We’ve rewatched and rated season 2 of the Australian 1920s detective series, Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries. The first season gave us lots of great episodes. Here’s how season 2 measured up:
- “Murder Most Scandalous” – 5.5
- “Death Comes Knocking” – 6
- “Dead Man’s Chest” – 7.5
- “Deadweight” – 6
- “Murder a la Mode” – 7
- “Marked for Murder” – 6
- “Blood at the Wheel” – 6.5
- “The Blood of Juana the Mad” – 5.5
- “Framed for Murder” – 10
- “Death on the Vine” – 7
- “Dead Air” – 7.5
- “Unnatural Habits” – 8
- “Murder under the Mistletoe” – 9.5
The average for this season is 7.1, which is pretty good and not too far off from season 1’s average of 7.4. There are some lackluster episodes balanced by a number of gems.
The lowest-rated episode is a tie between “Murder Most Scandalous,” in which our hero Phryne Fisher goes undercover at a gentlemen’s club, and “The Blood of Juana the Mad,” about the murder of a university professor which involves a secret hidden in a sixteenth-century manuscript. Both episodes have their good points, but they don’t hold together very well.
At the top of the chart this season we have “Framed for Murder,” a spirited romp surrounding a murder on a movie set which lovingly recreates both the glamour and the spit-and-bailing-wire spirit of early movie-making. When the movie’s director is killed, Phryne gets to step in and take over the job, complete with jodhpurs.
Any Miss Fisher fans out there want to weigh in? Got a different pick for the best or worst episodes of the season? Let us know in the comments!
Image: Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries via IMDb
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