{"id":41206,"date":"2023-09-30T00:17:35","date_gmt":"2023-09-30T04:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=41206"},"modified":"2023-09-26T23:19:51","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T03:19:51","slug":"the-cws-the-spencer-sisters-is-a-promising-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/30\/the-cws-the-spencer-sisters-is-a-promising-mystery\/","title":{"rendered":"The CW\u2019s \u201cThe Spencer Sisters\u201d is a Promising Mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I\u2019ve been looking forward to \u201cThe Spencer Sisters\u201d for a long time. I\u2019m a fan of Stacey Farber, and she\u2019s been one of my celebrity crushes since \u201cDegrassi.\u201d Coming off of her fun stint on \u201cSuperman and Lois,\u201d her new crime caper series is a breath of fresh air. In a TV space where a lot of series\u2019 are so dark and grim, it\u2019s fun to see a crime series a lot more lighter and less focused on death. A mix of \u201cThe Gilmore Girls\u201d and \u201cNancy Drew,\u201d \u201cThe Spencer Sisters\u201d is an entertaining mystery drama series that teams an actual retired police officer with a mystery novelist. Both happen to be estranged mother and daughter.<\/p>\n

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Lea Thompson is great as Victoria Spencer, a famed crime novelist who is experiencing a big of a dry spell after her last novel flopped. When her daughter Darby comes back in to town, they\u2019re both drawn to one another and forced in to solving a crime that suddenly pops up involving one of Darby\u2019s long time friends. In the series premiere, Darby\u2019s friend is wrongfully accused of plagiarism. She and mom Victoria must put aside their differences and investigate. The Canadian crime procedural actually works not only because of the writing but because of the two leads. And, although I can safely say the series is not aimed toward me, I did find so much to enjoy here, and I just appreciated the lighter tone and intelligent heroines.<\/p>\n

Written by Alan McCullough and directed by April Mullen, \u201cThe Spencer Sisters\u201d first outing revels in its light hearted nature, being accessible and allowing for a world you click in to, easily. The characters are charming and the conflicts are about as down to Earth as possible all the while injecting some genuinely interesting mysteries. I don\u2019t know what the writes have planned for the rest of the season, but episode one really kicks off on a high note with some fun capers, and twists, as well as great interplay between Thompson and Farber. \u201cThe Spencer Sisters\u201d is obviously built for the female audience focusing primarily on the interaction between the Victoria and Darby, and how much anger and resentment they have toward one another.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>There\u2019s also are some great side characters including Darby\u2019s best friends and confidants, a married gay couple that balances raising a toddler daughter and being Darby\u2019s trusty shoulders to cry on. That said, I just might continue the series once it debuts, and I truly hope CW goes forward with more episodes. I think the show is very worthy of a fan base and has some big potential to expand in to bigger mysteries. I hope people seek it out when it debuts, as Ms. Farber and Mrs. Thompson deserve it.<\/p>\n

Premieres on Wednesday, October 4th<\/sup> at 9pm ET\/PT on the CW.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve been looking forward to \u201cThe Spencer Sisters\u201d for a long time. I\u2019m a fan of Stacey Farber, and she\u2019s been one of my celebrity crushes since \u201cDegrassi.\u201d Coming off of her fun stint on \u201cSuperman and Lois,\u201d her new crime caper series is a breath of fresh air. In a TV space where a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[240,302,1401,2123,703],"class_list":["post-41206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-tomb","tag-crime","tag-drama","tag-lgbt","tag-lgbtq","tag-mystery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41207,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41206\/revisions\/41207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}