Teenagers, old enough to understand the adult world while young enough to see through it, are motivated to take justice into their own hands, knowing that if they themselves do not, no one will. Key to understanding the plot of any Nancy Drew story (as well as many, many other texts in twentieth-century young-adult entertainment, from Harry Potter to Scooby Doo ) is accepting that grown-ups cannot fix problems, only create them. It also promises to be just as moody and chiaroscuroed as another CW network show, my beloved, stupid Riverdale, whose ponytailed and dogged teen heroine Betty Cooper both embodies and identifies with the character Nancy Drew, solving mysteries in her small, suburban hometown, because its adults don’t know how. Reviving the famed adolescent sleuth as a battleborn teen, the show promises two intertwined mysteries: there is a murder and there is a ghost. This week, the CW premieres its newest television show: an hour-long weekly mystery serial called Nancy Drew.
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