Pamela Sue Martin makes a guest appearance in the pilot. She was the Nancy Drew I remember as a kid back in the late 1970s. Way before she had a stint in Dynasty.
Flame headed Kennedy McMann takes over as Nancy Drew. She was a sleuth in her early years but after her mother's illness and later death she has given all that up.
She is now an 18-year-old in Horseshoe Bay working as a waitress at the diner, the Bayside Claw. Angry at her father who is a lawyer and has not time for his daughter anymore.
Nancy Drew is drawn back in when socialite Tiffany Hudson is killed outside the diner while her husband was inside with some friends. The police chief suspects Nancy and her workmates as well as her no strings attached boyfriend.
So Nancy takes it upon herself to clear her name as well as her friends.
Only her friends all have secrets. There is also a supernatural element connected with the death of the Sea Queen some 20 years earlier.
You can tell from the first episode that this will be a drawn out mystery. It's a puzzle why a lot of these resurrected old crime shows cannot do the whodunnit of the week anymore.
It also does not help there is a lot of dreary narration going on and this Nancy Drew also comes across as brattish.