[Warning: The following comprises spoilers from Wednesday’s episode of Nancy Drew. Learn at your personal danger!]
Nancy Drew simply dropped the mom of all bombs on us (pun completely meant), and it modifications every part we thought we knew concerning the Lucy Sable investigation. To not point out, it lastly defined why Useless Lucy has been haunting Nancy (Kennedy McMann) all yr lengthy.
In an effort to clear Carson’s (Scott Wolf ) identify within the Lucy Sable case, Nancy went to Lucy’s previous home with Ryan Hudson (Riley Smith), the place she dug up Lucy’s previous diary. It even had an entry from the day she died, the place she confessed she’d stolen a knife from the Drew residence and deliberate to go to the bluffs to finish her personal life. The suicide word appeared to clear the entire state of affairs up — till, that’s, Nancy bought the outcomes from the DNA take a look at of the extra feminine hair on Nancy’s crown.
Nancy had initially thought to check the mysterious feminine hair towards her personal DNA to see if her mother was the offender in Lucy’s homicide. It turned out, the mother-daughter DNA wasn’t a match between Nancy and Katherine Drew (Sara Canning), it was a match between Nancy and Lucy. Nancy Drew is not a Drew in any respect, she’s a Sable, and she or he was born on the identical night time Nancy allegedly killed herself after handing her new child off to her steering counselor, Katherine.
TV Information spoke to govt producers Noga Landau and Melinda Hsu Taylor to interrupt down all these loopy twists and the way they’re going to play out for the remainder of Season 1.
Kennedy McMann, Nancy Drew
How lengthy have you ever identified that you just have been going to disclose Nancy was Lucy’s daughter?
Noga Landau: Actually from the day that I pitched this to the community. I all the time knew that this was going to be within the DNA of the present, and I all the time knew that this was going to be the true cause why Useless Lucy was haunting. Nancy.
And how are you going to anticipate Nancy to deal with this life-altering revelation transferring ahead?
Melinda Hsu Taylor: Episode 17 is all about that — and the ripple-effect going ahead into the sequence goes to all the time be there — however [Episode] 17 it is entrance and middle. What does she do with this data? It is a direct pickup, and we see all the fallout from the large reveal.
Can we anticipate it to have a shifting impact on her relationship along with her father, which has already been very tenuous?
Taylor: Yeah, Nancy does not deal properly with betrayal. It should be an enormous downside.
Landau: You are gonna be many shades of them coming to phrases with one another within the coming episodes.
Can we assume that Ryan is her organic father?
Landau: I think about that that is what Nancy is assuming on the finish of Episode 16, and that’s going to be explored in Episode 17.
Taylor: One factor that I loved about how we broke that story within the room is we leaned into her having to inform him, however we additionally embrace the notion that she wouldn’t wish to inform him. So how do you pressure her right into a nook the place the one factor she will say subsequent is the reality.
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Have we lastly solved the thriller of Lucy Sable or is there extra that we nonetheless do not know?
Landau: Nicely, we’ve lastly solved the supernatural thriller of Lucy Sable. I believe that Nancy has now change into actually just like the strolling, dwelling continuation of that thriller within the sense that now she has to begin unpacking her id as a result of she is what Lucy left behind.
How nervous ought to we nonetheless be concerning the Agleaca and the truth that Nancy nonetheless hasn’t paid its toll?
Taylor: Try to be six episodes price of nervous.
Ought to we be extra nervous for Owen or Nancy on this state of affairs?
Landau: Nicely, they’re each in a reasonably unhealthy spot as a result of all six of them, all of them name for the Agleaca.
Maddison Jaizani, Alex Saxon, Miles Gaston Villanueva, Kennedy McMann, Tunji Kasim, and Leah Lewis, Nancy Drew
Is there nonetheless type of a love triangle forming between Nancy, Owen (Miles Gaston Villanueva), and Nick (Tunji Kasim)?
Landau: There’s going to be a whole lot of love triangles within the present, particularly round Nancy. So the reply is, sure. We do not assume that Nancy’s emotions for Nick have utterly gone away, however now we’ve George (Leah Lewis) and Nick heating up. And Nancy is the type of individual the place she’s going to respect the sisterhood and nonetheless loves George whereas additionally most likely inside being a bit of heartbroken that George is type of transferring into the course of being with Nick.
What’s been your favourite half about type of constructing the sluggish burn between Nick and George?
Taylor: We benefit from the actuality of it, you realize, when folks discover one another in a pal group and do not act on it for a very long time after which understand that possibly it is mutual… Personally, I’ve liked working with Leah and Tunji on set as a result of they’re going to actually speak concerning the themes they usually’ll be very considerate of their method. Like, “Why would I say that as a result of I simply did this different factor?” After which we work it out, and typically the traces alter. However they’re all the time going for the emotional actuality of what two characters are feeling collectively, which is basically thrilling creatively.
And I’ve to ask as a scaredy-cat I’m, was there ever a second the place you guys have been nervous about making this sequence too scary?
Landau: No.
Taylor: No, we love scary.
Landau: We have leaned utterly into the truth of what it will really feel like to understand you reside in a world that’s haunted, that does have ghosts together with the mysteries. The mysteries typically include a facet of ghosts, and we simply leaned utterly and absolutely into the enjoyable of that.
Because you guys do have a Season 2 renewal, what are you able to inform us about the place we’re headed because the season attracts to an in depth and the way that can push us into Season 2?
Taylor: Nicely, the menace from the Agleaca is not only existential, it’s extremely actual. And we will need to cope with that within the subsequent six episodes, and the best way that they try and defeat the Agleaca goes to lead to story engines that launch us into Season 2.
Nancy Drew airs Wednesdays at 9/8c on The CW.
Riley Smith and Kennedy McMann, Nancy Drew