We know that January just started, but we’re already looking forward to February. Don’t get us wrong, we don’t really want time to pass, but we are looking forward to all the good things that are coming to Hallmark in February.
And it’s a period piece? Hell yes. Lately we’ve been into those even more. Maybe it’s the books that we’ve been reading. Maybe it’s the masterpiece theater that we’ve been watching. We’re definitely not sure, but don’t question us. Just get with the program.
And the program that you’ll need to be watching this February? Well that’s Gilded Newport Mysteries: Murder at the Breakers, a new, original premiering Friday, February 2 (9 p.m. ET/PT), on Hallmark Movies & Mysteries.
In the movie, “It’s July 1895 and the New York elite have decamped to Newport, Rhode Island for a summer of balls, garden parties, and yacht races. Covering these events for the women’s pages of the Newport Observer is Emma Vanderbilt-Cross, (Ali Skovbye) a fearless twenty-one-year-old writer with family ties to the wealthy Vanderbilt family. But writing articles about food and fashion is the last thing on Emma’s mind when her half-brother Brady Cross (James Drew Dean) is arrested for the murder of Goddard, (Cesare Scarpone) long-time Vanderbilt business advisor. She decides to take matters into her own hands and sets out to prove her half-brother’s innocence, discovering Goddard had more than his fair share of enemies: As Emma investigates with the help of police detective and crush Jesse Whyte, (Danny Griffin) housekeeper Nanny O’Neal (Gillian Barber) and coroner’s assistant Harriet Rice, (Amira Anderson) she’s plunged into a word of intrigue and danger – while attracting the attention of the town’s new mysterious stranger. (Witte) As Emma grows closer to the truth, Goddard’s true murderer goes on the offensive, willing to stop at nothing to keep their identity a secret.”
Sound like something you want to watch? Definitely something that we want to watch. Adding to our February calendar now.
I’m a huge fan of this series of books, but I can already see they didn’t follow the storyline by changing her last name to Vanderbilt-Cross. I realize some things have to change to change from the book because it’s visual, and I’ll watch this to give it a shot, but I hope they didn’t change it too much. When a movie is changed that drastically from the books, they really disappoint people. Just look at the majority of the Harry Potter movies. They didn’t veer a lot from the books and they were a monumental success. The ones that did, weren’t as popular.
Another article said it was Brady who was murdered, so I hope it was a mistake on their part.