#Sister Boniface Mysteries

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Jerry Iwu as Felix Livingstone & Max Brown as Sam Gillespie in SISTER BONIFACE MYSTERIES (2022 - Present) Season 3, Episode 8: A Beautiful World

[disappearinginq]

I feel like people are sleeping on the awesomeness that is Sister Boniface Mysteries. I think it's considered "cozy murder mysteries" which is just a weird genre to have, but it's a spinoff of Father Brown in the 60's in the Cotswolds of England. I'm not usually a murder mystery fan, they're mostly just 'eh' for me - neither good or bad, just there to have in the background. But I love Sister Boniface for several reasons (which I will admit bias to)

The police are actually happy to have her around. The main DI will find an excuse to pull her into any case they have, and the entire police force love her and will almost always follow her advice/lead, unlike 90% of other mystery shows where the police are always either one step off from bad guys or just can't be bothered.

It shows the wide diversity of women who find their way to a convent. The nuns make wine. They wind up on cooking shows. They host an episode of a really hokey Austin Powers type TV series. They guest star on a children's show being filmed at the church. They love being a part of the cases when they get roped in. The Mother Superior is a cranky Irish lady who is like a beleagured mom who has more luck herding cats than keeping the Sisters out of cases, but she also has a favorite fish in the pond that she feeds, and loves babies and new parents and bends over backwards to help people and lets Sister Boniface blow up the basement with her experiments on a regular basis.

Sister Boniface herself. She was a translator in WW2, she has the equivalent of a masters in chemistry and is the police department's Go To forensics. She has a vivid imagination that borders on cartoonish when imagining the crime and how it could've happened. She rides a motorcycle. She is like 5 feet tall and spicy. The basement of the church has been converted into her own laboratory where she tinkers and futzes at all hours as long as it doesn't interfere with her church duties.

THE SISTER AND THE INSPECTOR ARE BESTIES WHO CRACK TERRIBLE PUNS OVER CRIME SCENES. No, really, there's an entire youtube video of every scene where these two idiots (affectionate) are cracking the absolutely WORST puns related to the crime. Sam Gillespie is the DI and he doesn't seem to actually enjoy the police part of policing, but really likes the community outreach part. He's a WWII vet that was at the battle of Normandy, took heavy losses, got bayoneted (which is brought up in one episode), and as soon as a crime has been committed, he calls in Sister Boniface. There is zero romantic interest between them, she is like his actual sister, and they are absolute enablers for each other's shenanigans, and it is hilarious.

There are no bad characters.

[sarahwatchesthings]

The Sister Boniface mysteries at least gave their cozy murder mystery town an appropriate name. "Great Slaughter" is exactly what really goes on in these places. You don't come to a place named that and expect to make it out alive.

[mabith]

The third season is starting next week, so here's my urging (if you like period mysteries) to watch Sister Boniface Mysteries. Every episode she has a little fantasy segment and this one is from an episode about the town talent competition, thinking about what she'd do for it.

Why the show is Special: --She's the official forensics side of the police. They get along great, there's no animosity or sneaking around to solve cases. It's so refreshing. She fully gets to be one of those smarter-than-anyone-else-on-earth characters and they let her be smug about it. --Covers all your fun mystery tropes (death during magic act, death during movie filming, death during summer fair) and but also keeps very 1960s and gives you death at hippie type retreat, Twiggy figure comes home, death related to modern art exhibition, spying nonsense, spoofing lots of 1960s figures etc... --Random queer love episodes which are done really well in my opinion and often get happy endings (I think only one was an situation that stayed unhappy). --It's just a fun time! Definitely the best period mystery since Miss Fisher and for my money the best cozier mystery currently on in general.

[anneofkeys]

Sam: Ya me and Sister Boniface work together to solve crimes! :)

Mallory: WHAT?!

Sullivan *faints*

Valentine: I'm glad you learned from our mistakes.

[youfecklessthug]

Made a new blog for a fresh start! Looking for new blogs to follow. Pls like/reblog if you post:

Sherlock and Co

Cold tapes

The West Wing

Doctor Who

Psych

Any British crime shows (midsomer murders, sister boniface, father brown)

Psych

The Rookie

[quietparanoiac]

Top job, Sister!

Sister Boniface Mysteries (2022–), 2x01

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[pastlivesandpurplepuppets]

I want to talk about home. We're told there's no place like it. Home is where the heart is. It's where we find our family. But i think we all know that family is more than blood. It's...it's who we care about. It's who we trust. And it's who we rally around when they need us most.

~ Sam Gillespie

[hokahokadog]

SBMS3

[jxmieswxnter]

sad to hear about Jude Tindall. such a good writer and show runner/creator. Boniface is a brilliant show, all her Father Brown episodes are incredible, and while I haven't seen a lot of Shakespeare and Hathaway, I've enjoyed the bits I've seen. it's sad news and will be in our hearts come the new SB next year

[nerdlytreasure]

Your honor I love her.

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SISTER BONIFACE MYSTERIES (2022 - PRESENT)  Season 2, Episode 4: The Book of Shadows

[anneofkeys]

Sister Boniface: The ethics of lockpicking is somewhat complex...

Father Brown *carries a lockpicking kit in his pocket ready to go*

Also Father Brown *teaches both Bunty and Brenda to lockpick*