This Is the Cast of ‘Grosse Pointe Garden Society’ Looking for the Point of the Show

I was there when we spent a summer waiting to find out who shot JR on Dallas and who shot Mr. Burns on The Simpsons. I was there when we spent a season waiting to find out who killed Laura Palmer on Twin Peaks. And then again when we waited to find out who shot Agent Cooper. I sat through every cliffhanger in Game of Thrones, and also came back to see what would happen after Buffy leaped into the unknown at the end of the 100th episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer.

Aside from those, I’ve watched at least a dozen other cliffhangers and season-long events with bated breath. I’ve got patience, is what I’m saying. But I’m pretty sure Grosse Pointe Garden Society is just screwing with us. This very messy soap opera is not nearly clever or sensational enough to be worth the headache of trying to figure out what’s going on.

We are seven episodes into the first season of Grosse Pointe Garden Society, and we still don’t know who the dead body in the garden is. Or was. They moved it at some point. I’m not sure when. It happened during the gala. But I’m not sure if the gala took place in the past or in the future. I still don’t know when anything is happening on this show!

At first, I thought the dead body was the womanizing real estate agent Catherine (Aja Naomi King) was having an affair with. But then he popped up in a segment that happens months after the gala/body-moving incident. And I only know that because in the same scene, Catherine’s husband asks her to tell him what else happened at the gala. Strike one.

For a couple of episodes, I thought it was Catherine’s husband, Tucker (Jocko Sims). He’s shady. I thought he was a spy. It turns out he’s just broke and afraid to tell her. Then, in a fit of “no more secrets between us,” she roped him into the whole conspiracy. Strike two.

I spent one whole episode mad at the thought that it was going to be the husband (the mayor?) of prissy-pants Marilyn (Jennifer Irwin), the head of the garden society. If anyone in that household deserves to die, it’s Marilyn herself. But it’s not her, we know that. And we’ve barely met the husband, so why would he be the dead body?

I’ve cycled through every ancillary character on the show as potential murder victims in my mind. But, between all of the (still) confusing time jumps and the introduction of new characters, it feels like we’re getting further away from finding out who it is and what the point of the show is itself.

I started watching Grosse Pointe for three reasons: Melissa Fumero being fabulous, Murder, and Flowers. I need more of Melissa being sarcastic over cocktails and more gardening. As for the murder, we haven’t seen the murder happen. We don’t know who the victim is, and we don’t know what the motivation is. Has there even been a murder?

Oh my god. What if all of this is over a dead plant?

Grosse Pointe Garden Society recently moved to Friday nights on NBC (a death knell for sure), and it streams the next day on Peacock.