MOONFLOWER MURDERS s2 (was magpie murders S1 ) starts 16th Nov - SAT 9.15pm - TV PACE - NO SPOILERS

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Yah. S2 starts Saturday 16th November for a double bill

All named after books so the title changes

Was magpie murders. S1

Now moonflower murders S2

Below is thread for s1 if want to watch on iPlayer to refresh or if haven't seen s1

MAGPIE MURDERS. SAT 9.15 BBC 1 - tv pace. NO SPOILERS
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/telly_addicts/4772295-magpie-murders-sat-915-bbc-1-tv-pace-no-spoilers

Don't read below unless seen s1 magpie murders

What happened in the Moonflower Murders prequel Magpie Murders?

Magpie Murders followed Susan Ryeland, a book editor who was given a manuscript of author Alan Conway’s unfinished novel. In the book Conway’s detective Atticus Pünd, who is terminally ill, investigates two deaths in the small town of Saxby-on-Avon. But the manuscript ends just as Atticus is about to reveal the murderer’s identity, leaving Susan determined to find the missing last chapter.

She then hears that Conway supposedly committed suicide but believes this isn’t true and finds herself investigating his murder.

So back to s2

The second season of hit detective show Magpie Murders, called Moonflower Murders (www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/magpie-murders-season-2-release/), has already aired in the US, leaving UK viewers waiting until they can catch up with Susan Ryeland and the fictional Atticus Pünd.

The season will officially kicks off with a double-bill, with the first two episodes airing back to back on BBC One at 9:15pm and 10:20pm on Saturday 16th November.

The new season, which is based on the second novel in Anthony Horowitz’s Susan Ryeland series, will pick up where Magpie Murders left off, with Susan having left publishing and living in Crete with her long-time boyfriend, Andrea

The synopsis for the season says: "Her idyll is disturbed by the shadow of a murder committed at a British country hotel eight years ago. Alan Conway visited the hotel and wrote a novel based on what happened there.

Cecily Treherne, the young woman who helps run the hotel, read the book and believed the wrong man had been arrested. Now she has disappeared.

"Can Susan uncover the secret hidden in the book and find Cecily before it is too late?"

Lesley Manville and Tim McMullan will, of course, both be returning, along with Alexandros Logothetis, Daniel Mays, Claire Rushbrook, Conleth Hill, Matthew Beard and Sanjeev Kohli

Loved this and have binged watched all episodes. I will come back to the thread when when everyone else has caught up as I have a question.

I have face blindness and didn't evening realise they were the same actors in both eras until DH pointed it out 😂

@WallaceinAnderland I’m thread-watching & waiting until all the episodes have aired too! Because I have 2 niggling questions & I can’t work out if I’m being really dense or not but I don’t understand! 😂 I went back & rewatched the denouement to see if I’d missed something but I don’t think I did 🤷🏻‍♀️

Ludwig is kindergarten compared to this. The implausibilities in Ludwig!! Ludwig is much easier to follow though.

We’re still remembering things and going ‘ahh that’s why….’ to the Moonflower series. I will be interested talking about this after everyone’s watched it too. It’s very clever writing.

@TwoDrifters2 @WallaceinAnderland happy for you to PM your questions. I have watched all of the episodes and read the book!

I'm episodes in and things are clicking into place a bit although I'm finding the double storyline mega tricky.

Yes I binged series 1 to be ready for tv pace watch of this, and I’m now rewatching Magpie Murders to scratch the itch to keep watching - I missed so much whilst binge watching and only focusing on the end result.

I watched episode 2 of Moonflower Murders yesterday - I do think the whole “Their daughter missing is all Alan Conway’s fault” is a bit much to put on a cheeky author! And even more so to say it’s then all Susan’s fault! Unless more is revealed to show how Alan Conway is more responsible for Cecily’s disappearance.

We were saying it’s like a triple storyline as you have the present, what happened 8 years ago, then the book plot. We resorted to looking at the credits to work out who was who!

Im several episodes in and can't claim to be particularly gripped by it. I like Lesley manville and mark gatiss but I'm not loving it.

Oh @WallaceinAnderland at knowing knowing they are always the same actor playing both parts 😂

@deeahgwitch worth watching s1 on iPlayer

This is why it's never good to binge @BakeOffRewatch

You miss stuff 😛

@Iamiams read the recaps. They explain who is who better then I can

Watched another episode. I am nowhere close 😆

@mewkins you have watched 3 🙀🙀

I will bow out of this thread until everyone has finished watching.

Come back and discuss 3 after next sat

Wow - it's a lot. I'm quite intrigued but the triple story thread is a lot.

I started watching and was massively distracted by the older timeline. Supposed to be 1952 but looked like the 30s? That jarred.

I prefer the books. Horowitz is a clever writer and I think the tone of the TV one is a bit amdram. That said, Horowitz adapted it himself, so...

Horowitz is a clever writer and I think the tone of the TV one is a bit amdram. That said, Horowitz adapted it himself, so...

I think the tone of the 'book story' is decidedly AmDram, but the 'real' story not so much...I think that may be deliberate. At one point (not sure which episode), DH commented on something not being very realistic and I had to point out it was in the 'fictional' part.

Almost certainly. Don't remember the books being like that so much though!

Wonder if the book ending will be same as the tv show

This is the non spoilers, tv pace thread. Most of us are on it as we don’t want to hear about or discuss future episodes.

Sorry... what I said won't make any sense at all till the end though, please ignore it.