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A Review and Contextless Commentary of Episode Two of CW’s Nancy Drew

[I watched this episode last Thursday, but forgot to post because my life is busy with midterms and the last weekend of the LARP I cast at, so I’m just getting this up now. Might watch the next episode and try to post the review/commentary before bedtime.]

I liked this episode less than the first one. There were a lot more facepalm moments. The characters are developing well but the mystery is not. It feels very stagnant from where the story ended in the first episode, nothing really changed in the course of this one. 

I haven’t given up hope yet, they do have to make this mystery last at least a season, so I get why it’s moving slowly. 

And now, for judgy, slightly obnoxious thoughts (be warned, they’re long):

Oh good. They didn’t totally ruin Carson by making him a cheating bastard.

I still refuse to believe that Carson, any version of him, is capable of or responsible for murder. If any version is, I’d buy the golf ball over this guy

Why are we doing this CW? Why are we having a teenage girl and a grown-ass-man hooking up? I don’t care that she’s 18, the implication is that she wasn’t when this bullshit started. I’m not even angry about it, I’m just tired. And maybe a little concerned how often this kind of storyline crops up in teen shows and is not portrayed as BAD and CREEPY and PREDATORY

Yes George, little reminder, his wife was just murdered and he’s a suspect. Smart move on maybe not sleeping with him. On top of the whole predatory thing.

That is a pretty bullshit injunction. But also, I think technically plausible? Either way Highly Suspicious on Mr. Ryan Hudson’s part

We’re still calling him Nick huh?

Of course the small town wouldn’t cancel their quirky and probably slightly creepy event for something like a simple murder

Is he McGinnis? Cus I’m like 80% sure that’s not what we called him last week…but whatever man, McGinnis it is

Yes let’s just openly discuss stealing blood from a corpse. Good plan Nancy.

Break in with better coverage bitch! Not in your distinctly colored work uniform and all your hair and other DNA sources exposed!

So far Nancy is the only one conclusively seeing the ghost, including even the audience not seeing it clearly, and I’m hoping that means something…

I call bullshit on Ace’s haunted morgue story. If someone died or went missing in a government building, especially a FREAKING MORGUE that would not go unsolved/attributed to a ghost

Exact wording concerned-flirting is still 110% what I’m here for with the Nedcy relationship

That’s your story? That your wife was on (impliedly) psychiatric medication and you don’t want that somehow going from an autopsy report, usually a sealed medical record at least until the death is solved, to ending up in the paper because of some nebulous effect it might have on your family? Could you be any vaguer and more full of shit?

Noo, George don’t fall for that and refuse to steal his phone because you feel guilty or something…even if you believe him, which you shouldn’t, you still need that to clear your name

Sure you’d never try to cover up info on your wife’s murder. But you’ll hook up with an 18-year-old the day after she’s murdered…

Nancy, spying on your friends and co-conspirators is rude. Justified, but still bad form

Oh, Carson knows Ryan. Good. And there’s clearly a history there. Awesome.

Finally! Carson with a spine! Much more the Carson I know and respect.

Ooh, so the history has something to do with Kate. Intriguing

Tactless Drew strikes again. Super not helping…

Oof. Probably deserved, but harsh anyway George.

Maybe don’t loudly discuss your criminal plans in the middle of a restaurant? I mean even discounting the girl you have just given every reason to turn your ass in, there are other people in there. With ears and the capability to tell McGinnis.

Bucket ritual? Really? That is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard, and I grew up in a town with the Annual Rubber Duck Races and the Tomato Festival

Can part of the bucket ritual be punching a sleezeball in the face with a bucket?

Also, maybe look around when you’re talking in case people overhear?

Going to Ryan and not the police is…maybe not the smartest idea George

More Ghostly hallucinations for Nancy…good…and she’s doubting herself. Not good. Don’t listen to Team Ghost or go to them for comfort when you see things, they’re not going to be helpful and we don’t need you freaking out more.

A least she’s covered up a bit more this time. But still leaving her hair and face exposed and wearing her distinctive (apparently) hat that got her into trouble once before on B&E. Nancy. Get it together.

That’s a lot of bodies for a small-town morgue

Coroner’s driver is hot. And clearly annoyed by these morons. I love her

That body looks very different than the woman before she died. I’m going to chalk it up to lighting and being a several day old corpse, but on another level I think it’s a low-budget corpse? Like that’s nowhere near the same hair color or face shape. Did you even try?

Lisbeth is so fucking Done with these two. Also I feel bad for Ace having to bust his clearly beloved car. And that leaking was focused on too closely to not be suspicious

When did it start raining? It wasn’t at the festival…

Oh god is this going to be a jumpscare? Nope, just dramatic noises. I think I might have to start watching in the dark for all the dramatics to really work…

So Gay! I love it!

Focus Nancy! Also she didn’t leave her whole body behind huh? I’m guessing Dead Lucy is less dead than one might think

Don’t steal evidence of a cold case. That you’ve already asked the police about recently. Bad plan.

How did the alarms get set off?! I would have believed on the way in or the way out, but not in the middle of the process. Unless the cold case evidence boxes are on pressure sensors for some bullshit reason

Go George! Glad you’re feeling apologetic Nan, but now is super not the time

And now Nancy’s in prison. Well this was a short show, considering this McGinnis doesn’t like her enough to let her investigate from lockup the way he did in ASH

I guess the suspicious zoom in on the dripping under the car was a red herring?

Yes! Bess got the cute girl’s number!

If Bess is what they’re calling ace rep, I’ll flip a table because what she’s describing is NOT WHAT BEING ACE IS (at least not for most people’s experience of it)

Adorable. And so fucking awkward. I love Ace like a lot. Which does not bode well for him tbh, especially as a canon foreigner

I love that they each have their own very different priorities to George’s announcement. Like, does it really matter what dead people parts she has Ace?

Listen to your cop friend Nancy. And maybe don’t immediately snoop so blatantly in a police computer…

Obviously she breaking into shit. That’s what she does. This isn’t new Carson

That’s…not how manslaughter trials work. Like ever. Unless, maybe, if she was a CI for the police and revealing her identity jeopardized other cases.

Is now the best time to talk about this? There’s usually shit like cameras in police holding areas…also do you really think your dad’s just going to be “haha yeah, I killed Lucy Sable and stashed her dress in the attic, you caught me!”

Really? I left you locked in a prison cell to get you to talk to me? That’s bad parenting

Ominous statement is ominous

I mean she JUST died, and her murder is still being investigated where both of you are suspects. So like maybe don’t jump to that assumption. Also, fuck him (but don’t fuck him) because he is a garbage person

I’m kind of in love with the fact that he fixed up the Blue Roadster and gave her a secret compartment for her locket. It’s sickeningly adorable

Watchya doing Carson?

I maintain that this is the dumbest ritual/town tradition ever

You’re stopping in the middle of sex for the bucket thing? Really? Is it that important?

Oof. Burning evidence now that you know your nosey ass daughter knows about it is bad form Carson. Way to look Suspicious

George…don’t read into it…it’s more likely a prank than an omen. Especially if you’ve been bullied/harassed before… Alternately, it’s hurting my theory that the ghostly apparitions are all in Nancy’s head

Of course it was Nick’s phone. I knew it was going to be one of theirs.

Okay, but seriously, Ace desperately needs a last name as one of the best things about the show and currently unsearchable as a unique tab on Tumblr

And now for the trailer!: Oh goodie, we’re doubling down on the ghosts and weird shit so I don’t get to keep pretending there’s a logical explanation or that it’s all in Nancy’s head…yay…