But then she gets a little distracted by a ghost in a prom dress-one who won’t leave her the hell alone. When the wife of a nefarious local rich guy is murdered in the diner’s parking lot, Nancy, George, Nick, and co-workers Bess (Maddison Jaizani) and Ace ( Alex Saxon) become prime suspects, and Nancy feels the old urge to sleuth begin to rise. She keeps everyone, even her secret hookup Ned “Nick” Nickerson (Tunji Kasim) and her father ( Scott Wolf, doing the “Riverdale” onetime-teen-heartthrob-plays-parent thing) at arm’s length, minimum. Abandoning her plans for college and dreams for the future, she picked up an apron and an order pad and started working at a local diner, The Claw, managed by a tough-talking, grudge-holding former classmate named George (Leah Lewis, a standout in a mostly underwhelming cast). After losing her mother in her final year of high school, Nancy’s grades and relationships cratered. This is a young woman whose life has been saturated with grief. It’s not that she’s seen the error of her ways, or decided to put away childish things in favor of some more adult, less entertaining hobby. As brought to life by McCann, Taylor, creator and executive producer Noga Landau, and executive producers Stephanie Savage and Josh Schwartz (of “The O.C.” and “Gossip Girl” fame), this is a Nancy who claims to have left her sleuthing days behind. McCann brings us a version of the girl detective who, unlike many of her predecessors, doesn’t even kind of have her stuff together.
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This series has some considerable flaws, and as you might guess, can be fairly derivative, but it’s got a great lead in Kennedy McCann. But it’s not enough to check a bunch of boxes of things people have liked elsewhere and call it a day. Some of that comes down to an appealing blend of influences that run through showrunner Melinda Hsu Taylor’s series: like “Riverdale,” it owes a lot to “Twin Peaks,” and like any number of other shows currently airing, it also owes a lot to “Riverdale” “ Veronica Mars” also figures prominently in its DNA, as does “Gilmore Girls” the list goes on.
She finds clues! She solves mysteries! She keeps a level head! That remains true-unlike a certain old clock, she is timeless-but beyond that, it’s hard not to root for “Nancy Drew,” a new addition to The CW’s lineup of shows in which hot youngsters with tragic or shadowy backstories get into and out of trouble. It’s hard not to root for Nancy Drew, in all her iterations.
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