This has actresses in it I have liked in other roles, and it seemed to get very good reviews, so we gave it a try. My wife thought it was practically unwatchable; I stop short of that and say I didn’t like it much. The narration got on our nerves. It reminded me (and other reviewers) of Pushing Daisies, a comedy that had a cute concept but a really irritating voiceover where it kept saying things like “Five days, five hours and twenty minutes before...” It just isn’t that witty of a device. The plot wound through three threads. The murder the main character was trying to sole, a mystery involving her mother many years before, and a fictional murder in a novel one of the characters wrote. It might have been two many plots to run at once.

Browse discussions about “Queens of Mystery”

Jump to Reddit for live threads on this title.