The only bits that didn’t really land this week, unfortunately, involved everyone’s relationship status.
Some random poison has to be easier to get ahold of than that.
These guys have access to what are essentially demon-summoning coins, after all. Nancy Drew has leaned so aggressively into this Marvin versus Hudson family feud that it seems kind of impossible to imagine that it won’t be connected to this story somehow. “The Sign of the Uninvited Guest” didn’t just drop that tidbit about the empty chair at Ryan’s booth being meant for Owen Marvin for no reason, is all I’m saying. And since we have no idea where a guy who runs a car repair shop could get his hands on an extremely rare poison, the idea that he probably wasn’t working alone seems fairly reasonable. Josh’s body disappears in the episode’s final moments, so he’s either functionally immortal, or someone’s covering up what happened to him. Of course, this is Nancy Drew, so plenty of questions of the possible supernatural variety remain as well. (If he was dating Lucy in high school, he’s like twenty-five years older than the Drew Crew at a minimum, right?) Sidebar: There’s still something so strange about watching the presumably much older Ryan Hudson hang out with a group of early twentysomethings, but I guess we’ve already determined he’s kind of a creep, so we should just go with it. (While, of course, leaving the question of what exactly she found on her husband before her death wide open for further exploration.) It’s certainly not the most exciting or even satisfying of reveals, but the idea that one person committed both these crimes was always unrealistic, and there’s something extra tragic about Tiffany’s death not even really being about her at all. The revelation that Lucy’s half-brother Josh was responsible for Tiffany’s death does slot neatly into the story – revenge is always a great motivator, and he and his mother have certainly suffered in the years since his sister’s death, with little justice or answers to show for everything that happened.
Even Ryan Hudson was at his least annoying, for once, and even managed to be vaguely sympathetic as the last to realize that the poisoned dish that killed his wife was really meant for him. Here’s hoping every case from here on out has to be resolved by the Drew Crew acting out various theories as a group. But it certainly seems like she has a future in stage management. She really was the worst first-week employee in the world. (Plus the sequence is just fun to look at, with its shifting lighting and color palettes.) The decision to make every member of the Drew Crew something like a pseudo accessory to Tiffany’s murder is extremely dark, and watching Bess, George Ace and Nancy realize that they all made choices that indirectly led to her death was great stuff. The artful cuts between the past and present work beautifully, highlighting things we knew-and some we didn’t-from the events that occurred in the series’ pilot. And “The Sign of the Uninvited Guest” does more than that-the hour reveals not just who killed Tiffany Hudson, but ties her death firmly to Lucy’s murder back in the 1990s, and does so by staging a reenactment of the last night of Tiffany’s life that’s both deeply creepy and extremely entertaining. But even so, it’s nothing short of a relief to see Nancy Drew finally dive back into the story that hooked us at the beginning of the season. We’ve seen everything from haunted insane asylums to possessed panic rooms, relationship drama for various members of the Drew Crew, and boring business deals between the two warring rich families in Horseshoe Bay. However, it seems to still be finding its feet in that regard, and the most recent handful of episodes has been more than a little bit uneven. This makes sense since the show can only coast for so long on the stories of the two dead women at its center. Nancy Drew Episode 14įor the bulk of the episodes since its return from winter hiatus, Nancy Drew has been experimenting with telling stories outside of its central first season mystery. This Nancy Drew review contains spoilers.
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