Mystery Woman: A Cozy Comes To The Screen
A review of Mystery Woman: Mystery Weekend by someone who found the used DVD for 3 dollars.
The other day I went to my local used video game store after payday and browsed the used DVDs and I found a number of interesting things to add to my movie collection. Perhaps the most unusual of them was Mystery Woman: Mystery Weekend.
A quick Google search found that Mystery Woman was a series of TV movies that ran on Hallmark in the early to late 2000s. I was intrigued, as much as people laugh at Hallmark movies I’d never actually watched one.
Mystery Weekend starts out by introducing our hero Samantha (Kelley Martin from ER), heroic bookstore owner/photographer who sells photographs of illegal waste dumping to the AP for money to keep her bookstore running. A plot point that is never revisited for some reason even if it makes our hero seem like Varg Veum in small-town America.
Samantha and mysterious assistant Philby (Clarence Williams III from The Mod Squad) are setting up a book signing by three heavyweight mystery authors: A southern belle, a ditsy blonde who writes period pieces and a flamboyant goth with a perpetually drunk boyfriend and frazzled secretary.
