Everything to Know About the ‘Nancy Drew’ Spinoff Series ‘Tom Swift’

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A new kind of hero! Tian Richards‘ appearance on Nancy Drew paved the way for a new take on the Tom Swift story to be told.During season 2, Tom Swift was introduced into the Nancy Drew franchise when he arrived to help the lead character (Kennedy McMann) deal with a mystery.

At the time, the episode served as a backdoor pilot that hinted at a future Tom Swift series on The CW.At the time, Richards opened up about making the well-known literary character more suited for current times.“The original Tom Swift was great for his time and what he represented,” the actor told TVLine in May 2021. “At the time, that was the face of young boys, All-American kids full of possibilities.

But in 2021, that can look so different. It can look like someone like me — a Black guy who is chocolate, who is queer, who is all those things that we’re told aren’t the normal or the status quo.”The Dumplin’ star noted that reinventing Tom Swift allowed for more viewers to see themselves represented on screen. “If I had an opportunity to see someone like this exist when I was younger, just think of how much sooner I would have felt [more confident] in my skin and welcomed by the world,” he added. “I had representation here and there, but it was usually a secondary character, or you felt like they were being stereotyped.”Richards continued: “Tom gets to exist in all of his beauty and pride.

He gets to grow up in a family with a legacy, to have endless possibilities in education and tech and inventing. He gets to realize himself for himself, and that’s beautiful for anyone to see.”The backdoor pilot made an effort to introduce the different ways that Nancy Drew and Tom Swift approach solving a mystery — which was a set-up for the spinoff series.“Most