Let's see: the main character is a young woman detective who solves murders whilst searching for the reason her mother disappeared whenthe detectivecwas a toddler. Her three novelist aunts unofficially assist her. No one owns a pie shop. No one brings murder victims back from the dead. She has no lover/sidekick. No one breaks into song. While the art direction is similar to "Pushing Daisies," it's actually based on a pop-up book and pulp fiction. The graphics have more in common with the recent Marple opening credits and title cards, and graphic novels, than the story about a pie man who raises the dead. These scripts aren't ground-breaking, but they're imaginative, fun and highly entertaining. The performances are solid, production values are high, sound design is clever and the direction is spot-on. The casts are a mix of well-known actors and newer faces. As for thosecwho claimthis is "literally" a "Pushing Daisies" reboot, I'm not convinced they know what "literally" means, or that production design is not the same as story or premise.
Review of Queens of Mystery
