"In Season 3, a famous organist is murdered mid-tune in the chapel, Great Slaughter’s first sci-fi convention results in a mysterious kidnapping, and a ‘dead cert’ at the screen tests for the new ‘Agent Best’ ends up, well… dead. To top it all, Felix has a challenge of his own when his fiancée Victoria arrives from Bermuda with an ultimatum that could change everything…"
THERE WAS A Sister Boniface's Mysteries CHRISTMAS SPECIAL AND I DIDN'T KNOW????
I can't wait to see it!! (Tomorrow if I can)
EDIT: I just finished watching it and I loved it!
A character mentions (repeatedly) a cousin named lady Violet Windermere, which makes me curious: did they just chose a bombastic surname, or did they intend her to be a relative of Bunty?
Sister Peter is and remains my favourite.
The Reverend Mother having started her vocation as a midwife immediately made me think about Call the Midwife! I sense a headcanon coming...
It is some vague time in the early 1960s when boy bands make girls shriek insanely and the idea of women professionals hurt some people’s brains. Should the police really have a WPC, a Woman Police Constable? And fashions were shifting to brighter colors, shorter skirts, and bolder prints especially for younger women, and not everyone took up every trend that came along.
True, most of the main characters do not indulge in much fashion. Lorna Watson plays Sister Boniface, a Catholic nun, whose scientific brilliance allows her to work as a police consultant. So she is mostly in a traditional nun’s habit. Of course, this in itself was a distinct style, but a stable one that had not changed much for centuries. Max Brown who plays Sam Gillespie, a Detective Inspector, wears unremarkable, traditional suits, as does Jerry Iwu who plays Felix Livingstone, a Detective Sergeant from Bermuda. These menswear traditions are in bold relief with the women’s wear.
Miranda Raison as Ruth Penny, a newspaper woman keen on the latest scoop, has some teased up-dos with high ponytails and her blouses run to bold prints in fabrics and her evening suits are formal but very bright and often worn with hats. On the job, she dons the occasional newsboy cap. And although Ami Metcalf as Peggy Button, the WPC, mostly wears her uniform, we do get to see her in the bold colors of the era on her time off.
It’s completely eluded my attention (until now) but it seems The Sister Boniface Mysteries is filming its third series in Oxford at present. Thanks to KFTV I learn:
The series is a cosy detective drama following the investigations of Sister Boniface of St Vincent’s Convent. Lorna Watson is returning as the crime solving Catholic nun, with a guest cast including Rupert Vansittart, Siobhan Redmond…