). There’s also Edgar’s beloved pet lizard Roxana, who perpetually sits on her master’s shoulder, doesn’t like cake, and is treated like a member of the family.
Following their inauspicious arrival at the festivities , the series fast-forwards to the scene of the crime: Grace and Edgar’s bedroom, where—the morning after the nuptials—Edgar is found face-down in his pillow, as dead as his scaly friend is in her nearby glass case. Beginning with haughty and rude Isabel, suspicion is immediately cast in the direction of Grace, given that she’s a quirky antiques dealer who comes from little money and had refused to sign a pre-nuptial agreement.
Yet over the course of its 10 episodes , everyone at this gathering turns out to be a legitimate suspect with clandestine incentives to off the groom. As designed by Miller , the show is a tangled knot of causes and effects, and one that reveals its truths slowly, the better to upend expectations.
Of these, the best is the hardboiled black-and-white detective filter used for Travis’ episode, which allows for a level of goofy affectation that generates consistent laughs.