CW's Nancy Drew

We have our first trailer.

Starring:

Kennedy Mc Mann as Nancy Drew

Tunji Kasim as Ned "Nick" Nickerson

Alex Saxon as Ace

Leah Lewis as George

Maddison Jaizani as Bess

Scott Wolf as Carson Drew

Not too crazy about the race lifted Ned being an ex-con.

Edited by windleopard on May 16th 2019 at 8:39:01 AM

Looks like it might be good

(Sees "The CW".)

I like this.

Oooooh! Diverse Casting for Ned!

"Ex-con"

Ohhhhhh... Ew. :/ Now I feel dirty.

On the other hand, god it gets my nostalgia up for the old PC games. I miss those so much.

New trailer

Saw the first episode. It was better than expected. Quite surprised that ghosts actually exist — I totally expected it to be some sort of Scooby-Doo style mystery where it turned out that the ghost was just some scheme pulled by some shady person. But nope: ghosts actually exist in the Nancy Drew universe.

Oh and I made a works page for it.

Edited by alliterator on Oct 11th 2019 at 11:10:27 AM

Kind of weird to think this show is going full supernatural while Riverdale is only now entertaining the idea of possible ghosts.

Just caught up on this show, and I'm loving it.

I think making the supernatural unambiguously real helps the narrative a lot. It lets most episodes have our heroes facing immediate danger, without escalating things to the point where the criminal conspiracy is bumping people off all over the place, which is something that these sorts of small town murder mystery shows can struggle with.

I also love how they're taking characters who, in the first episode, didn't really like each other, mostly just being co-workers who didn't get along well, and having this investigation slowly turn them into True Companions.

Edited by RavenWilder on Nov 24th 2019 at 1:55:23 AM

Yeah. I see it get a decent amount of flak from fans of the books and games but as someone who never read/played those I'm enjoying this. Do we know how many episodes this season is going to be? I know some shows start with a small number and get more episodes in later seasons/have their first season expanded but there are also some CW shows that stick with a small number of episodes.

Speaking of which, do you think the current mysteries are going to last the entire show or do you think we might get seasonal mysteries like over on Riverdale? Personally I'm hoping for the latter though even as a Riverdale fan I hope they handle it better if they decide to go that route.

I have little doubt that they'll resolve the "who killed Tiffany Hudson and Lucy Sable?" mystery by season's end, though there will likely be other, smaller mysteries that are left open.

Can anyone with a much better knowledge of Native American cultures tell me if what the hell this episode did with Mc Ginnis has any authenticity?

This isn't related to the show, but it does involve Nancy Drew, so here it is:

Nancy Drew's 90th anniversary is around the corner, so how do you celebrate such a beloved literature icon?

BY KILLING HER AND HAVE IT STAR THE HARDY BOYS, OF COURSE!

Yeah, I wish I was making this up!

Real talk though, while I'm more than positive that this is just a fake-out, it still feels like a total dick move to celebrate Nancy Drew by (supposedly) offing her and shoving the spotlight towards the Hardy Boys...

Plus, she has her own TV show now and last year had her own mini-series written by Kelly Thompson, so this just seems bizarre.

Season 2 teaser promo

Season 2 premiered this week, and we meet yet another evil spirit haunting Horseshoe Bay. I'm beginning to think they should check the town for a Hellmouth.

Well, I thought this was a decent enough start for the second season. Interesting to see what this new spirit has in store for Nancy and crew.

I wonder who, if any of the gang, will die.

Yeah, I'm enjoying it.

Anybody else laugh at "Man, the Bobbsey Twins are hardcore!"? Because on the one hand, in-universe, yes, I can see it in this episode. But on the other hand out of context...

"I've got a TV show!" Tom broadcasted.

Tom Swift, a part of the Stratemeyer literary universe along with Nancy and the Hardy Boys, is getting his own show. It premieres May 31, with Tian Richards as Tom and LeVar Burton as the voice of his AI sidekick Barclay.

Edited by alanh on Mar 25th 2022 at 7:02:11 AM

So, Jimmy Neutron's ancestor?

Nancy Drew also got picked up for a 4th season; the fanbase really sticks by this series even when it got moved to Fridays.

CW has released the first trailer for this series' spin-off series: Tom Swift.

It'd be nice if Nancy solved a mystery not involving ghosts.