History Series / NoGoodNick

Part 1 premiered on April 15, 2019. Part 2 premiered on August 5, 2019.

* AnAesop: Multiple series-wide ones:
** For Nick: {{Revenge}} may feel good in the short-term, but it won't make you feel any better in the long-term and it can't bring back what you lost.
** For The Thompsons: It's important to accept responsibility for your actions and make amends when you've done wrong to others.
** For both: No matter how noble you think your intentions are, your actions have consequences and they can do serious harm to other people if you aren't careful.

* {{Revenge}}: Nick's true motivation for targeting the Thompsons. [[spoiler: Her father, Tony, was once the owner of a successful Italian restaurant, but when Liz Thompson started her new restaurant, she sought to eliminate the competition by poaching their costumers. Each member of the family had a hand in the subsequent downfall of Franzelli's: Liz redesigned her menu to make the same kind of food as Franzelli's, but at a lower cost, Molly and her friends posted fake bad reviews on Yelp, Jeremy interfered with a campaign to bring back customers by stealing menus that Nick and Tony distributed, and Ed used his position as a bank manager to deny Tony an extension on a loan. Driven to desperation, Tony took a loan from a Mafia boss, then robbed a store in an attempt to pay it back, which resulted in his arrest and imprisonment.]]

** Of sitcoms and their tropes in general. The LongLostRelative who appears out of nowhere is actually a LittleMissConArtist plotting to rob her new "family" blind. The mafia enforcer who tries to act like a FriendlyEnemy to Nick and use SpySpeak to make the experience "fun" for her is bluntly reminded that he isn't her friend: He's the guy holding her father hostage and forcing her to steal. Molly's friendship with the other members of the "volunteer club", which is frequently shown to revolve around who can get the most social media clout, is shown to be quite toxic. These are just a few examples of the way the show seriously explores the ramifications of sitcom scenarios.

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

* AbusiveParents: Tony uses his 13 year old daughter to raise money for him, all the while lying to her about the reason he needs it and giving her false hope. He also sets Nick up against the Thompsons, blaming them alone for "ruining their lives", while denying his own responsability for becoming criminal.

* AbusiveParents: Tony uses his 13 year old daughter to earn money for him, all the while lying to her about the reason he needs it. He also sets Nick up against the Thompsons, blaming them alone for "ruining their lives", while denying his own responsability for becoming criminal.

* AbusiveParents: Tony uses his 13 year old daughter to earn money for him, all the while lying to her about the reason he needs it. He also sets Nick up against the Thompsons, blaming them alone for ruining their lives, while refusing his own responsability for becoming crimina.

WARNING: Despite being a sitcom, ''No Good Nick'' has a heavily serialized plot with many dramatic reveals and twists. Here there be spoilers.

* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: Exploited by Nick in the costume dance. She pressures Jeremy into letting the volunteer squad fine people with insensitive or offensive costumes, then she finds a way to interpret ''every'' costume as insensitive or offensive, such as fining a ninja for cultural appropriation, or a vampire for being insensitive to haemophiliacs. Though, even she draws the line at Jeremy being excluded from his own dance for dressing as Thomas Jefferson (albeit for personal reasons, as she doesn't want him to have further reason to distrust her).

* RealityEnsues: A number of Nick's schemes fall apart due to not knowing the exact details needed to make it pay off the way she expects them to.
** She was able to steal a bunch of expensive wine from Liz's restaurant by switching the labels with cheap wine. Unfortunately, the value of wine is almost entirely in the label itself, so she just ended up with a bunch of blank wine bottles with functionally no commercial value.
** She figured out the passwords to get administrator access at the bank, but learns that even the bank president can't make large transfers without secondary confirmation or being noticed. She would never be able to move funds and withdraw it fast enough.
** Setting up a false "Go Fund Me" page she was able to acquire a large sum of crowd sourced pity money, but being a minor was unable to open a personal bank account without an in-person adult co-sign. This left the account less private than she needed it to be.
** Her main deception against the Thompsons required them to believe she was a LongLostRelative who needed a home. Because of this set-up for the most part they ended up ''showering her with love and sympathy''. To continue this kind of deception while dismantling their lives required a level of callous cruelty that Nick just didn't have. She had functionally set up her own StockholmSyndrome and was BecomingTheMask.

* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Every episode is named after a real world scam type, and typically demonstrated in the episode itself.

** In the flashback to Franzelli's, we see at the restaruant several people who we've seen (or will see) help Nick in her schemes, justifying how he knows them and gets favors from them.

* {{Revenge}}: Nick's true motivation for targeting the Thompsons. [[spoiler: Her father, Tony, was once the owner of a successful Italian restaurant, but when Elizabeth Thompson started her new restaurant, she sought to eliminate the competition by poaching their costumers. Each member of the family had a hand in the subsequent downfall of Franzelli's: Elizabeth redesigned her menu to make the same kind of food as Franzelli's, but at a lower cost, Molly and her friends posted fake bad reviews on Yelp, Jeremy interfered with a campaign to bring back customers by stealing menus that Nick and Tony distributed, and Ed used his position as a bank manager to deny Tony an extension on a loan. Driven to desperation, Tony took a loan from a Mafia boss, then robbed a store in an attempt to pay it back, which resulted in his arrest and imprisonment.]]

** Nick feels this as well once she exacts her revenge against each of the Thompsons.

* BothSidesHaveAPoint: [[spoiler:In "The Fool's Errand", while Tony has every right to be angry at the Thompsons for doing unethical things that ruined his restaurant, Nick points that out it was his own fault that he ended in debt to the mob for burrowing from them, and in prison for robbing a convention store.]]

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

* BothSidesHaveAPoint: [[spoiler:In "The Fool's Errand", while Tony has every right to angry at the Thompsons for doing unethical things that ruined his restaurant, Nick points that out it was his own fault that he ended in debt to the mob for burrowing from them, and in prison for robbing a convention store.]]

* BothSidesHaveAPoint:[[spoiler:In "The Fool's Errand", while Tony has every right to angry at the Thompsons for doing unethical things that ruined his restaurant, Nick points that out it was his own fault that he ended in debt to the mob for burrowing from them, and in prison for robbing a convention store.]]