Did Nancy Drew do too much with their Season 3 finale?
When it comes to The CW’s Nancy Drew, there is a lot to love. And while we want more people to start watching this paranormal mystery series, the move to Friday nights hasn’t seemed to do the show any favors.
Although I will readily admit that the third season of Nancy Drew has been one of my favorites for a lot of reasons, it all seemed to fall apart in the Season 3 finale, “The Ransom of the Forsaken Soul.” On the one hand, it was a wild ride and one that was impossible to look away from. On the other, this was way too much for a single episode.
There were random time jumps, we never see what happens when the Drew Crew learns the truth of Ace’s apparent fate, we have deaths that are glossed over (vision or not), and it just felt like the series was trying to wrap everything up just in case they don’t get renewed for a fourth season.
So the big question for me is did Nancy Drew’s Season 3 finale do too much in a very short period?
Nancy Drew closed out Season 3 with a rush to stop Temperance after a slow and measured build-up to the finale
From seeing the possibilities of what Nancy and Ace could be and then ripping it away in more than one way to seeing Ryan Hudson die (at least in a vision or potential possibility of the future), Nancy Drew went all out with “The Ransom of the Forsaken Soul.”
In a rush to save Horseshoe Bay and the future, everything seemed to happen in double time, and it was a lot. But that doesn’t mean there weren’t some brilliant moments. It feels like if they had been able to take this episode and give it more time this would have been an epic TV adventure.
Some of the best moments of this episode included seeing Nancy and Carson setting up her new investigative office in Temperance’s former home. Their heart-to-heart talk about soul mates and love was truly beautiful, setting up a possibility where Nancy and Park could potentially explore that chemistry that builds all season long.
Even the chance to see NACE happen on screen was an ode to their fans that we can’t help but appreciate. But the fact that the episode ended with the reality that NACE can never happen as long as Temperance’s curse remains means that instead of a possible happy ending for these two, we have heartbreak instead.
Of course, George seeing the engagement ring in the pawnshop window was another bitter moment, even as it seemed to motivate her, even more, to take the idea of law more seriously.
Nancy Drew Season 3 ended with a bang, but I can’t help but think it wasn’t the bang we wanted. Did we expect anything to be easy? Of course not. That is not what this show delivers. But at the same time, it felt like the writers had so much they wanted us to see and not enough time to make it happen.
We need a Season 4 to answer all the questions we have and we need to see what comes next for Nancy now that she not only has a curse on her head when it comes to a future with Ace but also her very own detective agency office. Plus, in the final moments of the episode, we listened to Temperance reading the fate of each member of the Drew Crew, with a lot of it sounding ominous and even threatening. And while Nancy may have ripped up those tarot cards left behind, we all know that nothing is as simple as ripping something up and walking away.
Next. Nancy Drew handled that NACE scene exactly the way they needed to. dark
But we want to know what you thought of this season finale. Did you enjoy it? Did it deliver the way you wanted? Were you disappointed at all? Let us know in the comments below.