1. A ghost story intro? Nice.

The show starts off with the legend of Dead Lucy, a homecoming queen killed in 2000 who is said to still haunt the town. I'm always a fan of a good ghost story.

2. Wait, Dead Lucy haunts what town?

Ummm...Nancy Drew lives in River Heights. Where is this Horseshoe Bay you speak of?

3. A bookshelf is shaking, what's...? Oh.

Well. The CW is really "shaking things up" in seemingly the only way they know how: sex. This is definitely not the Nancy I remember.

4. Well at least it's Ned. Wait. Nick?

So we've turned Ned into a Nick, and he's not actually her boyfriend, but just a hookup? Many questions, but the main one is what's wrong with the name Ned?

5. A Nancy Drew who doesn't ask questions? Am I sure I'm watching the right show?

Nancy doesn't want to know anything about her hookup, Ned (sorry, Nick), claiming that "girls love mystery." I mean, I know she has this insistence to never again go sleuthing after her mom died (which I still don't understand), but asking tons of questions is central to the character.

6. Who's Ace?

I'll admit, I haven't read the books in a while, but I'm pretty sure a stoner named Ace is not a recurring character.

7. Bess and George aren't cousins.

I'm starting to lose faith here, guys.

8. Also, Nancy has zero friends?

Part Nancy's appeal was that she wasn't a stoic "I work alone" type of girl. She always had the help of Bess, George, Ned, and sometimes the Hardy Boys.

9. A rich guy has just entered the diner, something's about to happen.

OK, it looks like the mystery is about to begin. Also, why is The Claw totally reminiscent of Pop's Diner in Riverdale? It's the same network, but they can change things up a little.

10. The power's gone out! The flashlight?!

Spooky, also we get to see Nancy with her iconic flashlight for the first time.

Wait...it's just her phone. Never mind.

11. And we've got ourselves a dead body.

Mrs. Tiffany Hudson, the wife of rich Ryan Hudson, is found dead by her car. Also, Ned (Nick) appears out of nowhere, but now the mystery has actually begun!

12. Wait, Ned has a record?

OK, so we change his name, he's not her boyfriend, and he's an ex-con?! How much more complicated can this show get?

13. How original, Nancy doesn't like her dad.

Oh no, this is going to be another case of "one parent died so now I have to hate to other," isn't it?

14. Nancy is angry and mean, what happened?

This character is an 18/19-year-old girl with the same name as one of my favorite literary characters, but she is not the same.

15. Oh, they're visiting a medium now. She looks familiar?

And now somehow we're also back to the Dead Lucy plot?

16. Wait, the medium is Pamela Sue Martin!

Otherwise known as Nancy Drew from the 1977 Nancy Drew Mysteries TV show! OK, CW, you have managed to appease me with this cameo.

17. Wait, is this an actual ghost story?

I'm starting to think Dead Lucy isn't so very dead.

18. She's breaking into her dad's files now.

At least she's doing some sleuthing now? The second time we've seen Nancy actually do what she's known for.

19. Oof, it looks like Ned/Nick did it.

Nancy learns from her dad's files that the witness who put Nick in jail was none other than the very dead Tiffany Hudson.

20. OK, so Dead Lucy is definitely not that dead.

That ghost behind Nancy didn't seem make-believe at all, so this show is totally incorporating actual ghosts in. Let's see how this goes.