[TV] Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (Season 2)

I'm binge-watching this show, it's incredible!

The bar never rose this high, now I really won't be able to look at other couples with the same tolerating eyes as before. I came to absolutely adore these two characters.

Miss Phryne Fisher yet again solves her mysteries, while she and Jack start to develop tender feelings for each other.

But unlike previous post that was simply fangirling about Phryne and Jack, this time around I can't skip on Dot.

We should all admit that Dot had the most character change out of entire cast. She starts as a simple maid and then helps Miss Fisher around the house, before she starts being invlved with solving mysteries along her. Her views change, but it doesn't mean he nature changes too. She now sees values in herself and what she does and doesn't want to change it for the safe and boring married life of ironing shirts and waiting for her husband to return (the conflict at the end of Season two between her and Hugh). Unlike her initial stage where she was even afraid of telephones and electricity. She lived in a frame. Yet it doesn't mean that her kind nature changed, she's still devout, still pure-hearted, just a nice young woman.

I liked that social commentary, especially on women, was not done so into your face and was rubbed into your eyes at every turn.

Miss Fisher of courese the most vocal character because she sees the wrongs of the world, but she doesn't have a messiah comples to save everyone. She may reach out to someone who needs her help, but she realizes she can't help everyone.

I liked that such things were shown through a prism of reality and not the unrealistic plot where everyone agrees that it's wrong but they all continue to live like that or they simply say it just for the fact of saying it.

Our characters live in their own world, surrounded by like-minded people, but not isolated in a bubble. Through others wee see those glimpses.

For example, one of the most striking moment is the episode of a drowned girl, when Miss Fisher sees the place the girl worked at and see that young girls worked all day long in the laundry room, slaving away for no pay, yet the church people said that they should be thankful for roof over their head etc. Commented by women too. Yet because of beliefs to them these orphaned girls were nothing more than sinners, children of illicit relationships etc. Thus unworthy.

But this is what reality looked like and I want to see something similar in such details.

Or another episode when a an poisoned his wife because she wanted to have her own life decisions.

Coming back to Hugh, although he is one of the quartet, but still they had a conflict based on the fact that Dot wanted to continue working for Miss Fisher, she wanted to be someone more than a housewife. Of course ti was all resolved, but even someone like Hugh had partly some of that classical thinking and I think it was okay to demonstrate it like that instead of making him too perfect and too modern-thinking. Because this how people thought before.

It is always a problem to me when I read something historical when authors make almost everyone too modern-thinking and they all comment how badly women were treated, but they don't really show it. I like authors who truly pay attention to such details. Just show it and the viewer will surely catch on how unfair it was because the heart will burn with emotions by wanting to rip someone apart.

To me the show perfectly balanced the commentary with entertainment, the action with thought.

But let's return to my favorite part - Phryne and Jack.

I liked that even their relationship got a bit shaky, even if they don't say anything explicit, sometimes things they said was better than confessions. Honestly, at times it felt like they're having heart eyes for each other without reservation.

Yet it was good to see than not everything is perfect. Honestly the emotions when Jack explained how unbearable it was when he received that message and thought Phryne got into a car accident were so good. He would never want her to change, after all he came to like her because of who she is, but at the same time it's also a torment of caring for her and being worried sick. Even though most of the times he caught her it was made fun of, yet it was also dangerous many times.

Based on the first season we know Jack divorced, almost background event. But the detail is that it coincided with how their relationship with Phryne developed. It was the right thing to do. In the second season we finally witness the famous ex-wife Rosie, who surely has eyed Phryne with displeasure, it is so subtle, much better than if they had open hostility or some cliche dialogues. Instead we may speculate that maybe Rosie was still hung up on her ex, despite having a new fiance. As Aunt Prudence said - quite devoted for an ex-wife.

But they wouldn't be Phryne and Jack if things ended there❤

RATE: 10/10.