The rational explanation is that someone is dressed as a ghost. On cellphone video by which Nancy intended to capture the fireworks, we see Lucy’s ghost coming out of the mist and attacking Tiffany in the diner parking lot. Horseshoe Bay’s local spirit is Lucy Sable, who jumped to her death on the rocks in 2000 after being crowned the school’s Spring Queen. After all, the biggest suspect in the opening mystery is a ghost.
It’s also not exactly in the same genre as “Veronica.” It might hew closer to “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina,” with which it shares dark yet colorful cinematography (a style popularized in this decade by “Riverdale”). In terms of balancing “everyone’s a suspect” with believable relationships, “Veronica Mars” is the standard-bearer, and “Nancy Drew” is not at that level. None of Nancy’s relationships are all that warm – but at least they aren’t soapy and plastic as with “Riverdale.” Everyone’s shifty enough to be a suspect in the mystery of who killed a socialite, Tiffany (Sinead Curry), right outside the diner at the end of Nancy’s shift. Drew died of cancer less than a year ago (as seen in flashbacks). Nancy is on the outs with her lawyer dad, Carson (Scott Wolf), who has secretly been seeing police detective Karen (Alvina August) since Mrs. Her traditional friends, Bess (Maddison Jaizani) and George (Leah Lewis), aren’t her friends in this version (Nancy flat-out says as much) they are her mildly antagonistic co-workers.
When we meet her, Nancy is getting in a quickie with mechanic boyfriend Ned “Nick” Nickerson (Tunji Kasim) before her waitress shift. But in this version, she might as well take the exams and get a job on the Horseshoe Bay police force she’s obviously qualified and no longer a kid. I imagine Nancy as more precocious, with the fact that she solves cases before the police do being mildly irksome to the boys in blue. But she’s much edgier and more mature than I’d expect, even though she graduated from Horseshoe Bay (Maine) High School only one year earlier. In the title role is Kennedy McMann, who has the iconic red hair. It might owe a nod to the current Dynamite comic in that it contemporizes Nancy.
This third TV version (following 1970s and 1990s entries) is created by Stephanie Savage and Josh Schwartz (the duo behind “The O.C.,” “Gossip Girl” and “The Runaways”), with Noga Landau co-writing the pilot. But it’s not bad, and I can imagine enough people will like this version of Nancy that it could define the sleuth for this generation. The mix isn’t precisely what I look for: It’s much more contemporary than it is a throwback, and it has a supernatural element that cuts into Nancy’s meat-and-potatoes clue gathering. Similar to what The CW did with “Riverdale” a few years ago, “Nancy Drew” (Wednesdays, CW) has been updated for modern times, and out of the gates, it’s refreshingly less silly than what “Riverdale” turned into.
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