Published May 28, 2026, 12:00 p.m. ET

The first season of the Netflix/BBC series A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder ended with a dark and messy end to the investigation launched by high schooler Pip Fitz-Amobi into two deaths from 2019. In the second season, Pip has to deal with the fallout from that investigation, while a key witness goes missing.

A GOOD GIRL’S GUIDE TO MURDER SEASON 2: STREAM IT OR SKIP IT? 

Opening Shot: Outside the scene of a fire, Pip Fitz-Amobi (Emma Myers) gives someone CPR, screaming “Don’t die!” We then see her in what looks like the back of a patrol car as the door closes.

The Gist:  Two weeks earlier, Pip is in her room at her family’s house in Little Kilton, recording the last episode of a podcast she’s making about the murders of Andie Bell (India Lillie Davies) and Sal Singh (Rahul Pattni) in 2019. This is the case she investigated as a school project, because she knew that the conventional wisdom, that Sal killed Andie then killed himself, wasn’t correct. What she didn’t realize is how many people were involved in the deaths in some way.

During this time, Pip became romantically involved with Sal’s younger brother Ravi (Zain Iqbal), and they’ve become a rock-solid couple. He suggests a name for the podcast: A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder. She supports him as he tries to gather material about Sid and Andie for a memorial and the dedication of a new mural in their honor.

What Pip is having a hard time with, though, is the fallout from the case. Cara Ward (Asha Banks), her best friend, has basically had her life blown up, given the involvement of her father. Max Hastings (Henry Ashton), who sold the date rape drugs that set these murders and deaths into motion, is facing trial and his wealthy family is using all of their resources to make sure he’s found not guilty.

After hesitating, Pip finally publishes the podcast and it becomes a hit, especially among her classmates and others in town. She then hears that Andie’s sister Becca, who ultimately is the one who killed Andie — and tried to kill Becca — and is a key witness in Max’s trial, has decided not to testify. Under the guise of looking for closure, Pip requests a meeting with Becca to convince her to change her mind. She also finds out that Jamie Reynolds (Eden H. Davies) is also on the witness list for the trial, and wants to know why.

What Shows Will It Remind You Of? A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder was adapted by Poppy Cogan and based on Good Girl, Bad Blood, the second book in Holly Jackson’s Good Girl’s Guide novel trilogy. The show reminded us of a combination of  Harlan Coben’s Shelter and the original run of Veronica Mars.

Our Take: Unless you read Jackson’s original novel, there was no way you could have anticipated how widespread and messy the case Pip was looking into during the first season was going to get. So it makes sense that in the second season, Pip has to deal with the fallout of everything she dug up during her investigation. But what we wonder is whether having Pip deal with the messiness is the best use of what we know is the character’s persuasive charms.

Yes, there is a mystery that will propel the season, as Jamie ends up going missing prior to Max’s trial. That will send the case against Max into douby, and it’ll be fun to watch Pip essentially go head to head with Max, who thinks he and his family can pretty much make the case go away through blackmail, threats and money.

But what we’d rather watch this season is how Pip’s inherent curiosity and desire for justice will affect her and Ravi, who seem to be pretty devoted to each other as the season starts. It will also be interesting to see how this affects her relationship with Cara, who seems to still be loyal to Pip at the begining of the episode, but whose true feelings about how Pip’s investigation tore her family apart comes out after Cara gets drunk.

We’re just not sure, though, if those parts of the story will be explored with the depth they deserve in the face of Pip looking for Jamie as well as making sure that the case against Max is as solid as it can be. Like in the first season, there are a lot of people involved in this story, and many them are going to be one-dimensional characters. What we hope is that Cogan, Jackson and their writers focus on the people closest to Pip and how this fallout affects them.

Performance Worth Watching: Emma Myers is as charming as Pip as she was during the first season. Pip is persuasive and gets people to open up. Plus, as we see when she goes to visit Becca, she takes a lot of big swings.

Sex And Skin: None in the first episode.

Parting Shot: Pip finds out from Jamie’s brother Connor (Jude Morgan-Collie) that Jamie has gone missing.

Sleeper Star: We’re definitely interested in seeing how Asha Banks’ character Cara continues to deal with her family being torn apart by Pip looking into Andie and Sal’s deaths.

Most Pilot-y Line: Pip tries to get the observer who is in the room with her and Becca to leave, and the observer says she’s not allowed to leave the two of them alone. But as soon as Pip starts asking Becca to change her mind about Max’s trial, the observer goes to get a guard, leaving the two of them alone.

Our Call: STREAM IT. While the plot of the second season of The Good Girl’s Guide To Murder feels a bit less focused than the previous season’s story, it’s still watchable because Emma Myers and the community of friends that help Pip investigate things.

Joel Keller (@joelkeller) writes about food, entertainment, parenting and tech, but he doesn’t kid himself: he’s a TV junkie. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Slate, Salon, RollingStone.com, VanityFair.com, Fast Company and elsewhere.