One factor is for positive. Nancy Drew has turn into among the finest sequence on community tv.
There’s not a single episode that leaves viewers unhappy. Every installment can elicit a variety of feelings that different exhibits cannot even dream of evoking all through their whole run.
From the bounce scares, to the mysteries, to the romances, to the friendships, Nancy Drew has turn into must-watch tv. And Nancy Drew Season 2 Episode 4 is additional proof of it.
As we predicted in our Nancy Drew Season 2 Episode 3 review, the dybbuk field did not remedy the Aglaeca downside. Nonetheless, the hunt to place it collectively did carry the Drew Crew one step nearer to defeating the Aglaeca, as soon as and for all.
However is defeating the Aglaeca nonetheless the objective?
We fill it with significant objects from the ghost’s life and a totem from their loss of life. That is the bait. As soon as they get drawn inside they’re trapped.
Nick
It was not possible to overlook the look in Nancy’s eyes when the Aglaeca’s hand ever so briefly became that of a human woman.
As we found together with Nancy all through the episode, the Aglaeca wasn’t at all times an evil spirit that haunted Horseshoe Bay. She was a human woman who lived a reasonably horrible life.
Not solely did Nancy begin to sympathize along with her, however she even discovered herself defending her honor to a Horseshoe Bay tour information.
The founding fathers shaved Odette’s head and humiliated her and sure her with rope. After which they threw her right into a darkish and frigid sea the place she was choked by seaweed and her lungs crammed up with seawater till she could not breathe anymore. After which they stole every thing that she had ever labored laborious for. So that’s your Horseshoe Bay city historical past.
Nancy
The tour information was fast to inform his group that no documentation confirmed Nancy’s story, however that modified when Nancy stumbled upon a letter from Agnes Marvin.
Now that Nancy has proof of what occurred to Odette, she will be able to set historical past proper. Might this be the important thing to releasing the Drew Crew from the Aglaeca’s wrath?
What’s significantly compelling about this risk is that it is the exact opposite of what viewers anticipated.
The query thus far hasn’t been the right way to assist the Aglaeca. It has been the right way to defeat the Aglaeca.
For episodes on finish, the Drew Crew has seen the Aglaeca because the enemy. And, contemplating that she’s out to homicide them, she is. However what if they begin her as somebody who must be saved?
I get that you just’re pissed! You wish to inform your story. You had been robbed of every thing. We’ll show you how to when you allow us to!
Nancy
Vengeful spirits are normally vengeful for a cause, and Odette isn’t any exception.
Does it give her an excuse to kill everybody? Not precisely. However, to be honest, the Aglaeca does not go on random homicide sprees. The Drew Crew did summon her, make a deal, and never maintain up their finish of the cut price.
They realized they will harm the Aglaeca, that means they will in all probability kill her, however will they comply with via with it?
Nancy has a tough time opening as much as folks, however there is no denying that she has an enormous coronary heart. If there is a technique to save the Aglaeca, quite than kill her, it looks as if a chance that Nancy goes to take.
The Drew Crew had solely two days left to stay in the beginning of the episode, and feelings had been excessive. There have been sentimental moments throughout, and a few harm greater than others.
Though George’s discuss along with her little sister was an in depth second, Nick’s confession to George was essentially the most impactful one.
Nick: I like you.
George: You what?
Nick: I like you. You maintain every thing and everybody and I do know you do not want anybody to maintain you. However it is advisable to know you are liked. You requested me earlier than what modified from yesterday to at the moment. What do I stand to lose? And it is not the 4 million and alter in my checking account and the USB drive filled with secrets and techniques that would carry down the Hudson Empire. It is…it is us. I wish to beat the Aglaeca so we will have a shot.
George: Rattling. I am that good in mattress?
Nick: I imply it.
George: I am not able to say it again.
Nick: Good. Good, good. As a result of I am not seeking to hear it again. However you saying that…it type of makes me love you just a little extra.
It was a romantic second between the 2 of them, however that wasn’t what made it such a robust scene.
Like Nancy, George has at all times had issue connecting with folks due to the partitions she places up. However in contrast to Nancy, she has allowed Nick to interrupt them down. Nick sees George for who she actually is, and he wasn’t afraid to say it to her face. And it was precisely what George wanted to listen to.
George is at all times so busy caring for everybody else that she usually neglects herself. In Nancy Drew Season 1, typically it felt as if she did not see herself as an individual, as a lot as she noticed herself as a caregiver.
Her function was to maintain her little sisters and maintain her mother in line. Due to this, George wasn’t capable of finding her identification exterior of this function. It is greater than doubtless what allowed Ryan Hudson to benefit from her.
However George is her personal particular person exterior of her household. She has a lifetime of her personal to stay, and she or he is not liked just because she’s a supplier. Nick making that clear to her goes to point out how excellent they’re for one another.
Stray Ideas:
- Did anybody else discover how rapidly they cleaned up The Claw? That place went from against the law scene to good as new in simply a few hours. In reality, they had been open for enterprise that day. Perhaps they need to be known as the cleanup crew as a result of they’ve an actual expertise.
- It looks like Carson and Ryan must be extra conscious of the ghosts haunting Horseshoe Bay. After all of the issues they’ve witnessed and every thing Nancy has enlisted their assist with, how do they not understand that one thing supernatural is afoot?
- Bess standing up Lisbeth as a result of she’s afraid of dying and breaking her coronary heart was heartbreaking in itself. However, so long as Bess could make it via the subsequent twenty-four hours, there is no doubt that Bess and Lisbeth will overcome this hurdle.
- Ace, Carson, and Ryan made “The Destiny of the Buried Treasure” the funniest episodes up to now. Carson and Ryan had been bickering like a married couple over their daughter, and Ace was caught being the uncomfortable center man on their street journey. Can now we have extra scenes with this trio, please?
- The second wherein Ace comforts Bess was much-needed. The 2 have such a powerful friendship, and the present hasn’t had time to the touch on that currently. It served as a superb reminder that Ace and Bess will at all times be “platanchors.”
Over to you, TV Fanatics! What did you consider “The Destiny of the Buried Treasure?”
Do you assume the Drew Crew will kill the Aglaeca? Or will they find yourself clearing her title?
Drop a remark down beneath and tell us your ideas and predictions!
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