Season 2 of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder picks up with Pip as her true crime podcast about the Andie Bell case begins to take off – just as a new mystery lands in her lap.
When Jamie, the brother of her close friend Connor, disappears, Connor turns to Pip for help, convinced there’s no one better equipped to bring him home. And although she’s reluctant to get involved again, Pip quickly finds herself sucked into the investigation.
But while she thought she understood the dangers that come with uncovering the truth after everything she endured in season 1, even Pip isn’t prepared for what lies ahead.
By the end, said star Emma Myers, Pip is “a bit checked out”.
“I don’t want to spoil what happens, but she has definitely lost hope in every single person who said they would help her,” she added. “She’s had to do everything herself again, and it hasn’t turned out the way she hoped.”
Jackson went on to say that Pip is “a unique character in this YA space”.
“She starts as an archetype of the ‘good girl’ and then progressively descends into a place that people wouldn’t expect, making the sort of morally grey complex choices that are normally left to older male fictional characters,” she continued.
The action unfolds in the town of Little Kilton, which isn’t a real place. But the cast and crew did film on location.
Read on to find out where they pitched up.
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder filming locations: Where is Little Kilton?
Axbridge in Somerset doubles as Little Kilton, with filming taking place in and around the market town, described as “lovely but small, so you get the challenges of a tight-knit community curious about filming,” by season 2 director Asim Abassi.
“But it is wonderfully quaint and perfect for Little Kilton.”
Abassi’s “favourite” season 2 location is an abandoned manor.
“It was originally meant to be something else, but I pushed for it to be a manor, so I am personally attached to it,” he said. “It ended up being a phenomenal location and, to me, captures the essence of season 2.”
Ahead of season 1, executive producer Frith Tiplady said that they “tried to find a version of Little Kilton which reflects the atmosphere in the book and the screenplay”.
“What was important to us was a town that is not too small and not too big, the right size for the correct amount of suspects,” she added.
Zain Iqbal, who plays Sal’s brother Ravi and Pip’s co-detective, added: “The way they changed the town of Axbridge to become Little Kilton was incredible. It’s a little square, where they changed all the shop signs, they put up the full mural [of Andie].”
Myers and season 1 director Dolly Wells both described Little Kilton as a “chocolate box village”, which was essential for the show’s aesthetic and tone.
“It’s a very strange setting for a very mysterious and taboo murder but that makes it more interesting,” said Myers.
“There is this small community, where everyone knows everyone, and everyone knows each other’s business and yet, something tragic has happened that is shrouded in mystery it seems. It is a fascinating setting for a drama.”
Wells went on to say that the town has to “seem really pretty, but must have this feeling of the woods surrounding it, of nature encroaching in this rather dark, menacing way”.
“You want Little Kilton to seem perfect on the surface, like Twin Peaks in a way,” she added. “We chose a town that when you come through the main high street, it twists and turns, and the houses are very bright colours, but it is surrounded by very woody hills.
“It feels very British but it has an edge.”
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A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder season 2 will arrive in the UK on BBC One, BBC Three and BBC iPlayer on Wednesday 27 May. It streams globally on Netflix. Sign up for Netflix from £5.99 a month. Netflix is also available on Sky Glass and Virgin Media Stream.
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