woman and mother and certainly doesn't come from any such background.background.
** Biff's parents weren't given names in the book and, like the parents of all of the Hardys' other friends, make sparse appearances. Here, Biff's mom, Jessie Hooper, is a prominent recurring character who acts as the gang's FriendOnTheForce.
** Laura's mother Gloria
** Biff's parents weren't given names in the book and, like the parents of all of the Hardys' other friends, make sparse appearances. Here, Biff's mom, Jessie Hooper, is a prominent recurring character who acts as the gang's FriendOnTheForce.
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** Tony Prito
** Iola Morton, who is Joe's girlfriend and Chet's younger sister in the books, is also absent, and Chet doesn't mention having any siblings.
* AgeLift:
** Joe, Biff, and Phil, who are all in their mid-late teens in the books (17 for Joe, vague age of 16-18 for Biff and Phil
** Tony Prito
** Iola Morton, who is Joe's girlfriend and Chet's younger sister in the books, is also absent, and Chet doesn't mention having any siblings.
* AgeLift:
** Joe, Biff, and Phil, who are all in their mid-late teens in the books (17 for Joe, vague age of 16-18 for Biff and Phil
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** Frank towards Joe, definitely; even moreso than usual in this series considering the larger age gap between them.
* CanonForeigner: The vast majority of the supporting cast is this, which is justified since most of the victims, suspects, and side characters were different in every book anyway. The most prominent example, though, is Laura's mother Gloria Estabrook and the whole Estabrook family's shady past and dealings. In the books, we see practically nothing of Laura's relatives, and she's pretty much a regular woman and mother and certainly doesn't come from any such background.
* DeathByAdaptation: The series kicks off by killing off the boy's mother, Laura Hardy, in the premiere, while she has remained alive and well in all of the book series to date. Interestingly, this isn't the first TV series to have done so; ''Series/TheHardyBoysNancyDrewMysteries'' series of the 70's did this as well.
** Frank towards Joe, definitely; even moreso than usual in this series considering the larger age gap between them.
* CanonForeigner: The vast majority of the supporting cast is this, which is justified since most of the victims, suspects, and side characters were different in every book anyway. The most prominent example, though, is Laura's mother Gloria Estabrook and the whole Estabrook family's shady past and dealings. In the books, we see practically nothing of Laura's relatives, and she's pretty much a regular woman and mother and certainly doesn't come from any such background.
* DeathByAdaptation: The series kicks off by killing off the boy's mother, Laura Hardy, in the premiere, while she has remained alive and well in all of the book series to date. Interestingly, this isn't the first TV series to have done so; ''Series/TheHardyBoysNancyDrewMysteries'' series of the 70's did this as well.
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* MythologyGag:
** This series takes place sometime in the 80's, and its "The Hardy Boys" series logo is identical to the logo for ''Literature/TheHardyBoys Casefiles'', a popular spinoff book series from the original that was written from the late 80's to the late 90's.
** The mid-season finale "A Figure in Hiding" and season finale "While the Clock Ticked" share their names with two books from the original series.
* MythologyGag:
** This series takes place sometime in the 80's, and its "The Hardy Boys" series logo is identical to the logo for ''Literature/TheHardyBoys Casefiles'', a popular spinoff book series from the original that was written from the late 80's to the late 90's.
** The mid-season finale "A Figure in Hiding" and season finale "While the Clock Ticked" share their names with two books from the original series.
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* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Frank is a lot more calm and analytical than the impulsive and short-tempered Joe. {{Justified}} in that Joe is still a kid.
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* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Frank is a lot more calm and analytical than the impulsive and short-tempered Joe. {{Justified}} in that Joe is still a kid.kid.
* TownWithADarkSecret: Bridgeport is certainly this.
* TownWithADarkSecret: Bridgeport is certainly this.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Solving mysteries is in their blood.]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Solving mysteries is in their blood.]]
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* AmateurSleuth: Frank has a knack for detective work.work.
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* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Frank is a lot more calm and analytical than the impulsive and short-tempered Joe. {{Justified}} in that Joe is still a kid.
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A Canadian mystery drama television series based on ''Literature/TheHardyBoys'' book series, produced by Nelvana and Lambur Productions. The show's 13-episode first season was released on Creator/{{Hulu}} on December 4, 2020. The story follows two brothers, Frank and Joe Hardy, alongside their friends and father, trying to disclose the truth about something quite menacing happening right in their own town of Bridgeport while also trying to solve their mother's murder.
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A Canadian mystery drama television series based on ''Literature/TheHardyBoys'' book series, produced by Nelvana and Lambur Productions. The show's 13-episode first season was released on Creator/{{Hulu}} on December 4, 2020. The story follows two brothers, Frank and Joe Hardy, alongside their friends and father, trying to disclose the truth about something quite menacing happening right in their own town of Bridgeport while also trying to solve their mother's murder.murder.
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* AmateurSleuth: Frank has a knack for detective work.
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* AmateurSleuth: Frank has a knack for detective work.
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A Canadian mystery drama television series based on ''Literature/TheHardyBoys'' book series, produced by Nelvana and Lambur Productions. The show's 13-episode first season was released on Creator/Hulu on December 4, 2020. The story follows two brothers, Frank and Joe Hardy, alongside their friends and father, trying to disclose the truth about something quite menacing happening right in their own town of Bridgeport while also trying to solve their mother's murder.
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A Canadian mystery drama television series based on ''Literature/TheHardyBoys'' book series, produced by Nelvana and Lambur Productions. The show's 13-episode first season was released on Creator/Hulu Creator/{{Hulu}} on December 4, 2020. The story follows two brothers, Frank and Joe Hardy, alongside their friends and father, trying to disclose the truth about something quite menacing happening right in their own town of Bridgeport while also trying to solve their mother's murder.
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A Canadian mystery drama television series based on ''Literature/TheHardyBoys'' book series, produced by Nelvana and Lambur Productions. The show's 13-episode first season was released on Creator/Hulu on December 4, 2020. The story follows two brothers, Frank and Joe Hardy, alongside their friends and father, trying to disclose the truth about something quite menacing happening right in their own town of Bridgeport while also trying to solve their mother's murder.
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A Canadian mystery drama television series based on ''Literature/TheHardyBoys'' book series, produced by Nelvana and Lambur Productions. The show's 13-episode first season was released on Creator/Hulu on December 4, 2020.
