This week on Everly Heights Tales, we follow up with Danny Chance, kid detective with the freaky good luck, years after his heyday as Everly Heights’ #1 kid detective.
“The Last Chance Detective Agency “is one of the first Everly Heights stories I wrote. In fact, it is the story that made me decide to make Everly Heights a thing. I had written “Very Special,” what became our second episode “Welcome, Freshmen.” As I planned out and rough drafted Danny Chance’s story, I saw some connective tissue dramatically between Danny Chance and the Special family. I guess this is just how my mind works… I thought if they’re both connected thematically that maybe they should be connected via continuity too. You know, like a comic book universe or Kevin Smith’s View Askewniverse.
Because Danny Chance was one of the first Everly Heights stories I wrote, the potential of nostalgia leading to arrested development became the lead thematic element in Everly Heights, which I wrote a blog post about here.
As much as last week’s episode was a love letter to teen detective stories that I grew up reading, the 2-part Last Chance Detective Agency is a love letter to subversive comedic crime dramas like Barry or Breaking Bad.
The Last Chance Detective Agency: The Case of the Cafeteria Cats
Former kid detective Danny Chance is still taking clients from his dad’s driveway. When former partner Melody Trainor blows back into Everly Heights freshly fired from the FBI, their reunion dredges up bad sandwiches, old grudges, and Dick Armstrong, Danny’s arch-enemy.
NEXT TIME: Melody Trainor makes a deal with the devil to save her former partner-in-fighting-crime. It goes about as well as you’d expect.
Join us next week for the thrilling finale! And don’t forget to make your own luck.
Bill Meeks