Mapleworth Murders, which premiered on Quibi on Monday.Pell, the lesbian writer behind some of Saturday Night Live’s most iconic sketches including the cheerleaders, Debbie Downer, Gilly, and the singing married teachers The Culps, stars as mystery writer and small-town mystery solver Mrs.
Mapleworth, who trains her perfectly sardonic, social media-addicted niece Heidi (Hayley Magnus) in the art of sussing out a clue.
Meanwhile, Lutz (30 Rock) plays the good-hearted but slow-on-the-uptake local cop who’s in love with Mrs. Mapleworth. And she could care less about what he has to offer.The bite-sized, hilariously silly mysteries are broken up into three episodes each with four mysteries total for the first season, which costars J.B.