Sally Phillips stars in The Hairdresser Mysteries, a new cosy crime series set in the fictional village of Blossom Vale, where her character Lily Petal opens a salon that hasn't been touched since the 1970s and finds herself solving local murders alongside assistant Clary (Charlotte Jordan). The Guardian's review praises the show as astonishingly strange even by the low bar of daytime TV drama, calling it possibly the most bizarre example of the genre in living memory, and argues it matters as a bold, singular piece of British broadcasting rather than a conventional whodunnit.

The review highlights the show's relentless retro nostalgia, from Lily's corduroy flares and Hot Chocolate obsession to a Viking-themed chip shop called Valhalla With Chips!, alongside jarringly cheerful murder plots in which even killers turn out to be remorseful "good eggs". Each episode reportedly closes with a singalong to a 1970s pop hit such as Sister Sledge's We Are Family, reinforcing the show's determinedly cosy, sugar-sweet tone despite its violent storylines.