Nancy Drew (2019 TV series) Streaming Options
Nancy Drew this season. But behind-the-scenes, it was anything but.
After the coronavirus pandemic forced the television industry to shut down early last spring,
Nancy Drew, along with all other TV shows in production, had to end its season earlier than anticipated. [Episode] 118 became our season finale even though it wasn t designed to be, showrunner Melinda Hsu Taylor tells EW.
The season 2 premiere was originally called 118.5, Hsu Taylor reveals with a laugh. She and showrunner Noga Landau did some creative restructuring to make sure it effectively kicked off the new season. We were able to set up some of our big story arcs for the season, remind the audience who these folks were, what their problem was with being hunted by this supernatural serial killer essentially, and also, bring the audience into the world of the Hudsons and some splashy exciting set pi
Strange Horizons
Nancy Drew continues the CW’s recent assault upon my childhood. Much like the reboots
Riverdale (2017–present),
The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018–present, moving from the CW to Netflix), and
Katy Keene (2020–present), the show shares very little with its original texts. While names are retained and the overall focus remains that of a female detective solving mysteries in her fictional home town, by and large it’s actually helpful if the viewer knows nothing about the original series or any of its various reboots through the years. While the show has a variety of Easter egg references with examples including the local high school being named Keene High (for Carolyn Keene), an episode titled “Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase” intended to hearken a nostalgic viewer to the second Nancy Drew book written in the 1930s, and a contemporary visual reference to the book cover for “The Secret in the Old Attic” the characters are largely unreco