{"id":455083,"date":"2022-05-30T18:00:49","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T15:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-tom-swift-review-cw-nancy-drew-spinoff-has-shaky-launch\/"},"modified":"2022-05-30T18:00:49","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T15:00:49","slug":"watch-tom-swift-review-cw-nancy-drew-spinoff-has-shaky-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-tom-swift-review-cw-nancy-drew-spinoff-has-shaky-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Tom Swift Review: CW Nancy Drew Spinoff Has Shaky Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2813d16703f\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2813d16703f\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-tom-swift-review-cw-nancy-drew-spinoff-has-shaky-launch\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_Tom_Swift_Review_CW_Nancy_Drew_Spinoff_Has_Shaky_Launch%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online Tom Swift Review: CW Nancy Drew Spinoff Has Shaky Launch&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-tom-swift-review-cw-nancy-drew-spinoff-has-shaky-launch\/#%E2%80%9CTom_Swift_Review_CW_Nancy_Drew_Spinoff_Has_Shaky_Launch%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Tom Swift Review: CW Nancy Drew Spinoff Has Shaky Launch&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-tom-swift-review-cw-nancy-drew-spinoff-has-shaky-launch\/#optional_screen_reader\" >optional screen reader<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-tom-swift-review-cw-nancy-drew-spinoff-has-shaky-launch\/#Read_More_About\" >Read More About:<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_Tom_Swift_Review_CW_Nancy_Drew_Spinoff_Has_Shaky_Launch%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online Tom Swift Review: CW Nancy Drew Spinoff Has Shaky Launch&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CTom_Swift_Review_CW_Nancy_Drew_Spinoff_Has_Shaky_Launch%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Tom Swift Review: CW Nancy Drew Spinoff Has Shaky Launch&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n                        You don\u2019t have to have watched The CW\u2019s \u201cNancy Drew\u201d to watch \u201cTom Swift,\u201d the network\u2019s new <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> that is, in the most technical terms, a spinoff. Though Tom (played by Tian Richards) first <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>eared on the second season of \u201cNancy Drew,\u201d the show bearing his name has little to do with it, which is for the best. There\u2019s no real need to complicate things even further for Tom, who goes through so much in the pilot episode that there\u2019s barely room for nuance beyond the basics.<\/p>\n<p>The series\u2019 rush to establish every moving piece begins im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tely, with a voiceover that wastes no time illustrating the Swifts\u2019 place in this world. \u201cWe\u2019re not nerds; we\u2019re Black nerds,\u201d says Tom. \u201cOh, and billionaires.\u201d Also, they\u2019re \u201cnot the Obamas,\u201d and \u201cnot ballers,\u201d but inventors who are about to go to Saturn. That this voiceover never returns isn\u2019t the greatest sin a show\u2019s ever committed. But given how \u201cTom Swift\u201d spends its subsequent few minutes establishing all those attributes all over again, this blunt opening\u2019s still a signal of how little the show trusts either itself or its audience to glean its fundamentals going forward. Written by Melinda Tsu Taylor, Noga Landau, and Cameron Johnson, the first episode brimming over with <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>le underlined moments like this that only serve to show the strain of the script working overtime to outline as much as possible in 42 minutes or less.<\/p>\n<p>The only thing Tom doesn\u2019t tell us in that voiceover, really, is that he\u2019s gay \u2014 a fact that undermines his credibility as a scientist and leader for his stern father (Christopher B. Duncan), whether he\u2019ll admit it or not. But it also sets Tom Swift apart, both in his world and ours. As played with slick charm by Richards, Tom is a Black, gay, brilliant inventor whose tendency to declare himself the center of everyone\u2019s universe belies his deep need to be loved, trusted, and accepted. When the show leans into this more personal conflict, thus allowing Richards to deepen his performance and character, it works.<\/p>\n<p>Outside its flawed hero, though, \u201cTom Swift\u201d suffers from a surprising lack of imagination given all the ostensibly impressive innovation at the heart of the Swift empire. Too many of the actual inventions get lost in made-up jargon, while attempts at conveying Tom\u2019s untouchable cool \u2014 him bragging about a Complex video about his shoes, him telling his best friend Zenzi (\u201cRiverdale\u201d alum Ashleigh Murray) that she\u2019s \u201cwatched too many Hamlet TikToks\u201d(?) \u2014 end up feeling very, \u201chow do you do, fellow kids.\u201d An unfortunate combination of flat direction and acting keep most characters from feeling half as three-dimensional as Tom; the only other one that pops off the screen at all is his Siri-esque AI helper, voiced by the ever-charismatic Levar Burton. And try though the set and production design do to hide the show\u2019s apparently scant budget, it\u2019s ultimately hard to buy the Swifts\u2019 incredible fortune and technological advances with so many seams showing.<\/p>\n<p>The major caveat here is that with only one episode to go on, it\u2019s hard to say definitively whether or not \u201cTom Swift\u201d has enough gas in the tank to fuel an entire series. So while this initial pitch might be unconvincing, its deserves a chance to recover from its shaky launch.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cTom Swift\u201d premieres Tuesday, May 31 at 9 pm on The CW.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-tags \/\/ a-children-icon-bullet lrv-u-font-family-primary u-letter-spacing-012 lrv-u-line-height-large lrv-u-color-brand-primary\">\n<h2 id=\"optional-screen-reader\" class=\"lrv-a-screen-reader-only\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"optional_screen_reader\"><\/span>\n        optional screen reader  <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<nav class=\"o-nav  o-nav lrv-u-border-b-1 u-border-color-brand-secondary-40 lrv-u-border-t-1 lrv-u-text-align-center lrv-u-padding-b-025 u-padding-t-050@desktop u-padding-t-050@tablet u-padding-t-050@mobile-max lrv-u-margin-t-2 lrv-u-margin-b-2\" data-dropdown=\"\">\n<h4 id=\"\" class=\"o-nav__title lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-font-family-secondary o-nav__title a-content-ignore u-line-height-140 u-letter-spacing-0002\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Read_More_About\"><\/span>Read More About:<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/nav>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n  !function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n    if (f.fbq) return;\n    n = f.fbq = function() {\n      n.callMethod ?\n          n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);\n    };\n    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n    n.push = n;\n    n.loaded = !0;\n    n.version = '2.0';\n    n.queue = [];\n    t = b.createElement(e);\n    t.async = !0;\n    t.src = v;\n    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n  }(window, document, 'script',\n      'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '586935388485447');\n  fbq('init', '315552255725686');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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