Category: Directed by Kiel McNaughton

  • My Life Is Murder (2019) s03e08 – Gaslight Sonata

    This episode seems to be setting up “My Life Is Murder: Season Four,” with Lucy Lawless unexpectedly getting an adorable niece played by Nell Fisher, who is apparently not related to anyone in “Murder” but is appearing in the next Evil Dead movie. Lawless is married to one of the producers or executive producers or…

  • My Life Is Murder (2019) s03e07 – Breaking Bread

    Dollars to sourdough loaves (it’ll make sense), I think this episode of “My Life Is Murder” is the best-plotted mystery of the season. So far, obviously, but I think it’ll go the distance. It’s an outstanding whodunit, plus Lucy Lawless gets to be petty about her baking. The episode opens with Ebony Vagulans and Joseph…

  • My Life Is Murder (2019) s02e06 – Sleep No More

    Lucy Lawless gets an arc to herself with brother Martin Henderson this episode, and it's almost enough to make up for a lackluster murder. It seems like it'll be enough, but the epilogue is a weird whiff and reminds of the show's inability to land certain things, like jokes at Lawless's expense from Ebony Vagulans.…

  • My Life Is Murder (2019) s02e05 – Crushed Dreams

    While Covid-19 doesn’t exist in “My Life Is Murder”—seriously, how long does it have to go on before someone might think they should address it even for reruns; we had to deal with flag pins for a decade—Zoom has still become a thing. Unclear how Zoom became ubiquitous in a world without lockdown, but since…