The Guardian's television review takes aim at the new six-part Acorn TV comedy drama You're Killing Me, starring Brooke Shields as a cosy mystery novelist turned amateur sleuth. The critic argues the series squanders its promising "Gilmore Girls meets Murder, She Wrote" premise through lazy plotting and clichéd intergenerational humour, despite acknowledging Shields deserves a strong late-career vehicle after decades in the industry.

Shields plays Allison Chandler, a bestselling author in the fictional Maine town of Founder's Cove whose publishers push her to appeal to younger readers. After her friend Nash Gilbert dies in an apparent suicide, Allison teams up with young true-crime podcaster Andi to investigate, alongside a new detective, working through a formulaic murder-of-the-week structure involving poisonings, electrocutions and blackmail. The review criticises the show's generational jokes as outdated and implausible given Allison/Shields's actual age of 61, though it notes a second season has already been confirmed.