The thing is, the addition of the Bobbsey twins to the Nancy Drew canvas is a good thing, and maybe their unwavering loyalty to one another is something that Season 2 will delve into further. Who is he, if not a lost boy lashing out at having lost his mother? What drives him if not being angry about her loss? In some ways, Gil discovering that Rosemary isn’t dead, but simply hasn’t come back in fourteen years, is the ultimate worst-case scenario for him, an event that will force him (hopefully) to reevaluate every facet of what he understood to be true about his life and the person those circumstances have allowed (required?) him to be. How Nancy Drew Succeeds as an Adaptation Where The Hardy Boys Fails By Lacy Baugher Instead of ghosts or monsters “The Bargain of the Blood Shroud” is really a story about a woman who loved her kids but needed help, and abandoned them rather than sacrifice them to the monstrous creature she believed was targeting her life. Rosemary is still alive – and almost sure to show up again at some point in the future.
(Unless you count the shroud that can bring back the dead, but truly that’s only tangentially involved here.) And as it turns out, this supposed murder isn’t even a murder at all. This week’s case in which Nancy must solve the fourteen-year-old murder of Rosemary Bobbsey in something like a twelve-hour window, involves art and madness and is notable because once again its answer doesn’t involve anything otherworldly or supernatural. But in both of his appearances thus far, we’ve seen him engage in some mild extortion and indirectly threaten her friend’s life. Of course, she’s drawn to someone who shares similar dead-mother-based emotional issues, and she likely sees something of a kindred spirit in Gil’s mastery of the various petty crime skills that tend to come in handy while sleuthing. I mean, we sort of knew that our girl detective had less than stellar taste in men, but…whew. Particularly when it’s only thanks to Nancy and her friends that Gil or his sister are even alive themselves right now.Īnd it’s most assuredly not the best way to kick off a potential new romance for Nancy, who seems drawn to Gil despite all his repeatedly awful decisions here. Sure, him wanting closure makes sense, particularly in Horseshoe Bay, a town where almost everyone appears to be carrying excessive emotional baggage involving a dead, ghostly, or historically murderous relative.īut George is still alive now, and the idea that her life is somehow worth this information is just…well it’s pretty darn cold. Truly, it’s a bit upsetting that Gil Bobbsey – another fictional staple of my childhood – is actually such a monster in this episode that he would willingly sacrifice George’s life for the slimmest chance of finding out whether a dying old man killed his mother. Nancy Drew brings back the Bobbsey Twins to tell one of its darkest stories to date in “The Bargain of the Blood Shroud,” an hour that sees Gil Bobbsey steal the magical artifact that resurrected George and threaten to use it again even though he is well aware that to do so will certainly mean her death.
This Nancy Drew review contains spoilers.
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