But “Nancy Drew” isn’t just dull, it has the misfortune of following another dull show that is much like it. Which wouldn’t matter if it were interesting. In borrowing from “Riverdale,” the new CW series “ Nancy Drew” is borrowing from this imaginary “Twin Peaks.” Like its network-mate, it is leveraging an intellectual property known for its squareness and pumping it with raunch and an overstated air of enigma. The CW’s “Riverdale,” loosely based on the Archie Comics series, cracked the code that what people wanted was a show that had Twin Peaks flavor - small-town quirk, winking awareness of its own outsizedness, affected nostalgia existing right next door to cynical contemporaneity - even if it wasn’t interested in, and couldn’t achieve, actual Lynch. It’s roundabout because it’s not actually “Twin Peaks,” David Lynch’s brilliant, flawed soap opera about trauma, Americana, and, ultimately, itself that’s doing the influencing.

In a roundabout way, “Twin Peaks” may be the most influential show in today’s teen TV.

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