If this week showed anything, it’s that sometimes summer is best seen and not felt. Who needs to feel their body find the internal temperature of an oven, when you can just watch people in a TV show experience it instead?
Despite what the title of A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder suggests, it has more than just the thrills of a murder mystery (although it does still have that). The BBC show turned Netflix sleeper hit has the bottled up feel of summer to boot.
The six-parter is based on Holly Jackson’s YA trilogy of the same name, which was so popular among the BookTokkers that it led to last year’s adaptation.
Starring Wednesday’s Emma Myers with a very different look to her chipper Enid, the detective on the case here is the dogged (and sometimes dodgy-accented) Pip Fitz-Amobi.
In the summer holidays before entering her last year of school, Pip decides to use her A-Level extended project to investigate an unsolved case in the rural town of Little Kilton: the disappearance of schoolmate Andie Bell (India Lillie Davies) five years ago.
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Everyone thinks her now-dead boyfriend Sal (Rahul Pattni) did it. But did he really? Pip enlists his younger brother Ravi (Zain Iqbal) to help find out, because every detective needs a sidekick (and love interest).
The show first aired on the BBC, and can still be watched on iPlayer, but was made available in the US on Netflix, and has now been added to the platform in the UK too – where it’s entered the streamer’s list of top 10 TV shows.
Better yet for those who are only just finding A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder now, the show is filming six new episodes for a second season.
When the BBC and Netflix co-production renewal was announced, author Holly Jackson said she was ‘beyond thrilled’ to continue Pip’s story and shared that she will be part of the writers’ room for the second season.
Metro’s thoughts on A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder
Senior TV Reporter Rebecca Cook shares her take…
On the vibes front this has it all: a sleepy English town you’ll want to move to, a banging soundtrack (Wet Leg, AWOLNATION) and boundless summer activities.
Yes, there’s the murder-suicide conspiracy bubbling away, but it’s a bit too silly to be taken overly seriously.
The cast of mostly unknown young’uns are balanced out with the acting experience of their older counterparts: Anna Maxwell Martin, Gary Beadle and Mathew Baynton.
If you can suspend your belief for this suspended summer, you’ll come away happy you did.
The first season has a 83% rating on review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes, after viewers wrote about planning to watch the series ‘six times’ because it’s ‘perfect’.
Account Chicken F raved: ‘This lived up to, if not, surpassed my expectations. It hasn’t even been out for a week and I’ve already watched the series through six times.
‘I highly recommend this series, it is the perfect Mystery/Thriller to watch if you’ve got a spare weekend.’
Echoing their sentiment, Sayan C enthused: ‘The series is excellent and everything was nailed to perfection. THE has perfect suspense and thrill I would 100% recommend to binge this series.’
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder is available to stream on BBC iPlayer and Netflix.
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