Spoilers forward for the Season 2 premiere of Homicide in a Small City on Fox, known as “Acts of Homicide” and out there streaming subsequent day with a Hulu subscription.
The small city of Gibsons and its penchant for housing murderers is again within the 2025 TV schedule, with Karl Alberg (Rossif Sutherland) and Cassandra Lee (Kristin Kreuk) already operating into model new challenges for Season 2. Happily, their romance appears to be going sturdy, however Mayor Holman (Marcia Homosexual Harden) is clearly going to be a complication. The premiere already addressed my concern with Cassandra from Season 1, when she at all times gave the impression to be a part of Alberg’s storylines as an alternative of getting her personal. She has a brand new position to play in Season 2, and Kreuk opened as much as CinemaBlend about what she will get to do that fall.
After Season 1 ended on the tease of Cassandra stepping into native politics, Season 2 wasted no time in kicking off that plot for her. She was elected to the ultimate vacant council seat in Gibsons, and was rapidly bombarded with requests. The primary ask she confronted from a constituent was fairly humorous, with an area man approaching her with a criticism about his neighbor’s rooster, however the job turned extra severe when the mayor confronted her about her marketing campaign pledge to commit funds to an artwork middle.
The artwork middle is not one in all Mayor Holman’s priorities, and it is fairly clear that she’s going to get in Cassandra’s method this season. In reality, she already has began attempting to intervene, by asking Alberg to speak Cassandra out of her artwork middle and providing him the possibility to rent extra officers if he does. Whereas she’s seemingly not one of many murderers that Alberg encounters commonly, she might be an fascinating nemesis for Cassandra, and I feel Cassandra (and Kristin Kreuk) deserve a worthy nemesis this season.
My solely concern with the character final season was that Homicide in a Small City could not at all times fold her into the primary tales as a love curiosity and/or librarian, to the purpose that Kristin Kreuk did not at all times really feel like Rossif Sutherland’s co-lead. Govt producer Jeff Wachtel acknowledged the issue again within the spring, but additionally promised that the issue could be addressed in Season 2. Kreuk opened up about Cassandra getting extra to do as a part of the primary plot this season, telling me:
That’s what we speak about with Cassandra on a regular basis, and that is the place this present is totally different from most procedural exhibits the place your different romantic lead shouldn’t be concerned within the crimes in any respect. We actually grappled with how to do this. I’ve a enjoyable homicide thriller of my very own this season that I am going on with Karl’s daughter.
Alberg and Cassandra rapidly moved previous the will-they/gained’t-they stage of their relationship in Season 1, in order that they’re greater than their romance. Now, she’ll get to do extra on display, and I am intrigued by Kreuk’s tease of a homicide thriller with Alberg’s daughter. There was some awkwardness final season earlier than they actually bought to know one another, in any case, and now Cassandra is a council member. The previous Smallville actress went on:
I beloved that we have been capable of finding a storyline, or they have been capable of finding a storyline, whereby Cassandra might be actually pushed to the restrict, on this what might be possibly a extra boring native political storyline. However whenever you herald Marcia Homosexual Harden, and we have now that form of power of character, it truly is a dynamic story that may seize your curiosity even whereas they’re attempting to resolve murders, which appears rather more urgent.
Homicide in a Small City is Marcia Homosexual Harden’s first sequence common position since CBS cancelled So Assist Me Todd in 2024, and her character appears poised to trigger loads of bother in Season 2. I am simply hoping that she would not come between Alberg and Cassandra, however it’s too early within the season to say for certain.
What we are able to say for certain is that Homicide in a Small City pulled out the stops for visitor stars in Season 2. The lineup contains Regulation & Order‘s Camryn Manheim, Teen Wolf‘s Tyler Posey, The X-Recordsdata‘ William B. Davis, Lovecraft Nation‘s Jamie Chung, The Vampire Diaries‘ Sara Canning, and the late Malcolm-Jamal Warner in his closing efficiency previous to his loss of life. Noah Reid may also return as Season 1 serial killer Tommy Cummins.
See what Homicide in a Small City has in retailer for Cassandra and Alberg this season with new episodes on Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET on Fox, forward of latest episodes of Doc Season 2 at 9 p.m. ET.