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Leah Lewis via Twitter: “3 peas or 3 burnt oranges you choose #HujiWhy”

What if you knew there were some awful secret at your origins and every twist of revealing it seems to drive you closer towards some sort of horror until you mistrust everyone around you and drive everyone away but then you reach the final turn in the road and the secret is that you were loved!!!!!! Happened to my dear friend Nancy Drew!!!!!!!!

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“I asked chat GPT” yeah well I asked the aglaeca and didn't pay the toll so now I have seven days to live

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#ahhhhh

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me, ages ago, as a joke: “i bet nancy only exists because ryan and lucy were like ‘it’s Y2K and the world’s ending, no need for condoms’”

the writers, on my exact brain wavelength, writing pages of lucy’s diary not even seen on screen: “ryan said we should pretend like it was the end of the world and we didn’t have a condom which i know was bad but it felt right”

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I know the show ended but it feels like time for a new season of Nancy Drew

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The Drews in dreams and reality.

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I have no words.

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Installing new restroom doors this week! 🦞

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Nancy Drew rewatch — 2.06 'The Riddle of the Broken Doll'

#George in the back skijlkkl

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Nancy Drew (2019-2023)

Nancy/Ace and Ryan/Lucy parallels

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Come to the Bayside Claw today and eat your salad with a spoon! Why? Because this waitress keeps giving our customers two forks with their meals. TWO. What does she think this is, a five star restaurant? Now we’re out of forks.

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We regret to report that this has happened AGAIN.

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I talk a lot about the many features of the CW’s Nancy Drew that make it so good, and this post is no different…so let’s talk about filler episodes and Nancy Drew.

I began watching the show in 2021 right after the promo for season 3 dropped and people on tumblr were losing their shit (which having watched season 3 is so real, which is an important point that will make sense later. The mystery immediately drew me in (combined with it being reminiscent of Buffy and Veronica Mars), however, there was also something about the show that felt nostalgic and yet oddly refreshing. Looking back at it now, that something is the fact that the show, especially the early seasons, had the structure of shows prior to streaming—20-ish 30-40 minute episodes. This is largely due to the fact that, due to some miracle that I will forever be grateful for show ran prior to and post COVID.

This structure lends itself to having a season long story arc as well as minor arcs and “filler” episodes. I put filler episodes in quotations because to me filler episodes don’t just “take up spaces” but actually serve to strengthen the show’s interpersonal relationships one hand while also allowing an exploration of each individual character on the other. Such happens by the very fact that the episode takes place away from (and sometimes adjacent to) the central storyline. All of this is to say that filler episodes play (in my opinion at least) an important role in making a show (its story and characters) that much more compelling in which it actually resonates with its viewers (well that and also a weekly release schedule which is a whole other post).

Most shows today follow the same 8-10 episode format (with some episodes being nearly an hour long), in which writers have to fit in an entire story-line (or at least part of it) while also trying to introduce and develop their characters individually and as a group. This structure gives a whole new meaning to the phrase “it’s the small things in life” because in the context of these shows, audiences have to rely to a large extent on these small interactions or moments between characters. This format works for some shows, but for others, many would benefit from at the very least an extra episode or two. Nancy Drew doesn’t just tell us that these people became friends family, it shows us. Even in season four when the writers were hard pressed to wrap up this story and the characters, we were still treated to Drew crew bonding with the Reaping of Oak Hollow (aka the board game from hell episode). Shows these days don’t have the time to shows the steady development of group dynamics, frankly because they don’t have the time, especially since another season isn’t guaranteed (in fact these days renewal seems like a rarity). There are some great exceptions, but such is no longer the norm.

#miss this show #need to rewatch soon