Sep 19, 2019 The new series will introduce an older Nancy Drew. Kennedy McCann plays Nancy in The CW show which depicts the character as a college-age teen grappling with the recent death of.
.Redheaded sleuth Nancy Drew has successfully defeated human and supernatural forces alike, but she finally came up against one thing she couldn't ahead of 's season 1 finale: death itself.Wednesday's episode of The CW's mystery thriller series, 'The Clue in the Captain's Painting,' will see Nancy and the rest of the Drew crew dealing with the fallout of Owen's (Miles Gaston Villanueva) shocking and heartbreaking death as a result of not living up to the bargain they made with the Aglaeca, in what is now the season finale. 'We are calling this a season finale,' showrunner Melinda Hsu Taylor tells EW. 'There is plenty more story to come, which we will pick up with in season 2.
We’re excited for that, but this is now the season finale.' MELINDA HSU TAYLOR: The Aglaeca makes herself known a couple of times in this episode in a very dramatic fashion.How does losing Owen affect Nancy moving forward, especially since she’s still dealing with the shock of learning the truth about her parents?LANDAU: We don’t kill a lot of characters on this show.
We want the loss of our characters who we love dearly to feel very grounded and impactful when it does happen. It's going to impact her a lot. She was just beginning to get to know Owen when he gets taken away from her. It’s going to be a really serious grieving process for her. How is the Aglaeca mystery going to compare to what we saw the Drew crew dealing with before with the Dead Lucy mystery?HSU TAYLOR: This episode, in addition to having a really exciting ending that propels us into season 2, is also going to provide some closure in other ways.
It’s a fun way to experiment: we start the episode with a problem and by the end of the episode, we have solved it. Maybe others will emerge in the meantime. We want to try that out a lot going forward. We want people to be able to step into the world of Nancy Drew with a very low bar of entry and a very high satisfaction feeling at the end of the hour.
What are you most excited to explore in season 2?LANDAU: The places that the Aglaeca story goes are really surprising and bring out what we do best on the show, which is to tell earthbound mysteries that have supernatural components to them. It really resonates with what’s going on in the lives of our characters.
I’m really excited to show everyone how the rest of the Aglaeca story plays out. Also being able to show where Nancy is going to go as a character after this revelation that she’s not the Drew’s biological daughter and her parents are Ryan Hudson Riley Smith and Lucy Sable Stephanie Van Dyck, and just trying to piece together 'Who am I?' In season 2 is going to be great.