(Initial, and final, Impression) For someone who "discovered" the school library in sixth grade and then read all the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys novels they had in that same year, I was hoping for more. The writing for this series is bad. Aging up Nancy and her crew may have opened the door for the gratuitous sexual content but there was no reciprocal mature dialogue or adult social dynamics in this series. The interactions are juvenile. Just a big disappointment. Because I don't hold out hope that this series will get any better than this premiere, I'm giving it a 3 (bad) out of 10 and abandoning the series. [Mystery]
I should have known the Riverdale dude would turn Nancy Drew into some over-sexed relationship drama heavy show instead of focusing on the mystery, but hey at least they're not pretending that 23 year olds are in high school anymore.
Was hoping to like this but this was so bad! Definitely not watching episode 2! Such a shame.
I really wanted to like this. That's a big advantage for a show to have and yet.. it still fell short. Are they making it a supernatural show. Right now it seems like a weak version of Veronica Mars mixed with Scooby-do.
I did find it amusing that the once rich girl is living the van life. Now she just needs to make a Youtube channel about it.
I really wanted to like this. I've been craving a good mystery show, but this fell flat, so quickly. Of course, knowing it's a CW show, I wasn't too surprised by this, but they did have a decent set-up and was willing to give it a chance: Good premise, diverse cast, the standard CW filming production and iconicly cheesy writing (think: Riverdale season 1, but it should be focusing more on the actual case itself). They have a formula, and it was replicated once again into a reboot with a name most people know.
Expectations weren't too high... But a sex scene, right from the get-go and then again towards the end really just wasn't it.
Also, I don't think the ghost element to it really works, so it's difficult to see how it will play out. Nancy Drew's mysteries were fun because you got to solve the case with her while she was also figuring them out, and adding in supernatural things that are completely foreign to us as the audience sort of takes away from that experience, because we know little to nothing of it - and who knows, maybe they even change some of the typical lore to better fit their storylines. Are they just trying to reproduce another Supernatural? Because it kinda feels like it.
I'll give it a few more episodes and see how it goes.
Here I go, diving into yet another stupid CW show.
• 7 rings was perfect in this
• Bess is my favorite already
• I don’t understand if Nick is supposed to look like bad boy vibes, cause then they cast the wrong actor, he looks like a good guy
• Nancy so far is… I don’t have context of Nancy’s personality, I have never read the books or watched the Emma Roberts movie but she seems bland, uptight, and annoying
• I thought it was gonna be a mystery per episode, but I like that they are gonna drag it longer
• I don’t understand why at the beginning of the episode Nancy and friends/bf were at the cemetery and she was wearing a pink dress but then they cut that scene so I don’t get that
• I enjoy the hallmark mystery + riverdale vibes, and I’m looking for a show longer than 20 episodes so I’m gonna keep watching
So disappointed. Expected this would be a reboot of the fantastic books I grew up reading. It’s not. The Nancy character is a brat who has sex at least twice in the episode, her father is a pushover, her “boyfriend” is a criminal and her best friends are not. Watched the pilot and just can’t watch more. Was same thing with Riverdale and Fresh Prince (Bel Air). What is wrong with the actual stories?
I really enjoyed this one, hold on .... the low note doesn't match the, episode ... charismatic characters.
Wow. I didn't even know it was possible to ruin Nancy Drew.
I'm aware Nancy Drew is originally a book series about a girl detective. I've never read them, so I went into this without any expectations. It is a VERY CW show, however, I also have to point out the writing is not that bad, and the acting is pretty great. I already really like the girl that plays Nancy. She's really good!
(Also, let's be honest. Nowadays, anything is a masterpiece when compared to flaming, nonsensical crap pile that is Riverdale)
I really wanted to like this... But its sadly the perfect mix of every CW show and Riverdale and there's enough of that going around.
Doubtful that I'll give it more than one chance.
Really, truly terrible acting. It's like I'm watching a Hallmark movie with none of the charm.
Imagine an alternate universe where K. J. Apa was the strongest, not the weakest link of the Riverdale pilot, and you'll have an approximate idea of how badly the CW botched the casting for Nancy Drew. It's not that any of the involved actors are bad, per se – at least not based on their performances here – but (veteran TV director) Larry Teng is incapable of getting anything out of any of them beyond pedestrian competence. I appreciate the show's take on Nancy as an isolated, slightly desperate loser, but aside from her slight resemblance to Rachel Brosnahan, there's nothing iconic about Kennedy McCann's performance as the titular teenage sleuth. That Apa was miscast as Archie Andrews didn't matter in the end, because the rest of the Riverdale ensemble turned out to be so hecking spectacular. Nancy Drew, sadly, does not look to have the same luxury.
Well, yikes, this is going to be a bad adaptation. I will never understand why people refuse to make their own, original show. Instead, they insist on adapting existing material, changing a lot and making it worse. Sometimes, being a close replica is better than taking an already-existing premise, characters, and whatnot, and making it worse, regardless of whether or not the attempt is to honor the source material. I'm sure most fans of the books would've rathered this to be an almost, exact copy of what the books represent but in a TV show format. I'll watch the rest, but it would've been better if there wasn't the lingering shadow of being based on the Nancy Drew books to distract. Now, that fact will always be in the back of my mind when I'm watching this show.
It unfortunately has the Riverdale approach. It’s darker with a sluttier Nancy. Who of course has a sex scene right at the start of the episode. Then again towards the end.
Riverdale is a guilty pleasure that is also very hard to stomach. We don’t need more shows like it. Where everyone is an annoyingly vain cliche character.
Hollywood has loved making redhead’s black these days so I’m surprised they even cast a redhead for Nancy.
What's the thing with those blurry pictures? I see that quite often in Netflix or cw shows? It's fucking annoying.
I know Veronica Mars was probably inspired by Nancy drew but this feels like a VM rip-off to me
I know Veronica Mars was probably inspired by Nancy drew but this feels like a VM rip-off to me
saw this pilot at a screening and I was vERY nervous because I don't like CW shows. They definitely aged up Nancy and this pilot is very introductory and I want to know what happened with the mystery. However, it definitely has that CW vibe and I feel like I'm going to stop watching after 3 or 4 episodes.
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Why, God, why do I still hope a cw show is good? Whyyyyyy