Our second episode begins at a VERY swanky restaurant. Ivy and Barney the Morgue Bureaucrat have gone out for a nice dinner to celebrate the latter’s promotion to chief clerk, and invited Victoria Mars and Accountant along, for some reason. To be clear: Accountant is a surprisingly good hang. It’s Victoria Mars who surprises me, given her long-standing and barely contained feud with Ivy’s fiance.

Well, reader, it’s hard to believe that we’re back for another new season of the newly renamed Miss Scarlet. LAST season ended on a bonkers note with our pal Victoria Mars (Eliza) helping out Detective Mustache (Nash) after he got into even crazier shenanigans than usual, leaving him on the hook for kidnapping and obstruction charges. More importantly (and again I point you to the show name change), Duke Silver (William) officially left our friends to go take a job in America, leaving a lot of confusion and broken hearts in his wake.

Winter is here (allegedly — as a snow loving Boston resident, I’m miffed) and so is a drama fan favorite holiday tradition: the Call The Midwife Holiday Special! I’m here to recap the show just in case you missed it, or just couldn’t get enough of our favorite nurses, nuns, and other assorted denizens of Poplar.

Last time we visited Amsterdam, we met a scary mystery assassin, a doofy billionaire, and a conspiracy theorist (and only one of them walked into a bar). And speaking of which, we kick off this week’s episode in Cliff’s bar, where the team uses security footage of the club to start searching for mystery assassin.

Somehow, reader, we’re on to the last case of the season (and we still don’t have an update on the most important case yet: Hendrik’s self-diagnosed throat cancer). Speaking of which: our episode kicks off with Piet and Hendrik chilling by a fire while Piet tries to talk Hendrik into getting a second opinion.

We’re back right where we left off, bird fans: in the middle of the street, whilst the crime scene techs collect evidence from the body of Meatball. While they do their thing, Piet and Hassell speculate on who would want to kill Meatball anyway: he ostensibly did his part of the job, having delivered that giant bag of money. Was it retribution for killing Gerda? Or maybe it was the fact that he saw someone else at the scene and thus could rat out the murderer.

Last week we learned that evil drug queenpin BiBi Franken, fresh off of blowing up her own son for daring to defy her, was waiting to meet Piet in whatever location would mess with him the most. So it’s not SUPER surprising that this week we’re heading right over to the crew’s beloved bar.

Ah fall. The perfect season to return to Van Der Valk, everyone’s favorite cocktail of grumpy emo detectives, esoteric crimes, and the always gorgeous setting that is Amsterdam. We’ve got three delightful cases coming our way, and if you need a refresher on what happened previously, recaps for all the previous season are here.

Well, reader, we’re back for the remainder of Bridgerton season three here at GBH Drama, and let us just say: it’s about to get MESSY. Read on for a brief recap of each episode, a list of other shows you may like to watch to fill the void until next season (apparently production may take about two years), and a spice score so you can plan your viewing accordingly. There will, naturally, be spoilers.

Things are really heating up for our pals after last week’s episode. Will the good (ish, let’s be real) guys and gals prevail? Or will Maggie and her cadre of goons and evil bankers win the day? Only one way to find out: onward!