New Nancy Drew series elicits classic conservative pearl-clutching and it's quite entertaining

[wyldwolf]

Yes, I'm REALLY looking forward to this show. No, I don't usually post FOX News links but the tone of this article and the comments that follow it are classic conservative outrage pearl-clutching and it's quite entertaining. (Now I'm humming the 70s Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys theme song...)

The CW is giving the classic literary figure Nancy Drew her own TV show, only the 2019 version of the character is a far cry from her more wholesome 1930s schoolgirl roots.

The iconic young mystery-solver will return to TV in October for a new stand-alone series on the network. However, some fans of the character’s novels may be surprised at the adult-skewing and sexy angle the minds behind the new "Nancy Drew" are going for.

(the comments are a hoot!)

[LakeArenal]

1. I loved Nancy and The Dana Girls.

I think I would be more interested in a kitschy new tact on the girls and their “chums”. With all the old vernacular.

Another remake of ball busting teens has been done. Riverdale.

[Kittycow]

2. I didn't read the comments but...

on the face it it, I actually object to their new version. It says in the article that she uses sex as one way that she uses to "fill a void".

They can rationalize it all they want ( it's supposed to portray how modern youth is), but I think it's just a case of Sex Sells.

Why couldn't they just leave this iconic character as written and have a family show?

[Backseat Driver]

3. Yep, probably fairly appealing to those

MAGAts stuck in their troubled pre-teen brains. I read and enjoyed these novels as a kid, but even then she got away with a lot of unsupervised sneakiness. Mostly they were easy, quick page-turning reads with a red herring thrown in for good measure. I suppose they did help get girls to catch the reading habit. At home, Dad read Westerns and Mom, the Bible so not much to choose from. While babysitting, I graduated to whatever popular and classic titles were on the shelf at their homes and after getting my little urchins off to bed...lots more "thought provoking" in soooooo...many much interesting ways. Not likely to be watching this premier though; thanks for the review.

[Aristus]

4. I don't know about Nancy Drew, but The Hardy Boys have been doing 'dark and gritty'

for around thirty years, now; ever since Joe's girlfriend Iola Morton was killed in an explosion of the brothers iconic yellow convertible.