Nancy Drew Season 3 concludes tonight (January 28) at 9PM ET/PT with a season finale titled “The Ransom of the Forsaken Soul,” and to promote it, KSiteTV has been able to talk to the Executive Producers of this series – Melinda Hsu Taylor and Noga Landau – about what we can expect! Minor spoilers might be discussed, but this barely scratches the surface of how many surprises and shocks are in store for the finale which airs on The CW.
Enjoy the interview, and come back this weekend for a Part 2 where we discuss some of those surprises!
KSITETV’s CRAIG BYRNE: Where do we find our characters as the season finale begins?
NOGA LANDAU: Temperance is going full force towards your goal of opening the veil, destroying Horseshoe Bay, and getting all the stuff she’s always wanted from the other side of the veil, which is going to be really bad for Horseshoe Bay, for all the surrounding towns, possibly for the rest of the world.. and Nancy and the Drew Crew are trying to stay one step ahead of Temperance by negotiating a deal.
Their big thing now is that Ace has the last piece of Charity’s soul in him, and that means that multiple people want him dead. The Copperhead is going to come and kill him. Temperance wants him to be dead so she can get the piece out too. Without spoiling the whole episode, we’ll say that twist happen. Things do not go according to plan, and the story goes in a very surprising direction.
A lot of people have said that Nancy Drew has become the best supernatural show on The CW. Is that something that you all were striving for?
MELINDA HSU TAYLOR: Oh, for sure. Yes! Very much so. That’s a lovely thing to hear.
Should we worry about the fates of any of our favorite characters in the season finale?
MELINDA: I think there are different ways to worried about people, and you should always worry about people.
What characters did you have the most fun exploring in Season 3?
NOGA: Ace was really fun to explore in season three, because he went on a very understated but really significant character journey where he was unable to put words to the feelings that he’s been harboring for Nancy for a long time.
By the end, he’s able to say those feelings out loud, knowing that he could have his heart literally and figuratively broken, but he does it anyway, which is really brave. It’s a step forward for him. And then, the events of the finale are going to spin him off in a whole other direction that he didn’t see coming.
Did you have a particular favorite moment or episode in Season 3?
MELINDA: There were so many things that I loved in Season 3. I was really fond of the Icarus Hall ghost sequence, when Park and Nancy got closer together. From my own point of view, that was something that I’ve been wanting to say on screen for a long time, speaking out against gun violence, and that’s why there are no guns on Nancy Drew.
That’s not the main thrust of the season or the emotional arc, but that one pops to mind as something that was personally very important to me to have said out loud.
NOGA: To take a complete left turn from that, I think a big moment for me was when the two dads become teenagers. I bring it up, because what we love so much about the show is that we can have these moments dealing with something so real and emotional is gun violence, and in the next episode Carson and Ryan are running around town in letterman jackets and a Motocross shirt eating burgers and starting a band, and Nancy suddenly has to become the parent. I love that one. That was one of my favorite moments.
How hopeful are you for Nancy Drew Season 4, and what can fans do to maybe help that happen?
NOGA: The fans have been so great about retweeting the hashtag #RenewNancyDrew and they have really rallied around the show by watching it live… we love it when people watch live! We also really love it when they watch on HBO Max and CWTV.com. All forms of support are gratefully welcomed.
Might we see any of the Nancy Drew characters in the first season of Tom Swift?
MELINDA: That is such a good question! With scheduling and the timelines of the shows, they actually don’t line up. Tom Swift comes to town in [episode] 215 of Nancy Drew, and it’s still 2019. We don’t talk about that much, but the timeline at Nancy Drew is pretty continuous from its beginning. When we find Tom, he has already built the spaceship, and some time passes even within the pilot. And so to work out the calendar dates within the Drewniverse, it’d be a little bit complicated. I wouldn’t rule it out entirely, but we’d have to do a little bit of clever storytelling.
NOGA: With that being said, there are some interesting, very subtle ways that the two shows still hold hands every once in a while. Like in Nancy Drew, there’s a moment later in the season where someone texts Tom Swift with a question with a question for a billionaire. So they they do still very much exists in the same world, in the same universe, but as Mel said, it’s different years.
Do you anything you’d like to say to the fans prior to tonight’s finale?
MELINDA: Make sure you have enough snacks and hydration in your blood system to sustain you for what is coming.
NOGA: Make sure you have a buddy who you can call afterward, to debrief, because you’re gonna you’re gonna want to talk to someone about what happens in this episode… in a fun way.
SEASON FINALE – In the season finale, the fate of Horseshoe Bay rests in the hands of the Drew Crew (Kennedy McMann, Leah Lewis, Maddison Jaizani, Tunji Kasim, Alex Saxon), who must find a way to defeat their most powerful nemesis yet. Lives and hearts are in supernatural jeopardy – and a star-crossed choice will change everything, forever. Also starring Scott Wolf and Riley Smith. Larry Teng directed the episode written by Noga Landau & Alex Taub (#313). Original airdate 1/28/2022. Every episode of NANCY DREW will be available to stream on The CW App and CWTV.com the day after broadcast for free and without a subscription, log-in or authentication required.
