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* DeadpanSnarker: Everyone has their snarky moments, but George and Nancy are the most prominent snarkers with Ace not far behind.



** Ace is the least emotionally damaged person out of the cast.

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** Ace is the least emotionally damaged person out of the cast.calmest and acts as Nancy's rock, but his free spirited nature sometimes gets him into trouble.
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Nancy Drew (Creator/KennedyMcMann) solved her first mystery when she was just in seventh grade but after her mother died of cancer, she gave all of that up. Working at the Craw diner with former high school frenemy George Fan (Creator/LeahLewis), city girl Bess Marvin (Maddison Jaizani), and cook Ace (Alex Saxon), she is pulled back into solving mysteries when Tiffany Hudson, wife of local rich businessman Ryan Hudson (Creator/RileySmith), dies in the Craw's parking lot. Now Nancy, George, Bess, and Nancy's ex-con boyfriend Ned "Nick" Nickerson (Tunji Kasim) are all suspects in her death and Nancy has to prove who actually did it.

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Nancy Drew (Creator/KennedyMcMann) solved her first mystery when she was just in seventh grade but after her mother died of cancer, she gave all of that up. Working at the Craw diner with former high school frenemy George Fan (Creator/LeahLewis), city girl Bess Marvin (Maddison Jaizani), and cook loner stoner Ace (Alex Saxon), she is pulled back into solving mysteries when Tiffany Hudson, wife of local rich businessman Ryan Hudson (Creator/RileySmith), dies in the Craw's parking lot. Now Nancy, George, Bess, and Nancy's ex-con boyfriend Ned "Nick" Nickerson (Tunji Kasim) are all suspects in her death and Nancy has to prove who actually did it.
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* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: In Judgement of the Perilous Captive, Nancy and Gil [[spoiler: kidnap Everett Hudson, hold him hostage, and try to force a confession out of him for the murder of his wife, Cecilia, which Everett denies. Eventually, Ryan shows up, and beats up Everett for his mother's death. Only that it is later revealed that Everett, as evil as he is, actually is innocent, and had nothing to do with Cecilia's murder. But upon finding this out, Ryan and Nancy justify their actions after-the-fact on the grounds that Everett is a bad person who has still done several bad things. Later on, when Everett tells Detective Tamura that Nancy and Ryan kidnapped and tortured him, Detective Tamura claims that he has no reason to believe him, despite knowing that Everett is telling the truth, the bruises on Everett's face, and evidence of Everett's kidnapping.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: Season 3 ends with Nancy taking down Temperence. She decides to open up a private detective agency, using Temperence's old hideout as an office. However, Nancy also decided to not get close to Ace for fears that the curse Temperance unleased can someday kill him.

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* BittersweetEnding: Season [[spoiler:Season 3 ends with Nancy taking down Temperence. She decides to open up a private detective agency, using Temperence's old hideout as an office. However, Nancy also decided to not get close to Ace for fears that the curse Temperance unleased can someday kill him.]]
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* BreakHisHeartToSaveHim: [[spoiler:Nancy towards Ace]] to protect him [[spoiler:from Temperance's curse.]]


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** [[spoiler: Nancy and Ace.]] After the two finally find themselves in a place where they recognize and act on their feelings for one another, [[spoiler:the two are in a horrific accident, which Ace dies from. Cue Temperance appearing and stating that everything Nancy has experienced and witnessed the past month, particularly Ace and Ryan's death, is actually a vision of what could happen if Nancy kills her. She also states that if Nancy stops Temperance from opening the Veil, she has a back up curse, that she will place on her and Ace, stating if the two ever consummate their love, Ace will befall a fatal accident]]. Brought back to the moment right before [[spoiler:Nancy killed Temperance, Nancy makes the choice to save Horseshoe Bay, by killing Temperance, who as she warned Nancy, releases the curse upon Ace. A month later Nancy considers trying to defy her fate, and confess her love for Ace, only for his barometer to break, a warning sign that the curse is still in effect. Nancy]] leaves stating that the most the two will always be is friends, [[BreakHisHeartToSaveHim and that she doesn't love him back]], running out of his apartment before breaking down in tears.

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* BittersweetEnding: Season 3 ends with Nancy taking down Temperence. She decides to open up a private detective agency, using Temperence's old hideout as an office. However, Nancy also decided to not get close to Ace for fears that the curse can someday kill him.

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* BittersweetEnding: Season 3 ends with Nancy taking down Temperence. She decides to open up a private detective agency, using Temperence's old hideout as an office. However, Nancy also decided to not get close to Ace for fears that the curse Temperance unleased can someday kill him.


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* ProphecyTwist: Temperance tells the fortunes of the Drew Crew at the beginning of season 3, and while all sounding scary and ominous, each plays out differently throughout the season:
** "One of you will be the other's demise": [[spoiler:Nancy is forced to kill Temperance to keep her from opening the Veil and destroying the town.]]
** "One of you will forsake what is dearest for you": [[spoiler:Nick sells the youth recreation center.]]
** "One of you will betray your true love": [[spoiler:George breaks it off with Nick after her curse is broken, and finds that she has a new lease on life]].
** "One of you will lose your heart": [[spoiler:To save Ace's life from Temperance's curse, Nancy torpedos any chance that they will be together.]]
** "One of you will wreak havoc on this town": [[spoiler:Bess's truth spell earlier in the season caused a lot of the townspeople to inadvertently blurt out secrets they've been keeping from one another.]]
** "And only of you will fulfill your destiny...and that one will cause the rest to fall": [[spoiler:Ryan gets himself mixed up with a couple that hunts relics in order to get a weapon to stop Temperance. And it's clear that they aren't done with him just yet.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: Season 3 ends with Nancy taking down Temperence. She decides to open up a private detective agency, using Temperence's old hideout as an office. However, Nancy also decided to not get close to Ace for fears that the curse can someday kill him.
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The series has aired three seasons, and is currently the longest-running adaptation of a property of The Stratemeyer Syndicate. In October 2020, it was announced that The CW was developing a potential spin-off series focusing on Literature/TomSwift. Tom, now reimagined as a gay African-American man, debuted in an episode of Season 2 ("The Celestial Visitor"), played by Creator/TianRichards. The series, aptly titled ''Tom Swift'', was officially revealed to have been given a series order in August 2021.

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The series has aired three seasons, and is currently the longest-running adaptation of a property of The Stratemeyer Syndicate. In October 2020, it was announced that The CW was developing a potential spin-off series focusing on Literature/TomSwift. Tom, now reimagined as a gay African-American man, debuted in an episode of Season 2 ("The Celestial Visitor"), played by Creator/TianRichards. The series, aptly titled ''Tom Swift'', was officially revealed to have been given a series order in August 2021.
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Two seasons of the show have been aired, and a third one began airing on October 8, 2021.[[note]]At the end of season 3, it has aired 49 episodes, making it the longest-running series based on a property of the Stratemeyer Syndicate, surpassing ''The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries'' which has 46.[[/note]] In October 2020, it was announced that The CW was developing a potential spin-off series focusing on Literature/TomSwift. Tom, now reimagined as a gay African-American man, debuted in an episode of Season 2 ("The Celestial Visitor"), played by Creator/TianRichards. The series, aptly titled ''Tom Swift'', was officially revealed to have been given a series order in August 2021.

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Two seasons of the show have been aired, and a third one began airing on October 8, 2021.[[note]]At the end of season 3, it The series has aired 49 episodes, making it three seasons, and is currently the longest-running series based on adaptation of a property of the The Stratemeyer Syndicate, surpassing ''The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries'' which has 46.[[/note]] Syndicate. In October 2020, it was announced that The CW was developing a potential spin-off series focusing on Literature/TomSwift. Tom, now reimagined as a gay African-American man, debuted in an episode of Season 2 ("The Celestial Visitor"), played by Creator/TianRichards. The series, aptly titled ''Tom Swift'', was officially revealed to have been given a series order in August 2021.
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Nancy Drew (Kennedy [=McMann=]) solved her first mystery when she was just in seventh grade but after her mother died of cancer, she gave all of that up. Working at the Craw diner with former high school frenemy George Fan (Creator/LeahLewis), city girl Bess Marvin (Maddison Jaizani), and cook Ace (Alex Saxon), she is pulled back into solving mysteries when Tiffany Hudson, wife of local rich businessman Ryan Hudson (Creator/RileySmith), dies in the Craw's parking lot. Now Nancy, George, Bess, and Nancy's ex-con boyfriend Ned "Nick" Nickerson (Tunji Kasim) are all suspects in her death and Nancy has to prove who actually did it.

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Nancy Drew (Kennedy [=McMann=]) (Creator/KennedyMcMann) solved her first mystery when she was just in seventh grade but after her mother died of cancer, she gave all of that up. Working at the Craw diner with former high school frenemy George Fan (Creator/LeahLewis), city girl Bess Marvin (Maddison Jaizani), and cook Ace (Alex Saxon), she is pulled back into solving mysteries when Tiffany Hudson, wife of local rich businessman Ryan Hudson (Creator/RileySmith), dies in the Craw's parking lot. Now Nancy, George, Bess, and Nancy's ex-con boyfriend Ned "Nick" Nickerson (Tunji Kasim) are all suspects in her death and Nancy has to prove who actually did it.

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* ExactWords: In the second episode, “The Secret of the Old Morgue”, George kicks her bucket over on the last night of the Summer Festival, and the bucket is full of blood, an omen which means that George was going to die within the year! But nobody said that she would stay dead ...

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* ExactWords: In the second episode, “The Secret of the Old Morgue”, George kicks her bucket over on the last night of the Summer Festival, and the bucket is full of blood, an omen which means that George was going to die within the year! But nobody said that she would stay dead ...dead...
* FamilyThemeNaming: George and all of her female younger siblings have {{Tomboyish Name}}s, those being Jessie, Ted, and Charlie.
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* MythArc:
** The first season is entirely one for Nancy and the team investigating Dead Lucy and how she's related to Nancy [[spoiler:and the Hudsons]].
** The third season centers on Temperence and her plans to reunite with Charity, her daughter who used a magic spell to banish Temperence out of Horseshoe Bay.
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Two seasons of the show have been aired, and a third one has aired on October 8, 2021.[[note]]If all goes well, this will make the show tie ''The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries'' as the longest-running series based on a property of The Stratemeyer Syndicate. It only needs 11 more episodes to surpass the episode count of that series.[[/note]] In October 2020, it was announced that The CW was developing a potential spin-off series focusing on Literature/TomSwift. Tom, now reimagined as a gay African-American man, debuted in an episode of Season 2 ("The Celestial Visitor"), played by Creator/TianRichards. The series, aptly titled ''Tom Swift'', was officially revealed to have been given a series order in August 2021.

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Two seasons of the show have been aired, and a third one has aired began airing on October 8, 2021.[[note]]If all goes well, this will make [[note]]At the show tie end of season 3, it has aired 49 episodes, making it the longest-running series based on a property of the Stratemeyer Syndicate, surpassing ''The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries'' as the longest-running series based on a property of The Stratemeyer Syndicate. It only needs 11 more episodes to surpass the episode count of that series.which has 46.[[/note]] In October 2020, it was announced that The CW was developing a potential spin-off series focusing on Literature/TomSwift. Tom, now reimagined as a gay African-American man, debuted in an episode of Season 2 ("The Celestial Visitor"), played by Creator/TianRichards. The series, aptly titled ''Tom Swift'', was officially revealed to have been given a series order in August 2021.
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* PoorCommunicationKills: Thanks to Temperence's spell in "The Confession of the Long Night", everyone in the party began to spout out things they don't want to say. They know it and they either act on their bottled up feelings or just snark and deny it.


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** "The Confession of the Long Night" has Hannah making plans to put a successor in the Historical Society. And Temperance warns Nick that she placed hexes on every child in the youth child, marking them for death.

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** The end of "The Echo Of Lost Tears" shows Myrtle using blood to soak herself in the bathtub. She later takes on Temperance's appearance. She was also able to breach the paranormal barrier arond Horseshoe Bay.

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** The end of "The Echo Of Lost Tears" shows Myrtle using blood to soak herself in the bathtub. She later takes on Temperance's appearance. She was also able to breach the paranormal barrier arond around Horseshoe Bay.Bay.
** "Voices from the Frost" show Ace and Hannah in a mysterious void after he used the key to unlock a lock in the Historical Society. And they're the phantom knockers.
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Nancy Drew (Kennedy [=McMann=]) solved her first mystery when she was just in seventh grade but after her mother died of cancer, she gave all of that up. Working at the Craw diner with former high school frenemy George Fan (Leah Lewis), city girl Bess Marvin (Maddison Jaizani), and cook Ace (Alex Saxon), she is pulled back into solving mysteries when Tiffany Hudson, wife of local rich businessman Ryan Hudson (Creator/RileySmith), dies in the Craw's parking lot. Now Nancy, George, Bess, and Nancy's ex-con boyfriend Ned "Nick" Nickerson (Tunji Kasim) are all suspects in her death and Nancy has to prove who actually did it.

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Nancy Drew (Kennedy [=McMann=]) solved her first mystery when she was just in seventh grade but after her mother died of cancer, she gave all of that up. Working at the Craw diner with former high school frenemy George Fan (Leah Lewis), (Creator/LeahLewis), city girl Bess Marvin (Maddison Jaizani), and cook Ace (Alex Saxon), she is pulled back into solving mysteries when Tiffany Hudson, wife of local rich businessman Ryan Hudson (Creator/RileySmith), dies in the Craw's parking lot. Now Nancy, George, Bess, and Nancy's ex-con boyfriend Ned "Nick" Nickerson (Tunji Kasim) are all suspects in her death and Nancy has to prove who actually did it.
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* InstantBirthJustAddWater: [[spoiler:Lucy giving birth takes place between roughly mid-afternoon and only an hour or two after sunset. Notably it averts CleanPrettyChildbirth with the umbilical chord being cut and the dress bloodstained]].

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* InstantBirthJustAddWater: InstantBirthJustAddLabor: [[spoiler:Lucy giving birth takes place between roughly mid-afternoon and only an hour or two after sunset. Notably it averts CleanPrettyChildbirth with the umbilical chord being cut and the dress bloodstained]].

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* RealityEnsues:
** Nancy got away with her KidDetective schtick for a while since everyone just found it cute, but her still running around insisting she can solve any mystery better than the town's actual law enforcement in her late teens just annoys a lot of people and has made her a bit of a social pariah even though it initially made Nancy a hero when she found a lost child in her initial foray into detective work. This even makes the police chief question her motives in looking into the dead Lucy incident.
** Nancy figures she can just break into the town morgue by picking the lock. As it happens, like any modern-day lab that recently had a body go missing, it has a lock that can only be opened via keycard and code.
** Breaking into places to do private detective work is, you know, illegal. Nancy gets caught at the aforementioned morgue and has charges brought against her. As of "The Riddle of the Broken Doll", Nancy is sentenced to do community service because of it.


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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** Nancy got away with her KidDetective schtick for a while since everyone just found it cute, but her still running around insisting she can solve any mystery better than the town's actual law enforcement in her late teens just annoys a lot of people and has made her a bit of a social pariah even though it initially made Nancy a hero when she found a lost child in her initial foray into detective work. This even makes the police chief question her motives in looking into the dead Lucy incident.
** Nancy figures she can just break into the town morgue by picking the lock. As it happens, like any modern-day lab that recently had a body go missing, it has a lock that can only be opened via keycard and code.
** Breaking into places to do private detective work is, you know, illegal. Nancy gets caught at the aforementioned morgue and has charges brought against her. As of "The Riddle of the Broken Doll", Nancy is sentenced to do community service because of it.


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** The end of "The Echo Of Lost Tears" shows Myrtle using blood to soak herself in the bathtub. She later takes on Temperance's appearance. She was also able to breach the paranormal barrier arond Horseshoe Bay.
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* ParasiticHorror: [[spoiler: The Wraith.]]
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* ShoutOut: Horseshoe Bay in "The Warning of the Frozen" has an annual Town Carnival that includes [[Film/ChildrenOfTheCorn a corn maze]].
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Two seasons of the show have been aired, and a third one has been ordered.[[note]]If all goes well, this will make the show tie ''The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries'' as the longest-running series based on a property of The Stratemeyer Syndicate. It only needs 11 more episodes to surpass the episode count of that series.[[/note]] In October 2020, it was announced that The CW was developing a potential spin-off series focusing on Literature/TomSwift. Tom, now reimagined as a gay African-American man, debuted in an episode of Season 2 ("The Celestial Visitor"), played by Creator/TianRichards. The series, aptly titled ''Tom Swift'', was officially revealed to have been given a series order in August 2021.

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Two seasons of the show have been aired, and a third one has been ordered.aired on October 8, 2021.[[note]]If all goes well, this will make the show tie ''The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries'' as the longest-running series based on a property of The Stratemeyer Syndicate. It only needs 11 more episodes to surpass the episode count of that series.[[/note]] In October 2020, it was announced that The CW was developing a potential spin-off series focusing on Literature/TomSwift. Tom, now reimagined as a gay African-American man, debuted in an episode of Season 2 ("The Celestial Visitor"), played by Creator/TianRichards. The series, aptly titled ''Tom Swift'', was officially revealed to have been given a series order in August 2021.
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*ColorCodedCharacters: Although their Claw uniforms are otherwise identical, Nancy's is always blue, Bess's is always yellow, and George's is always green.
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* ParasiticHorror: [[spoiler: The Wraith.]]
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* DeathTrap: Somehow, Nancy and George and Ace all end up in one of these at some point in season 2.
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* DirtyCop: Between [[spoiler: distributing poison to be used for vigilante justice, getting paid off by the Hudsons, and covering up the murder of a black woman,]] Horseshoe Bay is full of them.
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* InterruptedDeclarationOfLove: Nancy shows up on [[spoiler: Ace's doorstep ready to confess her feelings for him, only to be interrupted by his mother, who reveals that Ace]] left for a roadtrip with his new girlfriend.

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* MagicalRealism: This is the first ''Nancy Drew'' adaptation where ghosts ''actually'' exist. The murder is still done by a human being and Nancy has to solve it, but...you know, there are ghosts.


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* SupernaturalFiction: This is the first ''Nancy Drew'' adaptation where ghosts ''actually'' exist. The murder is still done by a human being and Nancy has to solve it, but...you know, there are also ghosts.
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* LethalEatery: The Drew Crew's mystery solving makes The Claw consistently unsanitary and riddled with health code violations. The fridge is full of spoiled eggs, a botched seance causes one of the waitresses to throw up all over the tables, and on one notable occasion, [[spoiler: the gang hides and loses one of Lucy Sable's bones]] at the Claw. Unsurprisingly, Carson mentions that he has gotten sick from their food on multiple occasions.
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* VomitIndiscretionShot: "The Celestial Visitor" has this when George accidentally summons a "Kitchen Demon" into Bess.
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* YourApprovalFillsMewithShame: Nancy has a moment like this after she [[spoiler: takes Everett hostage and wants to kill him,]] earning her a place in the family, according to him.

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* YourApprovalFillsMewithShame: YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: Nancy has a moment like this after she [[spoiler: takes Everett hostage and wants to kill him,]] earning her a place in the family, according to him.

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