LOVE A COMEBACK

Television detectives play at real-life detection to postpone getting to the truth about their relationship.

Finally together after years of pining, TV’s own Samantha Farmer and Bexley Simon, former co-stars on Craven’s Daughter, are free to discover what’s next. But neither really knows what their relationship might look like, particularly given the many miles that often keep them apart. Now that shooting on her new show, Theomina, has finally wrapped, even the typically more reserved Sam wants to go all-in with Bex and find out what that means. The problem is, neither Sam nor Bex really knows how to relax, and they both find comfort channeling their experiences as TV detectives into real life instead of sitting on a couch doing nothing. So when Bex’s sister Victoria, in town for an industry job, shares the news that former Hollywood darling Ramona Watts has gone radio-silent since her gig on horror hit The Howling, it’s as if Sam and Bex have to investigate. After all, no one knows an insular town like these two insiders, and some distraction from those hard conversations about what’s next might be exactly what their relationship needs. It helps that Sam’s just wrapped with Chad Bevington, who was part of the Ice Crew (think Brat Pack) alongside Ramona before the group hastily disbanded 20 years ago in the wake of Juliette Draper’s drowning. So when Sam and Bex see Chad chatting with Sloan Lennox, another Ice Crew alum, the wheels start turning enough to spark an investigation. But nothing in Hollywood happens in isolation, and their peep into Ramona’s life leaves them both knowing more than is safe.

The broad cast of characters driving the plot leaves little room for depth.