I only discovered the Hallmark Mysteries about a month ago, and I've been bingeing on them ever since! I don't watch them on the Hallmark Channel (no DVR and too tricky to find and be home for a specific broadcast), and now that I've pretty well exhausted You Tube and Amazon, I'm not sure I'll ever get to see the remaining ones that I haven't seen. I think the Garage Sale Mysteries are my favorite, and I actually ended up buying the DVD sets so I could see the episodes. I'm on Collection Three, and started with Murder by Text, but I was really, really disappointed.
I have enjoyed the other Garage Sale episodes a lot, but there were so many problems with this "plot": no one immediately figuring out that the song lyrics were obviously about the lead singer and the victim; how obvious it was that Danni's sister was here because her marriage was falling apart since she never mentioned her husband at all even though she mentioned her kids; but mainly how everyone, including the police chief, kept referring to the text as some sort of magic proof without ever thinking that someone could have taken the victim's phone and sent the text themselves. That is Detectiving 101!
On the petty side, all the make-up that they put on Danni makes her look 20 years older, and frumpier, than she is. And they've put way too much make-up on Jenn this season.
Finally, I had an old-school thought that maybe nobody will get the reference to...the way that the chief "solves" these crimes with the assistance of Jenn reminds me of how Encyclopedia Brown solved the mysteries that his dad, the chief of police, brought home!
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