Nancy Drew – Pilot
- Title: Nancy Drew – Pilot
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Our introduction to Nancy Drew (Kennedy McMann), the title character in The CW’s new series which takes its name from the well-known kid detective who has remained popular and in print since her first appearance in 1930, isn’t solving a case but hooking up with a boy she barely knows in a garage. It’s here that the show’s creators break from the tradition of the cute and precocious Nancy Drew template and offer an older, although not necessarily wiser, version of the character. McMann turns out to be a fairly good choice for this version of Nancy who, in the first episode, deals with a murder, a ghost mystery, the lasting effects of her mother’s death on her life plans, and the supernatural. It’s the last of these that becomes the hardest two swallow, especially as it becomes increasingly clear just how much of ghosts and things that go bump in the night the show’s writers are prepared to accept.
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