My Life Is Murder (2019)

Watchseries; I truly enjoyed this series. I hope it gets a 2nd season. Lucy Lawless makes the show. I do like the supporting characters as well. Lucy did not want the main character to have some dark secret and dark background and it shows. The show has a good sense of humor and is quirky and positive. The cases are all cold cases. They tended to be a bit predictable. Hopefully that will improve. The show has beautiful location shoots and is fun. We need shows like this to balance out all the gruesome dark shows that seem to populate the airwaves these days.

I truly enjoyed this series. I hope it gets a 2nd season. Lucy Lawless makes the show. I do like the supporting characters as well. Lucy did not want the main character to have some dark secret and dark background and it shows. The show has a good sense of humor and is quirky and positive. The cases are all cold cases. They tended to be a bit predictable. Hopefully that will improve. The show has beautiful location shoots and is fun. We need shows like this to balance out all the gruesome dark shows that seem to populate the airwaves these days.

My Life Is Murder watchseries. Australian commercial channels have a history of producing cheap, clickbaiting, police dramas, or worse: bad imitations (see the recent botched re-boots of Ms Fisher and Dr Blake). So I was curious about this one. As it happens, the first episode was watchable, and in parts enjoyable. The set-up for the series is based on a well-known formula: retired cop (for reasons undisclosed -this is presumably a red herring backstory that will be revealed one detail per episode) gets out of retirement because a former colleague needs help to close a case worthy of investigation. Said ex-cop accepts the assignment and gets paired with IT whizz sidekick with a personality twist or two (this one has a thing about car detailing and high-end vacuum cleaners). So far, it's standard cop drama / PI fare, and we've seen quite a few variations of this recipe over the years. What makes the series watchable is the acting lead, kiwi star Lucy Lawless (perhaps best known for her role as Xena) who delivers a good performance. The script for the first episode had the merit of not being totally obvious from the first five minutes, so keeping the viewer engaged. And the portrayal of the lead female character was engaging. But there are some flaws that need to be addressed. I'll skip over the McGyveresque level of unbelievability of the aforementioned whizz kid's online search prowess. More seriously, in this day and age, unless you are trying to wink-wink / nudge-nudge Amazon for international distribution, one should seriously consider naming the female lead character something other than "Alexa". I felt that was either cheap, low, unfair, or all of the above. Also, don't create a sub-plot about European appliances with an unreadable instruction manual, and then force the lead actor to deliver an articulate (scripted) phone conversation in the said language (German): if Alexa can have this level of interaction, then she could cope with the foreign language manual, couldn't she? (coz google translate would not be able to speak German that good, would it?). Overall a good first effort, but needs smarter/stronger scripts to rise to the level of Australian classics (Ms Fisher, Dr Blake, Rake, Janet King, Jack Irish, Mystery Road, and so on).

For years I watched Xena, now we have Alexa and I'm watching again and hoping it'll be more than a single season. I've loved it all, great ensemble cast, good stories, and Lucy stands out as smart, blunt, and believable. (Oh, and I love her cat too.) PLEASE, more Alexa Crowe.

This new lighthearted show is thoroughly enjoyable and entertaining. Lucy Lawless, Bernard Curry and newcomer Ebony Vagulans are superb and their characters work very well together. I look forward to many more episodes.

The main character is a unique lady with an interesting background. She is an entirely original character portrayed by a master in the craft. The plots are engaging and not predictablle. The visuals of Melbourne are stunning. Interiors,costuming and locations are pure candy. I hope there are many seasons and perhaps traveling..Creatively portrayed sidekick is a phenomenal actress.

I absolutely love this show but what isn't there to love about Lucy Lawless. She's funny and quick off the mark and always just a little bit quirky. Being an Australian I completely get the humour of this show and I truly hope that viewers from countries other than Australia and New Zealand can understand it also. You can watch this show and be totally entertained without having to worry about missing some small detail and then not know what is happening. I really hope that Channel 10 in Australia will pick this series up for another season. There have been nothing but glowing reviews for everyone involved in this show in our local TV guide magazines. The season finale is about to be shown here and I am now at a loss as to what to watch on a Wednesday night. Good news is that I can go to 10Play on the internet and replay all the episodes. If you haven't already watched My Life is Murder, please do so with an open mind and I am sure you will enjoy it as much as I do.