Emma Fielding: More Bitter Than Death

Borderline unwatchable for all scenes involving Mark Valley whose English accent is so appalling it actually gives me a headache to listen to it.

Enjoyed it but Mark Valley has got to go. Get out of here with that stupid fake accent. Horrible. At first I thought he was joking with the accent. Then he spoke without it. Then with it. I thought he was just playing around. LOL He's just as bad as he was back when he played Jack on Days of Our Lives. Enjoyed the rest of the actors. I'm missing the Garage Sale Mysteries so much. Was my favorite. But these will do. Courtney is fun to watch.

It's the third episode of Emma Fielding Mysteries. Emma Fielding (Courtney Thorne-Smith) finds herself in another murder mystery when her supportive retiring superior Dr. Althea Harrison is poisoned during a banquet. The suspects include those fighting to take over. FBI agent Jim Conner (James Tupper) happens to be there after he got recruited by Emma for a speech. Meanwhile, her TAs Joe and Carey are growing closer and worked as servers at the party. The group is joined by pompous archeologist Duncan Thatcher with the bad British accent.

This is the best of the three episodes. It helps that the mystery is a fairly standard one. Essentially, someone is killed and all the suspects are in the room. It's classic. It also helps that the younger characters get their own romance. That takes the romantic pressure off the leads. While Tupper and CTS are really pretty people, their chemistry is set at a slow simmer. The younger couple is better and they provide a nice parallel relationship. This is not breaking any new boundaries but it is a very solid movie for Hallmark with the possibility of extending this franchise.

Look... check your expectations before going into a movie like this. It's very light entertainment for sure and is full of holes but it does the job. Courtney Thorne Smith is a commanding lead and the supporting cast do well. These movies are a nice throwback to the 1990s and 2000s before Marvel came in and destroyed cinema forever.

Courtney Thorne-Smith is back once again as our female Indiana Jones, Emma Fielding and this time she's back at Kenzer College. During the course of a banquet some valuable art is ripped off and when it resumes the president of the college who is retiring collapses and dies at the podium.

The theft, the death of the president and some secret society like Yale's Skull And Bones are all interconnected, but not quite in the way you would think. Emma Fielding's young friend Adam DiMarco was thinking of joining the elite group, but finds them not worthy of his time and the members not worthy of his company.

FBI agent James Tupper is back as well to lend a bit of legality to Smith's sleuthing. Looks like the Emma Fielding series will go on.