Alison Sweeney Talks Sweet Revenge: A Hannah Swensen Mystery
[Warning: General spoilers ahead.] After a four-year hiatus, Hallmark Movies & Mysteries returns Murder She Baked to us with a brand new mystery and a brand new series title. Now rebranded as Hannah Swensen Mysteries, the first installment, Sweet Revenge, picks up six months after Just Desserts. I got a…
Alison Sweeney Talks Chronicle Mysteries: Helped to Death [Exclusive]
[Warning: General spoilers ahead.] Chronicle Mysteries is back for its fifth film, 18 months after the last one aired in the fall of 2019. That wasn’t a planned interval, of course, and this installment, Helped to Death, filmed last fall while franchise star Alison Sweeney was already in Vancouver for…
Soap Notes: DOOL’s Drake Hogestyn Heads to Hallmark Movies & Mysteries’ Christmas Tree Lane
It’s officially one of our favorite times of the year: the Holiday TV Movie season! Joining the ranks of the Hallmark crowd for the first time ever is Days of Our Lives’ Drake Hogestyn aka John Black. Hogestyn adorably stars in Christmas Tree Lane, a movie that unites two of…
Hallmark and Chill: Murder She Baked
For your Hallmark and Chill viewing pleasure, Murder She Baked movies are back in rotation periodically on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, and often in back-to-back twofers or all-day marathons. For your easy access, we’ve compiled a guide here to all our coverage and handy teasers for each film. And best…
Picture Perfect Mysteries Preview: Dead Over Diamonds
[Warning: General spoilers ahead.] Alexa and Carlos PenaVega return to Hallmark Movies & Mysteries Sunday night with the second installment of their Picture Perfect Mysteries series. Set three months after Newlywed and Dead, which aired last June, the new film, Dead Over Diamonds, finds the dynamic duo working a diamond…
Previewing Roux the Day: A Gourmet Detective Mystery
[Warning: General spoilers ahead.] One of the drawbacks, if you can call it that, of so many new Hallmark Mystery Wheel franchises, is that they’ve replaced the OG movies that started the ball rolling. The Gourmet Detective series has always had an unusual broadcast cycle, sometimes skipping a year or…
Crossword Mysteries: Abracadaver Preview
[Warning: General spoilers ahead.] The Lacey Chabert double feature Hallmark weekend continues Sunday night with the Crossword Mysteries installment that was bumped from October when Hallmark Movies & Mysteries started its Miracles of Christmas event a week early. The movie reteams Chabert with Brennan Elliott for a new magic-themed murder…
Lucas Bryant Talks Time for You to Come Home for Christmas [Exclusive]
[Warning: General spoilers ahead.] Next year will be our 10th year at TV Goodness, and one of the shows we leaned way into in our early years was Syfy’s Haven. We loved the show and its trio of leads, Lucas Bryant, Emily Rose, and Eric Balfour. Bryant gifted us with…
Stephen Huszar Talks A Homecoming for the Holidays and Mistletoe Magic [Exclusive]
[Warning: General spoilers ahead.] Ruby Herring‘s Stephen Huszar has two Christmas titles debuting this winter, and when I chatted with him in September about that franchise’s second installment, he’d banked one holiday movie and was mid-shoot on the other. Here’s what he had to say about A Homecoming for the…
Cindy Busby Talks A Godwink Christmas: Meant for Love and Christmas Cupcakes [Exclusive]
[Warning: General spoilers ahead.] Set your swatches and DVRs, y’all, for a Cindy Busby TV takeover Sunday night. You can catch her at 7 pm ET on UP in Christmas Cupcakes and 9 pm ET on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries in A Godwink Christmas: Meant for Love. I spoke with…
Andrew Walker Talks Christmas Island and the Magical Hallmark Community
[Warning: Spoilers for Christmas Island.] Now that the Screen Actors Guild strike has been resolved, we’re able to resume regularly scheduled programming and interview our favorites and yours. Up first, earlier today, I spoke with Andrew Walker about Christmas Island, which premiered last weekend and encores tonight and through the…
George Olson and Danishka Esterhazy Talk SurrealEstate “I Put a Spell on You”
[Warning: Spoilers for the episode.] Tonight’s fun new SurrealEstate found Luke caught up in an especially bewitching woman, Kay, played by Tara Yelland, Susan trapped in her house, and Zooey learning the ropes. In the next part of my conversation with showrunner George R. Olson and producing director Danishka Esterhazy,…
Danishka Esterhazy Talks SurrealEstate: “The Butler Didn’t”
[Warning: General spoilers for the episode]. Tonight’s new SurrealEstate, “The Butler Didn’t,” follows the team as they investigate the years-earlier mysterious death of a woman whose ghost now reenacts her hanging by dropping over the banister from the second floor to terrify anyone on the landing or at the bottom…
Scott McCord and Elizabeth Saunders Talk the From Season 2 finale
[Warning: Spoilers for the season finale.] How’s everyone doing after that finale? While we wait and wonder and hope for a third season announcement, soon, here’s what Scott McCord and Elizabeth Saunders had to say about their parts of the finale, and where they hope they get to go next….
Scott McCord and Elizabeth Saunders Talk From Season 2 + A Season Finale Preview
[Warning: General spoilers ahead.] It all comes down this, #FROMily. As Sunday’s episode wraps up Season 2, we begin with the aftermath of the terrifying onset of seemingly simultaneous attacks on Julie, Marielle, and Randall, which accelerate the “We gotta get out of this place” of it all. Sara comes…
Alison Sweeney Talks About What’s Next for Hannah and Mike After Carrot Cake Murder: A Hannah Swensen Mystery
[Warning: Spoilers for Carrot Cake Murder.] Everybody OK after that Hannah Swensen Mystery twist? Thankfully, our favorite crime-solving couple is still on speaking term, even if they’re on a break (hopefully not that kind of break). Most importantly, we already know this isn’t the last film in the series. No…
Counting Down to From Season 2
[Warning: General spoilers ahead.] We’re just shy of two weeks away from Season 2 of last spring’s obsession, From, which premieres at 9 pm/8c, Sunday, April 23rd, on MGM+ (formerly EPIX). If you never picked it up last year, now’s your chance, and you can do it for free, catching…
Thank Me Later: Will Trent
[Warning: spoilers ahead.] I’m on record as loving and losing shows over at ABC so I’m usually very reticent to pick something up on the network until it’s been renewed, and I seriously hope I’m not jinxing it, but I took a chance on the deeply odd and very sweet…
Dennis Heaton Talks The Imperfects
Longtime readers at TV Goodness will know that Motive is one of my ride-or-die series, and as such, I am fiercely loyal to its creator, Dennis Heaton. He followed up that fantastic reverse procedural with Netflix’s The Order and is back on our streaming screens with The Imperfects, which dropped…
Kelly McCormack Talks Favorite Moments in A League of Their Own
[Warning: Mild spoilers for season 1.] Now that you’ve had a chance to watch A League of Their Own, here’s the rest of my chat with Kelly McCormack about her favorite moments of the season. Seeing the iconic Peaches uniforms for the first time wasn’t just a goosebump moment for…
What They Said: Three Revealing Conversations from Survivor’s Remorse “Closure”
WARNING: Spoilers for Survivor’s Remorse “Closure” The latest episode of Starz’s Survivor’s Remorse featured conversations that showed characters really digging deep into their thoughts, emotions and motivations.
Two Takes: The Catch “The Knock-Off”
Who can you trust? If this episode of The Catch was any indication, the answer is just about nobody. Betrayal was running rampant as Felicity (Shivani Ghai) arose from the dead to seduce-con Margot, Gretchen (Maria Thayer, Gotham, The Mindy Project) played gold-hearted Alice 2.0 before swindling Ethan, Tessa jumped…
What They Said: Top 3 Quotable Moments from Preacher “El Valero”
Both Quincannon and Jesse refuse to give up on what they each think is rightfully theirs. While Jesse is struggling to face the consequences of his actions, Quincannon has laid his past demons to rest and is hellbent on moving forward and putting Annville on the map again. Despite a…
What They Said: Favorite Quotes from Supergirl “Worlds Finest”
Oh, Supergirl. That ending was cold. But I can’t hate on you because the latest episode has quickly become one of my favorites.
What They Said: Top 4 Quotable Moments from Black Sails “XXIII”
The dialogue in “XXIII” is phenomenal. It’s always a fun ride when Black Sails carries its viewers along without giving them the chance to catch their breath. When an episode moves at this unforgiving pace, there is no chance for a breather nor is there a respite from the information…
What Lucifer Said: Favorite quotes from Supernatural “O Brother, Where Art Thou?”
Supernatural episodes are almost always funny but thanks to the dialogue and a certain man speaking said dialogue, I laughed a lot during “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” You know, when I wasn’t busy fearing for Sam’s life or wondering what in the world was going on with Dean and…
What They Said: The Flash, “Legends Of Today” and Arrow, “Legends Of Yesterday”
Two nights of Arrow + The Flash = what more could we ask for?! I don’t know what it is about blending these shows, but I can’t help but feel that every time they come together, they somehow become greater than the sum of their parts. And that’s saying a lot…
What they Said: Top 4 Quotable Moments from Graceland “Little Bo Bleep”
Shoot outs. Fake outs. And long-awaited revelations. “Little Bo Bleep” was a jam-packed episode that wrapped up some loose ends and totally frayed others. Â It finally gave us one Sarkissian in jail and pulled back the curtain on Briggs’ master plan, but it also set up Jakes for a world…
What They Said: Favorite Quotes from Poldark “Part 4”
“What have I told you, I don’t require my wife to crochet and sip tea, but I do require her to remember she’s not a beast of burden.†No, I’m not talking about The Rolling Stones! I have to admit though, just for a second, the lyrics popped into my…
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