Murder, They Hope

Vegas and Gibson show they are still a magical pairing as they take the characters from the very good TV Movies and ease them into an even better 3-part series.

Janine Duvitski stole the show in episode one but she has fierce competition due to a brilliant and wonderfully sarcastic performance by the ridiculously underrated Shobna Gulati.

Sarah Hadland as the deranged Monica is also another hilarious turn.

There are plenty of laugh out loud moments and a lot of "yes, we know this visual gag could be seen coming from miles away but it's still funny" knowing winks to the audience which is part of the fun.

Murder, They Hope doesn't claim to be re-inventing the wheel. It's lighthearted, funny, well written and a nice, much needed change to the doom and gloom of the past year in real life.

The 4 main characters get better with each episode and I hope there will be a second series of this hidden gem.

The production values are very impressive and the guest stars well cast.

I just discovered that Series 2 (Season 2) is on Prime in USA. But NOT on Britbox which has all the rest.

Im so disappointed in this 2nd Season. It was all more simplified & just plain dumb/stupid. Many scenes were just gross & not funny at all. Lacking everything good about the Movies or even Series 1. SKIP S2.

The earlier first 2 movies "Murder on the Blackpool Express" & "Death on the Tyne" were a spoof on the Mystery genre with a specific style of British humor but with subtle & wry, sly references & a soundtrack with song titles/lyrics that were incorporated perfectly. (In #1, the coachbus speeds down the highway as Meatloafs "Bat out of Hell" plays or in #2 theres that moment when James Fleet comes down the stairs as the Ships Captain). I laughed out loud a few times.

I didnt care for the 3rd movie "Dial M for Middlebrough", probably because it was more a spoof of Horror movies more than mystery & I dont like horror. The deaths were gross.

The 1st Series was a step down from the first 2 movies but still were somewhat clever, if not a bit more twisted. I remember seeing a very young Janine Duvitski as the naive Jane in "Waiting for God". It was so funny to see her play this character in the Bunny Trap episode. I fast forwarded thru parts of some episodes (theres only 3).

I havent checked who made this 2nd Series (Season) but it really feels like the writers got rid of the best ideas & only kept the rest. So many familiar actors but they didnt have much to work with, although Vicki Pepperdine did make me kaugh. She mustve had alot of fun in her role in S2 Ep1 "Cant see the blood for the trees" but thats not enough to carry the 2nd Series. The 2 episodes after that get much worse. Its too bad they think we have no brains to recognize subtle jokes/innuendo & instead chose to push dumb or gross gags repeatedly.

Where do I even begin with this show? It's not perfect, it's not award winning, but it's so funny and I love it!

The first three films were pretty good for the most part. They were hilarious, goofy, had great casts and incredible acting from the leading couple and others. But Murder They Hope goes even further and creates a new format which introduces brand new regular characters Monica and Vicky who are absolutely incredible additions! This format also lets us get to know Terry and Gemma on a deeper level which was very interesting to learn.

I really hope there will be more of this soon! :)

Some funny moments, but it almost feels as though they don't want to go the whole Carry on hog and let fly. I think this is due to the woke world we live in today, and the fear of not wanting to offend anyone. They should learn from Gervais and Chappelle and just go for funny.

Just didn't seem funny at all which is a shame because I liked first one Blackpool express, unfortunately they seem less funny with each new season. Going to give it a try next week to see if it improves.