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Biography
Nancy Drew is an American mystery drama television series based on the titular character of a mystery book series that debuted on October 9, 2019. It is the third Nancy Drew television series, following The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (1977–1979) and a 1995 Canadian-American version. In October 2019, The CW picked up the series for a full season of 22 episodes.
In January 2020, The CW renewed the series for a second season.
Premise
After 18-year-old Nancy Drew's college plans are put on hold, she finds herself involved in a ghostly mystery when she and her four friends are witnesses (and suspects) to a murder and they all team up to find the person responsible.
Cast and characters
Main
- Kennedy McMann as Nancy Drew, a brilliant former teenage detective whose sense of self used to come from solving mysteries, but who finds herself reluctantly drawn into a homicide case connectingto her family.
- Leah Lewis as Georgia "George" Fan, Nancy's old nemesis from high school and her boss at the local diner, The Bayside Claw
- Maddison Jaizani as Bess Marvin, a rich city girl with a mysterious past who works as a waitress with Nancy at The Bayside Claw
- Tunji Kasim as Ned "Nick" Nickerson, a former teenage convict and football player who now runs an auto repair shop. He is Nancy's secret boyfriend
- Alex Saxon as Ace, the zen and amiable dishwasher/cook at The Bayside Claw with a secret to hide
- Alvina August as Det. Karen Hart, an investigator with the Horseshoe Bay police department who is dating Nancy's father Carson
- Riley Smith as Ryan Hudson, a handsome and affluent socialite who is the husband of murder victim Tiffany Hudson
- Scott Wolf as Carson Drew, a criminal defense attorney and Nancy's widowed father, whose attempts to connect with Nancy since her mother's death have failed
Recurring
- Adam Beach as Chief E.O. McGinnis, the Horseshoe Bay sheriff and Karen's boss. He isn't fond of Nancy's knack for interfering with police investigations.
- Sinead Curry as Tiffany Hudson, Ryan's wife who is a recently murdered victim
- Stephanie Van Dyck as Lucy Sable, a girl killed 19 years ago
- Katie Findlay as Lisbeth, a woman working for the Hudson family and Bess's love interest.
- Miles Gaston Villanueva as Owen Marvin, the scion of a wealthy clan with ties to the Hudsons and a potential ally to Nancy
- Stevie Lynn Jones as Laura Tandy, Tiffany's sister who suspects her sister was murdered and pushes for further investigation.
- Liza Lapira as Victoria Fan, George's deadbeat mother who knows a lot of things about ghosts.
Guest
- Pamela Sue Martin as Harriet Grosset, a medium
- Sara Canning as Katherine Drew, Nancy's mother who died of pancreatic cancer a year earlier
Production
Development
In September 2018, The CW announced that Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage were developing a new Nancy Drew series. The CW announced that the project was picked up for series on May 7, 2019. On May 16, 2019, The CW released the first official trailer for the series. The series debuted on October 9, 2019. On October 25, 2019, the series was picked up for a full season of 22 episodes. On January 7, 2020, the series was renewed for a second season.
Casting
In early 2019, the pilot was cast with Kennedy McMann as the title character, Tunji Kasim as Ned "Nick" Nickerson, Alex Saxon as Ace, Leah Lewis as George, Maddison Jaizani as Bess, and Freddie Prinze, Jr. as Nancy's father, Carson Drew. Pamela Sue Martin, who played Nancy Drew in the 1970s series The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries, was cast as Harriet Grosset for the pilot in April 2019. On May 9, 2019, it was announced that Scott Wolf had replaced Prinze in the role of Carson Drew. Riley Smith joined cast as Ryan Hudson in May 16, 2019. On October 28, 2019, Miles Gaston Villanueva was cast in a recurring role.
Filming
Principal photography for season 1 began on July 22, 2019, and is expected to end on April 7, 2020, in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Episodes
| No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | U.S. viewers (millions) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Pilot" | Larry Teng | Teleplay by : Noga Landau & Josh Schwartz & Stephanie Savage Television Story by : Noga Landau | October 9, 2019 (2019-10-09) | 1.18 | |
| In the fictional town of Horseshoe Bay, Maine, retired teenage detective Nancy Drew is spending her gap year working as a waitress at The Bayside Claw while she deals with the grief of her mother Katherine's death. All that changes when one night, she and her co-workers George, Bess, and Ace discover the body of Tiffany Hudson, wife of local businessman Ryan Hudson. When the police chief tries to pin the murder on Nancy, whom he's despised for years, she breaks into Ryan's house looking for evidence and finds a locket hidden in a secret compartment. The locket contains a reference to Lucy Sable, a girl who was killed nineteen years ago; Nancy, Bess, and George hire a medium to contact Lucy's spirit and receive a cryptic message to "find the dress". Nancy discovers that her father is secretly dating a cop, Karen Hart, and that her boyfriend Nick served time after Tiffany testified against him in court. She decides to try and figure out who killed Tiffany, with Bess, George, and Nick among her potential suspects. That night, while investigating in the attic, she finds Lucy's bloodstained dress in a locked chest. | ||||||
| 2 | "The Secret of the Old Morgue" | Larry Teng | Noga Landau | October 16, 2019 (2019-10-16) | 0.80 | |
| In an effort to improve his public image, Ryan takes part in the town's annual Seawater Festival, in which a bucket of seawater is placed outside to determine whether someone will die in the coming year. Nancy learns that the Hudson family has arranged for Tiffany's body to be moved out of town, so she decides to break into the morgue and take some blood to be analyzed. She also spies on George, learning of her secret relationship with Ryan. George angrily refuses to help, blaming Nancy for her reputation as a "slut" in high school. Bess and Ace pretend to have car trouble to delay Ryan's transporter Lisbeth, who hits it off with Bess. Nancy retrieves the blood and some evidence connected to Lucy's case, but accidentally trips the alarm; George suddenly arrives and hides the goods while Nancy is arrested. Carson agrees to represent Ryan in order to afford his daughter's bail. He tells her that Nick couldn't have known Tiffany's identity since she testified behind a screen. Later that night, he secretly burns Lucy's dress on the beach. George discovers that her bucket of seawater has turned to blood, a warning that death is soon to follow. | ||||||
| 3 | "The Curse of the Dark Storm" | John Kretchmer | Jesse Stern & Lisa Bao | October 23, 2019 (2019-10-23) | 0.81 | |
| Nancy discovers evidence of a secret friendship between Tiffany and Nick. He explains that she had been visiting him every week up until his release and left him an old clock in Nancy's mother's roadster. Karen informs Nancy that the charges against her will be dropped if she helps build a case against Nick. George is nearly killed by several "accidents", and receives a visit from a woman named Rita who turns out to have died several decades earlier. Nick and Nancy follow Tiffany's clues to Lilac Inn, and find a hidden vault containing a lockbox. Carson finds a print on Nancy's shoe matching one she left behind at the inn. Nancy reveals the details of Tiffany's relationship to Karen so that Nick will not be treated as a suspect. Nick confesses to the group that he really did kill someone by accident, and finds $5 million in bearer bonds in the lockbox, money that Nancy believes Tiffany left for him. Ace calls her to pick up Bess, who turns out to be living in a van by herself. Nancy invites her to move in, and while helping her pack, she finds Tiffany's diamond ring in Bess' coat pocket. | ||||||
| 4 | "The Haunted Ring" | Larry Teng | Céline Geiger | October 30, 2019 (2019-10-30) | 0.69 | |
| Looking into Bess' past, Nancy finds a passport under the name "Bess Turani" with her picture. Bess turns out to be an English girl who believes the Marvins are her biological relatives, but isn't entirely sure. On the day of Tiffany's funeral, a ghost attacks Bess in the Claw's walk-in, prompting the girls to turn to George's clairvoyant mother Victoria who explains how to perform a ritual that will seal Tiffany's ghost away for good. Tiffany's sister, Laura Tandy, arrives in town seeking to learn the truth behind her death and recruits Ace, her ex-boyfriend, to help. At the funeral, George manages to only complete part of the ritual due to Bess wandering away from her post. Laura upstages Ryan's father Everett's eulogy by playing Tiffany's last 911 call and announcing her intentions to seek justice. Carson subsequently informs the media that Tiffany's autopsy report is inconclusive, angering Ryan. That night, Ned learns from a hidden camera that Laura broke into his garage, and Nancy follows a clue left by a ghost to Keene High School, turning up a photo of Lucy with Karen. The ritual's failure leads to Tiffany's spirit possessing George's body. | ||||||
| 5 | "The Case of the Wayward Spirit" | Claudia Yarmy | Melinda Hsu Taylor & Katherine DiSavino | November 6, 2019 (2019-11-06) | 0.62 | |
| Under the influence of Tiffany's spirit, George's behavior becomes increasingly unpredictable. Victoria warns the group that unless a ritual of exorcism is performed, she will eventually consume George's life force, erasing her forever. Local developer Owen Marvin hires the Bayside Claw to provide catering services to a local charity gala, but Bess asks Nick to go in her place to avoid having to deal with his family. While at the gala, Nancy runs into Karen, who reveals Lucy died a year after abruptly ending their friendship. Ryan has an argument with Owen, which George witnesses; Tiffany takes over, steals a dress and knife, and goes to confront him. Victoria and Bess arrive, and despite Laura disrupting the ritual, are able to banish her. Ace and Nick force Laura to return the flash drive she stole. Using a code word given to him by Tiffany in her final moments, Nick breaks the password on the drive and finds a mountain of evidence compiled against the Hudsons, including a possible connection to Owen. Owen helps Nancy find a time capsule buried by Lucy's high school class, including a video of her with a teenaged Ryan. | ||||||
| 6 | "The Mystery of Blackwood Lodge" | Amanda Row | Alex Taub & Andrea Thornton Bolden | November 13, 2019 (2019-11-13) | 0.73 | |
| A desperate Ryan comes to Nancy for help. In exchange for agreeing to steal a collection of priceless Roman coins for him from an auction at the Velvet Masque club, Nancy forces Ryan to escort her inside the club, normally off-limits to locals. Bess and Lisbeth have their first date, but when Lisbeth leaves early, Bess is devastated. To cheer her up, George brings her along on a mission with Nick to infiltrate the club; the two had earlier deduced that the coins were linked to the sinking of a cargo ship that killed Owen's uncle, and plan to steal them to expose the Hudsons for their alleged involvement. Owen seeks the coins for the same reason, and manages to get the group kicked out before winning the auction. Nancy discovers that Ryan's parents had Carson, their family's personal attorney in 1999, get rid of Lucy to keep her away from their son, and to cover up her discovery of an affair between Owen's uncle and Ryan's mother Celia Hudson. Lisbeth gives Bess a make-up date, and they kiss. Nancy reveals that she swiped the coins to Owen and declines his offer of dinner, unaware that Nick suspects she is going behind his back. | ||||||
| 7 | "The Tale of the Fallen Sea Queen" | Rebecca Rodriguez | Erika Harrison & Katie Schwartz | November 20, 2019 (2019-11-20) | 0.73 | |
| Victoria warns the group to dispose of the coins, as they attract evil spirits. Instead, Nancy decides to use them in a séance to contact Lucy's spirit so she can finally answer several long-simmering questions. Laura openly accuses Chief McGinnis of covering up Tiffany's death, forcing him to hand the case over to state authorities. Ace begins to suspect that Laura may be Tiffany's killer after learning that she stands to inherit her sister's money, but Nancy discovers his secret arrangement with McGinnis, shattering their trust. Nancy's contact informs her that the evidence she sent to him for analysis has disappeared, so she tracks down Lucy's half-brother to obtain the only other item that can be used to summon her, a bracelet she wore before her death. Victoria is too drunk to help, so the group conducts the séance themselves, destroying the coins in the process. Nick breaks up with Nancy afterwards for pushing him away. An unknown spirit is shown communicating with George's younger sister Ted. Ace leaves town with Laura and gets in a serious car accident, while Nancy deals with her growing fear that her father killed Lucy. | ||||||
| 8 | "The Path of Shadows" | Alexis Ostrander | Jesse Stern | December 4, 2019 (2019-12-04) | 0.68 | |
| Ace is brought to the hospital and falls into a coma. Nancy speaks to Chief McGinnis, and after revealing all of her and her friends' interactions with the spirit world, learns that Ace's spirit has separated from his body due to the trauma of the crash. McGinnis gathers Nancy, George, and Carson to form a spirit circle and send George to the spirit world. Based on Nancy's deduction that someone intentionally tampered with Laura's car to trigger the crash, Nick and Bess confront Lisbeth, who they think may be responsible. Lisbeth then comes clean: she is actually an undercover state police officer investigating the Hudsons. George is unable to find Ace's spirit due to the negative energy between Nancy and Carson, so Nancy clears it by making him promise to reveal everything once the ceremony is finished. George finds Ace's spirit in the form of a young boy, but he remains in a coma. Nancy uses a clue George found to expose Officer Rawley, the dirty cop responsible for the accident. Nancy and Lisbeth stage a confrontation so Lisbeth can maintain her cover. When George goes to pick up Ted from the diner, she finds her missing. | ||||||
| 9 | "The Hidden Staircase" | Shannon Kohli | Melinda Hsu Taylor | December 11, 2019 (2019-12-11) | 0.74 | |
| Ted's disappearance reveals similarities between her abduction and that of Rose Turnbull, the girl Nancy rescued in her first case as a 12-year old detective. Based on this, Nancy suspects that whoever took Ted is tied to Nathan Gomber, Rose's abductor. Nancy and Carson visit Gomber's old warehouse while George and Nick work on deciphering a note passed by Gomber to his only visitor, Moira Baker. Nancy realizes that there are gaps in her memory from the night she found Rose--the result, she believes, of an entity called Simon who was manipulating Gomber. George finds a location for Moira's antique store and breaks in with Nick at the same time that Nancy finds the shrine Gomber built for Simon and burns it; Moira is caught and Ted is located by Nick. When Nancy goes to see Gomber one last time, he says that his business with Simon is far from over. Bess reveals her secret to Owen. Karen finds Nancy's journal, and informs Chief McGinnis, who has the knife from Lucy's death tested. The fingerprints on it are found to match Carson's, and he is arrested and charged with her murder. | ||||||
| 10 | "The Mark of the Poisoner's Pearl" | Sydney Freeland | Katherine DiSavino & Lisa Bao | January 15, 2020 (2020-01-15) | 0.66 | |
| Nancy receives word from a contact that Tiffany was killed with a rare type of poison. Owen meets Bess and confirms that they are first cousins, making her a biological Marvin. He asks her for the burial coins as part of a plan to expose Everett Hudson for murdering their uncle, but when Nick explains that they were destroyed, Bess concocts a scheme to use Ryan, who is increasingly estranged from his family, as a means to find other potential evidence. Nancy's investigation leads her to an old case involving a serial poisoner from nearly seventeen years earlier. Ace takes her to his father, who worked on the case and gives Nancy clues indicating that the killer is still in Horseshoe Bay. Nancy makes a video daring the killer to come after her; the killer then lures her into a makeshift gas chamber from which Nick and George rescue her only seconds before death. Ryan decides to take matters into his own hands out of fear that his family will go after the Marvins. Ace turns the killer over to the police, and Nancy decides to call her father for the first time in two weeks, with Lucy's ghost looking on. | ||||||
| 11 | "The Phantom of Bonny Scot" | Ramsey Nickell | Andrea Thornton Bolden & Katie Schwartz | January 22, 2020 (2020-01-22) | 0.54 | |
| Everett and Nancy make a deal: if she sabotages Owen's efforts to expose his family's wrongdoing, he'll help get her father released from custody. George's friend Dawn informs her that the Bayside Claw is being put on the market, meaning she'll lose the only place she truly considers home unless she can come up with some quick money. Bess decides to embrace her British heritage for her first lunch with Diana Marvin; impressed, Diana asks her to join the Marvin corporate empire by meeting with a potential new partner, Amaya Alston. Owen introduces Nancy to Bashiir, the only survivor of the Bonny Scot. She discovers that Bashiir is haunted by his survivor's guilt, but is unwilling to come forward out of fear of deportation. With Owen's help, Nancy arranges a sting led by Lisbeth to take Everett into custody. She also finds files in the Hudson family mansion suggesting that Lucy's mother had something to do with her death. Nick tells George he'll use some of his bonds to buy the Claw, with her as co-owner. Owen makes arrangements to help Bashiir. Celia Hudson contacts someone at the state prison, ordering them to kill Carson. | ||||||
| 12 | "The Lady of Larkspur Lane" | Greg Beeman | Erika Harrison | January 29, 2020 (2020-01-29) | 0.63 | |
| Nancy takes George and Nick on an attempt to break into Larkspur Lane, the local asylum where Lucy's mother Patricia has been living since her death. There, they discover an infestation of strange mold, swarms of bugs, and a man named Sal who claims that the building is haunted by the spirits of the family who died there in the 1870s. Carson is nearly stabbed in prison before Ace is able to fake a transfer request; he takes Carson to his own home and contacts Karen for help when the police show up. Bess impresses Amaya with her wit and clever observations. With no evidence to prove Carson's life is in danger, Bess cuts a deal with Ryan, offering to grant him a favor from the Marvin family in exchange. Ryan's evidence, coupled with a call from Amaya, is enough to get Carson released from jail before he's tried. Nancy finds Patricia, who shows signs of dementia and tells her to find "the thin man's book". Sal directs her to the Whisper Box, where the family's possessions are kept, but then pulls the fire alarm. Nancy is left trapped inside the Whisper Box and falls into a deep sleep, waking up in a fantasy world where her mother is alive. | ||||||
| 13 | "The Whisper Box" | Larry Teng | Noga Landau & Alex Taub | February 5, 2020 (2020-02-05) | 0.62 | |
| With Sal's help, Nick and the others break into the asylum and try to communicate with an unconscious Nancy. Realizing that she's trapped in a fantasy, Nancy recruits the imaginary versions of her friends to help find a way out. From Ryan, they receive a puzzle that Nancy supposedly set up for herself, which leads to a graveyard and a mysterious key. The key turns out, however, to be a red herring; Nancy discovers that the real way out is through a letter written by her late mother. Despite being tempted to stay and make up for all of her life's regrets, she decides to give it up and returns to the real world. The group escapes as the asylum burns down, and Nancy is reunited with her father. Having found a keycard, she visits the local Historical Society and learns that it opens a lockbox placed there by Tiffany. Inside, she finds a recording of a video made several months earlier, where Tiffany reveals that someone has been following her before a ghost suddenly appears and the video is cut short. Nancy realizes that Tiffany was likely killed for trying to uncover who murdered Lucy Sable. | ||||||
| 14 | "The Sign of the Uninvited Guest" | Amanda Row | Katherine DiSavino | February 26, 2020 (2020-02-26) | 0.59 | |
| 15 | "The Terror of Horseshoe Bay" | Katie Eastridge | Jen Vestuto & Melissa Marlette | March 4, 2020 (2020-03-04) | ||
| 16 | "The Haunting of Nancy Drew" | Ruben Garcia | Noga Landau & Katie Schwartz | March 11, 2020 (2020-03-11) | ||
Reception
Critical response
On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, Nancy Drew holds an approval rating of 53% based on 30 reviews, with an average rating of 7.31/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "An appealing aesthetic and promising ensemble can't quite manage to liven up Nancy Drew, an overly broody and unfortunately bland mystery that follows too closely in the footsteps of the shows it aspires to be." On Metacritic, it has a weighted average score of 55 out of 100, based on 12 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".
Ratings
| No. | Title | Air date | Rating/share (18–49) | Viewers (millions) | DVR (18–49) | DVR viewers (millions) | Total (18–49) | Total viewers (millions) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Pilot" | October 9, 2019 | 0.3/2 | 1.18 | 0.3 | 0.97 | 0.6 | 2.14 |
| 2 | "The Secret of the Old Morgue" | October 16, 2019 | 0.2/1 | 0.80 | 0.2 | 0.73 | 0.4 | 1.53 |
| 3 | "The Curse of the Dark Storm" | October 23, 2019 | 0.2/1 | 0.81 | 0.2 | 0.64 | 0.4 | 1.45 |
| 4 | "The Haunted Ring" | October 30, 2019 | 0.1/1 | 0.69 | 0.3 | 0.68 | 0.4 | 1.36 |
| 5 | "The Case of the Wayward Spirit" | November 6, 2019 | 0.1/1 | 0.62 | 0.3 | 0.58 | 0.4 | 1.20 |
| 6 | "The Mystery of Blackwood Lodge" | November 13, 2019 | 0.2/1 | 0.73 | 0.2 | 0.63 | 0.4 | 1.36 |
| 7 | "The Tale of the Fallen Sea Queen" | November 20, 2019 | 0.2/1 | 0.73 | 0.2 | 0.55 | 0.4 | 1.28 |
| 8 | "The Path of Shadows" | December 4, 2019 | 0.2/1 | 0.68 | 0.2 | 0.55 | 0.4 | 1.23 |
| 9 | "The Hidden Staircase" | December 11, 2019 | 0.1/1 | 0.74 | 0.2 | 0.50 | 0.3 | 1.24 |
| 10 | "The Mark of the Poisoner's Pearl" | January 15, 2020 | 0.1/1 | 0.66 | 0.1 | 0.52 | 0.2 | 1.18 |
| 11 | "The Phantom of Bonny Scot" | January 22, 2020 | 0.1/1 | 0.54 | 0.1 | 0.50 | 0.2 | 1.04 |
| 12 | "The Lady of Larkspur Lane" | January 29, 2020 | 0.1/1 | 0.63 | 0.1 | 0.50 | 0.2 | 1.13 |
| 13 | "The Whisper Box" | February 5, 2020 | 0.1 | 0.62 | 0.2 | 0.46 | 0.3 | 1.08 |
| 14 | "The Sign of the Uninvited Guest" | February 26, 2020 | 0.1 | 0.59 | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
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