Morning Show Mystery: Mortal Mishaps

6/10 - promising new series from Holly Robinson Peete

I think given the upheaval in today's world, more and more people are turning to Hallmark Channel! I'm not kidding - I've heard a lot of people mention it lately.

Hallmark has a group of series in the Mystery genre, and this is a new one, the Morning Show mysteries, starring Holly Robinson Peete and the always-hunky Rick Fox.

Peete plays Billie Blessings, a successful cookbook author and restaurant owner who has a special segment on the Morning Show. In this episode, one of the executives at the network is poisoned by a cake -- and suspicion falls on Billie. Rather than wait around to be cleared, Billie starts her own investigation.

Benign, pleasant, familiar, all describe these mysteries. No sex, foul language, violence, or unhappy endings. The people are attractive and often include popular tv/Hallmark/soap stars like Allison Sweeney, Cameron Matthison, Kellie Martin, Brooke Shields, Lori Loughlin, etc. For many, this is just what the doctor ordered. Personally I'll watch anything with the word Mystery in it, so there you go.

Billie Blessings has gone from beloved chef, restaurant owner, and morning show segment host to the prime suspect in a murder case when one of the executives at the network dies from poisoning. When the head chef at Billie's restaurant is arrested and held as a suspect, Billie takes matters into her own hands by digging deeper into a mystery that could incriminate people close to her while risking her own life in the process

There's some great chemistry with the leads, the mystery is quite interesting, but it's convoluted at times with so many name dropping of suspects and it tends to drag, but it's adequately entertaining enough.

I'm judging this against the other murder mysteries on Hallmark. The actors are likable to keep me watching but the storylines are lacking and predictable. I love that Hallmark has a series with Black actors but they deserve better. Please keep the series but find better script writers, please.

We knew who dunnit in the first 7 minutes. What a shame. I wanted to like this so much, but it just wasn't up to par.