Nancy Drew- Season 4 (Final)

6.5/10

In this the final season of Nancy Drew, Nancy (played by Kennedy McMann) and company must deal with a new supernatural problem when a bunch of corpses are stolen from a graveyard.

I'll be honest: perhaps this is the best time for the show to end as it is definitely experiencing series fatigue. I kinda missed when the show was a combination of regular mysteries and the supernatural and now the writers feel the need to shove the supernatural into every orifice of this show's figurative body.  That having been said, I liked most of the individual episodes and their threats; solid entertainment.

However, it's the overarching stories where the show feels like it was losing steam. George (Elemental's Leah Lewis) gets a weird subplot about clerking for lawyers without going to law school yet, and Bess (Madison Jaizani) gets the worst of it in a storyline that runs completely on goofy character logic (vaguely similar to the poorly written awful rich people in the first two seasons). Nancy and Ace (Alex Saxon) have a tragic love storyline going on and it feels really obvious and is dragged out all season. Ryan Hudson (Riley Smith) on the other hand, yeah, I liked where the guy was taken this year. He's a great character but his personal life didn't have much trajectory last year and now he's given something to occupy his time. 

I will give the show this: it did a wonderful job of connecting multiple characters and plotlines naturally without feeling sloppy at all. Also given that the showrunners weren't notified that the show was canceled until only a handful of final episodes were left to shoot, the finale didn't feel messy or rushed.

They completely ditched the youth center this season, and I kinda missed it. Also, the set up they did last season where Nancy's career is going was basically thrown out the door and forgotten. The show now has it's FOURTH chief of police/primary law person in the form of Sherrif Lovett (The Astronaut Wives Club's Erin Cummings), a pointless role with poor dialogue. Also, couldn't stand the most prominent human antagonist who doesn't just have poor dialogue but truly awful ones. 

Acting's still great. Lewis, Jaizani, and Smith all still do a great job with their delivery. The writers have learned that McMann has more range and gave her more fun stuff to do.

Kinda recommended. Again, the individual stories are fun and when the show is entertaining, it's definitely entertaining. Just don't expect much from the main storylines this time around.