Emma Myers is back in A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder season 2, and the show opened to a 96% Rotten Tomatoes audience score when it debuted on May 27. The new run also keeps the Netflix mystery in the spotlight even as its place on the platform’s top 10 chart has stayed stuck at No. 9.
That matters because Myers has become one of Netflix’s most visible young leads across several projects, including Wednesday, A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, and A Minecraft Movie, which went on to gross $960 million worldwide. Viewers who found her in Wednesday season 1 in 2022 and returned for A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder in 2024 are now following her through a second season that arrived while she is also part of Wednesday season 2 in 2025 and A Minecraft Movie in 2025. A new guide, New Movies On Netflix Weekend Guide: Emma Myers Returns in Season 2, has also been tracking the release.
The appeal is easy to see. A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder is based on Holly Jackson’s YA mystery series, and season 2 pulls from Good Girl, Bad Blood, the second of four books. Its setup follows Pip as she waits for a trial after cracking a cold case, then gets dragged into another mystery when a friend goes missing. Season 1 had already shown there was an audience for the story, posting a 90% critic score and a 96% audience score while also spending weeks in Netflix’s top 10 and reaching No. 1 in its first full week of tracking.
But the early enthusiasm has not translated into breakout chart power this time. By May 30, the show was still at No. 9 on Netflix’s top 10 list, and by May 31 it had not climbed any higher. That is a softer reception than the numbers on Rotten Tomatoes suggest, and it leaves the series in an awkward spot: well liked by viewers who have found it, but not yet performing like a title that is surging across the service.
For now, the future remains unsettled. A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder is not yet greenlit for another season, so Netflix is watching two signals at once — audience approval and chart momentum — before deciding whether Emma Myers gets another run as Pip. The strong score gives the show a case to make. The No. 9 ranking gives executives a reason to wait.
