‘Recipes for Love and Murder’ Recap: ‘A Shoe Murder’ & ‘Breakfast for Dinner’

Written by John Edward Betancourt

Caution: This article contains spoilers for Episodes Five and Six of ‘Recipes for Love and Murder’. To revisit the previous two episodes, click here.
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Over the course of the past few weeks, we’ve talked at length about how the Acorn TV series, Recipes for Love and Murder, has done a phenomenal job of subverting the clichés often found within murder mysteries. For not only is the main character NOT a standard gumshoe in the slightest, but a recipe writer turned recipe writer/advice columnist, but the strange murder of Martine has been moving forward at a normal… human pace. Allowing for the characters to take the center stage so we can dive into their lives and what makes them tick and well… this refreshing move has been supremely compelling and has allowed all of us to learn so much about these wonderful people.
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But alas, eventually the case has to move forward in these stories, regardless of how much character development one might enjoy, and it just so happens, that the next two episodes of this story do just that… after giving us one last taste of what we love. For ‘A Shoe Murder’ and ‘Breakfast for Dinner’ did indeed provide us with some delightful and engaging character moments. The kind that helped us to learn the tough situation that Maria dealt with in Scotland and how those events motivated her to move so far away and at last… we saw Jessie and Regardt take the plunge and go on a bloody date and while it wasn’t storybook… it ended as it needed to, with a kiss and sparks and hope for a real love between the two of them. 

However, once we got that out of the way, it was onto the case at hand. For once John’s name was dropped as the ex that everyone was concerned about, things got ugly real quick. For Anna and Dirk suddenly joined forces out of the belief that John had to be the killer and they left the hospital and confronted him at his home in a scary moment that oddly saw everyone, but the police arrive first. But once the dust settled and tea was served, the truth finally came forth. In that, John was innocent after all. For every alibi checked out and he clearly wasn’t a violent offender and more and more it was becoming obvious that Dirk and Anna weren’t involved in killing Martine, they were just hurt and misguided and well… stupid from anger. 

But eventually… some truth came to light. For Martine’s funeral arrived shortly after this, wherein her brother was introduced to everyone and her father as well and after a lovely service, dear old dad collapsed due to being poisoned. Leading everyone to wonder why exactly someone would go the extra mile to kill Martine’s pop when was about as innocent as they come. But as it turned out, some great police-work from Khaya, wherein he spent a lot of time with Candy and fed her ego to get her talking… revealed some fascinating facts. In that, technically all the money that Martine’s father was sitting upon, was to go to her in the event of his passing, and if Martine were to die before that happened… it would instead go to her brother.

Which meant… it looked more and more as though money and bad family were responsible for the death of Martine and that revelation and the shocking one, we endured at the hospital, only reinforced that reality. Since brother dearest appeared to be ready to off his old man without question and with Candy’s help and well, not only is that an epic cliffhanger for certain, one that has us deeply worried. But it is also… an amazing way to surprise us with great progress in this case. Because just like that, we have a suspect at last and he appears to be quite dangerous, and we have a motive for that matter as well. All of which made for a supremely satisfying pair of episodes, the kind that once again leave us hungry for more. Not only because of the amazing food cooked here, but more so because… we simply don’t know what to expect now from this amazing show, and sadly we will have to wait another week to see exactly what new surprises and revelations and growth await us as this case continues along. Until next time.

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