This article was published on 5/30 and republished on 5/31.
1If you’re missing Wednesday, well, you still have a long time to wait for season 3 to return, even if they’re trying to slim down the three-year gap between past seasons. However, if you want to watch one of its brightest stars, you can check out Emma Myers in her own series, which has now returned with a fantastic 96% Rotten Tomatoes audience score for season 2.
The show is A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, the mystery series following a high schooler solving crimes, based on a YA mystery series by Holly Jackson, and there are four books in total. At the time of this writing, season 2 has blown past its previous season 1 Rotten Tomatoes scores, as you can see below:
- A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder season 1 – 83% critic score, 68% audience score
- A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder season 2 – 90% critic score, 96% audience score
That’s a dramatic increase in the audience score department, especially, and this second season is based on the well-liked second book in the series: Good Girl, Bad Blood. Here’s the synopsis for season 2:
“Off the heels of cracking a cold case, Pip now awaits the trial. But a missing friend compels the good-girl-turned-detective to solve another mystery.”
Myers is doing double duty on Netflix right now. She starred in season 1 of Wednesday in 2022, then Good Girls season 1 in 2024, Wednesday season 2 in 2025, and now Good Girls season 2 in 2026. Wednesday season 3 is likely to be out in 2027, given current production estimates. If that wasn’t enough, she starred in A Minecraft Movie in 2025, the game adaptation that made $960 million at the global box office. Nothing against her Wednesday co-star Jenna Ortega, but she hasn’t come close to being in a movie that big in between her Wednesday seasonal breaks, nor is she in any other shows, despite being the headlining name and A-lister.
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder is not yet greenlit, as there was no double-season order announced after season 1, as sometimes happens. But with a popular lead, relatively low production cost, and two more books to get through, it stands to reason that may be in the cards. One issue, however, is that after its May 27 debut, here on May 30, it is far down Netflix’s top 10 list, all the way at #9, which may indicate that not as many viewers are returning as hoped. Even for a show with a lot working in its favor, it needs at least some level of baseline viewership to live on, so we’ll have to see.
Update (5/31): Checking back in on A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, the scores have stayed static from the original 90% and 96% critic and audience score split, which is certainly a good sign.
The very bad sign, however, is that A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder has still not gone above #9 on Netflix’s top 10 list, and we are now four days after its initial release date. That indicates, at least on the surface, totally tanking interest in the series when the first season hit #1 in its first full week of tracking and stayed in the top 10 for weeks. Season 2 is now about to fail to reach the top 5 and probably fall out of the top 10 completely soon.
It’s not clear what’s going on here. There is not some wild amount of competition it shouldn’t be able to best on the list right now. Both critics and audiences agree this season is good. The gap between seasons wasn’t anything that crazy, close-ish to two years, but it could have been worse, and many shows are. But if the show is trying to get through all the original books, this does not bode well for that prospect.
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