Who here has been watching and is a fan of "Gross Pointe Garden Society"?

[SPedigrees]

I just had to resurrect this old thread to say how much I've been enjoying this series. Thanks for the suggestion, Ducks! I missed the first two or three episodes, but have been immersed in the following episodes. It's a combination soap opera, mystery, and comedy. I like the way we see the murder/burial-in-the-garden only in flash-forward snippets throughout.

 

[ducks4you]

O.M.GOSH!!! WHO did they bury?!?!?!?!?
They keep giving us clues--the sneaker, the quilt, the car, the witnesses--but nothing is definitive. DH thinks that they wrote and rewrote and went over this script with a fined toothed comb during COVID.
I just hope that they "stick the landing!"

 

[SPedigrees]

O.M.GOSH!!! WHO did they bury?!?!?!?!?
They keep giving us clues--the sneaker, the quilt, the car, the witnesses--but nothing is definitive. DH thinks that they wrote and rewrote and went over this script with a fined toothed comb during COVID.
I just hope that they "stick the landing!"

Seems like it must be a really horrible person for them all to be on board with sticking together to cover it up. But we haven't yet encountered a character devoid of any redeeming qualities.

My guess is that it will turn out that their "victim" died of some other cause, and that they only thought that they killed him, in which case they would be guilty only of improper burial or some such thing. Also I could foresee that this season could end on a cliff-hanger where they confess to the murder and maybe even are jailed, while the backhoes are sent to exhume the body from its garden grave.

 

[Shades-of-Oregon]

It’s a good series… to a degree…. It’s slow going sometimes. Or even a bit tacky. Let’s give these characters more grit and colorful personalities. Come on be real here with these characters. It started out really interesting and it’s starting to drag …

I think one of my fav garden type series was a British tv series called, Rosemage, Sage and Thyme.
In the first series of this crime drama Rosemary Boxer and Laura Thyme start a gardening consultancy called Rosemary and Thyme. They tackle all kinds of horticultural problems, but also meet with murder and mayhem wherever they go.

 

[SPedigrees]

It’s slow going sometimes. Or even a bit tacky. Let’s give these characters more grit and colorful personalities.

It is definitely both of these things. If not for the gardening connection and the murder mystery plot, it would just be drivel, but still, those two things keep me watching.

This series wants to be like the first season of Big Little Lies, but it lacks David E. Kelley's masterful writing skills, and so falls short. Still.....

Rosemary, Sage and Thyme,... I'll have to look this up, see if it's available on DVD. Thanks for the suggestion.

 

[Shades-of-Oregon]

It is definitely both of these things. If not for the gardening connection and the murder mystery plot, it would just be drivel, but still, those two things keep me watching.

This series wants to be like the first season of Big Little Lies, but it lacks David E. Kelley's masterful writing skills, and so falls short. Still.....

Rosemary, Sage and Thyme,... I'll have to look this up, see if it's available on DVD. Thanks for the suggestion.

Yes Rosemary and thyme is on DVD. I have it if ya can’t fined it , would be happy to send it to ya

I agree big little lies was very intense lots of twists and and turns several plots.
It’s a bit disappointing to watch this garden society tv show. I’d rather watch paint dry.

 

[SPedigrees]

Yes Rosemary and thyme is on DVD. I have it if ya can’t fined it , would be happy to send it to ya

I agree big little lies was very intense lots of twists and and turns several plots.
It’s a bit disappointing to watch this garden society tv show. I’d rather watch paint dry.

Thank you for the kind offer. But 'Rosemary and Thyme' was easy to find. I ordered the complete series.

Well now we know the identity of the victim! It seems like an eye-for-an-eye motive. Ha ha!

 

[Shades-of-Oregon]

Thank you for the kind offer. But 'Rosemary and Thyme' was easy to find. I ordered the complete series.

Well now we know the identity of the victim! It seems like an eye-for-an-eye motive. Ha ha!

Good deal Let me know what you think of it. I really enjoyed every aspect of it. Even if it was in England the plants still are very similar to my zone 8b. It’s a keeper

 

[SPedigrees]

Even if it was in England the plants still are very similar to my zone 8b.

Here in (aptly named) New England growing conditions are pretty much identical to England.

 

[SPedigrees]

Again I'm revisiting this old thread with the bad news that Grosse Pointe Garden Society has been cancelled, and there will not be a 2nd season. Boo! Hiss! I've been re-watching the episodes I was able to get (missing the first 4) and enjoying it more with each re-watch. The plot seems well thought out, and the dialogue is hilarious in places. I do agree with Shades-of-Oregon that the characters could use more grit. Birdie was probably my favorite of the gals.

I managed to find a DVD on Ebay of the first season, so I'll get to watch it from the beginning at least. But they left so many loose threads just begging to be picked up on - like the fact that human bones do not degrade quickly like chicken bones, and what of the sleazy scam artist private investigator?

As to Rosemary and Thyme, the characters are more believable and the botanical info more detailed. I'm enjoying it, although my complaint against all BBC mystery series is the formula framework that the producers refuse to break away from. Changing things out here and there would vastly improve these series. For instance when the gals temporarily care for the deceased blind man's seeing eye dog and use him to solve a mystery, they toy with the idea of adopting him. Adding a canine to their team would have made the show infinitely more interesting. But no, they are stuck in the prescribed framework. That's but one example of a single series shunning change which would bring the episodes to life.

Also, while I'm basically law-abiding, I find TV series and movies written from the viewpoint of one or ones on the other side of the law more interesting. Hmmmm lol.

That said, clearly I enjoy BBC mysteries, having watched numerous series over the years with my late hubby, and on my own, and Rosemary and Thyme is no exception. I still have more episodes to see. When summer arrived, bringing outdoor work with it, TV watching took a temporary backseat.

Ironically, the episode containing a "time capsule" buried in an overgrown, abandoned garden coincided with my own burial of a metal strongbox in a remote area of my own property earlier this spring. Mine contained artifacts so personal to both my husband and myself, that I couldn't bear to think of them ending up in a landfill, and having no rehoming potential.