Much like fellow CW series "Riverdale", this series is not faithful to its source material, instead having serialized, soap opera-esque storylines. In addition to including more mature elements such as sex and violence, the series relies on supernatural elements, such as ghosts and extrasensory perception. In addition, it greatly detracts from several of the source material's formula (e.g. personality changes of the main characters; Nancy, Bess, and George not being friends; Ned/"Nick" being a former criminal and an older, secret boyfriend), location (e.g. the main setting being the fictional seaside town of Horseshoe Bay, Maine, instead of the fictional Midwestern city of River Heights), and background (e.g., Carson Drew is not Nancy's biological father, Nancy's mother dying when she was an older teenager instead of a child).