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.
Review by KiBlockedParentSpoilers2023-12-31T11:14:19Z
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.