'My Life is Murder' Season 5: Lucy Lawless Returns as Alexa Crowe to Solve Crimes and Stir Trouble
From cheer squads to talking dolls, this season proves murder mystery can still be fun
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who retire, and those who say they’re retired while solving crimes in a stylish jacket with a cat who only answers to himself. Alexa Crowe never pretends to be the first kind.
My Life is Murder returns for Season 5 on Acorn TV, and the vibe remains delightfully familiar: murder, mischief, and emotional honesty sneaking in through the side door—Lucy Lawless (Xena: Warrior Princess, Spartacus) makes it look like saving the day is just a simple errand before early brunch.
Lucy Lawless as Alexa Crowe is still allergic to nonsense and magnetically drawn to bizarre crimes. Ebony Vagulans (The Furies) returns as Madison Feliciano-hacker, sounding board, chaos enabler—and Rawiri Jobe (Shortland Street) is right there as Detective Harry Henare, whose tolerance for Alexa’s involvement is half-lawful cooperation and half “fine, just don’t touch anything!”
This season promises eight new cases, the kind of crimes only Alexa seems to attract—not because she courts danger, but because she’s the person danger seeks as a worthy and interesting opponent. Season 5, Episode 1, “Gimme an M,” airing Monday, January 5, kicks off with a fitness influencer dying during a livestream. It’s the kind of premise only this show can pull off in this quirky way without getting too dark or the plot getting lost in the wittiness. In the season premiere, one moment you’re watching motivational content, the next Alexa is thrust into the world of elite cheerleading—secrets and lies colliding in ways that are more dangerous than any stunt.
Season 5 wastes no time leaning into the kind of scenarios that make viewers happily press play. And across eight weeks, Alexa and her team will navigate:
a jellyfish tank
fentanyl and academic chaos
talking dolls
a Fiji getaway that is anything but restorative
family drama that’s messier than a crime scene
The Fiji arc brings back Craig Parker (Spartacus, Xena: Warrior Princess) as Jesse, Alexa’s former partner and possibly, the one that got away. The show handles it the way it handles everything: with humor, heart, and with the awareness that adulthood is often an obstacle course of feelings no one teaches you how to navigate.
What makes My Life is Murder special isn’t just that the cases are clever. It’s that Alexa refuses to pretend life stops being complicated once a case ends. Grief, loneliness, friendship, romance, boundaries, and cake—all of it coexists with crime-solving.
But Season 5 takes care to not reinvent the show. It refines it. The mysteries are twistier, the jokes land warmer, and Alexa Crowe remains the kind of TV character who feels less like a detective and more like a very smart friend who will absolutely tell you the truth about yourself while feeding you snacks. The season will also see guest stars Rhys Darby, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Marta Dusseldorp, and more familiar New Zealand and Australian favorites that make this show the one to watch.
My Life is Murder understands something important: you don’t fix life. You live with it. And the world is a little less frightening when Alexa is in it.
New episodes of My Life is Murder air every Monday on Acorn TV. Episode 1 available to stream now. Check out the trailer below.
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