Nancy Drew is on track to become the latest casualty of this trend. Nancy is still a crime fighter, but she also spends her time having casual sex with Ned Nickerson, working in a diner and dealing with the supernatural. Instead the series is filled with sex including between a teacher and a high school student , gangs, violence, death, homosexuality, a cult and other issues that previously would have never graced the pages of the original comics.
Nancy Drew appears to follow the same script. This absolutely not the coping mechanism that we want to teach young people is okay. Hollywood many times claims that they create things in order to start a conversation, e. Euphoria and 13 Reasons Why , but never seem to truly understand the impact that portraying unhealthy activity can cause.
Instead of classic Americana with morality and decency, we get the latest version of the Gossip Girls, Pretty Little Liars and other dramas where teenagers have little supervision or parental support but lots of drama and sex. There is nothing wrong with having a great and powerful mystery story, and I would be keen for a Nancy Drew series that gave its heroine a modern twist without losing the character in the process.
But the new Nancy Drew television series gets dark. As a young fan of both Nancy Drew and the Archie comic series, I find the breakdown and sexualization of these great characters incredibly depressing.
When I first heard about Riverdale , I was excited. Nancy Drew appears like it will follow a similar path, and who knows what else the series will have in store for the audience. Brittany Raymer. Brittany Raymer serves as a policy analyst at Focus on the Family, researching and writing about abortion, assisted suicide, bioethics and a variety of other issues involving the sanctity of human life and broader social issues. While there, she also contributed research for congressional testimonies and assisted with the Ebola crisis response.
