It seems that not even reaching the sixth episode of The Afterparty can change my opening that the second season goes on without helping us to identify who killed Edgar (Zach Woods). In the only episode in which we don’t see anyone reveal anything negative about the poor dead man, we have our always hilarious Detective Danner (Tiffany Haddish) calling Aniq (Sam Richardson) real: the culprit could very well be Zoë’s (Zoe Chao) family. and the emotional closeness of both can turn them into accomplices. Obviously, her narrative is less direct.

Leaving the party per se, Danner explains to Aniq that the advice comes from personal experience, revealing the real reason why she quit the force, even though she is an instinctive investigator. She’s the trigger for a hilarious visit to 1990s film noir like Basic Instinct, where sex is in every dialogue or story equation. On the heels of solving Xavier’s (Dave Franco) death, Danner was assigned to interrogate and uncover a wave of arsons taking place in Los Angeles. With that, she goes to a psychologist of the main suspect, an equally suspiciously hot (Michael Ealy) – with whom she ends up having an affair – and misses the arrest of the real culprit. Every sequence is hilarious, exaggerating the sexual fetishes that were so prevalent in movies at the time, and it’s also a chance to rewatch Danner’s partner Culp (John Early) and a surprise cameo from Walt (Jamie Demetriou), both from the first season of The Afterparty.

Every detail, tortuous and excruciating for Aniq, is because every time one of Zoe’s relatives enters the suspicious scenario, Danner highlights, he tries to divert it to other people. Zoe herself, who is conducting her own investigation, may be withholding evidence, which makes it even more confusing.

From the beginning, what seems to be the twist is that the culprit is the friendly Feng (Ken Jeong), the father of the bride and Zoe. The others are all too obvious, including Edgar’s sociopathic mother Isabel (Elizabeth Perkins), or the now on everyone’s radar, Ulysses (John Cho).

I will work on a few fronts here, not necessarily in guilty order:

1- Feng.

Feng was in financial trouble, he asked his son-in-law for help and either accidentally killed him with the tea made from the poisonous plant or it was on purpose. His wife Vivian (Vivian Wu) stole all the centerpieces with the flowers, so they had access to the poison.

My bet is that Ulysses is an undercover FBI or CIA agent, investigating some fraud or crime among the Woods (or his own family), that’s why he appeared out of nowhere, knows so much, and is always around. There was the awkward and tense conversation in the garden, which Aniq couldn’t quite fish out what it was and we know that Vivian approached Edgar before he turned up dead. Either they are guilty or they were after whoever could kill him.

2- Isabel.

The relationship between mother and son was bizarre and Isabel announced at the first whisper that Edgar could have been poisoned which was “equal to his father’s death”. Twice the same death? She would be the link between them, making Isabel a sociopath who sacrifices her own offspring. We haven’t heard her version yet, but her rush to accuse Grace (Poppy Liu) also seems over the top.

3- Grace and Hannah act together.

The two fell in love due to Edgar’s chronic absence and Hannah (Anna Konkle) was jealous of her (adoptive) brother. Grace doesn’t seem particularly shaken by her immediate widowhood, which has made her wealthy and extremely suspicious.

4-Ulysses

Uncle Ulysses appeared out of nowhere, he knows everything, he’s always around and very attentive. If he’s not an undercover agent, he’s very likely the killer.

5- Yasper in partnership with Sebastian

Just because I love my favorite killer and his connection to Sebastian’s (Jack Whitehall) minions, who were in the same prison, would tie all the crimes together. Yasper was Zoe’s friend, so he would have known that her sister was the bride. The only thing is Yasper adores Aniq, he’s his friend, why would he do that to make him sad? But stay in the air!

6- Zoe

I do not wish this disappointment on Aniq, but Zoe was against the marriage, is “investigating” alone, asked her boyfriend to interfere with the search for the culprit (since she reacts every time someone from her family is among the suspects) and now she has hidden the “murder weapon”: the teapot with the poisoned tea. Not even Grace is as committed to solving the crime as Zoe! Our heroine is not free from guilt!

Who would she have killed? Because worse than this riddle is finding out who Edgar really was. None of the testimonies were sympathetic to him, I really feel sorry for the dead man!

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