The reason Veronica Mars works as well as it does in the first season is because the primary cases she’s solving relate directly and inextricably to her own past and her personal trauma and not just like, “Gee, Nancy Drew. Keeping Nancy’s methodology intentionally archaic - which isn’t done nearly enough in the two episodes sent to critics - is also a decent cover for a flimsy main mystery. I always enjoy a “youthful prodigy gone to seed” story, which reminds me that if Schwartz and Savage aren’t developing Edgar Cantero’s Meddling Kids for TV, they should be. I also enjoyed the sense of Nancy’s detective history in the community, the news clippings of past successes or side references to ostensibly silly cases she cracked. When she’s doing that here, even as it’s coupled with a more hard-boiled and sarcastic voiceover, Nancy Drew has a little charm. Nancy Drew should be the master of finding hidden compartments or uncovering sealed lockets or the most rudimentary of breaking-and-entering, poking around in attics and under stairwells. It works best here when Nancy’s investigative process is at its most quaint. What makes a teenage girl detective “Nancy Drew” if you want the brand name to mean anything?
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One of the biggest challenges facing the creative team is deceptively simple: TV doesn’t lack for detectives, irrespective of age or gender or amateur status. 'TV's Top 5': Amazon, Starz Strategies Decoded Josh Schwartz Talks 'Alaska,' 'Gossip Girl' So Nancy has to clear her name and clear their names and, naturally, the crime also has ties to the town’s most legendary death, a pageant queen who is rumored to still haunt the community.
And Bess becomes a suspect! And Nick becomes a suspect! And George becomes a suspect! It’s pretty much like Oprah’s lamest audience giveaway ever. Determined to get her life back on track, Nancy swore off crime-fighting, but when the wife of a prominent wealthy seasonal resident (Riley Smith’s Ryan Hudson) is murdered in front of the Claw, Nancy becomes a suspect.
This Nancy Drew also still has a history of solving crimes in Horseshoe Bay, juvenile sleuthing that earned her the ire of the local police chief (Adam Beach) and the concern of her attorney father (Scott Wolf).
Book Nancy’s longtime steady Ned Nickerson (Tunji Kasim) is here as well, initially as more of a regular booty call with a troubled past. After allowing her grades, life and popularity to fall apart during her mother’s terminal illness, Nancy (Kennedy McMann) is now working as a waitress at the Bayside Claw along with wealthy airhead Bess (Maddison Jaizani), blue-collar airhead Ace (Alex Saxon) and local bad girl George (Leah Lewis), all familiar names for readers.
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Adapted from the “Carolyn Keene” - feel free to credit individual authors within the pseudonym as you see fit - novels by Noga Landau, with Fake Empire’s Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage as producers, Nancy Drew begins with our heroine in the middle of an unplanned gap year between high school and the rest of her life.
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