Director: Ken Cuperus
Running a Christmas shop sounds like a fairly quiet job. Emily Lane's version of it keeps getting interrupted by dead bodies. Mistletoe Murders folds a cozy holiday setting around a season-length string of local mysteries.
What is Mistletoe Murders about?
Emily owns a Christmas-themed store in a small town where, inconveniently for everyone involved, murders keep happening around the holidays. She has an unusual gift for reading a crime scene, spotting details that professional investigators miss, and the local police department starts leaning on her instincts even when they are reluctant to admit it. Detective Sam Wilner is the one most often paired with her, and their working relationship slowly develops into something warmer, complicated by the fact that Emily is not entirely forthcoming about her own history. Each episode centers on a new case tied to the town's holiday traditions, giving Emily fresh reasons to insert herself into an investigation, while a longer thread about her guarded past runs underneath the case-of-the-week structure. The show keeps its tone light even as bodies pile up, treating the mysteries more as seasonal puzzles than anything genuinely dark.
Cast & crew
Sarah Drew plays Emily Lane, with Peter Mooney as Detective Sam Wilner opposite her throughout the season. Sierra Marilyn Riley, Lara Amersey, Jean Yoon, and Arlene Duncan round out the town's recurring cast of neighbors, colleagues, and suspects.
Context & significance
Directed by Ken Cuperus, Mistletoe Murders is a 2024 mystery drama built as a series of holiday-themed, self-contained episodes running around 42 minutes each. It sits comfortably in the small-town Christmas mystery tradition, favoring warm production design and a slow-burn central relationship over the grittier tone of most crime procedurals.
Where & how to watch
Mistletoe Murders streams on K-Time with a Persian dub and Farsi subtitles available, so it can be watched in either language. Reading this page requires no account; watching the series does need a free K-Time login, after which it sits within a catalog shaped for Farsi-speaking viewers in the diaspora.