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Short Review: Murder, She Baked
I have been on a murder mystery kick, so when Wife suggested that we watch a Silly Holiday Movie, I counter-offered with Silly Holiday Murder. Fortunately for us, Hallmark provided, at least on the front of Silly and Murder. (Sadly, apparently on Hallmark people only fall in love for the holidays, which seems fake, but okay.)
Which led us to the pair of Murder, She Baked movies that we could find on the Peacock app (A Peach Cobbler Mystery and A Deadly Recipe).
First off, for good or ill: the movies do not include ten pages of recipes at the end, unlike the books. (Okay, I jest, but only because I didn't go looking for the original books to confirm how many pages of recipes they actually do contain at the end. I know this sub-sub-genre well, and you cannot tell me they don't include any recipes at the end.)
Secondly: I am still not a fan of the plot device Oh Woe Oh Wee Which Handsome Man Is For Me. In this case it was less irritating, mostly because I could not for the life of me tell the difference between the two actors who played the respective love interests*, so I could blithely sort of squish them into a single love interest in my head and ignore any associated nonsense as much as possible.
Thirdly: not that the movies magically made the heroine less nosy, or naive? But for some reason the way thos tropes on screen felt less irritating than they do in a book, at least for me. Possibly because I was watching the movies with Wife, who agreed with me that (for example) Heroine's protests, on being accused on murder, that 'I don't need a lawyer, I'm innocent! The police will understand that!' at best shows a lack of understanding of how the police work. Also I could throw popcorn at the screen, rather than throw the book at the wall.
At the end of the day, they are what they are - a specific kind of fluffy murder mystery. Not Great Fiction, but perfectly fine to play in the background while you pay most of your attention to your current crafting project.
*No, seriously, it took me until halfway through the first movie to realize that they were in fact two different actors playing two separate characters, and I had not just mis-heard his name.
Which led us to the pair of Murder, She Baked movies that we could find on the Peacock app (A Peach Cobbler Mystery and A Deadly Recipe).
First off, for good or ill: the movies do not include ten pages of recipes at the end, unlike the books. (Okay, I jest, but only because I didn't go looking for the original books to confirm how many pages of recipes they actually do contain at the end. I know this sub-sub-genre well, and you cannot tell me they don't include any recipes at the end.)
Secondly: I am still not a fan of the plot device Oh Woe Oh Wee Which Handsome Man Is For Me. In this case it was less irritating, mostly because I could not for the life of me tell the difference between the two actors who played the respective love interests*, so I could blithely sort of squish them into a single love interest in my head and ignore any associated nonsense as much as possible.
Thirdly: not that the movies magically made the heroine less nosy, or naive? But for some reason the way thos tropes on screen felt less irritating than they do in a book, at least for me. Possibly because I was watching the movies with Wife, who agreed with me that (for example) Heroine's protests, on being accused on murder, that 'I don't need a lawyer, I'm innocent! The police will understand that!' at best shows a lack of understanding of how the police work. Also I could throw popcorn at the screen, rather than throw the book at the wall.
At the end of the day, they are what they are - a specific kind of fluffy murder mystery. Not Great Fiction, but perfectly fine to play in the background while you pay most of your attention to your current crafting project.
*No, seriously, it took me until halfway through the first movie to realize that they were in fact two different actors playing two separate characters, and I had not just mis-heard his name.
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