November 20, 2025 • 9 mins
Hallmark Channel’s Mistletoe Murders, now in its second season, follows Emily Lane (Sarah Drew), the friendly shop owner of a charming Christmas-themed store. Emily has a big secret – she has unique skills she gained in the not-so-distant past. When local murders begin to pop up in her quaint tourist town of Fletcher’s Grove, she finds herself compelled to investigate. Emily crosses paths with Detective Sam Wilner (Peter Mooney), a smart local cop who begins to wonder if there’s more to her than meets the eye.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You would never mix up your peanut butter with watermelon,
or even Taylor Swift with the piano. Guys, then again
you might, Well, that's what this is all about. Aro
dot net a r r oe dot net seventeen different
podcasts to choose from for your driving or just being
at work entertainment. Hello, and good morning you guys. How
are you doing well?
Speaker 2 (00:22):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Absolutely fantastic and very excited to share a conversation with
you because Missiletoe Murders is unique in the way because
right here in Charlotte, we just started our Southern Christmas show,
and I want you to know that I know it's
not a Christmas shop, but I'm walking around and I'm
watching people, which one of you guys is an investigator
and we don't know it. You're a spy of some sort.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
There's so much mystery.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Who is she lading?
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Well?
Speaker 1 (00:49):
The way that you guys bring this story together. And
I'm one of those people who really does enjoy pacing,
and everybody that came together on this project, the pacing
is there, and I want listener and viewers to understand
that that this is not a rush job. Go and
enjoy the experience.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
I totally agree.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
I think Ken Coopris is so amazing. He's such a
good writer, such an incredible show runner. He knows how
to craft mysteries in the most extraordinary way. You're always guessing,
you really believe it's someone that then it doesn't wind
up being you know, he just he has that formula
down to a tea. And he also has a tremendous
gift for creating character arc and character development and slow
(01:31):
burn in a way that feels really satisfying. So yeah,
I mean, I agree, the writers led by of course
Ken Coopris, are just incredible on the show.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Yeah. One of the things I mean right there, Peter
is exactly what Sam Wilner is because we get to
embrace who Sam is, and he is that detective that
still sits here and says, hmm, there's something up with
this Emily girl. But see, we all go through that
in our everyday life. It's like Sam is one of us.
It's at that hmm.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
That's that's exactly I mean.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
This is this is a heightened version of what we
all go through when we're first getting to know someone. Right,
everyone is inherently a mystery. Most people don't have as
checkered or complicated a past. But everyone has a past,
Everyone has a story, and any two people when they
are coming together have to navigate what do they tell,
what parts do they share, what parts do they hide?
Speaker 3 (02:24):
And try and figure out how they can fit.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Into each other's lives. So even though this is like
a like an extreme version of it, it's something that'll
be familiar to everyone.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Now, Sarah, when it comes to Emily Lane, I mean,
one of the things that I mean when you step
into that that Christmas shop, one of the things that
that people do when they get in did you look
around when that set was put built for you? Did
you did you go and look at the little trinkets
and all the Christmas things? What's new this year? I mean,
what what did you go through as an actor? And
at the same time you're still that person, that regular
person that goes into a Christmas shop.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Oh yeah. The production design is just incredible. A lot
of people have asked us, you know, when you're shooting
a Christmas show in Springer in summer of what gets
you into the holiday spirit? And I say, I just
have to go into under the Missiletoe. My shop is
so incredible and it's it has so many beautiful little things.
I would go crazy in a store like them. If
(03:19):
it was real, I may have pocketed one or two
things to bring home. Maybe not, I don't know. That
will also remain a mystery. But the other thing that
I think is so lovely is that there's a real
reason why Emily loves Christmas so much. And it's deep.
It's not just you know, hot cocoa and chestnuts. It's
(03:39):
like she Christmas to her is her last real memory
with her parents and the last time she really felt
like she had a home right and her whole journey
has been since she was eight years old trying to
find her way home. So Christmas for her.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Is just this like.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Echo of what used to be for her and an
aspirational hope of what her life can become, or she
hopes that it will become if she could just run
far enough away from her passes.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
To please do not move. There's more with Sarah Drew
and Peter Mooney coming up next. It's found on Hallmark.
Missletill Murders. We are back with Sarah Drew and Peter Mooney.
This is the kind of story that really does have
a classic vibe about it because it's one of those
where's like, what I love about watching Missletill Murders is
the fact that it's like, I'm going to be watching
(04:35):
this movie for the next twenty five to thirty years
because because there is that vibe about it. And I
guess we credit Hallmark, but at the same time, I
want to credit the two of you for bringing this
storyline together.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Oh well, that's amazing, Thank you. That the tone is
something we really we really try and navigate.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Carefully, like it's you know, takes place at Christmas, but
it's also a bit of a noir.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
There is the.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Bigger overarching mystery and the love story, but then also
these great, twisty, little self contained mysteries that.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
We get to solve every two episodes. So it's a
lot to kind of calibrate. So that means a lot
that it feels like it's landing.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
We have so much fun on spec together. We just
laugh our way through every single day, and we have
the most beautiful community on the show. It's a very
loving set with a really beautiful team of leaders, a
very collaborative atmosphere, and we all just literally laugh from
the moment we arrive on sege the moment we go home,
and then probably after laughing about the things that we
(05:37):
laughed about earlier. So you see, you can see that
love and camaraderie. I think through the screen. I think
it's very palpable because that's a real thing. We're all
really fostering that energy on set.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Well, you can feel it on this side of the
flat screen, and I hope you guys have seen it
as well in the way you're going whoa, whoa, Because
it's like a writer who puts a book together and
they come back a couple of years later and they go,
I wrote that, whoa, And I feel like that this
Missiletol Murder says the same thing. It's like, whoa, we
landed that one. Good jop dude, thank.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
You for saying that that. I am so proud of
the show. And that's my reaction when I watch it.
I just go like, it's better than the sum of
its parts. It's all the pieces working together seamlessly creating
a thing that really makes you feel something. And I
you know, having the trifecta of really loving going to
work combined with really proud of the job, combined with
(06:31):
people really enjoying the show is a trifecta that doesn't
come around very often, and we don't take that for granted,
and we don't take that lightly. We all feel really
grateful that we get to be a part of something
that has all three of those elements.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Well, just because it has the snow and just because
it has the Christmas shop, I have my Christmas tree
up year round because I celebrate Christmas every day. So therefore,
when you talk about that you're going to have, you know,
the Christmas vibe and stuff. I'm going, well, that's just
that's going to be my February fourteenth, that's going to
be my July twenty first. And I think that this
is one of those shows that you can watch it
at any time and you're not going to be going, well,
(07:05):
we got thirty days still Christmas.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Oh I love that because Yeah, I think I think
it is a story that you can sort of pop
into any time of the year.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
You know, even though we're wrapping up season two on Friday,
it's out there on Hallmark.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Plus.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
If people are hankered for a little Christmas murder, come
you know, February and March, we're out there.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
But also beyond the Chris murder, it's the relationships I
think that make people keep coming back for more. You
care about these people, you care about how these relationships
are growing and developing. And that's universal. That's any time
of the year. You don't need to have a Christmas
tree up to enjoy taking a like romantic journey or
a friendship journey with these characters that are really compelling.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Yeah, but don't you think though, it's because we see
ourselves in what you guys are doing. It's almost like
you sat in the same coffee shop as us and
you were kind of like watching what we're going through.
Because I mean, the storylines, I'm going, how do they
know that what's going on here? Oh? That?
Speaker 2 (08:04):
I mean, that's always the hope, that's always the aim
is to reflect, to mirror back. When when we watch something,
we want to engage, we want to feel pulled into
the world. So that's that's huge, That's that's our you know,
number one aim.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
My greatest my greatest joy in acting and in producing
and all of these things is to make people feel
less alone when.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
They watch whatever.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Absolutely, yeah, yeah I can feel saying that.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Yeah, yeah, I I feel like you're You're reflecting back
the thing that I always hope that I get to do.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
When I tell a story.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
See, that's that's why the people when when they are
watching it on Hallmark, go ahead and send a text
to a friend. You can watch it together, figure out
a way to where you can bring We live in
this this digital world. Let's just all watch it in
real time and then talk about it.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
I love that.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Yes. Wow.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Where can people go to find out more about you guys?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
To find out about us?
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Well, I am on the Instagram at uh at the
Sarah Drew, so I'm always updating that there. You can
always go to IMDb to see what work we're up to.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Peter, you can't find anywhere.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
I'm a mystery online mystery.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
It's because I actually, out of the two of us,
it's ironic that that I play Sam because I used
to be a spy, so I've had to.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Throw the.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Well, please come back to this show anytime in the future.
The door is always going to be open for you.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Well, thank you so much for having will.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Be brilliant today.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Okay, you too,
You would never mix up your peanut butter with watermelon,
or even Taylor Swift with the piano. Guys, then again
you might, Well, that's what this is all about. Aro
dot net a r r oe dot net seventeen different
podcasts to choose from for your driving or just being
at work entertainment. Hello, and good morning you guys. How
are you doing well?
Speaker 2 (00:22):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Absolutely fantastic and very excited to share a conversation with
you because Missiletoe Murders is unique in the way because
right here in Charlotte, we just started our Southern Christmas show,
and I want you to know that I know it's
not a Christmas shop, but I'm walking around and I'm
watching people, which one of you guys is an investigator
and we don't know it. You're a spy of some sort.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
There's so much mystery.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Who is she lading?
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Well?
Speaker 1 (00:49):
The way that you guys bring this story together. And
I'm one of those people who really does enjoy pacing,
and everybody that came together on this project, the pacing
is there, and I want listener and viewers to understand
that that this is not a rush job. Go and
enjoy the experience.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
I totally agree.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
I think Ken Coopris is so amazing. He's such a
good writer, such an incredible show runner. He knows how
to craft mysteries in the most extraordinary way. You're always guessing,
you really believe it's someone that then it doesn't wind
up being you know, he just he has that formula
down to a tea. And he also has a tremendous
gift for creating character arc and character development and slow
(01:31):
burn in a way that feels really satisfying. So yeah,
I mean, I agree, the writers led by of course
Ken Coopris, are just incredible on the show.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Yeah. One of the things I mean right there, Peter
is exactly what Sam Wilner is because we get to
embrace who Sam is, and he is that detective that
still sits here and says, hmm, there's something up with
this Emily girl. But see, we all go through that
in our everyday life. It's like Sam is one of us.
It's at that hmm.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
That's that's exactly I mean.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
This is this is a heightened version of what we
all go through when we're first getting to know someone. Right,
everyone is inherently a mystery. Most people don't have as
checkered or complicated a past. But everyone has a past,
Everyone has a story, and any two people when they
are coming together have to navigate what do they tell,
what parts do they share, what parts do they hide?
Speaker 3 (02:24):
And try and figure out how they can fit.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Into each other's lives. So even though this is like
a like an extreme version of it, it's something that'll
be familiar to everyone.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Now, Sarah, when it comes to Emily Lane, I mean,
one of the things that I mean when you step
into that that Christmas shop, one of the things that
that people do when they get in did you look
around when that set was put built for you? Did
you did you go and look at the little trinkets
and all the Christmas things? What's new this year? I mean,
what what did you go through as an actor? And
at the same time you're still that person, that regular
person that goes into a Christmas shop.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
Oh yeah. The production design is just incredible. A lot
of people have asked us, you know, when you're shooting
a Christmas show in Springer in summer of what gets
you into the holiday spirit? And I say, I just
have to go into under the Missiletoe. My shop is
so incredible and it's it has so many beautiful little things.
I would go crazy in a store like them. If
(03:19):
it was real, I may have pocketed one or two
things to bring home. Maybe not, I don't know. That
will also remain a mystery. But the other thing that
I think is so lovely is that there's a real
reason why Emily loves Christmas so much. And it's deep.
It's not just you know, hot cocoa and chestnuts. It's
(03:39):
like she Christmas to her is her last real memory
with her parents and the last time she really felt
like she had a home right and her whole journey
has been since she was eight years old trying to
find her way home. So Christmas for her.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Is just this like.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
Echo of what used to be for her and an
aspirational hope of what her life can become, or she
hopes that it will become if she could just run
far enough away from her passes.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
To please do not move. There's more with Sarah Drew
and Peter Mooney coming up next. It's found on Hallmark.
Missletill Murders. We are back with Sarah Drew and Peter Mooney.
This is the kind of story that really does have
a classic vibe about it because it's one of those
where's like, what I love about watching Missletill Murders is
the fact that it's like, I'm going to be watching
(04:35):
this movie for the next twenty five to thirty years
because because there is that vibe about it. And I
guess we credit Hallmark, but at the same time, I
want to credit the two of you for bringing this
storyline together.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Oh well, that's amazing, Thank you. That the tone is
something we really we really try and navigate.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Carefully, like it's you know, takes place at Christmas, but
it's also a bit of a noir.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
There is the.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Bigger overarching mystery and the love story, but then also
these great, twisty, little self contained mysteries that.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
We get to solve every two episodes. So it's a
lot to kind of calibrate. So that means a lot
that it feels like it's landing.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
We have so much fun on spec together. We just
laugh our way through every single day, and we have
the most beautiful community on the show. It's a very
loving set with a really beautiful team of leaders, a
very collaborative atmosphere, and we all just literally laugh from
the moment we arrive on sege the moment we go home,
and then probably after laughing about the things that we
(05:37):
laughed about earlier. So you see, you can see that
love and camaraderie. I think through the screen. I think
it's very palpable because that's a real thing. We're all
really fostering that energy on set.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Well, you can feel it on this side of the
flat screen, and I hope you guys have seen it
as well in the way you're going whoa, whoa, Because
it's like a writer who puts a book together and
they come back a couple of years later and they go,
I wrote that, whoa, And I feel like that this
Missiletol Murder says the same thing. It's like, whoa, we
landed that one. Good jop dude, thank.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
You for saying that that. I am so proud of
the show. And that's my reaction when I watch it.
I just go like, it's better than the sum of
its parts. It's all the pieces working together seamlessly creating
a thing that really makes you feel something. And I
you know, having the trifecta of really loving going to
work combined with really proud of the job, combined with
(06:31):
people really enjoying the show is a trifecta that doesn't
come around very often, and we don't take that for granted,
and we don't take that lightly. We all feel really
grateful that we get to be a part of something
that has all three of those elements.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Well, just because it has the snow and just because
it has the Christmas shop, I have my Christmas tree
up year round because I celebrate Christmas every day. So therefore,
when you talk about that you're going to have, you know,
the Christmas vibe and stuff. I'm going, well, that's just
that's going to be my February fourteenth, that's going to
be my July twenty first. And I think that this
is one of those shows that you can watch it
at any time and you're not going to be going, well,
(07:05):
we got thirty days still Christmas.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Oh I love that because Yeah, I think I think
it is a story that you can sort of pop
into any time of the year.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
You know, even though we're wrapping up season two on Friday,
it's out there on Hallmark.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Plus.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
If people are hankered for a little Christmas murder, come
you know, February and March, we're out there.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
But also beyond the Chris murder, it's the relationships I
think that make people keep coming back for more. You
care about these people, you care about how these relationships
are growing and developing. And that's universal. That's any time
of the year. You don't need to have a Christmas
tree up to enjoy taking a like romantic journey or
a friendship journey with these characters that are really compelling.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Yeah, but don't you think though, it's because we see
ourselves in what you guys are doing. It's almost like
you sat in the same coffee shop as us and
you were kind of like watching what we're going through.
Because I mean, the storylines, I'm going, how do they
know that what's going on here? Oh? That?
Speaker 2 (08:04):
I mean, that's always the hope, that's always the aim
is to reflect, to mirror back. When when we watch something,
we want to engage, we want to feel pulled into
the world. So that's that's huge, That's that's our you know,
number one aim.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
My greatest my greatest joy in acting and in producing
and all of these things is to make people feel
less alone when.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
They watch whatever.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Absolutely, yeah, yeah I can feel saying that.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Yeah, yeah, I I feel like you're You're reflecting back
the thing that I always hope that I get to do.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
When I tell a story.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
See, that's that's why the people when when they are
watching it on Hallmark, go ahead and send a text
to a friend. You can watch it together, figure out
a way to where you can bring We live in
this this digital world. Let's just all watch it in
real time and then talk about it.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
I love that.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Yes. Wow.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Where can people go to find out more about you guys?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
To find out about us?
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Well, I am on the Instagram at uh at the
Sarah Drew, so I'm always updating that there. You can
always go to IMDb to see what work we're up to.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Peter, you can't find anywhere.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
I'm a mystery online mystery.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
It's because I actually, out of the two of us,
it's ironic that that I play Sam because I used
to be a spy, so I've had to.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Throw the.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Well, please come back to this show anytime in the future.
The door is always going to be open for you.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Well, thank you so much for having will.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Be brilliant today.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Okay, you too,
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