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

It was all very convoluted wasn't it.

@duc748 do they ?

So much false canned laughter

😂😂😂

I didn't see any actual evidence that he did it.
It seemed to come down to "obviously he did it because it's hidden in the book", and if he hadn't confessed no jury would convict based on book allegory.

So the author worked out the groom did it and put it in his book after staying there

Plus as his gay bf told Him about the escort business /lifestyle before they met and mentioned Leo

I found it really hard to follow and understand

I think the timeline was also difficult

Was his wife murdered 7 years ago or recently

I'm watching now and know the ending will be cut off for me 😭

Watch it on i-player, then!

Recently

But he killed Paris bloke 7yrs ago before their wedding so they he didn't spill their torrid sex affair

As Stefan had been in jail 7yrs

I'm in Ireland, no I player here. Thankfully it was all recorded in the end

Oh , I didn't realise Stefan was Roxanne's father , must've missed that bit . Actually what with the triple storylines and doubled up actors it was all a bit confusing .

And what was the point of Susan's sister being in it ? I give up !!

And what was the point of Susan's sister being in it ? I give up !!

I think if this is planned as an ongoing series, then it's part of fleshing out Susan's character and life. Maybe there could be a storyline in which the sister or nephew are central.

Yes who cares her dh left her

Unless will be a story next time

It was much easier to follow if you binged it!

What’s the next appointment tv @Blondeshavemorefun ?

The new Strike series? I've never seen any of the previous ones.

Yes have just done strike

There was a thread so wasn't going to do one but all chatting about book /plot so stopped reading

My one as usual will be tv oaced

STRIKE THE INK BLACK HEART. mon&tue bbc 1 9pm - TV PACE. NO SPOILERS www.mumsnet.com/Talk/telly_addicts/5231053-strike-the-ink-black-heart-montue-bbc-1-9pm-tv-pace-no-spoilers

Hi all I’m not in the UK so can’t access BBC player. I’ve recorded the series from Ep 2 on. I started to watch it but can’t make head or tail of it

Could anyone give me a synopsis of Ep 1?

All recaps are here

@VaddaABeetch

www.whattowatch.com/features/moonflower-murders-episode-1-recap-where-is-cecily

Thanks a mil

Just finished, and thinking about it, it's a bit shit that Alan Conway worked out who the real killer was, and instead of telling the police, used it to sell his own book! And then Cecily got killed because the truth hadn't come out. He really was a nasty man.

@dollybird I had the same thought

That's true @dollybird We know he wasn't nice in book 1

And things he did

But yes he let an innocent man rot in jail for 7yrs

I thought that Alan wasn’t 100% but guessed it because of his own dubious past he did not want revealed. If he had gone to the police he would have had to say that ‘Leo’ was a rent boy everyone loved and Leo was conning everyone. Alan probably thought the Mark Gatiss character got what he deserved. I couldn’t work out the scheming man and his wife (who inherited money) connection in the present day though. I don’t understand how they fitted in as Alan hadn’t met them - had the man worked the crime out too? I don’t understand why he tried to run the Lesley Manville character off the road?

I think the wife was the sister of Frank, who was murdered by Leo. Frank wanted to sell his half of the house they had inherited, but she and her husband couldn't afford to buy him out, so the house would have to sold, making them potential suspects. The wife was a horrible person, and the husband was a bit of a sad loser, trying to look more 'manly' (or something) by suggesting he might have killed people or scared them. Bit bizarre.

My post from the spoilers thread:

What was the Brisbane clue? I missed that one. I just finished it. I see there is a third book, so hope they make a third series, although looks like she splits with Andreas 😔 I thought he was going to propose in that cave!