WILD CARDS – Season 1 Episode 9 – (limited spoilers) ⁓ On a Saturday, Max (Vanessa Morgan) gets a call from her butler Ricky (Fletcher Donovan). She is downtown, and walking to some unspecified location. “I’m calling,” he says, “to …
SIGHT UNSEEN – Season 1 Episode 1 – (limited spoilers) ⁓ After her usual early morning swim, Police Detective Tess Avery (Dolly Lewis) and her partner Jake Campbell (Daniel Gillies) are on their way to a murder investigation. JAKE: “Who …
WILD CARDS – Season 2 Episode 1 (limited spoilers) ⁓ Max (Vanessa Morgan) and her sidekick Ricky (Fletcher Donovan) were on their way out of town with a 33 million dollar Fabergรฉ Egg until Ricky, in the course of transcribing …
WILD CARDS – Season 2 Episode 2 – (limited spoilers) ⁓ Cole (Giacomo Gianniotti) is having breakfast with his cat when a woman he doesn’t know (Naomi Simpson) tells him his scuppers need cleaning. He assures her that the boat …
WILD CARDS – Episode 203- The Lorne Identity – (limited spoilers) ⁓ It is Cole’s late brother Daniel’s birthday. Max (Vanessa Morgan) comes into the office without being summoned because, she says: “They’re setting up wifi in my condo, which …
RECIPES FOR LOVE AND MURDER – Season 2 Episodes 1 & 2 – SPOILERS ⁓ Aileen McClintock (Robyn Scott) and her husband Gordon (Richard Wright-Firth) have traveled from Scotland to visit Tannie Maria (Maria Doyle Kennedy). Gordon thinks Maria killed …
WILD CARDS – Dial ‘A’ for Alibi – (limited spoilers) ⁓ The episode title comes from Alfred Hitchcock’s “Dial ‘M’ For Murder“, but the story is largely an homage to the other Hitchcock film released in 1954, “Rear Window“. Max …
RECIPES FOR LOVE AND MURDER – mid-season speculative recap ⁓ Jessie (Kylie Fisher), comes home for dinner and stumbles into two new family situations. Her mother Charlene (Khadija Heeger) has a new acquaintance named Craig (Raffaele Sabatini), and her sister …
WILD CARDS – Catch Me If You Con – limited spoilers ⁓ After being cooped up for weeks with a sprained ankle, Max (Vanessa Morgan) is looking for something to do. Ricky (Fletcher Donovan) and his amateur theatre group are …
RECIPES FOR LOVE AND MURDER – Season 2 Episodes 5 & 6 – (speculative recap) ⁓ Nurse Christine (Melissa de Vries) writes to Maria (Maria Doyle Kennedy) asking for a recipe that will allow her to sleep. She has inherited …
LUCY BETTS-TAYLOR – Ludwig – Anna Maxwell Martin An aspiring photographer, Lucy is “still doing endless weddings and bonneted babies”, and has been married for twenty-odd years to DCI James Taylor. When her husband disappears she decides to make the …
In “Bride and Doom” (episode 211), Max (Vanessa Morgan) can’t join her father George (Jason Priestley) on the anniversary of his wedding to his late wife. She and Cole (Giacomo Gianniotti) are busy trying to solve the murder of a …
