The CW’s new Nancy Drew series looks like the spiritual heir to Riverdale

The full trailer is here for the CW’s upcoming remake of Nancy Drew, and it looks like the long-lost Riverdale cousin we never knew we needed.

It’s okay if you maybe weren’t initially feeling it when the CW announced they were making a television version of Nancy Drew. We’re all allowed to be wrong sometimes. And if the series’ full trailer is anything to go by, there are about to be a lot of people realizing that they’re wrong about this show.

This is a thoroughly modern take on Nancy Drew, and our favorite headband-wearing heroine feels like someone altogether new. The story has a distinctly dark and forbidding feel as Nancy tells us via voice over about her love for chasing shadows and solving mysteries.

And it would seem that her hometown of Horseshoe Bay has more than its fair share of both.

At first glance, this incarnation of Nancy Drew looks as though it owes as much to Riverdale and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina as it does the original novels that created the character.

Dark, atmospheric and foreboding, the trailer promises missing children, break-ins, posh funerals, and lots more.

Basically, if you ever wished that Riverdale had stuck to its Season 1 premise of murder mysteries and teenage shenanigans this just might be the show for you. That series’ freshman season focused primarily on the murder of Jason Blossom, and the search for the identity of his killer. Since Season 1, Riverdale has wandered pretty fair afield from that initial premise, including everything from biker gangs and cults to serial killers and underground boxing rings.

Nancy Drew feels like a ray of hope for those of us who wanted a gritty mystery series that still included many of the standard elements of teen dramas. Because not only is Nancy out here solving cases in a small town full of secrets, she’s figuring who she is and who she wants to become at the same time.

And the show certainly seems as though it has its own

Nancy Drew stars Kennedy McMann as the titular sleuth, Scott Wolf as her father Carson Drew, Riley Smith as Ryan Hudson, Tunji Kasim as Ned “Nick” Nickerson, Alex Saxon as Ace, Leah Lewis as George, and Maddison Jaizani as Bess.

Nancy Drew premieres Wednesday, October 9 on The CW.