Blindspot's Jane (Or 'Jane'?) Solves Mysteries On TV...But So Might Nancy Drew Again, Soon?

Three episodes into Blindspot, and my esteemed colleague Sarah D. Bunting is pleased to see how fast it's churning through story and failing to do the typical TV thing of holding back information for the sake of the plot. "Eventually Weller tells Jane they've run her DNA to try to match her to Taylor Shaw, and there is an argument about why not doing that is the play, but...not doing that is not the play/realistic." Preach, mama.

Over on Switched At Birth, Bay also has a mystery to solve: The Case Of The Bootlegged Hammer Girl. Sarah Beckham reports on how Bay solves a problem involving a misappropriation of one of her pieces of art in what is surely the only TV episode to feature both a discussion of Fair Use and a ride on a mechanical bull to raise money for ASL education. Other than that time both those things happened on Knight Rider. (Just kidding.)

Since TV audiences obviously can't get enough of female characters solving crimes, producers are revisiting the classics: CBS is reportedly developing a drama series to feature Nancy Drew. Emma Roberts probably can't reprise the role after playing it in 2007's eponymous feature film, since between American Horror Story and Scream Queens she's doing everything she can to bloody up her formerly clean image, but maybe...Olivia Cooke from Bates Motel?

And while NBC's planned Murder, She Wrote reboot with Octavia Spencer didn't end up coming to fruition, given that we have this hour-long supercut of Jessica Fletcher epiphanies, maybe we didn't need it.