{"id":180885,"date":"2025-09-25T13:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T13:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/180885\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T13:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T13:29:07","slug":"murder-mystery-dark-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/180885\/","title":{"rendered":"Murder, Mystery &#038; Dark Comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: It has been described as \u201cDexter meets Bad Sisters\u201d and we can share the bloody trailer for Season 2 of <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/obituary\/\" id=\"auto-tag_obituary\" data-tag=\"obituary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Obituary<\/a>, the dark comedy crime drama that is for Ireland\u2019s RT\u00c9 and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/hulu\/\" id=\"auto-tag_hulu\" data-tag=\"hulu\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hulu<\/a> in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSiobh\u00e1n Cullen reprises her role as Elvira Clancy, an obituary writer on a small-town Irish newspaper turned murderer. \u201cIs he alive,\u201d a blood-spattered Elvira asks as she has her mugshot taken inside a police station. \u201cNot remotely,\u201d deadpans the officer holding the camera. Her voiceover sets the scene further: \u201cI\u2019m about to become the chief suspect in a murder case, and I didn\u2019t even do this one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tExtraordinary star M\u00e1ir\u00e9ad Tyers <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/09\/mairead-tyers-siobhan-cullen-hulu-rte-obituary-season-two-1236075727\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/09\/mairead-tyers-siobhan-cullen-hulu-rte-obituary-season-two-1236075727\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has joined the cast<\/a> for Season 2 of the show, which is filmed in Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe story picks up from Season 1 with Elvira struggling with the death of her beloved father. Again, she seeks relief in killing, but this time she is beaten to the act by a mysterious new murderer. A local cop, Detective Rose (Noni Stapleton), suspects Elvira of the crime. Elvira, meanwhile, becomes determined to solve the murder herself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tTyers joins proceedings as eccentric newspaper editor Vivienne. She pits Elvira against her boyfriend Emerson (Ronan Raftery) in the newsroom. \u201cMy name\u2019s Vivienne Birch and I believe in competition,\u201d Birch tells journalists. \u201cWe should be all killer no filler.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe series is produced by <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/apc\/\" id=\"auto-tag_apc\" data-tag=\"apc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">APC<\/a> Studios and Irish indie Magamedia. Ray Lawlor is once again the writer. APC Studios\u2019 Laurent Boissel and Magamedia\u2019s Paddy Hayes exec produce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAPC\u2019s sales arm handles distribution on Obituary. Season 1 sold well with buyers including Netflix in the UK, AMC Networks in Spain and Britbox in Australia. APC will be getting behind the new season at <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/mipcom\/\" id=\"auto-tag_mipcom\" data-tag=\"mipcom\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MIPCOM<\/a>, the biggest TV market of the year, which takes place next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: It has been described as \u201cDexter meets Bad Sisters\u201d and we can share the bloody trailer for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[10454,88,10028,107106,13441,41087,92],"class_list":["post-180885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-apc","tag-entertainment","tag-hulu","tag-mipcom","tag-obituary","tag-rte","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}