Mistletoe Murders is back for a second season, with “three twisty turny mysteries”, some murder, and lots of holiday spirit.
Stars Sarah Drew and Peter Mooney, as Emily and Sam in the series, were both laughing and having a great time talking about what’s coming up this season, but they don’t share the same festive spirit.
While Emily’s Christmas store, Under the Mistletoe, is full of holiday spirit, the actors admitted they are “like night and day” when it comes to celebrating in real life.
Mooney confessed that he’s a bit of a self-proclaimed Grinch at home.
“There’s a running joke in my house where my daughter brings up something Christmassy, and I go, ‘No Christmas!’ And that existed before this show, so now she has a lot of ammo. I’m like a, put up the Christmas tree mid-to-late-December [person].”
“So it’s a lot of Christmas in my life, but because we have so much fun, it’s really enjoyable,” he said.
On the other side of things, Drew is “so Christmassy,” she said.
“I’m part of a music collective. We record an album every year called Reindeer Tribe where we get together over three days and record a whole [Christmas] album. There are like 13 albums I think that exist out in the world right now, and I host a Christmas carolling party.”
Kicking off season two, the stars admitted that things start out on uneven ground for the two.
“A bomb was dropped basically at the end of season one, and it’s not a thing that they can just get through immediately,” Drew said.
“When we come back to them, we start season two right where we left off,” Mooney said. “We pick up seconds later, but then we jump ahead 11 months because the two of them haven’t really been in each other’s orbit much. They’ve been avoiding each other.”
“I think Sam’s been avoiding Emily, kind of pulling back as much as he can, but the circumstances leading up to Christmas and a new disappearance bring them back into each other’s lives,” he said.
And while they unravel a new mystery, there’s a lot more to discover about Emily and her history.
“A lot of what the audience was really asking for was more of Emily’s backstory,” Drew said, “and they were going crazy for Sam and Emily and want more romance and we have delivered in spades on both of those fronts.”
“So we get to dive more into her backstory; we get to learn a bunch more through flashbacks. And then their relationship really gets to develop in a pretty layered and sort of beautiful way, too.”
Season two of Mistletoe Murders premieres Friday, November 7 at 8:00 PM (ET/PT) on W Network and on STACKTV as a part of Hallmark Channel’s Countdown to Christmas. Watch the full interview above.
Photos courtesy Hallmark Media, by Peter Stranks and Panagiotis Pantazidis.
