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

Have only watched ep1 so far, will be watching e2 in a couple of days.

Did anyone else get hugely distracted by the whole thing with Stefan having been sacked for petty theft but also still employed and working his notice? When you sack someone for theft they don't get to work their notice. It's gross misconduct and thry should be removed from the premises instantly. Any employer who allows someone sacked for gross misconduct to work their notice is themselves guilty of gross negligence in allowing someone known to be untrustworthy to be on the premises. Obviously Stefan won't be the actual guilty party or there wouldn't be a plot for the TV series but this got my back up.

Otherwise I liked it

E4 tonight

May watch before celeb as clash but won't reply till after 10

Atticus and susan fine new suspects

I totally forgot about this. I don’t think I’ll continue watching - sorry to flounce! I think it’s something about the way it’s very twee but they did too good a job of making Alan Conway an awful person. A man who uses sex workers, and then leaves everything to his live in partner and whose son hates him. But then in this series that isn’t really covered and we’re sort of supposed to think of him as this big clever omniscient author.

I think they show Alan wasn't a nice man

Guess it's hard to show in an hour x 6 a whole book

Sooooo Craig made out he slept with her. Naughty man

But all will be ok as they both love each other and will I've where the other one wants

Hubby didn't do it.

Tho confess

But why get stabbed

So not him

I'm still saying it was the housekeepers son

Could have easily gone back to kitchen after stabbing him

Mum would lie to protect him

E4 recap

interactive.wttw.com/playlist/2024/10/06/moonflower-murders-recap-episode-4

Away from home, will catch up tomorrow.

I realised while watching this evening that the London restaurant scene with Craig was actually in Dublin. I recognised the restaurant on the Grand Canal - Angelina's.
I think Craig's house was in Dublin 6.
I noticed in the credits the Irish Film Board got a mention.

Yes, the whole thing was filmed in Ireland, as with so many series now. Am guessing it's a tax thing. Crete, however , was Crete. They seem to have the budget for that ....

E5 tonight

Will watch before celeb as I love the cyclone

Susan continues to help dear) for missing Cecily

I've just started watching this (I didn't see Magpie Murders but I might go back to it) and I unexpectedly saw my late grandmother's house. I thought it seemed familiar but didn't place it for a few seconds because it's now pink, which is a bit hideous. It's where the actress Melissa was living. I did a quick Google and it seems quite a bit of it was filmed in Dublin and Wicklow.

@BlackAmericanoNoSugar , I would recommend Magpie Murders, I wish I had watched it first, it was filmed in Suffolk in 2021, much in the village of Kersey. As you say Moonflower was filmed in Ireland and Crete, what a surprise to recognise a family home!

Yes watching book/s1 makes more sense

I should have checked Mumsnet first, I'm most of the way through episode 3 now so I don't want to stop to go back to Magpie Murders. I will watch it after the end of Moonflower though.

E5 was weird

So she's dead

Sister is dumped and poor

Lisa the sister was shagging Stefan

Got a little confused over who killed Melissa and why

Did two people try and kill her ?

And why did detective pund say he killed him

E5 recap

reelmockery.com/moonflower-murders-series-1-episode-5-recap/

I think it's hard to disagree with their conclusion, It's kinda plodding along now.

I think Pund meant his investigation caused the death

Oh maybe @Member984815

Guess we find out Saturday

E6 tonight and all will be revealed

Seems to be running late

Why do we still have the unfunny bloke on tv with false laughter

I'm confused with her long explanation

I get the ending and twist that Madeline was an anagram of aiden so the book revealed the murderer

But the rest of me slightly confused

So Frank saw leo aka groom and that why he got killed so couldn't reveal to wife to be that he was 1) a rent boy 2) gay and wasn't the father of Roxanne and Stefan was

Will go and read recap and see if makes more sense

Recap e6

reelmockery.com/moonflower-murders-season-1-episode-6-finale-recap/#google_vignette

Running late was a PITA as I was watching the recording, and it ran out just before the end, so had to jump to the i-player app and fast-forward through that. But very nicely done.

Millions love the unfunny bloke, you monster! 😄

Apparently.